From article: “Avoid overly broad funding calls.” Contrasts with NSF BIO’s town hall yesterday, where they said they’re moving to fewer but more general solicitations. There is a too narrow call range, too, but a lot of the reduced/killed narrow calls were on career stage (DDIG,PRFB,GRFP)

📝 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 📝 🔬 Plant cell biology: subcellular dynamics and mechanisms of plant cell organization and adaptation 🔬 🔎 Guest editors Brandizzi, Nimchuk, Muday & Stepanova dive into this special issue 🔎 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @gloriamuday.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social! Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social 🧵1/2

Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica! If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc

Published!📖 Using seed addition experiments in areas variably impacted by fires, the authors explored whether a trait-based approach could be used to guide the selection of tree species in active restoration projects in deforested areas🌲🌳 Read more:https://buff.ly/jTtpUmQ

During the spring of 2026, we will open a position as Assistant/Associate Professor in Plant Biochemistry. If you think plant terpenoid biochemistry is your thing (or you know a good candidate for this), and you want to move to the middle of France, then follow @lbvpam.bsky.social for updates.

Two hundred years of changes in orchid pollination revealed using herbarium specimens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692704v1

Are you planning to attend Botany 2025? Consider applying to be a PLANTS mentor! You'll be paired with another mentor to help your mentee network, comprehend talks, and discuss grad school and careers, all while making them feel welcome in the botany community. (1/2)

Nearly half of all countries have fewer than ten active plant taxonomists, and in 41% of countries they're all male. Global review by Simões et al. (2025). 🌏🧪🌐 www.cell.com/trends/plant...

PEACHH Lab (@benrlee.com) at ETSU is recruiting a PhD with exciting projects relating to phenological mismatch, ecophysiology, forest ecology. Highly recommend working with Ben!! www.peacchlab.com/opportunities

new PhD position available! The student will develop remote sensing tools to support land management in the western United States, contributing to ongoing USDA-funded research on monitoring and restoring mesic and riparian ecosystems. For more details, please see: caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/

Why do we observe some plant #phenotypes but not others? This study explores the multivariate #PhenotypicSpace of a widely distributed #plant species to reveal how interplays between population history & natural selection shape phenotypic diversity in #Arabidopsis @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43Z8IWi

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

🏝️ Army Natural Resource Program on O‘ahu / Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, Univ. of Hawaii seeks a Propagule Conservation Biologist 🌱 🧑‍🔬 manage Seed Conservation Lab and Seed Bank 🎓 bac. degree 🫘 3y experience propagule mgmt, 1y supervision ⌛ FT temp, annually renewable

fun paper with a lot of great folks @tomacarruthers.bsky.social @willweaver.bsky.social @phylieu.bsky.social @jamesbpease.bsky.social @gbradburd.bsky.social and more nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sad to be finishing up as a postdoc in @blackrim.bsky.social 's lab. I've had such a great time there! Also excited to be about to start as an Assistant Professor/Lecturer at University College Dublin.

Always happy to be in the field, And was an awesome chance to catch up with collaborators from the CLIFF experiment @harvardforest.bsky.social Even more fun when you cap it all off with music and cake

@drsdodsworth.bsky.social is offering an exciting CASE PhD opportunity Deciphering plant-insect interactions in a diverse urban botanical garden and the implications for developing urban planting schemes in collaboration with the fantastic Chelsea Physic Garden

The final episode of our podcast is available, which means that the entire book is now available. Check out Episode 10 here: www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Holiday trees are up in the @soltislab.bsky.social!

Post from Herbarium World on Nature Prints and pressed plant photographs including the work of the Indian artist Mridula Vichitra herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/h...

Excited to see our first paper for this 17 common garden collaborative study on hybrid Poplar performance now out in New Phytologist. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My 1st thesis chapter is out in #EcologicalMonographs! 🎉 With @curromolina.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social How is #climatechange reshaping plant–pollinator timing (phenological overlap) in Mediterranean ecosystems? Can #biodiversity buffer mismatches? Find out here👇 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

We are looking for new Associate Editors of "People and Nature". If you work on people-nature relations & like handling papers, please apply by 23.02.26. @britishecologicalsociety.org 🔗 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

Happy to share that the 11th contribution to the Fungal Systematics and Evolution series published by Sydowia is now online! Really glad to have had the chance to co-edit it with @dhaelewa.bsky.social and Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber. Enjoy the read! www.sydowia.at/syd77/syd77....

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Structural and physiological constraints on arborescent lycopsid establishment and growth nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm hiring a full time fixed-term 1yr lab tech to assist with field and greenhouse projects related to floral evolution and plant reproductive ecology. Please share! Ideal start date early 2026. jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...

I work with some pretty cool plants 😎

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

I’m so proud of my grad student @evoyeyo.bsky.social for defending his @lsubiosci.bsky.social PhD thesis on macroevolution of #Brachyotum and the broader Andean flora today. Felicidades, Dr. Paredes-Burneo!! ⛰️🧬🌻🥳👨🏽‍🎓🇵🇪

I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Tropical rainforests play a vital role in global climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. WFU researchers who monitor a network of forest plots stretching from the slopes of the Andes to the lowlands along the Amazon River in Southern Peru have contributed to a major new study.

🔥job opportunity! #botany #plantconservation

Sounds like a great opportunity for botanists working in seed-free plants!

Come be our colleague! We are looking for a tenure track cell / molecular biologist with focus on biochemical sciences. Strong bio department, lovely rural communities and living among the redwoods! Ask me questions ! careers.humboldt.edu/mob/hm/en-us...

A rare glimpse inside the largest flower on earth, seen today in the Sumatran jungle:

📖Published📖 Serra-Marin et al. develop an Automated Camera System (ACS) that integrates Raspberry Pi hardware with YOLOv5, to detect pollinators in plant communities 🐝 🌱 Read more here 🌍 🧪 👇

Scientists (especially early career researchers): How has your career been impacted over the last year of policy changes and funding cuts? Contact me here or on Signal if you have a story to share.

Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...

📣 We're hiring! Great opportunity for someone to join us in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading working on #crop #protection #agronomy. See jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... for all the details.

The Veiled Lady (Phallus indusiatus) releases volatiles that attract insects; as they feed, they pick up spores and redistribute them across decomposing substrates, enhancing both spore dispersal and nutrient cycling in forest litter. Photo credit: @ckrieg.bsky.social #WakeBotany #botany #fungi

First student-led paper from my research group. Luke Sparreo is such and awesome and hardworking student! 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Confocal scanning laser microscopy, fluorescence lifetime imaging & Raman analyses allowed @nhm-london.bsky.social, @slcuplants.bsky.social & @cambridge-ee.bsky.social researchers to resolve plant & fungal structures fossil Read in @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @dromius.bsky.social

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving photosynthesis and yield in C4 crops nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tenure-track position in Hydrogeology/Hydrology - Ottawa, ON, Canada - www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobpost/otta... #jobs #academicjobs #Hydrogeology #Hydrology

We are looking for a new colleague and department head for #Horticulture and Landscape #Architecture at #Colorado State #University! #highered #academicsky #agsky #Agriculture. Apply by December 31! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/169...

The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!