Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Whenever I see cactus blooms, I tickle them. 💅🏻🌸 Thigmonastic stamens - rapid, touch induced movement for pollination. #plantjoy #iamabotanist

The final version of this paper is now published @newphyt.bsky.social The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Long-term databases as an antidote to the shifting baseline syndrome in global change. 🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology

Looking for an exciting bachelor/master thesis in plant genomics, applied bioinformatics, or evolutionary biology? We have a number of opportunities and are happy to host motivated visitors: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/teach... @puckerlab.bsky.social

Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢 The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out! Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌟 JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟 On Sept 17th, we will hear from our plenary speaker Prof Jane Langdale on the regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves 🌱🔬 ⏳ Time is running out – register by 19 Aug! 🗓️ 👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75 #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @janelangdale.bsky.social

New academic year, new ecoevojobs site. Already >200 faculty / permanent jobs! ecoevojobs.net

Applications are now being accepted for the MSU EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship. We’d be happy to sponsor your application so please get in touch! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Why learn botany and plant identification? Knowledge of botany, including experience with identifying specimens and accessing the advanced literature of plant systematics (which implies understanding of the terminology and language of the science). trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

The NMNH Department of Botany is looking for a Museum Specialist. Please spread the word!

I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks. #plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW: A federal judge has demanded NSF explain in court how the UCLA grant suspensions are not in violation of her June order that restored grants to UC scientists

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/08/05/h...

Looks like a great opportunity!!

While many institutions are capitulating to Trump, my favorite scientific societies are fighting back. Aug 1 @ascbiology.bsky.social, @asm.org, @asbmb.bsky.social, & @faseborg.bsky.social jointly filed an expanded amicus brief with the Supreme Court in American Public Health Association v. NIH 1/n

I didn't know what personate flowers are until I heard about @trinitydepatie.bsky.social's Penstemons. My conclusion is that these cute little flowers in fact dial up discrimination to max, and they make the entrance of their corolla tube sooo occluded that only the most buffed bees can enter. 👀🧪

Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!

Sunflowers are full of secrets 🕵️‍♀️🌻 I had a blast making this for @nybg.bsky.social 's Van Gogh's Flowers exhibit, where you can see all the 🌻🌻🌻 shine through Oct. 26th! #scicomm 🧪 #nationalsunflowerday #botany

Crazy question - does anyone know of a series of microscopic images of meiosis that are free to use? I’m trying to help a former student who wants to use them for a book of poetry.

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Kramer lab graduate students shining at #Botany2025. @elenakramer.bsky.social @andreaappleton.bsky.social

My first conference ever was at IPAM as an undergrad, bringing me into scientific research. When I branched out into new topics, my first conference as new faculty was also at IPAM. My R35 was suspended. A lot of personal feelings, but more I worry for the future of the country.

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A new really exciting preprint from @thecapitulab.bsky.social, my PhD lab, and many others One of the many interesting findings - The sequence evolution of CLV3 and changes to CLV signaling is required for capitulum development. CLEs make sunflowers! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We’re getting excited about Botany!

We are launching the Fourth Edition of the Evolutionary Biology Crash Course ⭐ @evobiocc.bsky.social ⭐. There will be three weeks covering a myriad of topics in evolutionary biology with many practicals. Please RT to reach as many students as possible. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

In defense of funding foundational plant science (Joanna Friesner , Cristiana T Argueso , Wolfgang Busch , Thorsten Hamann , Lucia Strader , Mary Williams , Shuang Wu , Adrienne H K Roeder) Read more at: doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Thoughtful and thorough analysis. 1/n

Further attempts to stay positive and push the boundaries of X-ray imaging in plant biology, here's a maize root tip. Technical voxel resolution is 0.8um, field of view is about 1mm tall, using the 20X lens on my ZEISS Versa 520 XRM. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

Here's my federal funding story #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF #scicomm 🧪

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🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch! 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴

It’s great seeing @petebuttigieg.bsky.social defend basic research and explain why it’s important, why it requires government support, and how businesses, the economy, and the people benefit. #DefendScience

Are you mad when you see commenters asking why the gov gives money to universities? Most people simply don't understand how the research ecosystem works. You can help by explaining it to the people in your hometown! A chance for some meaningful #SciComm a la @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

Harvard sued the Trump admin today 💪🏽🥳💯 www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

If you have a lost NSF or NIH grant. Colleagues inside government agencies are tracking terminated grants in hopes of assisting organizing efforts and perhaps litigation. The link takes you to the NSF tracker; the NIH tracker is linked from there. Pass this on. 🧪🥼 airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

"Fear and anxiety have begun to alter campus life. At risk are the very concept of a university as a meeting point for intellectual thought from around the world and U.S. global leadership in higher education." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Carolyn Elya Named a 2025 Searle Scholar #academicsky #SciComm 🧬 🧪 www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @zombiflied.bsky.social @fleshball.bsky.social @hekstralab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @microbiometcell.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social