ICL Botanical Society

Imperial College Botanical Society... plant nerds and proud ❤️ tweets by @VPudilova

[ICL Botanical Society @imperialbotanic]

We're having our annual plant identification workshop! This year's theme: edible plants and herbs 🌿 Thanks again for your help @Polypompholyx 😊

[ICL Botanical Society @imperialbotanic]

Our secretary spreading nature love!

[ICL Botanical Society @imperialbotanic]

Come visit us at Freshers’ fair, UDC9! Free plant if you can tell the difference between a succulent and a cactus.

[ICL Botanical Society @imperialbotanic]

Check out this free event our secretary is organising thanks to funding from @imperialcareers charity insights scheme

[Morden Hall Park NT @MordenHallPkNT]

Meet Veronica, the Ultimate Frisbee enthusiast, who can throw a flying disc from one end of a football pitch to another! She’ll be teaching all comers how to throw a “scoober“ and other tricks at next month’s @FunPalaces. What secret skill can you bring? https://t.co/rmGotkTuQv

[Will Spoelstra @SpoelstraWill]

Surrounded by flies and smelling like a corpse, I managed to get some nice shots of the Amorphophallus titanum gradually opening through the day. It doesn't smell too clever either! Worth a visit to the #PoWCKew @kewgardens @KewPressRoom @BiondiEli

[The Sainsbury Laboratory @TheSainsburyLab]

Plants have an immune system…and it’s complicated; Fresh insights from the @KamounLab, into plant immunity amount to a new field of discovery that could advance the��next generation of disease-resistant crops https://t.co/JlzLga1WFV @sciencemagazine

[ICL Botanical Society @imperialbotanic]

A great podcast! https://t.co/utasItfy7a

[In Defense of Plants @indfnsofplnts]

Ep. 165 of the In Defense of Plants Podcast has arrived!!

This week its all about cacti 🌵🌵🌵

Today we are joined by cacti explorer Stefan Burger who has been exploring South America in search of its... https://t.co/0c5RQZahOh

[Scientists for EU @Scientists4EU]

Great to see championing of the importance of UK-EU science

...and an acknowledgement that Brexit is damaging UK science already. This must be fixed. https://t.co/hbYCSuVLOC

[ICL Botanical Society @imperialbotanic]

Not necessarily plant-related but definitely made us laugh! #bioftw https://t.co/0PJdE1iY19

[Rich Davis, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS🧫🦠 @richdavisphd]

The most successful people I've met:

1. Have niche interests
2. Adapt
3. Acquire resources
4. Out-compete locals
5. Have billions of offspring
6. Are actually bacteria
7. Evolve antibiotic resistance
8. Share knowledge/plasmids with others

#microbiology #ASMClinmicro

[Joshua Styles @joshual951]

One in five British mammal species are noted to undergo significant decline - around half of these are granted special protection in legislature.

One in three British plant species are noted to undergo significant declines, whilst only 2.5% are granted protection. #perspective https://t.co/Xvp4wJyGSz

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Our generation is presiding over an ecological apocalypse and we’ve somehow normalised it . Join me on my UK Bioblitz . We’ll be visiting road verges , farmland , parks and community nature reserves to record what wildlife remains . #WeWantWildlife https://t.co/J1pHmF41lu

[In Defense of Plants @indfnsofplnts]

Aloe and Agave are a wonderful example of convergent evolution in plants. Click here to learn how similar environments have shaped these two distinct lineages into something remarkably similar 🤔 https://t.co/qYeygMl7g1

[In Defense of Plants @indfnsofplnts]

Learn how saving this bat from extinction involved protecting the plants it requires for survival 👍 https://t.co/pDHfWsMHkd

[Pietro Spanu @PietroSpanu]

Marking Final Year Projects today...

Let's get this right, once and for all: LB medium stands for LYSOGENY BROTH, not Luria Bertani, Luria Broth or Lennox Broth.

doi: 10.1128/JB.186.3.595-600.2004
Was this the mark of self-deprecating modesty?

[ICL Botanical Society @imperialbotanic]

@EntoProf thats an intersting idea - know where we could find out more about this?

[ICL Botanical Society @imperialbotanic]

Dr. Bidartondo 👍🏼 https://t.co/bT4nGhg1RJ

[GaryFoster @Prof_GD_Foster]

Pollution hits fungi that nourish trees - study https://t.co/j0f5Uqfw0E

[Christopher Grefen @MCBotany]

#FavouritePlantChallenge
One of my favourite plants is #Armeria maritima (#Plumbaginaceae)
because it literally grows ON a rock and a hard place!
What is yours and why? @plantteaching @KleineVehnLab @ReskiLab

[Monarch Larva Monitoring Project @MLMPCitSci]

Last week @nytimes published an opinion article about the evolution of one writer's garden as she tried to attract monarchs and other pollinators. What's your garden's story?
https://t.co/SOnnfearOB

#monarchs #Pollinators
#gardens

[Alan Elliott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @alan_elliott]

The sea of #Meconopsis Slieve Donard in the woodland @TheBotanics this year is utterly astonishing.