Postdoc @EcoLab_BET, working on the extinction debt of orchids. Proud Orchidiot who adores old books, photography, strong coffee, and Oxford Commas.👩🏽💻🌷
@thenewgalaxy@dunnjons Ah no helenae overposting this year I’m afraid; I now work at the University of the Aegean, in Lesvos :) but haven’t found time to go and see all those wonderful ones that @pdimi2 is already posting 🫣🫠
New Research: Analyzing patterns of change in the orchid flora of Britain and Ireland with correlated environmental variability https://t.co/hSeQjHaWAs #FrontiersIn#EcologyEvolution
You know the #orchid season is over and a new one’s just around the corner when you see those beautiful spirals swirling around, spreading their beautiful scent and effortless beauty 🤍💫 Gorgeous Spiranthes spiralis from UoI campus, Epirus, NW Greece 🇬🇷 #MeetTheOrchids
Left: how humans see starlings.
Right: how starlings may see each other - with bolder markings and more colour.
The amazing world of UV vision, seen through the eyes of…. birds.
Fantastic research & where to find it! 🤩 Out-of-this-world poster with the latest #Orchid#ToL (Tree of Life), designed by my 🐐friend @LatinOrchidBot of @KewScience et al., a follow-up of the @NewPhyt paper on the origin & speciation of orchids! Tap👇 & enjoy🌷! #TeamOrchids ✌️
🧵 Extremely excited to share our updated #Orchid Tree of Life poster, led by @kewgardens and inc. over 40 coauthors! It showcases the latest relationships, origin timings of major groups, and key facts, inc. global #species richness and those under threat of #extinction 1/2
Your daily reminder of breathe-in breathe-out: 20 secs of #wave sounds and #sunset magic, straight from burning hot #Greece of (currently) 38C degrees! #SummerInGreece 🇬🇷🤍✨🌅