Improving plant DNA #metabarcoding accuracy with ecological filters and #Angiosperms353: Field and pollen microscopy validation New in #AppsPlantSci by Benkendorf, @sophietaddeo.bsky.social, Fant et al bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #PlantScience #herbaria #ecology

Hey #Botany2026 we're actively looking for potential speakers at ALL experience levels for our proposed colloquium: Side-quest! – Level up your science!. If you have an interesting story, project, or idea to share that qualifies as a “Side-quest” we want to know about it! More info below⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Dr. Maxine “Max” Abbott (née Langford) is an oft-forgotten paleontologist of early 20th century Texas. Born in the 1920s, this pint-sized paleobotanical powerhouse worked on the Carboniferous swamps of North America and the Cretaceous jungles of Texas. (All photos from her papers at Sul Ross.)

Updated tutorials for nQuack today. Want to predict ploidy level of sequence data? See this new tutorial on how to process and model data faster: mlgaynor.com/nQuack/artic...

Excited to share what I've been working on with the science community! Starting to get my PhD papers out as I get closer to graduating, and looking into next steps in my career. If anyone has any postdoc ideas, please reach out! 🙂🌱

New preprint from our lab - how miniaturized library prep drives down costs for target capture sequencing with minimal impact on recovery. Led by @madiraibullock.bsky.social and with two undergrad coauthors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Is it possible to learn this power?

Interesting pilot study on paid peer review. From the thread, $250 US significantly increased "rate of conversion" for review invitations without decreasing a metric of review quality in a medical journal.

Are you a mammologist whose research involves natural history collections? Apply to be my colleague! Assistant professor position with the Department of Biological Sciences and the Natural Science Research Laboratory at Texas Tech University. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

So excited to be co-leading this special issue! Cannot wait to see all the innovative ways target enrichment sequencing is being used! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions ☺️

Yes thank you very much for the design idea, Powerpoint, that is exactly the right vibe for this lecture.

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

FREE TEACHING RESOURCE! 📣 I illustrated this poster as a project during the ComSciCon-ATL conference in 2024 on sunflowers and their unique inflorescence architecture. I am happy to share it here now! Feel free to download, use, and share! You can also contact me for a higher resolution version 🌻

Hey #Botany2025 was so fun we’re ready for #Botany2026 … maybe we’ll wait for y’all here in Tuscon!

When in California… #botany2025

#UpAllNightWednesday at #Botany2025 will be at Street Bar!!! The first gay bar in Palm Springs 🏳️‍🌈 Be ready for karaoke!! 🎤 🕺 💃🏽 ✨

Opening night of #botany2025 means matching lab t-shirts! Check out the alt text to read all of our "plant band" names!

Packed room for the @soltislab.bsky.social #Botany2025 workshop. If you cannot make it, all the resources can be found here: github.com/soltislab/Bo...

Our lab is out in force at #Botany2025 - come check out our talks and posters this week in Palm Springs!

Y’all, big news, I found out where they’re keeping them all

The PEAT* Lab is on its way to #Botany2025! A mere 16 hours to Palm Springs, see y’all there!

V pumped for #Botany2025! So much so that I just can’t wait to post all the projects the #BulbousLab will be sharing with everyone! 🌷🧅🪻🧄

Cannot wait to see all the great talks and posters from folks in my lab!!! Come and hear about our research at #Botany2025 .

Why is the “4th of July” the only day of the year that Americans say the date the British way?

Texas Tech featured our research led by @madiraibullock.bsky.social in a video "Echos of Guadalupe" My favorite part is 15 minutes in when a current MS student, Mara Hosaka, describes how field experiences as an undergrad convinced her to go to graduate school. @ttu.edu made it possible!

"This is like a botanical time machine." Texas Tech researchers traveled to the Guadalupe Mountains National Park to collect plant specimens and continue work in the same place as another Tech professor and his student in the 1970s. youtu.be/4r3CeVzNddM?...

Please Share Widely! Funds needed urgently to support temporary infrastructure of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. 🌱

Well I've broken my second stress ball of 2025 which is not an omen or metaphor of any kind I'm sure

Hey @botsocamerica.bsky.social fam! #Botany&Dragons is back with over $2500 in giveaways and a new adventure for returning players! Want to contribute to our efforts? Take this survey to help us turn your favorite plants into monsters for future adventures! forms.office.com/r/jNqipZFr0F

Plants are political. Nature is political. Food is political. The struggle for our planet is the struggle for liberation and equity.

Our new study out in Molecular Ecology, led by 3 early-career scientists, uses hyb-seq on rangewide field collections to document introgression, species differentiation, and phylogeograhy of bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) & relatives. Great work by a large team over many yrs! doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Bryo-delic! Diverse bibenzyl cannabinoids in the #liverwort Radula marginata 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by @Phil_Carella on this article by Andre et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

New addition to the lab door courtesy of @sarahmackattack.bsky.social and squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Field last week in Junction, TX - towards a new flora of Kimble County, TX including South Llano River State Park. Over 350 specimens collected from 200+ plant species!

No better way to spend a whole day than attending two graduations @ttu.edu Proud to celebrate two students Hannah and Jazlyn who did research in the herbarium and don our professorly wizard costumes! Bonus “Matt Selfie” feat. @drbarnes.org

How does avian influenza spread to cats? It’s a real mystery, the world may never know.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. And already, Frodo, our time is beginning to look black."

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

The average American has three friends

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." - Martin Luther King Jr., 1963 Happy May Day

And really nice press release by @reginafairbanks.bsky.social www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

TTU English Professor TJ Geiger presented at Science By The Glass on Lula Pace and the teaching of evolution in 1920s Texas. TJ is writing a book on Pace’s life as an educator and defender of evolution at Baylor

They can take away our DEI offices and grants, but they can't stop us from infusing DEI into every single thing we do. Which is what we need to have genuine equity, inclusion, and justice. scienceforeveryone.science/p/what-theyv...

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Yay! Happy to have contributed to this paper!

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 Chapter 13: But Then It Was Too Late

Hot off the presses and so so thrilled. Thanks to @inaturalist.bsky.social + computer vision we found something beautifully simple: Red and orange flowers bloom later than all the other colors in the eastern United States. Paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kwzh3QW8S...