This week on The Beet, Jacques sits down with Ben Goulet-Scott and Jacob Suissa to talk plants, passion, and the power of good botany. The duo behind Let’s Botanize shares how they first fell for the plant world and how they’re channeling that love into a growing movement. They discuss biodiversity, ecology, and evolution while making the case for why plants deserve much more hype.

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Ben Goulet-Scott and Jacob Suissa met while earning their PhDs in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, bonding over a shared love of plants. Ben unraveled the genetic and ecological drama of Phlox species and now serves as Higher Education & Laboratory Coordinator at Harvard Forest, while Jacob, a classically trained botanist obsessed with ferns, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 2020, they co-founded Let’s Botanize, an educational nonprofit dedicated to making plant science accessible, engaging, and rigorously grounded in real science.