Thank you for the inspiring talk! @sandyknapp.bsky.social #Solanaceae #ASPT

#Hiring! We are looking for an Interim Editorial Director to oversee our biological and environmental science journals. If you have a background in academic publishing and a drive to support research, this could be the perfect opportunity to make an impact. Apply now ▶️ https://ow.ly/tCa550Y9sUN#Hiring

BOTANY 2026 abstract submission is open!!! @botsocamerica.bsky.social

The human fingerprint of medicinal plant species diversity: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Seeds of some species, like peanuts, are mostly embryo (exalbuminous); others are mostly endosperm (albuminous). Adonidia merrillii, an albuminous species, has a tiny bullet-shaped embryo & endosperm penetrated by ingrowths of the seed coat. #seed #ruminate. #Arecaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

AI in science is creating a classic social dilemma: what's good for individuals is bad for the collective. www.science.org/content/arti...

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎓 The 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award is now open for nominations! This award celebrates innovative Master’s and PhD research powered by GBIF-mediated data, with opportunity to win 2x €5,000 prizes! Learn more:🔗 gbif.link/GRA_2026 #ApplyNow #EarlyCareerResearch #FundingOpportunity

In a world where every day brings a new and totally unpredictable thing, it's nice to have the consistency of the Bears effing it up.

Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for the first webinar in our 2026 series: "Taxonomy: What is it good for?" Free to all! Join us to hear @sandyknapp.bsky.social's "Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)" Pls register & share: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Don’t get a boring job. Get a fun job. Be a botanist. #botany #WakeBotany

Thank you @cdnsciencepub.com for publishing our article and making it accessible to readers through open access, at no cost. This not only amplifies the visibility of our work, but also supports the spirit of open science to global south researchers, which we value greatly.

Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇 www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

Sleep pressure causes birds to trade asymmetric sleep for symmetric sleep: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES – Why SocSES, and why now? 🎉 Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk

It's the best time of the year! I get to see all the wonderful work from my entomology students 🥰

Bittere scheefbloem (Iberis amara) op straat in Overvecht, Utrecht

📣 Call for speakers 📣 Present your contribution to the SES Methods website at the next speed talk-style SES Methods Bazaar on 🗓️ 19 June 2025. 🔗 Sign up as a speaker: tinyurl.com/yc34sa6z ⚠️ Sign up by Tuesday, 27 May 2025, at 18:00 Central (Africa/Europe – UTC+2)

Nature supports livelihoods and is vital for our health & wellbeing. But we're perpetuating a biodiversity crisis across the globe. 🌍🧪 .— @nevilleash.bsky.social, IPBES Officer-in-Charge Let's act for harmony with nature & sustainable development. 🎥https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkWNxaV4uA

I credit my career path to being a 2015 PLANTS grant recipient and have volunteered as a mentor almost every year since. I cannot imagine BSA or the field of botany without it. Please consider donating to the BSA Human Diversity Fund to support future generations: crm.botany.org/makeadonation

IAPT Photo Contest! 📸💚 bit.ly/iaptphotocontest

Estimating effective population size trajectories from time-series identity-by-descent segments academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

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“86% of global deforestation occurring between 2001 and 2022 can be attributed to crop and cattle production.” The title of the paper might lead people to think that it’s closer to 50%.

I have spent much more time putting out fires in the last 100 days than I have educating students or conducting research to address real-world problems.

🧪🪲🐞🗺️ @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social led a global #meta-analysis in @respublications.bsky.social #RESEcolEnt that found many taxonomic holes and no evidence of a common pattern of taxon or #phylogenetic #diversity across #elevation for #beetle #Coleoptera families doi.org/10.1111/een.... 🧪🪲🐞🗺️

The Biodiversity Heritage Library has just surpassed 63 million pages! Spanning 1469–2025, BHL provides invaluable #OpenAccess to the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. 🌎 📚 🌱 #ILoveBHL #BHLib ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Let's talk about the interaction of fire exclusion with the return of fire to #prairie. This bluff prairie in SW WI had not seen fire for at least many decades and was being encroached on by woody vegetation. Low herbaceous plants had been excluded from large portions by excessive thatch. 1/

Are you an early career systematist needing a little extra funding for conferences this year? Check out SSB’s new Early Career Travel Fund! www.systbio.org/early-career... Deadline is coming up soon - March 31 to accommodate travel for summer meetings such as #Evol2025

🧵1/6 #WorldWildlifeDay 2025 is here! To celebrate, we’re highlighting recent #DNABarcoding research that enhances our understanding of wild animals and plants Today, we’re focusing on 🧬🔬 methods to ID species, with a comparative study on butterflies, bumblebees, and parasitic wasps 🦋🐝.

Look at this Huernia zebrina flower! So amazing and unreal looking, as if made of rubber and belong to an alien world. #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌱🌸

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Fascinating. Allometry of nostril spacing in whales negative scales with the trophic level. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧪 #EvoBio #Macroecology

#Climatechange shuffles nature’s deck, reshaping ecosystems as species struggle to keep up. Study on @nature.com finds rapid temperature shifts accelerate species turnover, threatening #biodiversity. Human impact worsens the crisis—making #conservation urgent than ever. 👓 10.1038/s41586-024-08456-z

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A slightly wet Tui singing at the local park, Auckland New Zealand #Birds #photography 🪶📷🇳🇿

A little Black Morph Piwakawaka | Fantail came for a visit in Pohara, Tasman earlier in the year. (The Black Morph is a rarer version of the Fantail; its often seen throughout only the South Island of New Zealand) Gear: Canon 5DM4 with Sigma 150-600mm Settings: SS 1/8000 F/6.3 Iso 1600 #birds 📷 🇳🇿 🪶

I spent the last five summers sharing the infamous mediterranean heat with 15 species of thistles that flower at that somewhat absurd time of year, seeking to understand (something about) their thermal ecology. Here are the results. I think all my sweat was worth it. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

These are the protagonists of the story

We are removing the largest and longest-lived animals, which can be detrimental to those species dependent on migration, sociality, and cultural transmission to survive. Paper in Science by @kellerfish.bsky.social et al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate change is a 'natural' process now occurring ~10 times faster than the average rate after an ice age. Extinction is 'natural' but is now occurring 1000X faster than in past eras (apart from mass extinctions). Biological invasion is now at rates 100000X prehistoric levels of spp colonisations.

If you have the feeling that @bsky.app is different, maybe you are right. The current migration is breaking the typical rich-get-richer effect wrt other platforms #scaling Data: Twitter: 10.9M users BlueSky (Mar 2024): 4.1M users, 🙏 @andreajpg.bsky.social Mastodon: 3.8M users, 🙏 @tiago.skewed.de

Any climate justice folks want to talk to me for a story about the future of climate justice work/funding post-Justice 40 Initiative? I'd be happy to talk on or off the record. #climatesky

Euphorbia obesa is popular among succulent enthusiasts. It is completely leafless: the stem does all the photosynthesis, along with storing water and bearing flowers. The female flowers shown here have the trifid, branched stigma that is typical of #Euphorbiaceae. #succulent #botany 🌾🧪🌱

We are hiring in Ecology at UPenn Biology! The search is open to any area of Ecology. We are a integrative, collegial department, supportive of junior colleagues, and are located in the great city of Philadelphia. Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/133155

When rewards are not visible, how do #pollinators assess if a flower is worth visiting? Smell, signs (visible & UV light) & tactile clues are important. Some #flowers even over-promise. The yellow bulges on these Antirrhinum flowers mimic #pollen-filled anthers. #Plantaginaceae #pollination #Botany

Don't miss your opportunity to submit symposia, colloquia, and workshop proposals for #Botany2024! Symposia/Colloquia Deadline: October 1, 2023 Workshop Deadline: November 1, 2023 To learn more visit: botanyconference.org