The Young Systematists' Forum is nearly upon us! If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference! Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1 REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8

New funded PhD opportunity at Kew Gardens/LSE: Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century. Closes 14/1/26: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Postdoc opportunity at Kew Gardens: AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions. Closes 10 Dec 25: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Why do some palm clades in Madagascar thrive while others stagnate? Why do some have 1 species, and others 180+? Turns out it's less about that Island Magic & more about inherited traits and timing (when is it not?)! 🌍🧪👇 doi.org/10.1093/evol... @linneansociety.bsky.social

🌲🌲🌲 An exciting opportunity to work on #conifer #conservation research at RBGE @thebotanics.bsky.social: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #conservationjobs #botany #redlist #ICCP🌲🌲🌲

Did you miss Rosa Vásquez Espinoza's lecture about the #AmazonRainforest? You can catch it here! Join Rosa as she explores her own experiences navigating remote ecosystems, discovering biodiversity known to very few, and rekindling our innate sense of wonder. buff.ly/ZhbjJGX

An exciting #postdoc opportunity working on a class in the #Solanaceae family based in Boulder, Colorado 🍅 🥔 🫑 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #sciencejob #botany #research #hortresearch #herbarium #collections

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/...

Team #GlobalTreeSeedBank representing at #AETFAT 2025 in Ghana! Well done team, a successful symposium on seed conservation across Africa hosted, and wishing you an interesting few final days!

🌿 Thousands of pressed plants 🧳 Centuries of global collecting 📜 Millions of herbarium records - digitised & ready to explore! Our Data Portal is growing - come browse the collection: data.kew.org?utm_source=b... 💬 Already using the data? We’d love to hear from you! 📗🌾

This year's #WorkExperience application window closes on July 30. Learn all about the work we do at the Linnean Society from every department: Collections, Operations and Engagement! Follow the link below for more info and how to apply:

Interested in co designing a fully funded PhD project with ‪@vorontsovams.bsky.social‬ and me on Urochloa plant biodiversity, evolution, morphology and genomics? Please contact us. Building on exciting work on the forage grass by @LizoMasters academic.oup.com/aob/article/...

Love plants, conservation and the SSC? Come work with us! 🌺🌴🌵🌽🌲🌻 @protectspecies.bsky.social is looking for a passionate Plant Conservation Coordinator to support the IUCN Species Survival Commission's plant Specialist Groups. indianapoliszoo.applicantpro.com/jobs/3774489

New paper on: Biogeography and diversification dynamics of Cyperus academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

🌴 Palms of New Guinea has won the 2025 Award of Excellence from the Council on Botanical & Horticultural Libraries! 🏆 A decades-long, global effort led by Kew’s William Baker: 250 species, 91 new to science - free to read 👇 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

🌄 Ten years. 749 species. One extraordinary mountain range. Our new checklist for Madagascar’s Itremo Massif reveals over 500 endemic plants - including 70 found nowhere else on Earth 🌍 #Conservation #Madagascar

Browse preserved plant specimen collections to travel through history, exploring millennia of botanical experience. Herbaria may look like “plant mummies,” but they’re full of life and meaning. Join us this Thursday at 6pm to hear Maura Flannery share why they matter. Book here: bit.ly/3RZDUhy

Ten years of discovery: A species conservation checklist in Madagascar's Central Highlands by @kewgardens.bsky.social and collaborators - read the story (doi.org/10.1007/s122...) & and scientific paper (doi.org/10.1007/s122...).

iDigBio is sponsoring a webinar at Duke University on Wednesday, May 6th at 12:00 CT entitled: From Specimens to Stories: Defending Herbaria and Reconnecting Science with Society This is in response to the plans to close the Duke Herbarium. To register: www.idigbio.org/content/spec...

⚠️📢 African botanists and conservationists 📢 ⚠️- the 23rd #AETFAT African Plants Congress takes place on 3-8 August 2025 in Accra, Ghana. Abstract submission is extended until 1st May. This is an unmissable event if you’re interested in the African flora!! aetfat.ug.edu.gh @aetfat2025.bsky.social

Last chance to apply to join us as Kew Research Fellow in Accelerated Taxonomy careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-...

Great training today by @pjimmej.bsky.social & @jimarcor.bsky.social on editing the Global Cyperaceae (sedge!) Database. This will be an extremely useful resource, packed with photos and descriptions, built on a foundation of solid taxonomic expertise. I'm excited to get started! cyperaceae.org

Congratulations from all of us at the Society to our President, @evoswami.bsky.social, on being appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs! www.linnean.org/news/2025/04...

Trees of New Guinea: - Guide to all 693 tree genera - Fully illustrated with photos and line art - PDF available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

1️⃣ 🌍 Fresh out in #Science! The Asian tropics are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, but where does all that diversity come from? 🤔🔍 We used 🌴 phylogenomics and 🦴 new fossils to unravel the roles of different regions in generating and distributing species! 🌱 #Evolution

Registrations are now open for the #Phylogenomics course with this amazing team of instructors Paschalia, Tomas, @sabifo4.bsky.social and @zihengyang.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

It's been busy in Madagascar on our 2025 Herbarium Techniques course! Participants from the University of Antananarivo, Tsimbazaza Zoo & Botanical Gardens, and Kew Madagascar have gotten hands on with best practices for creating high-quality collections and effectively managing herbarium specimens!

Plant #evol/#phylo peeps, come join us at UNAM! tinyurl.com/27jwrzne

Great workshop @mobotgarden.bsky.social co-lead by @spun.earth @iucnfungi.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social Lots of opportunities to integrate a Global Strategy for Fungal Conservation with the Plant Strategy and GBF to ensure effective conservation for all species and people!

How has the humble notebook been an essential tool for celebrated thinkers throughout history? Our upcoming free exhibition, Naturalists' Notebooks, explores how naturalists recorded our world from the 18th century to today. Open Tuesday 11 March until Saturday 20 September 2025. bit.ly/43kBXmC

Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy. www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Would you like to be a research assistant here at Kew? You'll be part of our pioneering rattan project to increase the sustainability of rattan products and involved in generating & analysing DNA data for species identification (DNA barcoding) 🧬 Apply today 👉 careers.kew.org/vacancy/rese...

Job alert: Research ecologist at University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...

It’s official, 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began🚨 The latest findings from #BeeWalk, the national bumblebee monitoring scheme, have revealed bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter (22.5%) across Great Britain💔 www.bumblebeeconservation.org/british-bumb...

Looking for funds for a small systematics-focused project? You have until 23:59 GMT+0 MONDAY, MARCH 10TH to apply to the LinneSys scheme! You can apply for up to 1500GBP, you just need to be a member of @systassn.bsky.social or @linneansociety.bsky.social! Details here: systass.org/linnesys/

Do you want to help make around 7m dried plant specimens accessible to the world? We've got a fun way for you to help that's like code-breaking for plants! 🔑🌿 All you need to do is decipher the historic handwriting on ancient specimens via our 'expeditions'... 🧵

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...

We’re hiring again! Our new Leader Systematic Botany role at Botanic Gardens of Sydney is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team of 15 scientists working on systematics, phylogenomics, and macroevolution of the Australian flora. iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/leader-s...

Applications open! The LinneSys grant supports small-scale research and education projects in the fields of taxonomy and systematics on any organism group with grants of up to £1,500. Follow the link below! www.linnean.org/the-... @systassn.bsky.social

🌿 The Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, presented by the BSA Paleobotanical Section, is open! 🌿 Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany. Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #IamaBotanist

The 2025 LinneSys call is open! Need funding for a systematics-based project? Details on eligibity and how to apply here: systass.org/linnesys/ You need an active @systassn.bsky.social or @linneansociety.bsky.social membership to apply! Applications close Monday, 10th March at 23:59 GMT+0

Come showcase your work on #taxonomy, #conservation, #evolution, #biogeography of #African #plants and #fungi at next year's AETFAT conference in Ghana, 3-8 August 2025. Call for Abstract Submission now open!

📢 Meet the keynote speakers of the XXIV International Symposium on Cryptogamic Botany - Pontevedra 2025! Dr. Jaume Pellicer (@JAU_m_e), Researcher at the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (Spain), will be our speaker for the #pteridology keynote session 📌 Mark your calendars for #ISCB2025!

The AETFAT Congress 2025 is coming to Ghana! Join us for from August 3rd -8th 2025, as we explore the rich plant diversity of Tropical Africa Theme: Diversity, conservation, and sustainable use of African plants in a changing natural world.

The International Sedge Society is moving across to Bluesky - follow us if you are interested in identifying, growing or studying sedges!

📢 We're recruiting for an exciting #PhD in #paleoecology "Montane mosaics in Scotland: understanding the past to inform the future". At University of St. Andrews + University of Aberdeen, #Corrour & Mar Lodge Estate. For more details (see ‘staff-led proposals’): www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-su...

We're #Hiring! This Head of Operations is responsible for ensuring highly effective operational and business support for the Linnean Society. They play an active role in developing an exciting and vibrant future for the Society. Find out more at the link below! www.linnean.org/the-...

The @weforum.org 2025 report predicts that Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse is 2nd only to Extreme weather events as the biggest global long term threat followed by critical changes to earth systems (3rd) and natural resource shortages (4th) www.weforum.org/stories/2025...