In our #VirtualIssue on #Herbivore-derived elicitors of plant responses we bring together New Phytologist articles that highlight recent developments in the study of how plants respond to herbivores 👇 📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #PlantScience

New Job opportunity at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology! Come work a dream job in beautiful Athens! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...

Ever wanted to know how the visual system of a long distance migratory moth looks like? Then you'll find your answers in our new paper. Finally out, after about a decade of collecting data by a group af amazing co-authors. Find it here, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Escaliante et al. Effects of tree diversity on oak litter VOC emissions link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Next-generation specimen #digitization: capturing #reflectance spectra from the world's #herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa #TansleyReview by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

Looking for a faculty job at one of the world's great research stations? We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs. apply.interfolio.com/178804

Long before flowers dazzled pollinators with brilliant colors and sweet scents, ancient plants used another feature to signal insects: heat. The findings in Science offer insights into what shaped the earliest eras of plant-animal coevolution. Read more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4rVtArQ

Cycads making the news! Loved this project, love this group of researchers, love these plants! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/s...

More evidence Knut Norstog was right when he said “cycads should be considered the Rosetta Stone for our understanding of plant biology.” New work out today further investigating cycad thermogenesis! 😍 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨New publication🚨 Beetles are not only neglected pollinators! The Evolution of Flower Beetles as Visitors and Pollinators - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #LabPaleoecology @ibb-botanic.bsky.social

🚨 UGA is hiring a row-crop entomologist! Share widely, this is a GREAT place to work! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37918339...

Non-seed plant diversity! 😍

New paper out! A nice collaboration. We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply! careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

Drawing your attention to an effort to convince NSF to re-open this year's GRFP competition to second year PhD students. Please consider signing or sharing the petition asking NSF to broaden the application eligibility to what it has been previously. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

New today: We're petitioning NSF to revert GRFP eligibility criteria to last year's terms, to avoid pulling the rug out from under the earliest of early-career scientists who had every reason to think they'd be able to apply this year. Sign and spread the word! laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

I am currently teaching a GRFP writing course. Today’s solicitation is a real blow. Especially after weeks of uncertainty for these poor students. Now only ONE student in my entire class can apply. They’ve all been working so hard, had been planning on this application for over a year now. 💔

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

An open letter in support of the GRFP, which still has not opened the submission portal or provided a solicitation. jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Attention entomologists! (and others) Here is a 4th very cool search in ESPM at UC Berkeley - Assistant Professor in Forest Health 🧪 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05082

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

📣For the #NewPIs - starting your own lab is an exciting yet daunting milestone in a scientific career. From setting timelines and securing funding to building collaborations and fostering sustainability, the challenges can perhaps feel overwhelming. A short thread 🧵 ...

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL. FLOOD THE ZONE 🚨 The House CJS Subcommittee IS CURRENTLY marking up the FY26 budget, incl. NSF. Since 1950, NSF has been advancing science, health, & more. Tell Chairman Rogers: Don’t gut 75 years of progress. We demand NO CUTS to NSF. & watch the livestream: zurl.co/zScND

📄🚨 We need to be thinking about multi-modal signaling in #plant-insect interactions! Maybe primary metabolites - the opposite of 'private channels' - provide an out for insect partners in coevolved ecological specialization mutualisms. New out in @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social Link👇

🚨 I’m thrilled to share that I am starting as an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University this Fall! 👀 Opportunities coming soon as I re-root my research program in plant ecophysiology and evolution at Wake 🌿 🌲🌱 #NewPI #plantecophys #botany @wfubiology.bsky.social @wakeforest.bsky.social

I'm delighted to present this Science special issue on Plants and Heat! Through a series of Reviews and Perspective articles, covering topics from cell signalling to ecology there is something for everyone here. (1/8)

The Jones Center at Ichauway (SW Georgia) is a hiring a FT, temporary Seasonal Technician II in the Plant Ecology Lab. 🌸 rare plant surveys & seed collection! 📆 start by 6/16, 3-5 months 🏠 on-site housing (as-available, no pets) 💸 $15/hr w/ housing, $17/hr without drive.google.com/file/d/1yyO8...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: Cycad chemicals and coevolution (New Phytologist) @shaylasalzman.bsky.social @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social @lycaeidesmelissa.bsky.social @evodivmet.bsky.social (Summary by Xavier Ozowara [email protected]) buff.ly/utBCK2L #PlantaePSRW

Only one week left to apply to join our new lab at @sgn.one in Frankfurt am Main! Are you interested in #fossil #plants, traits, and the #Mesozoic? www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

Should we make Hello From The Herbarium a thing?? Thank you @nybg.bsky.social for letting me play in the orchid collections! (I think this also counts as an #invertefest post thanks to Xanthopan morganii praedicta's co-starring role)

It was really only a matter of time, but both my NSF grants have now been terminated.

My NSF was officially terminated “Beyond the Myth: Political Geography, Electoral Institutions, and the Evolution of Women’s Voting Patterns in Rich Democracies” I’ve been collecting historical data on the gender turnout and preference gaps after suffrage using old ass books…

My NSF grant on Clean Energy and Society got terminated today. It helped support the @climatesollab.bsky.social. We will continue our work as best we can.

NSF Funding supports PEOPLE - our two terminated grants supported 6 postdocs, two program managers directly…and fiscal officers, HR folks, contracts experts indirectly…plus multiple communities who we have to scramble to support continuing work - dozens of people all told, left in the cold

Yesterday I was awarded $10k in research funds, today the grant was terminated by NSF. Would love someone to explain how this is making America great again…

Well our NSF grant to transcribe and summarize political ads was terminated. As far as I know our only "DEI" language was to work to increase participation in STEM, which was one of the judgment criteria for broader impacts. I hope we can continue the project in other ways.

It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.

I learned today that the NSF grant I'm a co-PI for has been terminated with immediate effect. Our team had been given some kind of assurance by the program officer until recently, so the impact is even bigger.

Today our NSF grant to increase minority participation in astronomy was canceled

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

14 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Sites in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences were hit yesterday with DOGE-mandated terminations.

Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

#PlantScience Research Weekly April 25 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Review: Cycads, Chemicals, and Coevolution; Insights into mitotic chromosome alignment; Parthenogenic sunflowers; Catechin-fortified “tea rice”; Nodules need Casparian strips (1/2)