Chris Martine | Plant People FTW
@martinebotany
President, Botanical Society of America. #PUI Prof + Herbarium Director Doc Martine and the Botaneers #PlantsareCoolToo: #iamabotanist #Botany2026 #botany #plantpeopleFTW
Hanging with the amazing Bucknell Burpee postdocs, current and former, who are at #Botany2026. @ithaden.bsky.social @tmariewms.bsky.social @devanijolman.bsky.social #plantpeopleFTW #raybucknell
Big #Botany2026 Monday for the lab: great posters by @botanicalbecks.bsky.social and Maria Aguilar (her 1st!) and awesome talk by new Burpee postdoc @devanijolman.bsky.social on her PhD work at ODU. #plantpeopleFTW
Next in the @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social Taxonomist Day in the Life series: Flashback to my recent attempt to relocate the original collection site of the Australian bush tomato Solanum dioicum for the 1st time in 120 yrs. More in my #botany2026 talk on Mon. at 3:00 in the Side-Quest Colloquium.
Martine and Williams Labs were in the house tonight at #Botany2026. #plantpeopleFTW
Reg desk ready for first full day of #Botany2026! #plantpeopleFTW
Bucknell Botanists en route to #Botany2026! #plantpeopleFTW!
Coming soon to a streaming platform 🎶 near you. #plantpeopleFTW
Gotta admit I am a little bit excited for the debut single from Doc Martine and the Botaneers to drop everywhere on August 5. #plantpeopleFTW #Botany2026
Sneak preview of the upcoming new single, “Plant People FTW,” from the live debut w/ @ibillykelly.bsky.social. Dean-Jones-produced track dropping on 5 Aug. #plantpeopleFTW #botany2026
Bucknell alums Anais Barnes + Maddie Wickers put in a ton of time scoping out Susquehanna Valley cliffsides for #Heuchera -- finding that not only is H. alba all over the place, but so is the specialist heuchera cellophane bee. #iamabotanist #undergradresearch castaneajournal.com/article/scie...
TFW you finally relocate the 1906 type locality of one of your focal species and now you know what it’s really supposed to look like. #iamabotanist
Brief moment in the garden of bluebells overlap as English just beginning and Virginia (back) just wrapping up. #phenology #zone7a
Despite a freeze that killed back new growth a week ago, local black walnuts are powering through in central PA. All this in 8 days.
Where my MacClade peeps at? The best alt-Tetris ever. #evolution #phylogenetics
Her previous project on Katsura was published in Castanea last year. As a Bucknell Presidential Fellow, Kayleigh has been doing undergrad research since her first week on campus. #PUI #plantpeopleFTW 2/2 bioone.org/journals/cas...
Today we celebrated Bucknell senior Kayleigh Long on being selected for a 2026 Young Botanist Award from @botsocamerica.bsky.social! Kayleigh is helping to describe two new species of Australian bush tomatoes and... 1/2
Unhappy Mayapples here in central PA after an April night in the 20s.
Yes, it’s cool that Aronia melanocarpa (black chokeberry) makes “super fruits”…. But I’m here for the pink anthers. #iamabotanist #wildfruits #Rosaceae
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba), our only native Annonaceae in Pennsylvania, blooming today. Could be future deliciousness right there. #phenology
New PlantingScience pocket tee and @botsocamerica.bsky.social trucker hat in the house!!! #plantpeopleFTW
Last season’s Aristolochia seeds still hanging on… and looking bonkers. #pipevine #iamabotanist #wildflowerhour
Asarum canadense blooming in the shade garden this morning. #nativeplants #wildginger #phenology
Big congrats to Bucknell Biology’s newest Full Professors, Drs. Emily Stowe and Mizuki Takahashi! (Here appearing just after their visits from the Dean.)
Happy International Plant Appreciation Day #IPAD2026! How is everyone celebrating? Anyone spending time with any special plants? @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla) blooming in the garden today. #phenology