Wonderful programme, just wonderful, anyone who has lived with suicide should listen - and read the classics, too! There can be light at the end of the silent tunnel! Thank you! Dr M

Amazing woman, wonderful programme, anyone who has lived with suicide should listen - and read the classics! Thank you Michael Berkeley thank you @edithmayhall

Do we have the Guinness book of records for the most students & quadrats in a meadow?! Even if not we all had a great botanical day recording plant indicator species in the campus meadows - plant ecology field class with Uni of Reading UoR BioSci students & Dr Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez

Dr M still going wild! Uni of Reading UoR BioSci Dr Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez Great to see this UoR BioSci plant ecology practical continues! tarapirie

Botanical University Challenge ARU ARU_Biology Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) John Warren Love it, anglia-spanglier, genius! Dr M

#CareersWithPlants What are people's careers really like? Issue 7 The Thymes, newsletter Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 , ex-student Jordan Bilsborrow describes from 2016 onwards working with plants. Includes advising The Royal Mint
Royal Horticultural Society Libraries
botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/

The Thymes interview with a botanist, Marjorie Lundgren at Lancaster Environment Centre. From fieldwork to the lab. Differences between careers with plants in industry & academic, in UK & USA. Importance of overlooked plants. Read full article at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/

Impressive how #plants arose and are related. Shows how modern science requires multinational collaboration, lots of working with other people.

Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 is all about the botanical #quiz ! Each #newsletter has specimen questions (with answers). These are in Issue 7, April 2024. Dr M still going wild!
Answers in the alt text.

Yes! The hallmark of botany fieldwork 'Good Vibes' plants are good for us in so many ways! Dr M

What a wonderful weekend in the Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo (CE3C) in the context of the Plant Diversity ( #diveg2024 ) classes! Lots of flowers and good vibes!

Campus bee orchid bonanza Uni of Reading #Whiteknights this morning. A site I'd not previously noticed with around 15 mature rosettes.
#Ophrys #Orchidaceae

Why don't people see the plants around them? The Thymes, newsletter of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 , article about #PlantBlindness / #PlantAwarenessDisparity /PAD by
Nigel Chaffey Dr M still going wild!
plantcuttings.uk

Dr M still going wild! Uni of Reading UoR BioSci The BSc version that is

Dr M still going wild! Uni of Reading UoR BioSci VIVID MEMORIES OF THIS TEST 😳

Yes, this was one of the plants in the end of module ID test for Uni of Reading UoR BioSci #MScESSP !

Some of the trees on Uni of Reading #Whiteknights campus have a near monoculture of Claytonia perfoliata under them. This species is stable on the BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #Atlas2020 report plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9h.…
It's certainly doing well here!

#EarthDay2024 Plants - essential, not just green backdrop. Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 one small way to support students keen on #plants . To meet others, make networks, ideas on careers .... Dr M still going wild! John Warren

May be of interest to the MSc students and alumni Dr M still going wild!

Yes, he was very much the face and voice of the proms when I was growing up, the end of an era for sure, RIP. Dr M