Happy birthday to Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn science PhD & 1st woman or POC to become a full bio prof at Stanford. She

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Botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, seaweed cook, devoted teacher/mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman science PhD was awarded highest award in marine botany NAS Gilbert Morgan Smith medal, found 200 species of algae.

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My portrait of botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher/mentor, Hawaiian ethnobotany expert, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman science PhD, 1st woman on Stanford's biology faculty & 1st POC full prof at Stanford.

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Ethnobotany
Sept 2021 vs Jan 2019

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It's been half a year as I started working on Herbalist's Primer. It will take another half a year. I've filled my life with ethnobotany, occult, and plant folklore, and it's warming me up each day. Highly recommended. Join me. Here's some ginger for the trip.

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I could use a I'm writing and illustrating a book on real-world magical plants. A mix of and whimsy, with a dash of roleplaying game

Here's more info on the project: https://t.co/0qfaMaW83G

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Read Dr Mike Maunder’s article from the new issue of - The Lost Gardens of the Anthropocene - on the escalating effects of climate change on the botanical gardens of Miami

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https://t.co/uD43jLO4Zy

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How have indigenous plant names served as boundary objects in the history of science? My article in looks at case studies from botany & anthropology in 19C Aotearoa & elsewhere: https://t.co/THPibuX6KH

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Annual Lecture coming up at Kew 10 Oct, 17:00 - looking forward to Roy Ellen from "In the footsteps of Rumphius"

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