Apparently it is a thing in my building at ANU, where today one was found wandering the upstairs tea point. I picked the wrong day to work from home and missed seeing it in person.

Friends in southside Canberra have also confirmed! I'm northside and getting maybe interesting colours in my pics, but can't tell if it's light pollution or not.

Sent to your UConn address!

I took a grad level writing course not that long ago and really enjoyed it. Would that syllabus be helpful, although I'm not the prof?

Independent scholars produce serious work, but face steep barriers to publication. While Sanders writes from the perspective of a historian, I'm struck by the similarities I see in #mycology, a field where knowledge transmission is often localised.

doi.org/10.1017/S0080440124000070

If you're thinking of measuring regenerative plant functional traits, check out Poschlod et al.'s preprint with standardised protocols for measuring 58 traits: doi.org/10.32942/X27W7D

@andrewlhipp.bsky.social gave a stirring talk promoting #NaturalHistory at the #Botany2025 @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social lecture. He has preprinted an essay based on this lecture which is worth a read if you need some hope in ecology.

doi.org/10.32942/X2MS85

Northern hemisphere bias strikes again in Johnson et al.'s viewpoint that argues against the assumption that conifer = needle-leaf (and vice versa).

doi.org/10.1111/nph.70136

All botanists know how frustrating the lack of plant emoji diversity is (while mycologists make do with just two mushrooms 🍄🍄‍🟫). Mammola et al. quantified this disparity compared to biological diversity and built a phylogeny of animal emojis.

doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108569

What time scale should we use when we investigate trait-environment relationships? It depends upon the trait, according to the analysis by Famiglietti et al. on woody plants in TRY. Cui's commentary emphasises the finding importance for modelling.

doi.org/10.1111/nph.19416
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