@JimShugg

Botanic Gardens Arboriculturalist

 Australia
Joined October 2013
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From Sacred Crop to Mr Potato Head: What Art Reveals About Our Relationship with Food

By examining how artists portrayed potatoes across cultures and centuries, researchers show how our relationship with one of the world’s most important crops has shifted from reverence and reliance...

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Check out this lovely timber - from the xylotheque recently acquired by the herbarium library…
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Race against time after discovery in tree felled for new housing estate - Yahoo News Australia au.news.yahoo.com/race-again…

Race against time after discovery in tree felled for new housing estate

Some of the area's last old trees have come down. But is it too late for the animals found inside?

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Please sign and share this important petition: megaphone.org.au/petitions/f… via @megaphoneau

Fair Pay for Parks Vic

After a year of negotiating in good faith, union members at Parks Victoria are taking action. They have repeatedly asked to be treated the same as any other public sector workers - but management...

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Costa lends his support to an 11th hour attempt to save iconic raintree abc.net.au/listen/programs/f… via @ABCaustralia

Gardening guru throws his weight behind campaign to save iconic Cairns tree - ABC listen

Large trees such as the giant Freshwater raintree are "priceless" and cannot be replaced, according to the country's most recognisable gardener, Costa Georgadis.

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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

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We discovered microbes in bark ‘eat’ climate gases. This will change the way we think about trees

We already knew forests were heavy lifters in reducing climate pollution. New research reveals the tiny microbes in tree bark can also “eat” climate gases.

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As the world warms, more trees are dying in Australian forests

From Tasmania to the Top End, Australia's forest trees are dying at higher rates due to climate change, according to new research.

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abc.net.au/news/2025-12-23/t…

Plans to burn rare forest abandoned after man camps in tree for six nights

The WA government abandons plans to burn a parcel of forest that is home to a species of rare tree after a 70-year-old man spent six nights living in the canopy.

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Banking seeds for tomorrow botany.one/2025/12/banking-s…
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Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast | Nature Sustainability nature.com/articles/s41893-0…
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What your Introduction section isn’t | Scientist Sees Squirrel scientistseessquirrel.wordpr…

What your Introduction section isn’t

Today, the fourth and final instalment in a short series inspired by bad papers I’ve read (some of them, I’ll admit once again, my own). I’ve let myself rant about what a Methods sections shouldn’t…

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Vanishing experts, vanishing species: The taxonomy crisis | Kew kew.org/read-and-watch/the-t…

Vanishing experts, vanishing species: The taxonomy crisis

Plant taxonomy is the foundation of biodiversity science, but a global skills crisis threatens its future. Training a new generation of taxonomists is urgent and new research maps where help is most...

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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing english.elpais.com/science-t… via @elpaisinenglish

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing

One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5...

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Butterfly Havens in Forgotten Lots botany.one/2025/12/butterfly… via @botanyone

Butterfly Havens in Forgotten Lots

Common plants and abandoned lots turn urban spaces into vital feeding grounds for butterflies.

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abc.net.au/news/2025-12-05/s…

Native trees poisoned along beach in exclusive township where homes sell for millions

Six Australian native trees have been poisoned on public land along one of Queensland's most expensive and exclusive beachside streets.

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NSW government under fire after 670 trees felled for renewable energy project

The NSW government is being accused of wilfully ignoring warnings about the destruction of hundreds of native trees as part of a renewables project.

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In 1939, a Royal Commission found burning forests leads to more bushfires. But this cycle of...

After devastating fires in 1939, authorities began burning forests to reduce fuel load. But we now know this creates conditions for even worse fires.

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Sarah J. McInnes: "When You Really Stop and Look, You’ll Be Amazed By What You Can See." botany.one/2025/11/sarah-j-m… via @botanyone

Sarah J. McInnes: "When You Really Stop and Look, You’ll Be Amazed By What You Can See."

Botany One interviews Sarah McInness, an Australian chemist who found her way into how plants regenerate after fire.

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