"Calflora is seeking an experienced software developer who would like to take part in important conservation work and who values biodiversity data. This software developer would assist in maintaining and developing Calflora’s Java-based website and infrastructure, including systems administration, database management, web application programming, front-end development, and data integration."

https://www.calflora.org/newsletter/Jobs/DeveloperJobPosting.pdf

#GetFediHired #Botany #Job

A very common tree in the west, but I love everything about Populus fremontii (cottonwood) trees. I even like the snowstorm of cotton like seeds that rains down in the spring (it is messy though). In the fall, the yellow leaves contrast nicely with the dark bark. This tree is set against a background of sandstone near Utah's Capital Reef National Park.

#Travel #RoadTrip #Botany #Tree #ThickTrunkTuesday #Fall #Landscape #Photography #Darktable

"Calflora is seeking an experienced software developer who would like to take part in important conservation work and who values biodiversity data. This software developer would assist in maintaining and developing Calflora’s Java-based website and infrastructure, including systems administration, database management, web application programming, front-end development, and data integration."

https://www.calflora.org/newsletter/Jobs/DeveloperJobPosting.pdf

#GetFediHired #Botany #Job

At London’s Kew Gardens, the Dark Side of Botany.

Two revealing exhibitions explore how the British Empire used plants as a tool of colonialism.

https://observer.com/2026/01/at-londons-kew-gardens-the-dark-side-of-botany/ #globalmuseum #botany #KewGardens #exhibitions

A very common tree in the west, but I love everything about Populus fremontii (cottonwood) trees. I even like the snowstorm of cotton like seeds that rains down in the spring (it is messy though). In the fall, the yellow leaves contrast nicely with the dark bark. This tree is set against a background of sandstone near Utah's Capital Reef National Park.

#Travel #RoadTrip #Botany #Tree #ThickTrunkTuesday #Fall #Landscape #Photography #Darktable

A few more late-flowering sun orchids with spots (Thelymitra ixioides / Thelymitra juncifolia) variations near Mallacoota, East Gippsland, VIC.

Only plants in part shade on the edge of the forest were still flowering in early November at this location - usually in slightly damper soils than the adjacent open grassland.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

A few more late-flowering sun orchids with spots (Thelymitra ixioides / Thelymitra juncifolia) variations near Mallacoota, East Gippsland, VIC.

Only plants in part shade on the edge of the forest were still flowering in early November at this location - usually in slightly damper soils than the adjacent open grassland.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

Is there such a miracle as funding for a "roll your own" PhD in EU, UK, Canada, NZ?

I'm finding that most funded PhDs in plant science are slanted towards computation (either bioinformatics or remote sensing or AI) and that's not my forte nor my interest. I'd really like to be able to construct a research topic of my own given I'm not finding what I'm hoping for in advertised PhDs.

I'll never know if I don't ask, right?

#AcademicChatter #Science #PlantScience #Botany #Pomology

Is there such a miracle as funding for a "roll your own" PhD in EU, UK, Canada, NZ?

I'm finding that most funded PhDs in plant science are slanted towards computation (either bioinformatics or remote sensing or AI) and that's not my forte nor my interest. I'd really like to be able to construct a research topic of my own given I'm not finding what I'm hoping for in advertised PhDs.

I'll never know if I don't ask, right?

#AcademicChatter #Science #PlantScience #Botany #Pomology

When your daughter is a botany professor and she brings beverages to the Yule festivities, you get some interesting (and quite delicious) choices. I offer here a selection of Apple and Gooseberry Birch Sap seltzer, Black Currant and Thoroughwort Birch Sap seltzer, and Mulberry and Nettle Birch Sap seltzer. all quite refreshing.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#Yule
#Solstice
#Botany
#Feast

When your daughter is a botany professor and she brings beverages to the Yule festivities, you get some interesting (and quite delicious) choices. I offer here a selection of Apple and Gooseberry Birch Sap seltzer, Black Currant and Thoroughwort Birch Sap seltzer, and Mulberry and Nettle Birch Sap seltzer. all quite refreshing.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#Yule
#Solstice
#Botany
#Feast

Sun orchids (Thelymitra) growing close together in open grassland west of Mallacoota, East Gippsland, VIC.

Sun orchids with spots (T. ixioides / T. juncifolia) growing alongside T. carnea and several different species in the T. pauciflora group can lead to some beautiful hybrids including T. x irregularis (top right).

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

Sun orchids (Thelymitra) growing close together in open grassland west of Mallacoota, East Gippsland, VIC.

Sun orchids with spots (T. ixioides / T. juncifolia) growing alongside T. carnea and several different species in the T. pauciflora group can lead to some beautiful hybrids including T. x irregularis (top right).

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

Gathering rare mosses data.

Te Papa Curator Botany Leon Perrie was recently part of a panel that, for the first time, assessed the conservation status of all the mosses in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Here, he advises how you can help, and introduces a few species you can report if you see them when you’re next mingling with moss.

https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/12/18/gathering-rare-mosses-data/ #globalmuseum #museums #botany #moss

#AdviceWanted on #KidLit .... I have adult field guides, but does anyone know a good non-fiction kids book about poisonous plants?

Edit to add some hashtags: #plants #PoisonPath #PlantMedicine #poison #witches #botany #kids