I just passed my 50,000th identification on @inaturalist.bsky.social! Identifying is a huge but often ignored part of the #iNaturalist community and dataset so I wanted to share why and how I identify. 1/14 🧪 #ecology #taxonomy #botany #CommunityScience

super excited to share this big project with @daeaton.bsky.social out now in Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy: doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

🌱 Calling all mentors! The BSA Early Career Committee is bringing back the NSF GRFP Workshop. Sign up to be a mentor if you are a: ✅ Grad student who already received a GRFP or ✅ PI, postdoc, senior researcher Sign up here 👉 forms.gle/sQUwhVryYHJK... #NSFGRFP #botany

Interested in joining our lab (dunnlab.org) as a postdoc to work on siphonophores, processes that structure diversity in the open ocean, or natural history? If so, please reach out to discuss a nomination for the Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellowship - yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...

When & where have species of bats, rodents, & shrews been collected across the 54 mountains of the Madrean Sky Islands? Damien Rivera in our lab led this effort to find out! New preprint "Uncovering historical small mammal biodiversity among the Madrean Sky Islands" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Church Evolution Laboratory (CEL@NYU) will be official as of Sep 1st: shchurch.github.io. We are recruiting at all levels, including a postdoc to work on evolutionary patterns and processes via comparative genomics in Hawaiian Drosophila. Please share widely!

I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Responses to climate change – insights and limitations from herbaceous plant model species

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

felt really lucky to be sitting in the room during Andrew's incoming president's lecture at Botany - really glad to see it preserved here!

Check out our preprint 🧪 on the origin & dispersal dynamics of a sailing ⛵ #siphonophore! We use #iNaturalist and particle tracking simulations to show that juvenile man o' war surface in the Gulf of Mexico & Straits of FL and disperse rapidly along the Gulf Stream 🌊 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just want to shoutout a new study from the Wessinger Lab by my colleague @trinitydepatie.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... She investigated the repeated evolution of personate flowers within Penstemon by examining patterns of introgression, topological discordance, and

This is an awesome summary of @trinitydepatie.bsky.social 's new paper!!! Thanks @aidanwshort.bsky.social ! Check it out folks!!!!

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

Awesome Penstemon genetics work from @trinitydepatie.bsky.social !!! meticulous crossing design and such a clean result 🤯

Hey #Botany2025 peeps! Come watch me blab about Comps tomorrow! Phylogenomics 2, Santa Rosa room, at 2:30 pm!

@plantpollinator.bsky.social sheds light on many of the issues related to having disabilities in academia, but in navigating social settings in general

Wanna hear about eastern Penstemon funkyness? Stop by poster #102 at 6:15!

Come see me at the poster session tonight (P16) for two separate applications of @inaturalist.bsky.social in Monarda… showcasing iNat’s help for understanding organismal biology at both super broad (thousands of observations) and super targeted (single observation) scales 🙂 #Botany2025

Awesome (allo)polyploid Phlox presentation from @christeinecke.bsky.social … a ton of fieldwork behind it #Botany2025

Fun getting to see the live version of my favorite paper title of the year: Deeper Bulbs are Larger. Super fun work by @wile-phylote.bsky.social

Some great talks in the Botanical Research Across Borders symposium this morning, starting with a broad survey of botanists about equity of US / Mexico collaboration #Botany2025

If you see me at #Botany2025, I might have some goodies to share! 🌿🌻

Not much Monarda in Southern California… so Monardella will have to suffice 🙂 (pretty sure this is Monardella australis but not 100%)

Poster printed, presentation slides prepared……. Palm Springs tomorrow! #Botany2025

🌼 Headed to #Botany2025? You'll definitely want to check out the brand-new Plant Science Bulletin before arriving! 🌼 It has a ton of conference info---along with some great articles & book reviews! Flipbook version: issuu.com/botanicalsoc... PDF version: botany.org/userdata/Iss... #plantscience

spent time today watching different foraging strategies among (I *think?*) the same species of bumblebee (B impatiens), all right next to each other. Starting with the classic nectar dive, which seems to be by far the most common... but notice that the anthers and stigma project way out over the bee

One week until #Botany2025 gets its annual bulb fix! 🧅💉🤩 The #BulbousLab will be there in full force so be sure to check out all the talks and posters if you get a chance!

1/5 ✨Proud✨ to see our review with Katie Peichel as featured content in Trends_Ecol_Evo, with my beloved alpine lineages of Arabidopsis arenosa on the cover. Hope that you find it interesting! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.007

Monarda mayhem!

A distinguishing character of Monarda fistulosa and its close relatives is a fun tuft of hairs at the top of the upper corolla lobe. Endearingly it persists all through flower development (and is arguably even more fun in the early stages)

ASTER: A Package for Large-scale Phylogenomic Reconstructions https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40668947/

Incredibly excited to announce that I will be starting as an assistant professor and curator of vertebrate collections at Northern Arizona University! I feel very fortunate to be joining such a wonderful department and also to live in a southwestern mountain town like Flagstaff — a dream come true!

The #Botany2025 Program is now available to view! Visit www.botanyconference.org and select the Program menu item. Don't forget that there is still time for registered attendees to add Lightning Talks or Recent Topics Posters to this year's conference through July 11th.

Monarda brevis finally blooming in the greenhouse!!! My first time ever seeing the flowers on a living plant. This species is endemic to limestone outcrops in a tiny part of West Virginia. one of the coolest Monardas imo with these waxy leaves, creeping habit, and dainty flowers

A new really exciting preprint from @thecapitulab.bsky.social, my PhD lab, and many others One of the many interesting findings - The sequence evolution of CLV3 and changes to CLV signaling is required for capitulum development. CLEs make sunflowers! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#MSAfungi25 attendees, don't miss the last talk of the day (5:15PM Mon 30 Jun) in Session 2-2 Systematics: Ascomycota where my sister Heather Dawson will present our work on using a #ConservationDog to survey hypogeous #fungi #truffle #biodiversity of southern #Oregon. 🧪🌎 #Mycology #PhD #NSFfunded

#Evol2025 I’ll be talking about the self-hosted open-source software stack my lab uses for collaboration today @ 5:15 (Athena F). Come check out how we replace or complement tools from Google/Microsoft/Slack—and wrap up the conference with a (hopefully) different kind of talk. Come chat with us :)

Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!

Such a cool dataset!!!

CRABS CLAW-independent floral #nectary development in Penstemon barbatus New #AJB research by @amkatzer.bsky.social, @carriewessi.bsky.social, Brooklyn Anaya & Lena Hileman doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #pollinators #Arabidopsis #petunia

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Father’s Day and sample processing (aka getting tissue into the freezer) after restorative week of family + fieldwork

Amazing to visit the JMU herbarium yesterday, graciously hosted by @aeberardi.bsky.social (who also joined me for field collecting earlier in the week!) Got a thorough Virginia Monarda experience on this trip!

Diatoms are tiny but ecologically important eukaryotes. After over a million years of relative stasis, the lineage of diatoms exploded into diversity, with innovations in ecology, morphology, and life history still seen today. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fieldwork in the Allegheny highlands. Perfect weather and successful collecting!

Bumblebee clumsiness vs halictid bee precision!

Long day driving to and from Cold Spring Harbor, dropping off Monardas for ref genome sequencing. It’s happening!!!!!