Ryan Balkcom @backpackbotany
Botanist🪴- Lichenologist🪵- Backpacker🏔- Gardener🥬- Musician🥁- Bibliophile📚 Joined January 2022-
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@RealSafeSeattle @hannahkrieg Not surprisingly, City Transportation workers and SPD officers stood around watching while UW gardeners and heavy equipment operators initiated traffic control and removal of the tree. *source: I’m a UW gardener*
@TobySpribille This is incredible, congratulations Toby!!
@TobySpribille So excited to read this!
@USFWS ***A S S I S T A N T S*** to the Regional Branch Manager🤨
@Scott_Zona Definitely Polylepis spp., a high altitude Andean tree!
@Texosporium Congrats Jesse! You’re filling great shoes and I’m excited to see a fellow lichenologist in that position. I’m sure Northwest Lichenologists is looking forward to having you up here too😉 welcome to Washington!
@SteveO9259 @wsdot @DianaKepner I drove from Burien to Maple Leaf and then to UW this morning and it was absolutely terrifying. Everything is coated in an inch or two of ice. A semi on 75th and Roosevelt tried to go up a slight incline and slid sideways hitting parked cars and blocking the whole street. Chaos.
Lunar eclipses are so un-spectacular that if nobody told you what was happening to the Moon you’d probably not notice at all. Just sayin’.
@JoeySantore @naomibot Was the lichen there vagrant? Loose and tumbling around on the ground?
We spend countless hours maintaining these beauties, please don’t climb them😢
Immediately no. Immediately no. 🚩 🚩 🚩 😢 reddit.com/r/udub/comment…
Yesterday’s we reached 60 degrees in Seattle, I can’t wait for more warm day like this 🙌🏽. - Picture was taken yesterday during sunset / blue hours
Nice allotment bryophyte community - Riccia glauca, Bryum rubens, Funaria hygrometrica, Dicranella staphylina & Tortula acaulon identified. @Trichocolea @BBSbryology
Pleurothallis ornata is an orchid from high-elevation Mexico that produces tiny flowers that smell like rot, with dangly white appendages on the sepals that mimic maggots to attract predatory wasps. Orchids have an endless variety of tricks up their sleeve to achieve pollination.
Roses are red. Lupines are blue. I like my trails clean. Pick up your dog poo.
What a sight.✨ 32 years ago, I powered off my cameras forever. Minutes before, I imaged this pale blue dot; my former home. Details on the iconic 1990 photo, which was reprocessed for the 30th anniversary: go.nasa.gov/3gNmouu
Probably the highest-occuring arborescent cactus on Earth, Trichocereus atacamensis grows at an elevation of 15,000' on the volcanic soils of Northern Chile near Vilacollo, close to the Bolivian Border. Also present here was a species of Pampas grass and a species of Stevia.
Astrophytum asterias, one of the most endangered cacti in the US. An obligate out-crosser, populations are declining in-situ, mostly due to poor land management & land clearance. Endemic to the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas & Tamaulipas, Mx.
Data paper is out! We sampled paired serpentine & non-serp plant communities at >100 locations across California; each plot visited in multiple years. Our trait data also available separately: doi.org/10.6086/D1P96N Interested to see what people use this for& happy to discuss!
A new Data Paper in @ESAEcology: Plant community data from a statewide survey of paired serpentine and non-serpentine soils in California, USA doi.org/10.1002/ecy.36… With #OpenData in @figshare #EdaphicEndemics #Ultramafic #CAFP #OpenScience #NSFFunded @Texosporium @NSF
AMARYLLIDACEAE: #Cyrtanthus #ventricosus or Fire Lily. Flowering just two weeks after fire on sandstone slopes in fynbos, this bright shiny red flower stands out beautifully in the blackened earth.
#Botany2022 is now open for registration! Visit botanyconference.org to check out registration rates, workshops, symposia and colloquia, exhibitors, field trips, and more! In-person rates are the same as 2019 and hybrid options are available. Abstract submission opening soon.
Samantha Alejandro @SamanthaA47108
4 Followers 249 Following My name is Samantha Alejandro I am from San Juan, Puerto Rico. But I live alone with my daughter in Santa Monica, CA
KENTO MIYAZAWA @lichen_ji117
1K Followers 803 Following 自然史担当(植物)の学芸員. #地衣類 の研究中. 特に生葉上地衣類. 地衣類研究会所属 https://t.co/ix7YKguUik. 投稿は個人の見解です.
derilicon @derilicon1
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Annals of Botany @annbot
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exTRICATe @exTRICATe_EU
142 Followers 236 Following Building conservation networks and Red List assessment of vulnerable lichen Lethariella intricata @IRBioUB @mediambientcat @biologiquesUV @alichenology
Manuela Dal Forno @manudalforno
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SLI @SLichenologica
489 Followers 283 Following Crazy about #lichens! Official account of the Società Lichenologica Italiana (SLI): news, activities, research and events of the Society and its members.
colin reid @derilicon
73 Followers 158 Following back and updated and lost half a stone since those summer Lupins lol. Hoping my garden will be fantastic in 2025.
SICB Division of Bota... @SICB_DOB
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Echo @Echo15777987
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Lalita Calabria @flashcolumn
107 Followers 134 Following professor of botany, lichenologist, domestic goddess, phytochemist, favorite places: ancient forests, anywhere with my family and moss...lots and lots of moss
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Jeff Benca @jeffbenca
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Jesse Miller @texospo... @Texosporium
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H. Stewart-Ahn @HStewartAhn
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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen
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April Windle @aprilwindle
2K Followers 986 Following 🍃 Mad love for nature, particularly lichens. Lichen surveys, conservation & education. 🍁 British Lichen Society Education Chair 🌿 LinkedIn: April Windle.
Troy McMullin @TroyMcMullin
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lichen-thrope @TheErinCarr
600 Followers 942 Following She/her PhD. NSF Postdoc at UNL. Fungal-microbe interactions. Fungal diversity. Biological soil crusts. Polyextremotolerant melanized fungi.
Alejandro Huereca Del... @HuerecaDelgado
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Mark Powell @obfuscans3
2K Followers 2K Following Lichens. Anyone with a hand lens can make discoveries. Add a microscope and a couple of chemicals and you can help rewrite the books.
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Joshua Styles @joshual951
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British Botany @BotanyBritish
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North-West Rare Plant... @nwrpi
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BotSocSA @BotSocSA
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applied Lichenology @alichenology
555 Followers 655 Following We use the knowledge of Lichenology to provide solutions to the conservation of architectural heritage. Lichen itineraries and workshops. @mjchesa
International Associa... @iaptglobal
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NHM Botany @NHM_Botany
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RBGE_Herbarium @RBGE_Herbarium
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266 Followers 654 Following Profe de Botánica en @ULL, Liquenólogo, orquideófilo, 🎶,🏋️...polifacético que es uno 🤣 Teaching Botany at @ULL, lichenologist, orchid lover, 🎶,🏋️ and more!
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