bring back lepidodendrales. return to carboniferous. we need to breed lycophytes to be gigantic again, use a bit of nuclear radiation to speed up the process
October 2, 2026 at 4:15 AM
bring back lepidodendrales. return to carboniferous. we need to breed lycophytes to be gigantic again, use a bit of nuclear radiation to speed up the process
You ever just get down here and try to imagine what it was like when these buggers ruled the whole forest canopy? Yeah, me too. #iamabotanist #Lycophytes
November 23, 2024 at 1:01 AM
You ever just get down here and try to imagine what it was like when these buggers ruled the whole forest canopy? Yeah, me too. #iamabotanist #Lycophytes
Botanists of BlueSky...I'm like 99% sure that deciduousness never evolved in lycophytes but please let me know if I am wrong! It would be very cool if it did!
October 10, 2023 at 6:14 PM
Botanists of BlueSky...I'm like 99% sure that deciduousness never evolved in lycophytes but please let me know if I am wrong! It would be very cool if it did!
Read all about Diego's hunt for lycophytes around Scotland in this post!
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A new blog is out on our website! 📄 Go check it out! Diego Sanchez Ganfornina from @sandyheth.bsky.social's lab talks about the field work he just completed in Scotland. He is trying to generate a lycophyte living collection – likely UK’s largest! 🌿 biology.ed.ac.uk/plant-scienc...
Blog - Bringing the wilderness to IMPS: Fieldwork in Scotland to generate a lycophyte living collection – likely UK’s largest! | Molecular Plant Sciences | Biology
This blog was written by Diego Sanchez Ganfornina, of the Molecular Palaeobotany and Evolution Group (Hetherington Lab | Biology MPEG), collating considerations and reflections through his spring fiel...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Read all about Diego's hunt for lycophytes around Scotland in this post!
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I've moved my Selaginella uncinata to a north-facing windowsill, where it is happily & beautifully iridescent.
#Lycophytes 🌱🌿🧪🔬
#Lycophytes 🌱🌿🧪🔬
July 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I've moved my Selaginella uncinata to a north-facing windowsill, where it is happily & beautifully iridescent.
#Lycophytes 🌱🌿🧪🔬
#Lycophytes 🌱🌿🧪🔬
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES).
Vancouver, Canada.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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Vancouver, Canada.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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UBC
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December 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES).
Vancouver, Canada.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...
Vancouver, Canada.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...
A fossil tree stump Syringodendron (Sigillaria with its outer layer missing) - one of the giant lycophytes from the Carboniferous swamp forests.
On display in the Geological Gallery of Biddulph Grange: a Victorian example of #Palaeo #Scicomm
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒🌎🌱🌲
On display in the Geological Gallery of Biddulph Grange: a Victorian example of #Palaeo #Scicomm
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒🌎🌱🌲
November 15, 2024 at 9:31 AM
A fossil tree stump Syringodendron (Sigillaria with its outer layer missing) - one of the giant lycophytes from the Carboniferous swamp forests.
On display in the Geological Gallery of Biddulph Grange: a Victorian example of #Palaeo #Scicomm
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒🌎🌱🌲
On display in the Geological Gallery of Biddulph Grange: a Victorian example of #Palaeo #Scicomm
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒🌎🌱🌲
Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism - "Bryophytes...flourish in environments where even the hardiest vascular plant species cannot survive"...the diversity of bryophytes surpasses that of ferns, lycophytes and grasses #botany www.nature.com/articles/s41... #botany 🧪🌾
Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism - Nature Plants
Nature Plants - Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism
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January 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism - "Bryophytes...flourish in environments where even the hardiest vascular plant species cannot survive"...the diversity of bryophytes surpasses that of ferns, lycophytes and grasses #botany www.nature.com/articles/s41... #botany 🧪🌾
November 21, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Watching the wonderful Linnean Society lecture on spiral phyllotaxis by @sandyheth.bsky.social
It turns out fibonacci spiral phyllotaxis could be a relatively modern feature among plants, with lycophytes being the living fossil still maintaining non-fibonacci spiral phyllotaxis. Fascinating! 🧪
It turns out fibonacci spiral phyllotaxis could be a relatively modern feature among plants, with lycophytes being the living fossil still maintaining non-fibonacci spiral phyllotaxis. Fascinating! 🧪
November 28, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Watching the wonderful Linnean Society lecture on spiral phyllotaxis by @sandyheth.bsky.social
It turns out fibonacci spiral phyllotaxis could be a relatively modern feature among plants, with lycophytes being the living fossil still maintaining non-fibonacci spiral phyllotaxis. Fascinating! 🧪
It turns out fibonacci spiral phyllotaxis could be a relatively modern feature among plants, with lycophytes being the living fossil still maintaining non-fibonacci spiral phyllotaxis. Fascinating! 🧪
This is called fan clubmoss or "groundcedar". It's not cedar nor moss, but a lycophyte. Lycophytes are one of the most ancient groups of extant vascular plants and once dominated the Carboniferous swamp forests of the late Devonian period. #paleoswamps #swamplife #plants #lycophytes #naturesky
March 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This is called fan clubmoss or "groundcedar". It's not cedar nor moss, but a lycophyte. Lycophytes are one of the most ancient groups of extant vascular plants and once dominated the Carboniferous swamp forests of the late Devonian period. #paleoswamps #swamplife #plants #lycophytes #naturesky
Huge congratulations @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for publishing the results of your masters thesis @annbot.bsky.social
The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social
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The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Huge congratulations @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for publishing the results of your masters thesis @annbot.bsky.social
The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social
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The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social
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Well it's a cold and wet #FernFriday, so time to sit down with some new books and explore distant lands... #Michigan #NewZealand #lycophytes
February 6, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Well it's a cold and wet #FernFriday, so time to sit down with some new books and explore distant lands... #Michigan #NewZealand #lycophytes
A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports insights into how ancient plants lived around 252 million years ago at the time of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe loss of biodiversity in Earth’s history. go.nature.com/4cGiEY5 #PlantScience 🌍🧪
April 28, 2026 at 1:25 AM
A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports insights into how ancient plants lived around 252 million years ago at the time of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe loss of biodiversity in Earth’s history. go.nature.com/4cGiEY5 #PlantScience 🌍🧪
#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
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University of British Columbia, Botany
Job #AJO31140, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES), Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
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Gaaahtcha. Sequential vs seasonal? But there are no seasonally deciduous lycophytes. Also, can I trouble you for some terms to help me in my googling? To me deciduous always means seasonal…is there a special word for that?
October 10, 2023 at 6:41 PM
Gaaahtcha. Sequential vs seasonal? But there are no seasonally deciduous lycophytes. Also, can I trouble you for some terms to help me in my googling? To me deciduous always means seasonal…is there a special word for that?
All plants lose leaves - the plant may be biologically immortal, but leaves are not, they are disposable. In some plants, though, leaves are lost and replaced gradually or sequentially, so we don’t really notice them. So yes, lycophytes are deciduous sequentially.
October 10, 2023 at 6:29 PM
All plants lose leaves - the plant may be biologically immortal, but leaves are not, they are disposable. In some plants, though, leaves are lost and replaced gradually or sequentially, so we don’t really notice them. So yes, lycophytes are deciduous sequentially.
And my UK tour continued to Cambridge! Thanks @fromani.bsky.social, @alanwanke.bsky.social and @dromius.bsky.social for hosting me and for the nice discussions about life and science #Marchantia #EvoMPMI
May 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
And my UK tour continued to Cambridge! Thanks @fromani.bsky.social, @alanwanke.bsky.social and @dromius.bsky.social for hosting me and for the nice discussions about life and science #Marchantia #EvoMPMI
Since I've been working on some lycopsids recently, here's a diagram I made several years ago for a blog post I never got around to finishing.
So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy!
#FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology
So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy!
#FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology
March 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Since I've been working on some lycopsids recently, here's a diagram I made several years ago for a blog post I never got around to finishing.
So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy!
#FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology
So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy!
#FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology
A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports insights into how ancient plants lived around 252 million years ago at the time of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe loss of biodiversity in Earth’s history. go.nature.com/4cGiEY5 #PlantScience 🌍🧪
April 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports insights into how ancient plants lived around 252 million years ago at the time of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe loss of biodiversity in Earth’s history. go.nature.com/4cGiEY5 #PlantScience 🌍🧪
This club moss from the previous shot is Lycopodium obscurum. It's not a moss; it looks more like a miniature conifer and descended from giant 100 ft tall seedless lycophytes that dominated the coal swamps of the Carboniferous Period #NaturePhotography #beauty #nature #evolution #wetlands #clubmoss
November 18, 2024 at 9:56 PM
This club moss from the previous shot is Lycopodium obscurum. It's not a moss; it looks more like a miniature conifer and descended from giant 100 ft tall seedless lycophytes that dominated the coal swamps of the Carboniferous Period #NaturePhotography #beauty #nature #evolution #wetlands #clubmoss
hell yeah it’s chertposting time, let’s take 2 minutes to think about lycophytes, stem collembolan Rhyniella praecursor, and the haunting enigma of Prototaxites
I'm taking a look at the Rhynie Chert again, so I made a quick size chart of the plants I've already illustrated from it.
These plants are some of the earliest land #plants, being from the Early #Devonian. From left to right: Asteroxylon, Horneophyton and Aglaophyton. #paleoart #paleobotany #sciart
These plants are some of the earliest land #plants, being from the Early #Devonian. From left to right: Asteroxylon, Horneophyton and Aglaophyton. #paleoart #paleobotany #sciart
March 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
hell yeah it’s chertposting time, let’s take 2 minutes to think about lycophytes, stem collembolan Rhyniella praecursor, and the haunting enigma of Prototaxites
Margaret Benson, English palaeontologist, was born #OTD, 1859 in London. Her palaeobotanical research centred on the anatomy of reproductive structures, especially of Carboniferous pteridosperms and lycophytes #womeninstem #histsci
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October 20, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Margaret Benson, English palaeontologist, was born #OTD, 1859 in London. Her palaeobotanical research centred on the anatomy of reproductive structures, especially of Carboniferous pteridosperms and lycophytes #womeninstem #histsci
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/f...
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/f...
♻️Stomatal behaviour and water relations in ferns and lycophytes across habits and habitats by Kyra Prats and co-authors
Full #openaccess
👉 https://buff.ly/3WTqeXz
#PlantScience
Full #openaccess
👉 https://buff.ly/3WTqeXz
#PlantScience
buff.ly
December 14, 2024 at 7:07 AM
♻️Stomatal behaviour and water relations in ferns and lycophytes across habits and habitats by Kyra Prats and co-authors
Full #openaccess
👉 https://buff.ly/3WTqeXz
#PlantScience
Full #openaccess
👉 https://buff.ly/3WTqeXz
#PlantScience