Graduating college soon or recent college graduate? Looking to advance your career in botany, plant conservation and similar topics? Apply to the RAMP program at one of four premier botanic gardens!...

As the year wraps, it's time to celebrate marine biodiversity! Nominate your favorite new-to-science *marine* species. form.vliz.be/en/form/worm... The species must have been validly published in 2025. It can be extant or extinct. @marinespecies.bsky.social @vliz.be @oceancensus.bsky.social

The importance of basic science

Thrilled to share that @corriemoreau.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Evolution, digging into the varied ways that extreme worker plasticity impacts genome evolution in turtle ants! Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol... Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh

Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Lead by @ptitle.bsky.social, equal contributions from @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and me. Created for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social "An evolving view of lineage diversification" academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Humpback whales Humuhumunukunukuapua’a (reef triggerfish) Synchronous fireflies Monarch butterflies overwintering Moose

Really good summary of our work on poricidal anthers! I am printing this phylo in a big poster!

This work is the result of a lot of persistence, my co-authors especially @draverbee.bsky.social and @nicrodemo.bsky.social, greatly improved by reviewers and handling editors. Poricidal anthers evolved multiple times but this phenotype stayed in lineages 50 my after the origin of all angiosperms.

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

Second this recommendation. Daniel is a wonderful colleague and this is a great opportunity.

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment. #iamabotanist Details (+ application portal) here: lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5

The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600... #microbiology #ecology

It's outdated in so many ways but Sepkoski's 1998 Rates of Speciation in the Fossil Record is such a classic and highly influential paper

I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv. We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop in Beijing, China. BEAST2 is a software package used to reconstruct evolutionary trees and is widely applied in diverse areas... more info: www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/08/06/w...

Marcial Escudero’s lab has a nice logo 😁 https://marcialescuderolab.weebly.com/ #eseb2025

G.G. Simpson is the most mentioned paleontologist at #eseb2025. These are 3 different talks from two separate sessions. But there are more! adaptive landscapes, adaptive radiations and horotely (rates) are in! So is the fossil record! @roszenil.bsky.social @ignacioq.bsky.social and others!

Our "Joshua tree is CAM" paper is finally out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Data collection started back in 2021, when we saw weird results in some RNAseq that made me stop and wonder if Joshua trees, long thought to be C3, were actually...CAM!

Unfortunately, I couldn't join in person #eseb2025, but the organizers kindly accommodated a video. Posted here in case you missed it! youtu.be/n9Ls9-8p8x0?...

Another exciting #SSB2026 workshop to highlight: A Primer for Phylogenetic Causal Inference with @oschwery.bsky.social & @pseudacris.bsky.social Also, lots of new info on the website and more soon: ssb2026.github.io Follow for the latest updates! @jembrown.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social

Working on this system with these wonderful scientists. What a treat! #solanaceae

URM faculty received 7% more negative votes & were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees -evidence that P&T decision-making processes contribute to the sustained underrepresentation of URM faculty in tenured faculty positions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

THRILLED to announce that my NSF "Closing the gap: The history of river connections with the formation of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on the evolution of plants in rivers" in collab w/Carlos Jaramillo at STRI and Caroline Strömberg at UW was awarded! Add for a PhD student+a postdoc to come🧵

Nadie se arrepiente de ser valiente.

It's Hawaiian Honeycreeper day! Spirit of the forest. <3 ('I'iwi on mamane, Haleakala National Park) 🦉📷🌿

Work from Dr. Katie Everson, Dave Weisrock and many wonderful colleagues- Lots of hybridization correlated with faster diversification rates in Lemurs! I didn't get to go to Madagascar so enjoy the pic of the local lemurs at Cincinnati Zoo www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab

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

Right now, you're looking at the first known iNaturalist observation of the fern family Cystodiaceae! This species' scientific name is Cystodium sorbifolium. 📷 msundue on iNaturalist 📍 Malaysia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

We find stable coexistence of Rüger's tropical tree demographic strategies (slow, fast, short-lived breeders, and long-lived pioneers) in a model with just competition for light and stochastic small-scale disturbances. Great work, Damla Cinoğlu! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Meet Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, who fell in love with plants during childhood camping trips in California's redwood forests. Her passion for plant-pollinator relationships began with a magical moment watching hummingbirds visit curved flowers in Costa Rica's cloud forests. #Botany 🧪 wp.me/pdRZhH-m9q

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

🎉 Congratulations to Our Amazing Scholars! 🎉 What an incredible year of research, growth, and achievement! ☀️ Thank you for your contribution. Looking forward to see you shine. Wishing you all the very best! #postbacc #NSF #RaMP #proudofyou❤️

Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She discovered over 200 seaweed species and her work is still influential today. adalovelaceday.subst...

As you are making your schedule for the last day of #Evol2025 don’t forget to add Nicolás Castillo’s talk about Puya character displacement. Puya are the most amazing plant in the Páramo ecosystem and their macroevolution is incredible.

Want to see a cool collaboration among students? Love Tropical American Botany? Postbacc @lcorleto08.bsky.social presents an amazing poster tonight #Evol2025

We know you can’t get enough Tropical Botany at #Evol2025 plants in the Andes have amazing evolution stories for you!

@raymondcast.bsky.social’s model is super cool. Chromosome number evolution also present at #evol2025

Come tonight to the poster session to Edison Rea’s poster on Biogeography of Tropical American Magnoliaceae. Edison is a graduate student in my lab and just completed extensive and difficult fieldwork in Ecuador!

Come watch my talk at #Evol2025 this Monday @ 9:45am, at the Phylogenetic Methods Development I section. I'll be talking about methodological considerations on inferring a complete phylogenetic tree of Canidae. Who doesn't want to hear about dogs??? (and fossilized birth-death models, obviously...)

Excellent @systbiol.bsky.social sponsored symposium for advances in AI, ML, and modeling at #Evol2025. Very promising approaches to solve our hard problems

Lo logramos. Gracias a los participantes que hicieron todo posible y a NSF y al SSB por el apoyo ! #evol2025

Currently in my old stomping grounds- beautiful Knoxville TN in our way south towards #evol2025 - workshops and macroevolution coming to you from the bluegrass state @ukybiology.bsky.social

New version! A state-dependent diversification analysis with a phylo with 29K tips.

New diversification study led by Verónica Rincón Rubio. Carotenoid-dependent plumage and frugivory. Idea from the lab of ‪@agonzalezvoyer.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1093/evol...

A 1966 NSF grant of $80,000 finds totally unexpected “thermophile worms” living in Yellowstone’s hot springs. The discovery sits on a shelf till 1983, before becoming key to the development of PCR genetic testing. Invest in basic research. @radiolab.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...