Leaf size is an important trait shaping species distributions globally. We looked at how climate and evolutionary history influence leaf size in conifers! Spoiler: lots of evolutionary conservatism! Check out our paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A biology journal trialled paying their reviewers and found it led to faster first editorial decisions – and increased review quality. go.nature.com/446SaLu

A high-quality peer review should always be standard. But paying reviewers seems reasonable, especially when journals charge such substantial publishing fees and the reviewing process is so important

As we gear up for #botany2026, we are looking for judges for the student presentations in the Physiology and Ecophysiology section. If you will be at the meeting and are willing to judge a few posters and talks, please contact: Brian Maricle [email protected] #BSA #BSAEcophys

It's as official as it can be: The Yoder Lab has been very lucky to receive NSF funding to develop our TARDIS method of modeling plants' flowering activity in varying environments. Watch for grad (MSci) opportunities in Fall 2027, and a postdoc position sooner than that 🌿 buff.ly/OHpbfB0

It was an amazing week hosting Wray Jones and Kyra Dimitropolis at @wakeforest.bsky.social. They visited my lab to dive into the math, theory, and measurement of plant hydraulics to support their graduate work. 🌿💧📈 #WakeBotany #PlantHydraulics #ferns #cycads

They never would have gotten Al Capone for tax fraud if only he'd been elected president of the US and told the IRS not to ever audit him.

Just got an alert that views for the Biology PhD Stipends database spiked over the past weekend! Lets keep this database up-to-date, if your program increased their EEB PhD stipend, submit an update: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Excited to share that I will be joining Florida State University as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2027! I’m thrilled to build my lab at FSU in the Ecology & Evolution Division within the Department of Biological Science — stay tuned! A huge thank you to my village for all the support!

#TansleyReview: Carbon uptake, storage, and allocation patterns contribute to blurring of annual 14C signals in tree rings Hessl et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Drought-induced delays in stem hydraulic development shape gas exchange and growth recovery in Douglas fir (Franklin Alongi , Timo Knüver , Scott A M McAdam , Yanick Ziegler , Andreas Gast , Nadine K Ruehr) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Welcome, Dr. Townsend! 🌎 Prominent ecosystem scientist and author Alan Townsend, Ph.D., will lead the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. https://wakefo.rest/4cgTWxh

Here are the winners of the first annual Great Botany Bake Off! Students baked their best recipes and provided fun facts about all the plant ingredients! Winners were selected by vibes. #WakeBotany #botany #plantscience @wakeforest.bsky.social @wfubiology.bsky.social

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD position: Tree-water-relations - Sensing water potentials from leaf to stand scale In @simonhaber.bsky.social ‘s lab @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de Deadline: 15 April 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common? HERBARIA. UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!

Happy Monday! Remember the deadline for #botany2026 abstracts is coming up. #bsaecophys is also hosting a colloquium on non-foliar gas exchange and a workshop on measuring gas exchange on unusual materials. See the links below! tinyurl.com/BSAecophysCo... tinyurl.com/BSAecophysWo...

NOW PUBLISHED at the American Journal of Botany: Temporal analysis of reproduction distributed in space illuminates the climate-change resiliency of toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Sorry Duke maybe you shoulda kept your herbarium 💁‍♀️😡

Review: What happens when it gets too hot – the vulnerability of plant reproduction in a warming world plantae.org/review-what-...

Check out these highlights from the latest American Journal of #Botany! botany.org/file.php?fil... Find the issue Table of Contents at bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197.... #plantscience #botany

Abstracts for #Botany2026 🍃 are due on April 13th! If you work on gas exchange (CO2, H2O), carbon dynamics (photo., NSCs), and water relations 💧on organs different from LEAVEs, submit your abstract to the Non-foliar Gas Exchange Colloquium @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/progr...

Here is a working Starter Pack for Plant Ecophysiologists! Please let us know if you want to be added to this list in a comment or DM. #botany #plantecophys #PhysFam go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7

It’s that time of year again 🌿✨ Registration for #Botany2026 is OPEN! @botsocamerica.bsky.social Time to start planning talks and reconnecting with colleagues. Who’s going? 🌱

We know it might seem early, but deadling for abstracts submissions for #Botany2026 are April 13th! Be sure to visit botanyconference.org for more details on the conference! @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Phenology watch is big in Japan. #sakura

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📣 Call for Volunteers! Are you an early career researcher? University student? Science communicator? Know someone who is? We're always looking for new Guest Bloggers to contribute to our journal blog The Paper Trail! Find out more about it & apply below 👇🌍🧪

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize!⭐️ Jiangnan Li investigated how rock outcrop size and distance influence soil multifunctionality in mountain ecosystems, aiming to understand how these factors affect key soil functions⛰️ buff.ly/9V8qsUC 🧪🌍️

Excited to share our review in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social , where we synthesize 20 years of rear-edge evolutionary research! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mo0RcZ3X7...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @draketw.bsky.social on lakes as CO2 sources in the Congo Basin: models of carbon pathways; quantifying carbon pools with isotopic analyses; Monte Carlo end member mixing; and releases of millennial-aged peat C indicating the presence of slow biogeochemical cycles.

To mark World Forestry Day 2026, @bes-forests.bsky.social is hosting a webinar.  Bringing together speakers from agroforestry, landscape architecture and environmental finance, the session will examine how forests are engaged across different areas of research, design and decision-making.

⚠️⚠️ @jacquet-chris.bsky.social and I are organizing the 2nd "non seed plant" French meeting. As for the one in 2025, the goal is to better structure our emerging community across French institutes. It will take place in Toulouse, June 24th-25th. Registration 🔽 nonseedplants26.sciencesconf.org

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Welcome! @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social has a starter pack for plant #ecophys people. go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7

Hi All! I'm back from sabbatical and teaching Plant Ecophys again - a class near and dear to my heart! In the past, I've welcomed grad students and post-docs to share their research with students and their stories about how they got into the field.....

"it’s going to be fine … so don’t worry" has never made me feel less fine or worry more.

Provides some insights into what is happening (or rather what is not happening) with regard to federal science grant making.

📘 EDITORIAL 📘 🌳 75 years and counting 🌳 🎉 Editor-in-Chief John Lunn announces the 2026 cohort of JXB editorial interns 🎉 The programme offers early career researchers insight into journal publishing and valuable career development opportunities 🔎 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

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Why are we still spending tens of thousands of $$$ on APC for non-society journals like Nature? Wouldn’t that money be better spent at society journals at least? We are doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to participate in this madness. You don’t need a paper in these journals to succeed.

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

New paper where we assess how reliable estimates of aboveground biomass from tree rings are compared to permanent monitoring plots in forests where management interventions affect dynamics and growth #ForestEcology #ForestManagement #Management doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

🌳📐 RESEARCH 📐🌳 Epidermal cell size distributions in leaves of Bursera simaruba and Eucalyptus camaldulensis trees remain largely constant with height growth suggesting there are no height-imposed developmental limitations – Alemán-Sancheschúlz et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Excited to launch the new lab website, including the announcement that Devani Jolman will be joining us as the new Burpee Postdoc! www.chrismartine.com

Monocots. 🌴 Geophytes. 🪻 Mediterranean biome. 🔥 Phylogenetic diversity. 🤓 Check. It. Out. 🥳 (This project took 5+ years for various reasons. Science takes time sometimes and that’s ok!) dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....

The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.

An example setup for herbarium tours. This is a general setup, as we have 8 groups coming today. I've prepared for discussions of taxonomy, floristics, history, and of course the basic: What is an herbarium? Herbaria encourage questions in these areas and many more. @mortonarboretum.bsky.social

Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for the first webinar in our 2026 series: "Taxonomy: What is it good for?" Free to all! Join us to hear @sandyknapp.bsky.social's "Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)" Pls register & share: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...