Seb 🌱🌿☘️🌱

PhD student at Uni of Leeds. I study urban plants, urban freshwaters, and nature-based solutions. Currently on remote placement at @thebotanics. He/him

[Seb 🌱🌿☘️🌱 @SebUrbanBotany]

Our new exciting #planteducation paper is out in @Ecol_Evol🌾🌵🌱!

“The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness”

You can read the full paper here:
https://t.co/MOLRSQk4CN

🧵 For a summary of content:

Photos: @AGeijerSimpson

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Only 11 days to go! Let's see how far we can get with the Botanical University Challenge Crowdfunder to support this year's Student Botany Festival in August. Read all about it at:
https://t.co/9Wh3A6eBp6

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Issue 15 The Thymes, newsletter of Botanical University Challenge, now out. 22 page issue - Feb online contest result, team accounts, 10 years of BUC, fave plants, book reviews, interviews ...
#BUC2026

Oh, just go and download it!

https://t.co/v9v6BAabo0

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026 - UK and Ireland's plant quiz and festival for degree students. Currently seeking financial support!

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Mega exciting contest yesterday in Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026, finding the 4 semifinalists - teams from Aberdeen, Cambridge, Edinburgh & Anglia Ruskin Universities. Competition for best team names by public vote still open. Use QR code to go and vote.

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Need more preparation for Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026 ? Think about rainforests. Not all are tropical. Some types are rare; where would you find temperate rainforest? Five suggestions on the picture but which is correct?

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

More teams and their amazing names for Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026. See 'I kissed a Burl, and I liked it' (Anglia Ruskin), 'Top of the Poplars' (Bristol) and 'Durham Dendrons' (Durham)! @ARU_Biology @BristolBioSci @DurBiol

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

More teams Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026. Pennywort Lane team Liverpool (past runner-up, had a few years rest!), We Havn't Got A Clusia from Portsmouth, You Betula Believe It Royal Holloway (for 2nd year) & Not-So-Hot Potatoes from Southampton (also past runner-up).

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Who will be asking the questions in Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026 in February? Dr Martin Barker, Aberdeen (team #BUC2025 winners !), Professor Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, Leeds (team new arrival #BUC2025) & Dr Karen Bacon, Galway (first Irish team, #BUC2022)

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Leaves of deciduous trees change colour dramatically in autumn/fall. How? Why? Leaves contain coloured molecules needed for photosynthesis to capture light and power food supply to tree. Colder weather and shorter day length triggers changes. #BUC2025

[Joshua Styles @joshual951]

A day early for #NationalMeadowsDay, but just look at this ancient wildflower meadow I stumbled upon in Staffordshire the other day!

Grasslands should be full of life like this beauty, but often fall silent. Restoring them is vital if we want to see nature recover 🌱❤️

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Around 70% Earth covered in sea. Some flowering plants live in it (e. g. Neptune grass, eel grass) and not easily seen. Others live at sea edges & disperse their seeds using it (e. g. coconuts, mangrove, sea beans). #SeedDispersal #BUC2025

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Seeds monocots include grasses, carbohydrates for most people on Earth. Maize/Corn (Zea mays) cultivated for 9000 yrs started Mexico now worldwide. More produced than other grains. Food for humans, animals; materials chemical industry. Needs humans to scatter seeds. #BUC2025

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Looks like scenery in Jurassic Park film, but is real temperate rainforest in Australia. Ferns and tree ferns. #BUC2025

[Dr M still going wild! @drmgoeswild]

Come and join us! Great opportunity for a field ecologist to join the UK’s Sustainable University of the Year 2025, host of the CIEEM Higher Education Programme of the Year (2024) MSc Ecological Survey Skills with Placement. https://t.co/DFFG9IbVud...

[BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland @BSBIbotany]

We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring.
Led by national experts.
All absolutely free!
22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe
7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker
10 June: Broomrapes with @thorogoodchris1
Details & booking links here:
https://t.co/28gnPRc0bU

[Prof Richard Buggs @RJABuggs]

Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 https://t.co/nmGtpzRzoe

[Oxford Biology @OxfordBiology]

A new study has explored how we can use competition and engagement to empower plant-aware students and prevent the "ticking time bomb" of botanical skills debt.

The Botanical University Challenge is much more than just a contest (@BUCBotany). Read more

https://t.co/GPB1FHW1Ro

[Leslie Tate (he/she/Leslie)✍️🌈'*•.¸♡ ♡¸.•*'⧖☮🙏 @LSTateAuthor]

HANDMADE ART/SCIENCE BOOKS https://t.co/qS9xbkVD0q
😍🍎💥THANX 4 RTS/LIKES!❤☀😍
@SebUrbanBotany @borlan_anamaria @Schaubwrites

#scienceupfirst #illustration #artist #artistic #books #BookRecommendations #BooksWorthReading

[Leslie Tate (he/she/Leslie)✍️🌈'*•.¸♡ ♡¸.•*'⧖☮🙏 @LSTateAuthor]

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[Phoebe O'Brien @phoebeob1]

For anyone who tried to identify the #GreatIrishGrassland plants in winter, here's a handy crib sheet from the ACRES booklet. Showing leaves from blades and simple leaves to more toothed and pinnate structures