Abhishek Thakur

Print featuring a plant with dark green speared leaves and blue and yellow flowers against a white background

'Running Iris' linocut by Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #WomensArt

They used to poach this rare bird. Now, they save them. After decades of political unrest, former poachers and community members rallied to protect the Bengal florican.

In Manas National Park, India, Bengal floricans are making a comeback. Critically endangered, their recovery owes much to former poachers now working as protectors, supported by local communities and nonprofits.

Learn how conservation transforms lives: https://ow.ly/c5t450XqtOW

congratulations to both of you!

haha that's so cool

Our lab at Mississippi State is recruiting graduate students (PhD/MSc) to join us in Spring or Fall 2026! If you—or someone you know—are interested in researching evo-devo and comparative genomics of horned dung beetles, check out our site & get in touch! davidsonlab-msu.github.io

Mass Flowering and Flowering Asynchrony Characterize a Seasonal Herbaceous Community in the Western Ghats In a three-year study on the Kaas plateau (Western Ghats, India), we quantified flowering phenology across 76 herbaceous species and introduced two novel synchrony indices (SItemp and SIabd) to disti...

Understanding mass flowering/flowering synchrony on a laterite plateau from the Western Ghats.
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3 master's students & countless years!
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Kew Gardens: Preserving plants for future generations Works to digitise and preserve plant samples are about three quarters complete.

Great BBC news story documenting how Kew Gardens is digitising its herbarium specimens to make them and their meta data available to everyone for free www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

A parasitoid wasp, Hyposoter horticola, parasitizing eggs of the butterfly Melitaea cinxia.

Here is a link to an exciting collection of 14 new review articles in Current Opinions in Insect Science on "Parasitoid Biology in the Anthropocene" edited by Editors: R.M. Borges, R. Venkatesan and S. van Nouhuys.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Thank you so much for this! 🙌🏽

Hi #ChemicalEcologists,

Just created a starter package for networking people in our field 😆 Please let me know if people need to be added!

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Our Chemodiversity Research Unit is now also on BlueSky! Give them a follow to stay up to date with our work on the ecology and evolution of chemical diversity in plants.

And with a snap of a few years Dr. Ritu Yadav is here to take the world!!!
Congratulations to the newly minted Doc from @treelab.bsky.social !!!
Thanks to the reviewers and all who have watched her grow...

Wanted my first post here to be something related to #art. So here is a quick #sketch I made during my train journey.

Want my first post on blue sky to be about amazing #plants and I have a great news!!
@rituYadav defends her doctoral work on the #globba - dancing doll of the Ginger world & one mesmerizing plant!
She asks:why do some species show obligate selfing? Yes, you heard it right. No sexual reproduction!