Amanda Rasmussen
@razda5.bsky.social
Assoc prof in plant physiology; develop't & funct'n all adventitious root types inc. crop roots, cuttings, adaptive advantages in challenging environments; teacher; mentor; supervisor. Posts are my personal opinion.
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It's gift-giving season!
Why not give the gift of plant knowledge?
Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite.
Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan)
@jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book)
@razda5.bsky.social 💚
@ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍
Novels too!
Why not give the gift of plant knowledge?
Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite.
Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan)
@jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book)
@razda5.bsky.social 💚
@ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍
Novels too!
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's gift-giving season!
Why not give the gift of plant knowledge?
Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite.
Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan)
@jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book)
@razda5.bsky.social 💚
@ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍
Novels too!
Why not give the gift of plant knowledge?
Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite.
Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan)
@jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book)
@razda5.bsky.social 💚
@ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍
Novels too!
Super stoked to see work from our lab on BBC tonight! tree cuttings prepared by Vaishali Panwar, one of my PhD students, were CT scanned by Brian Atkinson and Craig Sturrock in the hounsfield facility were shown on Gardeners World this evening! watch it on iPlayer!
October 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Super stoked to see work from our lab on BBC tonight! tree cuttings prepared by Vaishali Panwar, one of my PhD students, were CT scanned by Brian Atkinson and Craig Sturrock in the hounsfield facility were shown on Gardeners World this evening! watch it on iPlayer!
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The AAB Applied Tree and Forest Biology group is hosting ‘Creating Canopies II’ at the grand Crown and Mitre hotel in Carlisle. 🌳
Kicking off w Chris Quine and Ruth Mitchell #AABCreatingCanopies
Kicking off w Chris Quine and Ruth Mitchell #AABCreatingCanopies
September 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The AAB Applied Tree and Forest Biology group is hosting ‘Creating Canopies II’ at the grand Crown and Mitre hotel in Carlisle. 🌳
Kicking off w Chris Quine and Ruth Mitchell #AABCreatingCanopies
Kicking off w Chris Quine and Ruth Mitchell #AABCreatingCanopies
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The Scottish Forestry Trust is proud to have once again supported the Association of Applied Biologists' Travel Grants for early-career professionals attending the Creating Canopies II Conference. #AABCreatingCanopies web.cvent.com/event/7e93d2...
Summary. - Creating Canopies II: Resilience, Adaptation and Regenerative Approaches
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September 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The Scottish Forestry Trust is proud to have once again supported the Association of Applied Biologists' Travel Grants for early-career professionals attending the Creating Canopies II Conference. #AABCreatingCanopies web.cvent.com/event/7e93d2...
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Fantastic D1 #AABCreatingCanopies with great talks, stimulating discussion and a successful (dry) forest walk!
September 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Fantastic D1 #AABCreatingCanopies with great talks, stimulating discussion and a successful (dry) forest walk!
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D2 morning includes trees from the urban environment in Toronto and then plenty about Ash!
👏 Well done Scarlet Maguire for a great first conference talk!
#AABCreatingCanopies
👏 Well done Scarlet Maguire for a great first conference talk!
#AABCreatingCanopies
September 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
D2 morning includes trees from the urban environment in Toronto and then plenty about Ash!
👏 Well done Scarlet Maguire for a great first conference talk!
#AABCreatingCanopies
👏 Well done Scarlet Maguire for a great first conference talk!
#AABCreatingCanopies
Also had a very proud supervisor moment as my PhD student Vaishali gave a wonderful talk today about her tree cuttings #AABCreatingCanopies
September 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Also had a very proud supervisor moment as my PhD student Vaishali gave a wonderful talk today about her tree cuttings #AABCreatingCanopies
Apologies my account wouldn't load but it's been a fabulous 2 day meeting with #AABCreatingCanopies thanks to @aabiologists.bsky.social and all our funders. Thanks to everyone who came along! Thanks to Ted and the wonderful volunteers who took us around Coombs wood yesterday!
September 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Apologies my account wouldn't load but it's been a fabulous 2 day meeting with #AABCreatingCanopies thanks to @aabiologists.bsky.social and all our funders. Thanks to everyone who came along! Thanks to Ted and the wonderful volunteers who took us around Coombs wood yesterday!
Our first keynote, Chris Quine introducing forests and forestry, preparing the context for our meeting #AABCreatingCanopies
September 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Our first keynote, Chris Quine introducing forests and forestry, preparing the context for our meeting #AABCreatingCanopies
Kicking off with #AABCreatingCanopies Ted introducing us to Carlisle and the forest surrounds! @aabiologists.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Kicking off with #AABCreatingCanopies Ted introducing us to Carlisle and the forest surrounds! @aabiologists.bsky.social
Today is the last day of my two weeks annual leave, but gees what a doozie of a day it is.
April 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Today is the last day of my two weeks annual leave, but gees what a doozie of a day it is.
Learn how some plants are adapted to certain conditions...I hope it helps people choose plants better suited to changing local climates....out now! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/amand...
RHS What to Grow for a Climate Resilient Garden
As the world's climate changes, this timely book from plant expert, Dr Amanda Rasmussen, explains what we should be planting in our outdoor spaces.
What t...
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April 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Learn how some plants are adapted to certain conditions...I hope it helps people choose plants better suited to changing local climates....out now! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/amand...
Calm before the storm at Science in the park!
March 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Calm before the storm at Science in the park!
As a dual AU/UK citizen, with family and friends just hit by a cyclone, I've been thinking about the way each culture faces adversity...UK: keep calm and carry on; AU: hold my beer (Cracking jokes). Born into AU, that's my natural state but it's worth noting that doesn't mean we don't care...😉
March 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
As a dual AU/UK citizen, with family and friends just hit by a cyclone, I've been thinking about the way each culture faces adversity...UK: keep calm and carry on; AU: hold my beer (Cracking jokes). Born into AU, that's my natural state but it's worth noting that doesn't mean we don't care...😉
Love the sound of students having fun! Best cohort yet in my third year class. It's a self-directed group work session and the majority of the class are here, talking, laughing, working.
March 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Love the sound of students having fun! Best cohort yet in my third year class. It's a self-directed group work session and the majority of the class are here, talking, laughing, working.
A few snaps from Kew Wakehurst where we're visiting the millennium seed bank for an event tomorrow @vilasjohn.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A few snaps from Kew Wakehurst where we're visiting the millennium seed bank for an event tomorrow @vilasjohn.bsky.social
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Merry surprices: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/f...
Flowers below and bulbs above
Commentary and photos by F. Curtis Lubbe and Jitka Klimešová from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Flowers belowground The belowground world can be quite surprising —…
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February 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Merry surprices: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/f...
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🌿 The Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, presented by the BSA Paleobotanical Section, is open! 🌿
Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany.
Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSAawards #IamaBotanist
Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany.
Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSAawards #IamaBotanist
February 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🌿 The Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, presented by the BSA Paleobotanical Section, is open! 🌿
Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany.
Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSAawards #IamaBotanist
Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany.
Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSAawards #IamaBotanist
What I love about teaching? Having students come back after a break in our 3 hr class telling me they were just messaging their mum to tell them about stuff they just learnt! (a 3rd yr, not a 1st yr!)
February 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
What I love about teaching? Having students come back after a break in our 3 hr class telling me they were just messaging their mum to tell them about stuff they just learnt! (a 3rd yr, not a 1st yr!)
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#BlackHistoryMonth
Now more than ever, we must uplift, amplify, & celebrate Black scientists, scholars, & leaders.
Beronda Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social is a plant scientist who researchers & teaches about mentoring & culture.
Read "Lessons from Plants" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Now more than ever, we must uplift, amplify, & celebrate Black scientists, scholars, & leaders.
Beronda Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social is a plant scientist who researchers & teaches about mentoring & culture.
Read "Lessons from Plants" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
February 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#BlackHistoryMonth
Now more than ever, we must uplift, amplify, & celebrate Black scientists, scholars, & leaders.
Beronda Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social is a plant scientist who researchers & teaches about mentoring & culture.
Read "Lessons from Plants" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Now more than ever, we must uplift, amplify, & celebrate Black scientists, scholars, & leaders.
Beronda Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social is a plant scientist who researchers & teaches about mentoring & culture.
Read "Lessons from Plants" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
My 3rd yr class uses Teams to collaborate for a semester-long project (more on my webpage)...this week a 3rd yr student told me they hadn't used Teams since secondary school....🤯..we really have reverted to preCOVID dark ages...good to know students are well prepared to use Moodle in the real world!
February 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My 3rd yr class uses Teams to collaborate for a semester-long project (more on my webpage)...this week a 3rd yr student told me they hadn't used Teams since secondary school....🤯..we really have reverted to preCOVID dark ages...good to know students are well prepared to use Moodle in the real world!
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#PeerReview and #ScientificPublishing should focus on collaboration instead of gatekeeping.
We'll create a more inclusive environment and get better science because of it.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🧪
We'll create a more inclusive environment and get better science because of it.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🧪
January 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#PeerReview and #ScientificPublishing should focus on collaboration instead of gatekeeping.
We'll create a more inclusive environment and get better science because of it.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🧪
We'll create a more inclusive environment and get better science because of it.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🧪
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🌾 Postdoc Opportunity! 🌾
Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!
📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected]
RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch
Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!
📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected]
RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🌾 Postdoc Opportunity! 🌾
Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!
📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected]
RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch
Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!
📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected]
RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch
I'm excited to share my first book! #ClimateResilientGarden Plant physiology for gardeners really! Thanks to lots of people! Especially Ana Mogus for the illustrations @quercusbooks.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I'm excited to share my first book! #ClimateResilientGarden Plant physiology for gardeners really! Thanks to lots of people! Especially Ana Mogus for the illustrations @quercusbooks.bsky.social