Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social Spotlighting global #plantscience that drives the field forward. We share AI-generated summaries of key papers/news that deserve more eyes, always with source links.
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Jon morant @morantjon.bsky.social PhD, Conservation biology, Quantitative ecology, Ecological modeling, Ecosystem processes, Movement Ecology, Scavengers #rstats
University College Dublin / University of the Basque Country
📍Dublin - 📍 Bilbao
Naghmeh Afshar @naghmeh-afshari.bsky.social Ph.D.| Mycologist | Plant pathologist | Fungal taxonomy | Fungal Diversity 🌿🧬🧫
Wake Botany @wake-botany.bsky.social We put the “Forest” in Wake Forest
#WakeBotany #botany #plantscience
🧪🍄🌿🌴🌲🌻🌎
Gianmaria Bonari @gianmariabonari.bsky.social 🌳 Botanist | Vegetation ecologist
🌿 Editor-in-Chief of Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED)
📚 Senior researcher @University of Siena, Italy
🔎 https://www.gianmariabonari.com/
Environmental Conservation @envconsjournal.bsky.social Environmental Conservation. Journal promoting interdisciplinary environmental conservation science and practice since 1973. Editor Prof. Nick Polunin. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environmental-conservation
Hans Juergen Boehmer @hjboehmer.bsky.social Vegetation Dynamics - Forests & Grasslands - Biological Invasions | IUFRO Board Member & Coordinator of TF "Legacy Forest Data and Related Resources" | Editor @esr-ir.bsky.social
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hans-Juergen-Boehmer
Abiotic Stress in Plants @abioticstress.bsky.social #PlantScience #PlantStress #StressBiology #StressTolerance #Temperature #Drought #Metals #Salinity #Hypoxia #Waterlogging #Oxidative #Osmotic
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jacobpmoore.bsky.social @jacobpmoore.bsky.social Botanist in Vic - Research noob.
Acacias, genomics, invasion biology...
often found in the grasslands and swamps
Ashleigh Keneally @ash-keneally.bsky.social PhD candidate ~ fire ecology in policy and practice
Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social Global change ecologist: conservation, bioinvasions & climate change 🌳🐜🐈🐊 | adventurer | coffee enthusiast | photographer (views my own)
https://linktr.ee/drbrucewebber
Camille Truong @camilletruong.bsky.social Mycologist at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and www.spun.earth
Southern hemisphere fungi | 🍄🌱🦘Symbiosis | 🚲🧗🏻♀️🏄🏻♀️| My own views
Mariana Silva Artur @marianasartur.bsky.social Artur, M.A.S. - Assistant Professor, WUR.
https://www.mariana-artur.com/ #desiccationbiology #seedresearch
Jose M. Estevez @estevezjosem.bsky.social Interested in plant development, cell polarity, Ca+2 and ROS homeostasis, plant cell wall integrity, signalling, protein translation. @Fundacionleloir CONICET Argentina. Currently Editor at @NewPhytologist, @CommsBiology @PlantComms
Gabriela Auge @gabyplantbio.bsky.social Plant Environmental Memory Lab at IABIMO, INTA-CONICET |
ex #JSPSFellow 🇯🇵 |
🇦🇷 ARG PlantWomen |
Editor Annals of Botany, AoB PLANTS |
#SeedBiology #WomenInScience
Jess Foster 🏳️🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social Plant researcher at Indiana University
~ plant pathogen interactions ~
also janky cats, tropical fruit trees, tiny goats
Apprentice Petalsmith
Benoit Lacombe @lacombeb.bsky.social CNRS researcher in plant biology, Montpellier, France
Alba Costa @alba-costa.bsky.social Ecologist working on island ecology 🏝️, tropical ecology, ecological networks, species interactions, seed dispersal 🐦🐢🫐, restoration ecology, biological invasions 👽, community ecology, global change 🌍
📍Postdoctoral researcher at @IMEDEA_UIB_CSIC
Caspar Chater @casparchater.bsky.social Plant Scientist. Senior Research Leader, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Society for Ecological Restoration @serestoration.bsky.social SER advances the science, practice, and policy of ecological restoration.
@pieterarnold.bsky.social @pieterarnold.bsky.social Biologist & Dad. Research Fellow at ANU studying plant responses in a hotter, less predictable world. On Ngunnawal Country. Global Change Biology & Ecophysiology.
ESA Plant-Soil Ecology @esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social Official account of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social Plant-Soil Ecology Special Interest Network.
https://www.ecolsoc.org.au/category/research-chapters/plant-soil-ecology/
Lucinda Chambers @leh-chambers.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UNSW Sydney
Marine Bioacoustician
Maurizio Rossetto @mrossettorecer.bsky.social 
Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social 🧬🌿 | Birds | Fish | My Cat
A PhD student with the Botanic Gardens of Sydney and USyd. Working on genetics behind Myrtle rust and paperbarks for restoration.
Tldr: #wetlands #plantdisease #genetics #botany #restoration #ecology
Eilish S. McMaster 🧬🌱 @eilishmcmaster.bsky.social PhD student working on improving conservation genomics for threatened plants 🌿 Focused on methods, frameworks & cross-species insights 🌱 University of Sydney + Botanic Gardens of Sydney (ReCER)
George Knott @editorperipatetic.bsky.social Editor in Australia now with CSIRO Publishing.
Book ideas welcome: Animals, marine and freshwater, natural environment, food and agriculture, soils, plants & fungi, science and society.
Linktree: Books, contact, and links: https://linktr.ee/editoring
Conservation Biology @conbiology.bsky.social Flagship journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. Applied science for scientists, managers, practitioners, decision makers. Editor: Mark Burgman. https://bit.ly/4iozgVS
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment @westsyduhie.bsky.social Established by Western Sydney University in 2011, our fundamental and applied research is providing innovative solutions for protecting the environment, preserving biodiversity, ensuring food security, and sustainable use of natural resources.
Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social Researching tropical grassy ecosystems and fire ecology at UNESP 🇧🇷 | Coordenated by @alefidelis.bsky.social | Posts by @gabrieladezotti.bsky.social | #FireEcology #VegetationEcology #SavannaEcology
Gabriela Dezotti @gabrieladezotti.bsky.social PhD Candidate at BioMe Group 🇧🇷 | FAIR open science 🔓 | #DisturbanceEcology #DataScience | https://gabrieladezotti.github.io/Site//
Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social 🧬 Sequencing biodiversity. Securing its future.
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global moonshot for biology working to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity.
🌍 Follow us:
linktr.ee/earthbiogenomeproject
Simon Gorta @gortabirds.bsky.social Ecologist and PhD candidate at UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science with a particular interest in birds.
Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social Plant scientist studying how climate change affects plant toxicity (#cyanide). Born 314ppm.
Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉
Views my own
James McCarthy @james-k-mccarthy.bsky.social Plant ecology researcher at @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social; also coffee drinker, mountain biker, binge runner, and amateur furniture maker.
Ali Raza @aliraza6.bsky.social #PlantBiotech👨🔬| #Postdoc research fellow | Trying to understand how plants respond/adapt to #abiotic stress conditions🌡️❄️💦🫧🌫 | Open for #collaboration | 😍→🏏✍🏻🥘🍔🥗🍲🍦☕️ | 𝕏 @Ale_Raza6
JITHU K JOSE @jithukjose.bsky.social Researcher—Plant Sciences, Ecology, Conservation Biology, Forestry, & Restoration
IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group; IUCN CEM; Global Conservation Consortium, BGCI.
Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social Marine Ecologist PhD | Researcher | @SLU_aqua | Scicomm @fish_thinkers | #SustainableFishing #MPAs #BRUVS #FishTelemetry #EM4FISH
@ron-kichurchak.bsky.social @ron-kichurchak.bsky.social I'm a wetland ecologist and conservation biologist with the NYS DEC. Obsessed with reptiles, amphibians, spiders, insects, and other creepy crawlies.
Victoria Inman @victoriainman.bsky.social Senior Research Associate at UNSW in collaboration with Bush Heritage Australia.
Remote sensing, wildlife ecology, wildlife monitoring.
She/her
Coralie Williams @coralie-williams.bsky.social Interested in applied statistics and meta-science
GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social Research scientist | public land owner | facial hair enthusiast. Science interests: #Wildfire #Forests #GlobalChange
Erin Macartney @erinmacartney.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist interested in sexual selection and the evolution of life-history strategies. Humboldt Research Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and post-doc at the University of Sydney.
erinmacartney.com
Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social Dendrochronologist, Forest Ecologist, Fire Ecologist, River Runner (Colorado River mostly), rmtrr.org
Selene FeRNAndez @selfdz.bsky.social Genomics, bioinformatics & non-coding RNA
PI of the #RegRNALab @unswrna.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social
Board member @iscb.bsky.social
Visited #Antarctica in 2025 as part of #HBTransform
ARC Future Fellow
🇲🇽/🇭🇲 #Latina
Opinions == mine
International Journal of Wildland Fire @ijwildlandfire.bsky.social Journal of the International Association of Wildland Fire
Publishing fundamental & applied fire research, including fire modelling, management, ecological & societal impacts.
https://www.publish.csiro.au/wf
Anastasia Shavrova @sci-stasia.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist studying sexual conflict | Science communicator | Lecturer at UNSW | Producer & Cohost of Convos with Chordates
www.ashavrova.com
Associate Professor John White @johnwhitewildlife.bsky.social I’m a wildlife ecologist at Deakin University Australia. Long-term small mammal, fire and climate research in Gariwerd (Grampians). Rodenticide impacts in wildlife. Urban ecology. Powerful owls. Native gardener :)
UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences @unswbees.bsky.social News, events and the latest research from the School of BEES, University of New South Wales - www.unsw.edu.au/science/our-schools/bees
Manuel Cartereau @manucartereau.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in #ecology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
@ucm.es,
Biodiversity - Macroecology - Global change - Resilience - Plants
Magda Garbowski @magdagarbowski.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Functional and Applied Ecology at New Mexico State University.
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social 🌱Ecology🌻Botany🌲Forests🌳Biodiversity🦋Mountains🏔️Climate🌦️Professor🌳NSF Mid-Career Award🍀Editor, Ecological Applications🎋Past Chair, ESA Vegetation (2021-2023)🍁 Fellow, Yale School of the Environment (Fall 2023).
https://www.esf.edu/faculty/dovciak/
International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Publishing plant science research since 1875. University of Chicago Press Journal. Posts by EIC Chris Caruso. 
Darren Reidy @darrenreidy.bsky.social Curator of the National Seed Bank, DBN Herbarium, National Botanic Gardens of Ireland.
Conservation Botany 🌱 Dr of Wetlands & Invasive Sp 💧🌿 Sustainable Communities🏡 Global citizen 🌍 Kerryman 🇮🇪🌈 Labhair Gaeilge liom ☘️
Viviana Londoño-Lemos @vivlondonol.bsky.social Botánica caleña 🇨🇴| PhD student, Powers lab, #UMN | Fulbrighter | Alumni
Univalle, Uniandes | #Plants🌱, #Seeds, #Seedlings, Science, Tropical Dry Forest
Check my blog: https://vivianalondonolemos.github.io/index.html
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle @sarahd-h.bsky.social fire ecologist + environmental social scientist // postdoc at UBC-V // settler doing research in/for Secwepemcúl'ecw // people, plants and fire 🌱🌲🔥
Pieter Zuidema @pieterzuidema.bsky.social Tropical forest ecologist | Professor | Wageningen University 🇳🇱 | Climate change impacts on trees & forests | Tropical 🌳 rings | Dendrochronology | Timber tracing | Model-data integration
Michelle Tedder @michelle-tedder.bsky.social Grassland Ecologist at the University of Kwazulu-Natal 🇿🇦
DroughtNet & NutNet collaborator
https://lifesciences.ukzn.ac.za/michelle-tedder/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JYHyZywAAAAJ&hl=en
Jennifer Bell @jbell-soil.bsky.social Assistant professor at the University of Wyoming. All things soil (and sometimes plant) microbial ecology. Over educated cat lady. She/her
Maddison Howie @maddisonhowie.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Conservation Genetics 🧬🐦⬛
Ecology & Evolution Research Centre | UNSW
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick @sarahinscience.bsky.social Professor, Climate Science | heatwaves | ANU Fenner School | Deputy Director Engagement & Impact, @21centuryweather | convening lead author @IPCC AR7 | co-host totally cooked podcast | @AMOS president | Climate Comms | Mother | Runner | #ADHD
Kathryn Hassell @khassell.bsky.social PhD in fish ecotox #aquatic_pollution #fish_health #ecotoxicology #endocrine_disruption #reproductive_toxicants #recycled_water @SETAC_AU she/her
Dr Aly Ross @eco-aly.bsky.social Wildlife ecologist in South Australia, passionate about conservation, rewilding, and naivete 🦘🐾
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social Dr Helen P Waudby. Conservation biologist working with threatened species in southern NSW. Northern Territorian. Natural history; fieldwork; wildlife; wildflower photography.
Dr. Sean Buckley @congensean.bsky.social Lecturer in Molecular Ecology, Edith Cowan Uni | Conservation and Ecological Genetics | Science Blogger @ www.theg-cat.com | Amateur Wildlife Photographer | ⚣ He/him 🏳️🌈 | 🐟🦘🐦🦎🧬
Danny Cowan-Turner @dannycowanturner.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University - all things photosynthetic…. Once cycled from London to Belgrade. Always tinkering
Sonya Geange @sonyageange.bsky.social Researcher in global change ecology | plants | ecology | traits | adaptive capacity | alpine, arctic & heathland landscapes | invasives | ....dabbler in many other things
www.sonyageange.com
Ricky Spencer @profturtle.bsky.social 2023 Eureka Prize Winner #CitizenScience Empowering Citizen Scientists & Community Conservation (@1millionturtles), Dad with Border Collies. Will talk @Carltonfc
Phil McCormack @drphilmccormack.bsky.social Research Fellow + ARC DECRA on future fires, The University of Adelaide. I research laws about #biodiversity 🦎 #wildfire 🔥 #climate #adaptation. My passion is to see law helping people & all nature to flourish as the world changes rapidly
Dr. Faelan Mourmourakis 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐝 @fumblebeefae.bsky.social PhD in cognitive bee science | Working at Australian Museum and Taronga Zoo | Sydney 🇦🇺
faemourmourakis.wordpress.com
International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com International Biodiversity Consultants Ltd (IBC) is an independent biodiversity and ecology specialist consultancy dedicated to conserving and enhancing our environment with experience worldwide. Link: https://linktr.ee/ibioconsultants
@hufbauer.bsky.social @hufbauer.bsky.social evolutionary ecologist, entomologist since 1999, director of Colorado State University Ecology graduate program (GDPE), PI of NSF Advance grant, mom to 11 vertebrates (two human) and more plants
Join @peercommunityin.bsky.social!
Hannah Thomasy @hannahthomasy.bsky.social Science journalist & biology nerd. ❤️🧪 Be the best weirdo you can be.
@lourenspoorter.bsky.social @lourenspoorter.bsky.social Professor @ Wageningen University | Tropical forest ecology | Traits | Succession | Restoration | ERC Advanced Grant PANTROP | https://pantrop-eu.com/
Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social Science journalist covering all fields. Formerly an editor at New Scientist and Nature. 🧪🐸 🍄
New Scientist: https://tinyurl.com/2tvwfa2b
Live Science: https://tinyurl.com/4mbyh7a9
Sci Am: https://tinyurl.com/bdza74ta
Nature: https://tinyurl.com/yc265esp
Anna Paradowska @annaparadowska.bsky.social Prof @sydneyuni.bsky.social Engineer and scientist building bridges between research & industry at USYD & @ansto.bsky.social, Australia.
She/Her. Mum & wife. Leader & Mentor. Loving ⛷🏄♀️ & life in general! Comments are my own
Milo B. Fasken, Ph.D. @milofasken.bsky.social Senior Scientist, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Molecular Biologist. RNA Scientist. Yeast Geneticist 🧬. British🇬🇧. Runner 🏃🏻…. Opinions are my own.
Interests: RNA Decay, RNA Processing, RNA & Disease.
Thorben Krüger @seedbarrett.bsky.social PostDoc in #TheUstunLab at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. PhD on the molecular control of seed dormancy Uni Münster. Plant stress responses, phytohormones, PTMs, microscopy. He/him.
Víctor González-García @gonzalezgvictor.bsky.social 🌿 PhD student🌳 University of Oviedo 🌲 Vegetation, Forests, Urban Ecology, Alien Species, Orchids & Ferns 🌱
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Victor-Gonzalez-Garcia-2
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Wildlife Research @wildliferesearchj.bsky.social An international journal publishing research and debate on the ecology, management and conservation of wild animals in natural and modified habitats.
connectsci.au/wr
#WildlifeResearch
Australian Journal of Botany @ausjbotany.bsky.social An international journal publishing original contributions to the field of plant science with relevance to Southern Hemisphere ecosystems. #AusJBotany https://connectsci.au/bt
Eucalypt Australia @eucalyptaus.bsky.social For the promotion of conservation, education & research of #eucalypts in Australia.
Hosts National Eucalypt Day each year on 23rd March
Home of #EucalyptoftheYear
Dr John Martin @drjohnmartin.bsky.social Ecology, author, science commentator, citizen scientist, father.
Prof Braj Singh @prof-braj-singh.bsky.social Prof @University Of Western Australia; President-Global Sustainable Agriculture &Environment Initiative; Chair of UN-FAO-ITPS; FAO-NETSOB; Fellow of Australian Academy of Science; Research soil, microbiology, biodiversity & agriculture; Posts are personal
Margie Mayfield @mmayfieldecology.bsky.social Community ecology working on theoretical ecology, plants and insects
The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com Independent news from the sharpest academic minds.
📰 Read: http://theconversation.com/au
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A/Prof Mariana Mayer Pinto @cariocamayer.bsky.social Marine ecologist; Living Seawalls; urbanized coasts; light pollution
UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social A multi-disciplinary research group based at UNSW, Australia. Affiliated to @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social and @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social
CCRC houses research expertise in the key areas of Earth's climate: atmospheric, oceanic & terrestrial processes
Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social Australian Research Council Laureate Professor at UNSW Sydney, investigating groundwater recharge, climate, geochemistry, and stalagmites. Not all at once, at least not most of the time. Posting more often at @andbaker@aus.social
ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social Part human, part bot, 100% UNOFFICIAL. I track Australian Research Council grant outcomes. Bot checks outcomes announcements each min. DMs open. FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/ARC-Tracker-FAQ
Katrin Meissner @katrinmeissner.bsky.social Professor, Director of the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW 
Lee Rollins @lee-rollins.bsky.social Molecular Ecology of Invasive and Conserved Species
Palli Thordarson @palliunsw.bsky.social Professor and Director of the UNSW RNA Institute, School of Chemistry, UNSW.
Professor Matthew England FAA @profmattengland.bsky.social Scientia Prof. of Ocean & Climate Dynamics UNSW Australia | Fellow Australian Academy of Science | CMSI / BEES | Director ARC Centre of Excellence for Our Future Oceans | I study our oceans ice atmosphere and climate 🌊🌎🧊🌍🌤
Dr Kylie Cairns @drcairns.bsky.social Molecular biologist. Genetics and canid nerd. Passion for dingoes, canids, eDNA metabarcoding, citizen science & conservation. Research Fellow at UNSW. threads and insta @dr_cairns
Project Restore @projectrestore.bsky.social On a mission to restore degraded seascapes in urbanised environments. projectrestore.sims.org.au
As part of the NSW DCCEEW Seabirds to Seascapes Program.
Based at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science
Kate Quinlan @katequinlan.bsky.social Scientist in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS) at UNSW Sydney studying gene regulation and transcription factors in adipose tissue-resident immune cells and red blood cells
UNSW @unsw.edu.au This account is currently not actively managed. You can find us on other platforms @unsw.
UNSW Sydney CRICOS no.00098G