Here he goes… ! #botany2025 #botanistsftw

Martine Lab past/present/affiliated dinner at Lulu. Really dig these folks. 🥰 #Botany2025 #plantpeopleFTW

A close-up of the @uchicagopress.bsky.social @chicagojournals.bsky.social swag buffet available to #Botany2025 attendees. You can see @ijpsjournal.bsky.social bandanas, pens, and magnets, plus @asn-amnat.bsky.social magnets. Swing by to pick some up!

Great talks and discussions happening at #Botany2025. Check out the starter pack to follow along (and let me know if you're attending so I can add you): go.bsky.app/Gu9T4st

Chris Martine identifying newish invasive loosestrife 😎😭

Yes! Drop in and see Rebecca in the 2nd half of the poster session!! #Botany2025

Excited to showcase my new Open Educational Resource for intro college level Botany. It's a hybrid textbook, lab manual, and workbook. Published and ready for anyone to implement! I'll be showcasing it in the Educational section of #Botany2025 today and handing out copies & stickers!

Dr. Catrina Adams, Botanical Society of America Director of Education, steps up last minute to give our plenary address. YOU are a role model and absolute icon! Thanks for this, and for all you've done to get PlantingScience K-12 outreach to 20 years! Here's to the next 20! #Botany2025

Single biggest clutch performance in my 23 years of Botany meetings. Finds out 20 minutes before the start time that she is stepping in … and KILLS it. Well done, Catrina! #Botany2025

9 years ago I went to my first Botany with Julienne & @robertlaport.bsky.social lab when @willweaver.bsky.social and I were undergrads. All 3 undergrads in that photo now have PhDs and Robs an associate prof! #Botany2016 #Botany2025

Excited to talk about our work on the relationship between bud depth in the soil and bulb size this morning (8:45, Mojave) at #Botany2025! 🪻😍🧅 If you can’t make it, check out the paper for all the info! Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

The Dowell Lab is headed to #Botany2025, come check out some of our amazing talks to see what we’ve been up to!

Giving my first talk at Botany! So excited! #botany2025

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...

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025 Reach out! www.martinezgomezlab.com

While it didn't work out to be a vendor in California for #Botany2025 this week, I'm excited to be there virtually through social media! This week only - the entire shop is 10-25% off. I'll be adding more pieces over the next several days, too. BlueBeehiveStudio.Etsy.com

I am excited to welcome #Botany2025 to my big backyard in the California desert. I kicked off the conference with a field trip up the Palm Springs tramway to explore the beautiful flora of the San Jacinto Mountains. I hope everyone enjoys Palm Springs!

Made it to Phoenix! 1/2 the SCSU Botany contingent is almost to #botany2025. (The other 1/2 is already there and won race 😂)

Mesquite 4 beta released! Many new features, esp. phylogenomic. Check out the trailer and longer video on the home page: www.mesquiteproject.org, and use the download link there to get a copy. Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).

“For example, if a $50,000 student loan balance is discharged, and the balance is taxed at an effective rate of 25%, that could result in a tax bill of over $12,000, due all at once. This could be particularly problematic for medically disabled borrowers…given their inability to work.”

Very happy to see the work from my postdoc with @plantpollinator.bsky.social finally out! We explored floral color shifts in two monkeyflower species across floral traits, gene expression, and pollinator responses to understand early stages of floral divergence: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#taxonomistappreciationDay is today.. and we have not migrated the graphic! So here it is!

In honor of March Madness, enjoy this piece from last year about Botanical Team Mascots, from my spouse in UNC' Herbarium and the NC Botanical Garden. How can you resist the Fighting Okra or the UNC School of the Arts Fighting Pickles! 🧪 ncbg.unc.edu/2024/03/05/m...

In April sometime in the 90’s, I saw an ad for jello beans. I asked my mom probably 20 times to buy however many jello boxes it took to get a jello bean mold (am very prone to advertising). I’ve been moving this heirloom everywhere for like 25 years. Kids asked for jello yesterday. It is time.

Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years. Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Yesterday, students and I hosted a successful cyanotype workshop for middle school girls; it went so well and we had a lot of fun. Hold on to the little stuff, y’all.

My kids systematically check me for weaknesses like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park testing the fence

Tariff-inflated prices pass the pain along to consumers, many of whom voted for Trump. Good job, asshole.

Memo directs all NSF grantees to comply with EOs, in particular "this may include, but is not limited to "conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks Full note:

"All review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis." NSF statement on the impact of Trump administration executive orders. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

NSF PRFB fellows: talk to your POs and transfer the remaining year’s balance of salary and research funds by 5pm today!! Dm me if you want to join the prfb slack where fellows are sharing info with each other #nsf #nsfprfb

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

I need a Gulf of Mexico t-shirt stat

If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

My NSF panel later this week finally officially cancelled. "Aim to reschedule." I'm so sad for the early career folks who this will impact - I hope this can get rescheduled so that funding decisions can still be made... 🧪

As of this AM, it is uncertain how NSF postdoc fellows will be impacted. If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.

NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals. This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

I'm seeing folks posting about NSF pausing operations or sending stop-work notifications to PIs (I haven't received one, despite having two active proposals). Please be very careful about what you post and share. Vet information first. Cite sources. Maintain credibility via information hygiene.

Gluing magnets onto this printed rack is a lot harder than I thought it would be… 🤡

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It’s a good day to emasculate what you can… even if it’s just a tomato flower.

The entirety of the Muppet Babies cartoon series exists within the 3 minutes that Piggy sings in Muppets Take Manhattan, this is easily explained using Inception rules

Honestly writing code with AI might be my favorite use of the tool. Or maybe it’s the meeting summaries in zoom… not sure. 😂

My colleague Steve sent me more Schiedea seeds; and they are germinating! It’s the best news of this week, tbh.

Don't even email me if you're using a serif font, I swear to god