I had the immense privilege today of looking through the correspondence of Carl Peter #Thunberg, disciple of Linnaeus, who took over Linnaeus' professorship @uu.se. Hundreds and hundreds of letters + a handful of letters sent by Linnaeus to Thunberg!!! 🤩 @linneansociety.bsky.social

Odin the one-eyed god looks on at Gamla Uppsala. He gave one of his eyes in exchange for knowledge

📣CALL FOR PAPERS! Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...

Hi folks- I recently saw a call from a journal that was looking for novel findings in Plant sciences. I can’t remember if it was a special issue or what but it was specifically for results that might not be a full publishable paper but were nonetheless important data sets or findings. Any ideas??

Hi Folks ! Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025). Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more ! www.hautsdefrancetourism.com/destinations... --> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Repeated evolution of flowers specialized for buzz pollination (Evolution) @nicrodemo.bsky.social @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/sIToGPO #PlantaePSRW

Best time to join the growing ranks of #BSBImembers? In October to get 15 months of benefits for price of 12: that's when 100s of people inc @markavery.bsky.social & @alunsalt.bsky.social joined! 2nd best time? In November, to enjoy 14 months of benefits: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...

Just out! 📄 The labs of @nicrodemo.bsky.social (Uppsala) and Emily Baird (Stockholm) studied the temperature sensitivity of bee buzzes 🐝 Key findings: - Frequency is driven by thorax temp - Air temps > 25 C affect muscle function - Little/no effect of species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

Two of the best years, also the program that changed the trajectory of my life. <3

Based on the MEMEs I have met—this is an excellent program.

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

The time has come again! TBS has #grants available to undergrads, masters & doctoral students alike for #research, field work or workshop attendance! Grants are available to society members - learn more & apply at www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/ 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾 #botany

This work is the result of a lot of persistence, my co-authors especially @draverbee.bsky.social and @nicrodemo.bsky.social, greatly improved by reviewers and handling editors. Poricidal anthers evolved multiple times but this phenotype stayed in lineages 50 my after the origin of all angiosperms.

We are looking for a physics/maths graduate with an interest in biology, or a biology graduate with strong computational/mathematical skills/interests, to join us as a PhD student working on biomechanical modelling of butterfly wing scale structure formation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Excited to dig into this paper! Having previously enjoyed Dr Mary Jane Epps work showing Rhododendron calendulaceum buzz pollination, now I see there….a whole Ericaceae section of the buzz pollination phylogeny 🤩😍

Every day is a school day. Is never heard of buzz pollination before.

I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort! We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

How many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣 We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026. Check out what we offer here: www.asab.org/grant-overview

🌸 The orchid that blooms underground Australia’s rare Rhizanthella orchid lives, feeds, and flowers entirely underground, relying on a fungus and bush roots to survive, now near extinction. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #Botany #SciComm 🧪

Join us on Tues 18 Nov for an evening of mystery, botany & Victorian intrigue at the Linnean Society. In 1818, a strange orchid arrived in England...and vanished. @sbilston.bsky.social uncovers the tale of Cattleya labiata and the Linnean archives that helped crack the case. buff.ly/rDZd5mR

Our team has published a new study in Avian Conservation Ecology showing that #cats kill between 19–197 million #birds each year in Canada! In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada. ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a... 1/4

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Lisette van Kolfschoten defending her PhD thesis today at Uppsala University. The opponent Judith Bronstein nicely placed her work in a broader context and held an insightful discussion with Lisette

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

👀Behind the Paper!👀 🌼In this blog post, author Mario Vallejo-Marín explores a striking example of evolutionary convergence in floral form - buzz pollinated flowers🐝 Read it here👇 buff.ly/5dXVFHg @nicrodemo.bsky.social 🧪🌍

🌼🎨 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color" 🎨🌼 Temperature & the #evolution of flower color: A review By Elizabeth Lacey doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #drought

How do plants stave off greedy pollinators? Read our new paper on pollen dosing in buzz pollinated flowers just out in @funecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Please share! Psyched to bring in a new member of the team. Starting salary $62K. #postdoc #sciencejobs #plantpeopleFTW

Plant Program Day! A special day to present our projects and results, strengthen relationships, and have fun! #UppsalaUniversity #EBC #Sweden #Postdoc

Remember the Magic Eye books of the 90s?? Now, you can have a crack at viewing New Zealand’s native flowers in 3D. Clematis, orchid, ngutukākā, korukoru, oioi… this is a luscious, spectacular feature by @rebekahwhite.bsky.social, based on the new book He Puāwai by @theobrominated.bsky.social

🎉🆕📰🎉: Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economics spectrum doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

What sustains biodiversity? 🌿🌸🐝🐦‍⬛ It’s not just about species, it’s also about individuals.   Our new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecol. Monogr. shows how the way individuals specialize on their mutualistic partners can scale up to shape species persistence.   🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

A recording of the talk I gave a couple of weeks ago in the old stomping grounds of Linnaeus youtu.be/neTQPYTlmJc

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment. #iamabotanist Details (+ application portal) here: lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5

📢Paper alert!🐝🪻 We studied flower advertising and temperature on Royal irises. Flowers heat 10-35 min faster than ambient, likely offering the pollinators a head start in the morning. @telavivuni.bsky.social @yuvalsapir.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jpe/article/...

How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Very nice video of self pollination in a tiny Veronica flower. www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

🍊🧬 RESEARCH 🍊🧬 CitACOS5, a fatty acyl-CoA synthetase, has a role in citrus pollen development by influencing tapetum degradation and exine formation, and mutations in CitACOS5 caused male sterility without impacting vegetative growth– Fan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

♻️An ecological, phenotypic, and genomic survey of duckweeds with their associated aquatic environments in the United Kingdom by Kellie Smith and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PantScience

Muy agradecida por este gran reconocimiento, el cual me empuja a seguir trabajando en la ciencia que me apasiona y acompañada por un equipo fantástico de gente a mi lado. Gracias, gracias, gracias!!

IMO paying close attention to species and simply describing what they do is a worthwhile endeavor unto itself. Guessing I am not alone. #iamabotanist #iamanaturalist #PUI #biodiversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Although highly topical, kleptoparasitism does not get nearly the attention it deserves! Here, a plant exploits the kleptoparasitic behavior of a fly that likes to snatch ants killed by spiders. 🕷️🐜🪰🌿 So the thief itself gets taken advantage of. Nice going, plants! www.cell.com/current-biol...

New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until October 6! Walter Veit examines the role of models in evolutionary biology: their types, testability, and interrelations 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #HPBio #evobio

We come back from our lunch to #SOLRUB2025 with Giovanni Giuliano. He is presenting about the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms behind the evolution of #tomato fruit shape. Elongated ovoid tomatoes appeared in Italy in the 18th century. Non ribbed tomatoes appeared in the US in 19th century.

Me despisto unos días y ya está la primera mandrágora repleta de flores. Queda inaugurada, si el destino lo permite, la segunda edición de la operación mandrágora para responder a la pregunta: ¿quién poliniza esas flores? El año pasado vi una variedad de sírfidos en ella. Veremos este.