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...

Interesting study on holotypes, where they were collected compared to where they are stored. “The distance between collection sites and herbaria has decreased over time, that is, around 1800, the median distance was 8,800 km, while by 2000 it decreased to 750 km.” doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Great NYT article today about how not to make problems with invasive species even worse, featuring @evecologist.bsky.social and @jmheberling.bsky.social 🌐🧪🌱 Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/r...

Great new piece on dealing with #invasivePlants with Evelyn Beaury and @jmheberling.bsky.social Dr. Beaury is out of Bethany Bradley's Lab at @umassamherst.bsky.social and is already well published. She has this new position New York Botanical Garden. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/r...

Mystery solved! Whitehead (1976) "Collecting Beetles in Exotic Places without Leaving Home: The Herbarium" www.jstor.org/stable/3999695 That was really bothering me.

Insects pressed on herbarium sheets...I'm looking for a paper I know exists on the topic, a short essay in a relatively narrow audience bulletin, ca. 1970s-1980s perhaps. Going nuts trying to locate it again.

Every year at this time, I’m reminded that Lonicera morrowii has two different fruit colors. And each year, I wonder if there is any explanation. I think the same species, right? Maybe I’ll remember to tag a few this year to see if color maintains year to year. Maybe.

Powdermill Nature Reserve is hiring a position to work up some datasets, with fairly broad, open ended goals that can be tailored to interests/expertise. Possibility for remote work. Would make a great postdoc or even sabbatical project. us251.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

My god, the really cool herbarium papers are coming in faster than I can read them.

Excited for our new paper out led by Chatham University undergraduate Searrah Bierker presenting a new, holistic approach to herbarium specimen collections, what we call "integrated vouchers," that aims to capture intraspecific variation not well documented in herbaria. dx.doi.org/10.2992/007....

Powdermill Nature Reserve yesterday 😍

Signing in to OrcID to sign in to Web of Science profile to sign in to Scholar One… 😆 (but actually way easier than remembering another log in)

So I’m in the New York Times today 👀 😃 in a nice piece on artists and invasive species featuring our new exhibition at Carnegie Museum on invasive plants nyti.ms/42fFzpa

Non-native species are presumed guilty by ecologists until proven innocent. This onus stems from precautionary principle. Not totally sure how I feel about that.

Defended my dissertation ten years ago today! Will always remember the day and the date. (Grateful my committee didn’t celebrate April fools) surface.syr.edu/etd/213/

A nice thread on Elton (though natural history was a “science” long before him and remains critical today #inductiveReasoning)

Invasive Plants Are Not the Enemy: Botanist @jmheberling.bsky.social [and #BSAmember!] challenges how we think about invasive species and our role in their spread. www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis... #botany #plantscience

The title summarizes it best. Check out our commentary in @annbot.bsky.social: Making the most of herbaria. A commentary on ‘Integrating datasets from herbarium specimens and images to treat a Neotropical myrtle species complex’ doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Trump attacked Federal Funding for Libraries and Museums. We need Americans like you to take action today! Please sign and share the petition before it's too late! action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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"The notion that the best papers are the most cited papers was always questionable The most citable, and therefore publishable, papers are mundane, ‘water is wet’ papers What was once the most cited paper of all is about cleaning test tubes" Great read: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Aldi is my church #sunday

I'm excited to see this come out. Been a line of research we have been pursuing for a long time. Worked with a great group of undergrads while completing the study!

The Nature journals keep coming

Today’s bogus spam email is tempting!: Request to accept for the position of "Editorial Board" for the journal "Journal of Pain"

Reminder - Don't forget about our grants! We offer #grants for undergrads & graduate students doing research, going to symposia or workshops, and more, and the deadline for submission is coming up soon - Feb 15! Details can be found here: www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/ #botany 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Extremely worrying dynamics are unfolding in the US: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

📝 An Anonymous Botanist has Poisoned a Herbarium in New York in an Unusual Way 🧵 https://doi.org/n4tf My guess: Professor Plum, in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, with the suspicious green bottle. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief Herbaria are essential tools for Botany.

Ooo liking the sound of that!

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

Trying to use linked in more because it seems people at my museum use it and gained new use with the loss of Twitter. Let me get this straight, you can pay extra so you can see who clicks on your profile? Interesting.

Eek. Sounding not great. And will proposals already submitted end up being evaluated under different criteria than researchers expected when they wrote their proposals? I hope not

Registration open for the ASEH Annual Conference in Pittsburgh! Never been, so this will be new for me, but looking forward to it. aseh.org/aseh-2025-co...

Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived': BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Powdermill Nature Reserve, field station of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is a hiring a Director! A great opportunity and a beautiful place in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania. us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Carnegie Museum of Natural History is hiring a museum conservator. An important and rewarding position for those with passion and experience in collections conservation. us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Look what came in the mail! @andrewlhipp.bsky.social

Starting to look forward to spring? This video from Matt Unger and CMNH on some of the spring #wildflower #phenology work that @jmheberling.bsky.social and I were working on in Pittsburgh during my postdoc might help you scratch that itch! vimeo.com/1030407731/a53ea3d77a

Feeling this — Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstad...

Not sure I’ve seen the word ‘kudzu’ used liked this but I think I like it: “…as it chokes our schedule in administrative kudzu and splinters our attention into fragments too small to support original thinking.” From www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722732...

Travel awards (up to $5,000) are available to support the study of collections in the United States National Herbarium. Applications are due on 15 January: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

@thetreecorener.bsky.social look what I came across today helping Rose-Marie Muzika clean out her office…(also, hard copy of your ms thesis)

Looks interesting!

Can botanical gardens and arboreta teach us about the impacts of climate change? Here a multi-garden community science study finds spring wildflowers shorten phenophases in the face of unusually warm temperatures. #HoldenScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!

Please share widely, consider applying, and feel free to reach out with any questions!

Major new initiative at Missouri Botanical Garden will revolutionize plant species identification and allow global access to big biodiversity data. 6 million newly digitized specimens = manifold uses and stories for botany, conservation, and history. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

I met with the Dumbarton Oaks Plant Humanities group in summer 2024 and found the ideas and dialogue extremely interesting. If you are excited about the connections between plants (or even biological world more broadly) and the humanities, check this program out. www.doaks.org/research/fel...

175,266 specimens!! (And 😊 to see a humble 101 of those from Carnegie Museum!)