🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

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

Hello everyone at #Botany2025! I’m not there in person this year, but I’ll be posting a coupon code tomorrow after I get the textiles up on the shop!

🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Community #phylogenetics of North American #conifers through the lens of fire-adapted traits By Daniel Turck, Aaron Sparks, Jack Sullivan & David Tank doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

apnews.com/article/bord... are scouring the US-Mexico border to document a forgotten ecosystem split by a giant wall

🌱🌱🌱Big botanical news🌱🌱🌱 Announcing 'Build A Plant' by the Onyenedum Lab at NYU, a video series all about plant anatomy! I had a plantastic time working on this 🥹 4 eps are out now, covering root, shoot, secondary growth, and leaf anatomy: youtube.com/@joyceonyene... 🧪 #scicomm #botany #plants

🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨 For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger. #IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany

Very excited to introduce the newest genus of wild sunflowers, a tiny desert annual covered in dense wool and heads with just two small ray florets. Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net

The new issue of #AppsPlantSci is online! Highlights include #MachineLearning models for predicting plant tissue identity, automated approaches to produce digital #herbarium records, a new CNN to classify plant disease, and more bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany #iamabotanist

Genetic diversity loss occurs globally & for many species, especially birds & mammals, in the face of threats such as land use change, disease, abiotic natural phenomena & harvesting or harassment. The need for genetically informed conservation interventions is urgent. 📑 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Congratulations to Dr. Jill Wegrzyn (@jillwegrzyn.bsky.social), Senior Associate Editor of BSA's #AppsPlantSci, and UConn Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, for winning the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). today.uconn.edu/2025/01/biol...

Cool paper on conifer evolution / diversification and fire adaptations 🤓 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Y’all need to check out the cool stuff at @bluebeehivestudio.bsky.social. My old pal Melissa is the best. #SICB2025

🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there! More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org #Botany2025

Very cool #paleobotany paper--with *maybe* a new family of #Caryophyllales? Best Christmas present ever! www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/this...

The Missouri Botanical Garden is launching a major initiative to revolutionize species identification! By combining data from our 8-million-specimen herbarium with AI tools, we aim to advance the study of plant biodiversity and provide unique insights for its conservation. 🌿 shorturl.at/tccro

Now out in Ecosphere, a paper with the @bceenet.bsky.social crew describing how we use digital natural history collections data (e.g. herbaria) in ecology/evolution courses, improving access to course-based undergrad research experiences (CUREs) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An optimized CTAB method for genomic DNA extraction from green seaweeds (Ulvophyceae) New in #AppsPlantSci by Hossen, Courtney, Bringloe, et al bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #Ulvophyceae #GreenSeaweed #DNAExtraction #iamabotanist

How did plants cross the ocean to N America? Many with ballast in hulls of sailing ships before 1900 - nearly 100 grass species from records in New Jersey, USA. Some died, some lived a bit, some stayed put, some spread widely. #weeds #botany #history Schmidt et al (2024): tinyurl.com/grassballast

This is a wonderful genus that loves #gypsum. Can be a dominant on gypsum in some parts of #Mexico. Still blows my mind when I see it. bsky.app/profile/scot...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

While it’s commonly called the Gracefull Grasstree, #Xanthorrhoea gracilis, is less “tree-like” than the others, forgoing the many trunk and just being a tuft of basal leaves, along with these tall inflorescences that get to 2m!

Interested in target capture sequencing? @madiraibullock.bsky.social and I are happy to announce a new service at TTU. Send us DNA, get reads enriched for your probes. Angiosperms353, GoFLAG, Compositae1061 & more! Funds go to grad student stipends and tuition! mossmatters.com/blog/TargetC...

Did you know that orchids have a big chunk of fungal mtDNA stuck in their own mitochondrial genomes?? In this new preprint, we found that fungal-derived tRNAs are functional in the orchid mitochondria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/4

My favourite botanical mistake is Lilium pensylvanicum, a species that occurs widely across boreal East Asia but isn't found in Pennsylvania, or indeed anywhere in North America, except as a later introduction.

Cool paper: Evolutionary #genomics of the emergence of brown #algae as key components of coastal ecosystems. 👍👏 Congrats to all authors! Was a pleasure to review your manuscript for #Cell. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Super cool research from @wildcru.bsky.social - Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪 🦊 🐝 🌸

Azara is a genus of 11 species from South America. The flowers are showy, fragrant & very likely insect-pollinated. This is Azara petiolaris from central Chile. #botany 🌾🧪🌱

Bioinformatics identify pathways related to #flower morphology in Turnera subulata New #AJB research by Paige Henning, Benjamin Minkoff & Michael Sussman doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

Dionysia janthina Primulaceae Yazd, Iran April 2200m #Primulaceae #botany #Ecology #wildflowers #conservation

Chihuahua oak -- velvety-leaved Quercus chihuahuensis -- and long-aristate Q. albocincta, co-dominants of hillside savannas along sections of the Sierra Madre Occidental. Like so much of the Americas, a white oak and a red oak share the stage. West of Tepoca, Sonora, 10 October 2024.

I think more people doing comparative phylogenetics stuff should read this paper.

As a society dedicated to supporting you and your career, we are pleased to share the following award opportunities that celebrate excellence across our botanical community. More information and deadlines can be found at: botany.org/home/awards.... #BSAawards #IamaBotanist

Our new MS on increasing wildfire and the need for plant materials in Hawaiʻi. npj.uwpress.org/content/25/2...

Road trip! #Botany2024 @gypsumbotany.bsky.social #Bluebeehivestudio #MooreLab

You invited your collaborators over for dinner, but you forgot to buy beverages and your meal is burning in the oven… but it doesn’t matter! They are impressed with your tea towel collection… available at #Botany2024 #nudibranchs #teatowel

Been super busy, which means I should really be posting to social media but alas. Life. F1s: drove to NY to get one, two other high schoolers have 3 days left next week. And me? Prepping new line of textiles & enameling jewelry… #Botany2024 #diatoms #medieval #plants #teatowels

New textiles will be at #Botany2024 this year! Tea towels, totes, and zippered pouches in addition to all the jewelry!

New in Nature - a phylogeny of over 10,000 species (all families, 58% of genera) inferred using Angiosperms353! We've been calling this the "Big Tree" paper for years and I'm glad to see it in print - fantastic work by the Kew PAFTOL team and many others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please help solve a botanical mystery--who is this #botanist and what plant is he holding? This #portrait is held by the Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, and was apparently painted in 1629. Really hoping the greater botanical #taxonomy community can help, so please repost! #botany #plants

Gamete sex & elevation affect genetically based variation for unreduced gamete production in a mixed-ploidy plant New #AJB research by Sarah DeVries, Paul Kron & Brian Husband doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #polyploidy #fireweed #pollination

Almost done setting up for #SICB2024! Blue Beehive Studio one table, and other table is my talented sister-in-law Ellie with her shop One Inch Squid Studios. I have no clue where I’m displaying my tote bags, but will figure that out in a few hours 😊

Listen #SICB2024 I know my talk is about plants…. And it’s literally at lunchtime (12:00) tomorrow (Weds)….. but at least there are pics of pretty flowers, and it’s the last talk in a really cool session on sexual selection. So maybe a few of y’all might turn up in Room 603?

Every once and awhile, I dig out this paper that Rick Karban, Patrick Grof-Tisza, Moria Robinson, Will Wetzel and I wrote - encouraging archiving of interesting natural history with papers - and remember what a great idea it was. People should start doing this! www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/b...

New preprint with Rob Lanfear! "The meaning and measure of concordance factors in phylogenomics" ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Thinking of writing the term "higher plants" in your manuscript? Look at this gorgeous and informative poster for better* options! * planteditors.com/problem-term...

Fascinating! "It's not an exaggeration to suggest that the most significant event on Earth was the evolution of photosynthesis." @jtimmer.bsky.social arstechnica.com/science/2024...

Macroflora from Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Hicks Creek, southern Talkeetna Mountains, south-central #Alaska Maria Barbacka et al #paleontology #palaeontology 🧪⚒️ #paleobotany #palaeobotany #PlantScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...