I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

A fibrovascular bundle of a Cretaceous palm 🍄+👀

But no plants? Another example as plants being seen as a backdrop rather than a centrepiece. Obviously we all have our favourites, but surely Crested Cow-wheat is a bit more of a looker than most mammals...

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🤓 New M.Sc. program: Earth System Dynamics & Evolution 🤓 fau-earth-system-science.github.io starting October 2026! PostDoc positions available

I wonder, how do you guys manage to get academic collaborators to contribute to things? It seems like I am always helping others but rarely getting help when I need it...

#JobAlert #PhD 🌱 We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers. We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition. Interested? Please get in touch for more information!

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

A new lobed leaf with affinities with the Austrobaileyales from the Early Cretaceous of China. Good to see our predictions based on Mesodescolea from the Early Cretaceous of Argentina coming true! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌿 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!

First day in one of my favourite places!

Loving the reconstruction of Sagaria, an underappreciated angiosperm from the Early Cretaceous of Campania, Italy!

Because of Valentine's Day we had today a Flower Flocking #paleostream, covering different kinds of fossil angiosperms! Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!

Join a summer workshop on phylogenetic comparative methods for biomechanists at UC Riverside from June 21-27. Apply by March 15, 2026. For more info and details, visit: https://www.wmrc.edu/owens-valley-station/ #workshop

A stunning work on the anatomy of the apical meristem in Medullosans, showing fascinating similarities with extant cycads! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

Academic Societies when a young woman dares to be slightly outspoken (left) the same Societies when a misogynistic controversial geriatric is openly affiliated with a high-profile peadophile sex trafficker (right)

It drives me crazy that US journalists and commentators say stuff like "he was a white supremacist but his name was non-European: García". García is a Spanish name, brought to the Americas by Spain, a country in Europe. A fact the supremacist knows and embraces. Learnt racism preventing learning

🌿 Open seminar at IBB! 🗓 16 Feb | 12 h 🎤 Francesco Dal Grande – From Heritage to Innovation: Research at the Botanical Garden of Padua 🎤 Garima Singh – Treasure hunting in nature for metabolic gems Open to all, no registration needed. www.ibb.csic.es/en/2026/02/d...

📢 Postdoc opening in avian biogeography & macroecology (Olomouc, CZ) Vladimír Remeš (excellent scientist and mentor) is hiring a postdoc to study bird diversity across biomes, linking species pools, traits, climate & history using big data, fieldwork, and modelling. 🔗 pracuj.upol.cz/nc/zprava/cl...

This is truly baffling. A seed does not become an angiosperm fruit only because there are some vague lines on it. It is the equivalent of having a full diapsid skull and saying you found Permian dinosaurs...

The biggest privilege afforded to men in positions of power is that of being dumb. There are people willing to accept the excuse that a world-class researcher neglected to do a 10-minute Google search on a sponsor, in the 2010s, as part of the process for accepting research funding.

They wrote their emails thinking they were never going to be caught. They write their excuses because they are sorry they got caught.

Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

It's been a while so I'm re-sharing this list by @ezequielvera.bsky.social! #paleobotany #botany go.bsky.app/B7Y3ja7

Hello from Stuttgart! Never been to the SMNS before but it's a lovely museum with amazing collections. Right now they have a temporary exhibit on Triassic life, featuring Mirasaura. @stephanspiekman.bsky.social showed me round.. Amazing fossils!

New paper showing clustering of the many traits across reproductive strategies of angiosperms. Lots of interesting discussions that gave raise to this piece. But only possible thanks to the hard work of Andrew Helmstetter, Sylvain Glémin, and Jos Käfer. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Job opportunity! Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology Fixed term Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... #PlantSci #PlantSciJobs

Big fan of how the palaeo-flora was displayed

♻️🆓: Anatomical insights into the vascular layout of the barley rachis: implications for transport and spikelet connection doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

I'm hiring postdoc in my lab to work on temporal dynamics of sorghum root microbiome assembly! This position is funded by the Moore Foundation through UGA, and would be perfect for someone finishing up their PhD this spring. Details here: chunglab.franklinresearch.uga.edu/join-lab

This is an incredibly useful read! How I’m learning to navigate academia as someone with ADHD www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Writers in Residence scheme with Botanic Gardens of Sydney - $15000 for 3 months for Australian writers. Sydney, Mount Tomah or Mount Annan.

An Apatosaurus meanders through a lush glade in the ancient Morrison. #sciart #paleoart

The USA can withdraw from @ipbes.net but, IPBES Chair @davidobura.bsky.social observes, “unfortunately, we cannot withdraw from the fact that more than 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 😞😠

After last year's successful refresh of the BES Reproducible Code guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...). Exciting! See below for how to get involved...

Still time to apply for this PhD studentship on evolution and environmental changes in Polystira! blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...

JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

For the very first #FossilFriday & #FernFriday of 2026, the leaf of a #fern that was growing in what is now southern France at the end of the Carboniferous, ~300 million year ago 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany #botany

I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢 🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience

Are you familiar with the @palaeoverse.bsky.social Lecture Series? Check out our YouTube Channel for lectures from community experts on method development and application in Palaeontology: www.youtube.com/@ThePalaeove... We will be announcing the next set of lectures in the New Year, stay tuned!

Pas de photo pour ce #FossilFriday mais pour les francophones vous pouvez m'écouter parler un peu de plantes fossiles pour la chronique Micro Labo de Radio Clapas 🌿⛏️ www.radioclapas.fr/portfolio/mi...

📣 #Forschungsnews: Winzige Archive – Stoffwechsel-Moleküle speichern Urzeitwelt 🦴🌍 Forschende haben erstmals durch die Analyse kleinster Stoffwechselprodukte – sogenannte Metaboliten – in Tierfossilien die Umwelt früher Menschen entschlüsselt. 👉 https://sgn.one/h7n#Forschungsnews 📷 Bromage, Bin Hu; Schrenk

After illustrating quite a few ferns, I've now moved on to cycads! Here are some examples of Jurassic cycad morphology. With great thanks to @lepidodendron.bsky.social for his insightful blog post about cycads for #paleoart! #paleobotany #cycad

And if you need more prehistoric tales as the year turns over, When the Earth Was Green came out just this year and expands the story.

I love that the online copy for Tyrant Lizard Queen says “from the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs” right at the top. I think it is, which is pretty amazing for a story about one of the worst times on our planet.

An excellent article on plant paleoart, its history, its importance in fighting plant blindness, and how we can further the field as a whole! Congrats to @pepecarrion.bsky.social and coauthors! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

doi.org/10.1016/j.hi... The Mismeasure of Neanderthals. Our latest paper, a critical review of Neanderthal iconography through time, with epistemological, paleobiological, ethical, and aesthetic contributions. Thank you for reading and for your comments.

Zamia spp. is the host plant for Eumaeus atala caterpillars. Both larvae & adults are aposematic. Zamia contains cycasin, a carcinogenic & neurotoxic glucoside. This toxin is not to be trifled with! 📷: larvae by Judy Gallagher CCBY2 #Zamiaceae #Aposematism #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

#PlantResearch Enjoyed writing with @beverleycubg.bsky.social a perspective about wonderful paper by Valencia-Montoya et al. in this week's Science. Cycads use thermal radiation to affect pollinators. Is this why Cycads are not as diverse as angiosperms? share.google/Xj8iH9E4tqvN...