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Old tweets by The Botanist in the Kitchen blog by Jeanne L. D. Osnas and Katherine Preston

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Happy #Plantsgiving! Whether you're using canned pumpkin or cooking your own for your pumpkin pie, here's what you need to know to turn your kitchen into a botany lab.
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@JacquelynGill My kids and I love using the Merlin app on my phone to ID birdsong when we’re out and about. I didn’t know that the CLO Merlin folks also made a game! So cool.

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@taprootmag sent this lovely photo of the first page in the latest issue, HARVEST, with illustrations by the talented @JuliaDitto .

[Annals of Botany @annbot]

🎉🆕📰🎉: Making a greener planet: nature documentaries promote plant awareness
https://t.co/ErDvyTRuqR

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@taprootmag sent this lily photo of my article in the latest issue (LUNAR), illustrations by @JuliaDitto.

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@chandler_suth @PlantTeaching https://t.co/Sfv8xYryz1

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@chandler_suth @PlantTeaching Bok choy is B. rapa :)

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@taprootmag sent this lily photo of my article in the latest issue (LUNAR), illustrations by @JuliaDitto.

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@msiyamwa My dog’s name is Sprig, which is also another name for a pintail duck, which is a research and hunting subject for my waterfowl biologist husband.

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A cool lens for exploring plant phys

[Jess Gersony (she|her) @Jess_Gersony]

🌿next semester, I'm planning to teach a PLANT PHYSIOLOGY class entirely framed in ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE perspectives! as someone who is relatively new to thinking about environmental justice x plant interactions, i'm wondering what issues/concepts first come to your mind?!?!?

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@taprootmag sent this photo of my essay in the latest issue with illustrations by @JuliaDitto

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@taprootmag sent this photo of my essay in the latest issue with illustrations by @JuliaDitto

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

Not a tree my friends, A LEAF!
Amorphophallus titanum.

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Battling plant blindness with poetry

[Sandra Knapp @SandyKnapp]

I am really exited to an advance copy of my new journey into the wonderfulness of plants! It's about the coming together of plants and people through naming.. I learned sooo much writing it! Out 22 September via @NHM_London... And in USA from @UChicagoPress

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Happy birthday @KatherinePres10

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We enjoyed hearing about this work at #Botany22.

[Ryan Folk 🐕 @ry_folk]

A long promised work on origins of nodulation in angiosperms is out as a preprint! A data-intensive museum-based approach, the first of its kind, leads to a novel, nuanced model of the evolutionary origins of the nodule organ. https://t.co/0IrhGjsZKs

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@ry_folk @soltislab We loved hearing about this at #Botany22! Glad it’s out! Congratulations

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Delighted to be included in Taproot Issue 51::IMAGINE. Read all about Brassica oleracea! @JuliaDitto’s art is gorgeous. https://t.co/tXHFe8Eoon