Michael Sundue@MichaelSundue

I work on the evolution of ferns and lycophytes

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Joined November 2015
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Today 10-11AM EST live—myself, @KathleenPryer and @JacquelynGill will be on NPR ON POINT podcast discussing the importance of herbaria and natural history collections 🌱 wbur.org/radio/programs/onpo…

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history...

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Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium - Sign the Petition! chng.it/zj8ZmrCF via @UKChange

Sign the Petition

Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium

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Nice coverage from The Sunday Post on my current activities @RBGE_Science @RBGEPress
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Interested in #Climatechange, historical #biogeography, and long-distance #dispersal? #PhD @e3dtp position available @TheBotanics studying #fern wind-dispersal and distributions over deep time with myself @Sandy_Heth & @milneorchid Please apply!: surl.li/mxciq
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Check out the New posts up on FernsoftheWorld.com from Western Australia and Papua New Guinea e.g. this handsome Alsophila microphylloides 😍fernsoftheworld.com/2023/10/…
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I learned a lot tagging along with @RebeccaAKoll sampling RBGE living collections @TheBotanics to understand #ancient #forest #fires 🔥 - inspired by the overlap of #horticulture and #paleobotany
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A.R. Wallace collected thousands of biological specimens but not a lot of plants - I was thrilled when I found one of his fern specimens and wrote this blurb for our newsletter Wallace’s Iridescent Ferns at RBGE - go.shr.lc/3S1jWnG @TheBotanics
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Great piece by my favorite foray companion :)
Kenyon Review@kenyonreview
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“We were standing in a minefield of my favorite fungus, and we couldn’t control our fingers.” A veritable feast of an essay, “The Fungi Hunters” by @FrancesArtist sprouts delight after delight. Listen to it/read it online now: kenyonreview.org/piece/the-f…
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Kenyon Review@kenyonreview
22 Sep 2023
“We were standing in a minefield of my favorite fungus, and we couldn’t control our fingers.” A veritable feast of an essay, “The Fungi Hunters” by @FrancesArtist sprouts delight after delight. Listen to it/read it online now: kenyonreview.org/piece/the-f…

The Fungi Hunters - The Kenyon Review

I admit to an abnormal worship of mushrooms. When I was young, I couldn’t stand to put one of the slimy, spongy, dirty morsels in my mouth, although I have […]

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I have a piece in the fall issue of the Kenyon Review about mushrooms, "The Fungi Hunters" kenyonreview.org/piece/the-f… @kenyonreview #kenyonreview #mushrooms #foraging

The Fungi Hunters - The Kenyon Review

I admit to an abnormal worship of mushrooms. When I was young, I couldn’t stand to put one of the slimy, spongy, dirty morsels in my mouth, although I have […]

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Thrilled to start a new position as the #fern #taxonomist at the @TheBotanics Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh. Great team. Amazing collections. Message me if you want to start new collaborations on #tropical Asian #ferns
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Scenes from our Vermont #botany #bootcamp at Northbranch Nature Center w/ dream team @Sarah_K_Morris @bertrandblack & @FrancesArtist #taxonomy #illustration and #naturalhistory - great field station - great students!
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via ⁦⁦@nytimes⁩ covering the work of ⁦@naomibot⁩ - great botanists! great read! nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/ca…

She’s Out to Save Rare Wildflowers, but First She Has to Find Them (Published 2023)

A wet winter has provided a narrow window for botanists to search for wildflowers that have been lying dormant for years in California.

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Great to see the personal narrative my #fern mentor Barbara Paris included in this wonderful @LinneanSociety tribute to women in botany - feeling gratitude
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Happy to have played a small part in this great accomplishment by @GemmaBramley @AnnaTrias and @KewScience can’t wait to see the print copy!
Anna Trias@AnnaTrias
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I’m very excited to share with you that our new book ”Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook” is now published and available in many retailers online! @GemmaBramley @KewScience
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Great set of #fern talks at @eaglehillmaine’s Northeast Natural History Conference. Happy to reconnect with regional colleagues @Sarah_K_Morris @bertrandblack
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New work led by Cheng-Wei Chen on Antrophyum which is definitely in the running for sexiest #fern!. Highly integrative approach using landmarks, ancestral states, and areas w/@joel_nitta, @LeonPerrie
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The Pringle herbarium #fern crew (VT) descends upon the Gray Herbarium (GH) - so many types to find! #fernsofcolombia
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Career highlight: giving a fruit lecture to Ms. Haleigh’s first grade class. They knew all the answers!
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Lamentamos informarles del sensible fallecimiento del Dr. Jerzy #Rzedowski Hasta sus 96 años, escribió 7 libros, 47 capítulos, 130 artículos, 31 fascículos. Colectó >54 mil ejemplares y publicó 188 #especiesnuevas, la última en 2022. Descanse en paz, El Botánico del Milenio.
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