Dr Karen Bacon
@KarenL_Bacon
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Plant scientist & palaeobotanist interested in plant-atmosphere interactions, climate change, ecology, geology, invasive plants & extinction at @BPSNUIGalway
NUI Galway, Ireland
Joined November 2013
This paper means more than any other. It wouldn't exist without the help of my husband who aided with filming & keeping me calm learning the tech. It saddens me he didn't get to see it published. Full #OA #VirtualFieldtrip on @digilego: #PlantEcology
🌱Field teaching is an essential part of botany and ecology @KarenL_Bacon of the Ryan Institute developed a virtual botanical fieldtrip, made to overcome COVID restrictions. Read about it's potential post-pandemic -> @Uniofgalway #VR #fieldteaching
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RT @healyke: Do we really care when species go extinct? We explored how mentions of 8 now extinct species changed on Twitter (pre 2023) pre…
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RT @KewKeepers: 🌿 Help us reach our goal of 20,000 names to protect the Kew Herbarium! Sign and share this petition to make a difference: h…
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@UccTrees @uniofgalwayBPS @UCC Not great! Looks like the wond has claimed almost all our leaves already! Your one looks glorious in full autumn colours.
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RT @phoebeob1: Just a reminder on how to find the Waxcap identification key on the @GrasslandsIrl website. You might need it in the next fe…
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RT @antonelli_lab: The 2030 Declaration on Scientific Plant and Fungal Collecting is out today in @plantspplplanet. Become a co-signatory t…
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RT @MOConnell07: This #OA paper a long time in gestation; we, the authors, hope it is worth the wait. Read about vicissitude of temperate r…
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Thanks for a great conference!
A warm welcome to #IPSAM2024 delegates who are discussing the latest research in plant science over the next two days. Welcome to UCC!
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@phoebeob1 @aoife_embleton @Ol_LynchEco @BSBIbotany @BSBI_Ireland I cannot believe that... thats new to me. Excuse me while I go...
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RT @teareinert: I asked my @InstMolPlantSci colleagues about their favorite plants for #FoPD and they had some fascinating answers! Read ab…
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RT @JenniferMcElwa3: Tenure track faculty position @tcddublin Join us @TCD_NatSci Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology Reminder - d…
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RT @Fiafossil: Our new paper is now online in Nature Communications: Bos et al. "Climate-forced Hg-remobilization associated with fern mut…
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Very poor @thejournal_ie Expect better from you.
Please @thejournal_ie can you give me the same title as my male colleagues running for Mayor? Thank you!
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