Joni Cook

Plant ecologist, working in comms. BSBI Events & Comms. sec. She/her @cookjonil.bsky.social

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

#NewYearPlantHunt results are out!
3K hunters, 647 wild & naturalised species in bloom, c25K records: plans afoot to extend Hunt across rest of year.
Huge thanks to all plant hunters!
Summary/ press release here: https://t.co/NtB05Frmc6
Longer report here: https://t.co/lq4LWTybHT

[Joni Cook @CookJoniL]

@Botany2021 @BSBIbotany Morning, yes - all webinars in the series are recorded and available in due course on the BSBI YouTube channel.

[Joni Cook @CookJoniL]

I'm really looking forward to this upcoming talk on Cotoneasters by James Common as part of @bsbibotany's DAERA-funded botanical training webinar series. All welcome! Tuesday 28th January, 7pm start, register in advance at: https://t.co/jteIiLVYD3

[James Common @CommonByNature]

Cotoneasters, gulp ����

Somehow found myself involved in this @BSBIbotany/@BSBI_Ireland talk next year. Open for bookings if anyone is interested...

https://t.co/MhcW9vgs8P

At least I have a few months to practice! 😅

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

We're hiring!
Could you help us nurture & develop botanical skills across Northern Ireland & grow participation in the National Plant Monitoring Scheme?
Apply by 16 Feb for this great new post:
https://t.co/y8jThD0Wua
@theNPMS @BSBI_Ireland @UKCEH_training @JNCC_UK @Love_plants

[Joshua Styles @joshual951]

5 years after herbicide use ended, Hoylake foreshore is thriving:

240+ plant species ✅
42k tonnes of sand captured annually, saving £45k ✅
Home to 2% of UK’s embryonic dunes ✅
Peat soils forming ✅

30ha of rare habitat = biodiversity, protection, carbon capture 🌱❤️

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

Our 2025 programme of field meetings & indoor events is now live: https://t.co/xz2ND1TVas
54 events across Britain & Ireland inc training days, webinars & workshops for beginner botanists; specialist & residential courses for experienced botanists; conferences & great days out!

[Zero Hour @zero-hour.bsky.social @zerohour_uk]

🐝 Thank you to the MPs who support the Climate & Nature Bill, the joined-up legislation we need to restore nature and tackle the climate crisis.

🗳️ It’s time to turn your words into action—and vote for the #CANBill at its Second Reading on 24 January.

https://t.co/izjGjGeQk9

[Copernicus ECMWF @CopernicusECMWF]

2024 was the warmest year on record with an average global temp. 1.6°C above pre-ind. level.
It's the first year to exceed 1.5°C above pre-ind. level, with every month but one since July 23 surpassing this threshold. Full Global Climate Highlights 2024:
https://t.co/s3JeRjZUyg

[Joni Cook @CookJoniL]

Gorse providing cheerful colour in a wintry landscape today. #WildflowerHour

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

In a remote Philippine rainforest, I once entered a glade of giant ferns - thicker than a human thigh - slowly uncoiling themselves like snakes.

[Dr. Sajad Alipour @SajadAlipour98]

Ferula gummosa
Apiaceae
Tehran, Iran
Elevation 2600m
May 2024
#ferula #apiaceae #botany

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

So #NewYearPlantHunt is over for another year.
Please send in all your records by Sunday so we can analyse them & report back.
Meanwhile here's our Day 4 round-up: what we know so far, messages from the Hunt founders & a shout-out to the Support Team!
https://t.co/jM8MPQz3aC

[Joni Cook @CookJoniL]

@jahasse Great find, only 2 records of Climbing Corydalis submitted in this year's hunt to date. Many thanks for taking part! #NewYearPlantHunt

[natural historian @jahasse]

Short sprint in rain+wind across a Weybridge Heath for #NewYearPlantHunt as needed air rewarded with several bizarrely blooming Climbing corydalis plants (Ceratocapnos claviculata) on fairly recently created banks of earth (the close-up confused my smartphone camera!)

[Joni Cook @CookJoniL]

@frogmortin Great finds, Jonathan! #NewYearPlantHunt

[Jonathan Mortin @frogmortin]

18 species in flower around Buxton on Day 3 of the #NewYearPlantHunt including Winter Aconite and Water Avens

[Sarah Lambert @sarah_lambert7]

My last solo #NewYearPlantHunt round Longthorpe took in an ancient woodland, housing estates and a churchyard I recorded 44 species in just over 2 hours, including 15 not seen in previous days' hunts - more early flowering species today! Names in ALT

@bsbibotany
#wildflowerhour

[Joni Cook @CookJoniL]

@sarah_lambert7 @BSBIbotany Great finds, Sarah! #NewYearPlantHunt

[Joni Cook @CookJoniL]

Wonderful to see so many inter-generational plant hunts taking place this year, what a great way to support and inspire budding botanists! #NewYearPlantHunt @BSBIbotany

[BSBI Scotland @BSBIScotland]

A great inter-generational #NewYearPlantHunt today to finish things off, with 8 hunters aged 2 to considerably older searching round our village, and 28 spp. found in flower! Highlights were American Speedwell and Keel-fruited Cornsalad, both recent additions to the village flora

[Joni Cook @CookJoniL]

The #NewYearPlantHunt live results show that a tremendous 1608 surveys sent in to date- 20,337 records- well done, all! Will this be the most successful hunt to date by outnumbering the 2024 result of 21,089 records?🤔Outstanding records can be submitted until midnight on Sunday.