NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

If you are or you know people on an #H1B, get in touch with your U international office to get guidance and know what you/they should/should not be doing. I just received the information below from #AAUP. Feel free to share and check in with your immigrant friends/colleagues. They are not doing ok.

Congratulations to Emma Fetterly, who is wrapping up her master’s thesis: “Evaluating drivers of flower color polymorphism in Castilleja coccinea,” with the Northwestern/Chicago Botanic Garden Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation. 🧪

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

Cover of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy"!!! published by @henryholtbooks.bsky.social. I can't tell you all adequately how proud of & eager I am to share this with the world!!! Coming January 20, 2026 Pre-order NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/when...

Congratulations to Dr. Drake Mullett on successfully defending his dissertation, “Effects of Root and Stem Hemiparasitic Plants on Tallgrass Prairie Plant Species,” advised by Dr. Stuart Wagenius with the Northwestern / Chicago Botanic Garden Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation. 🧪

We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮

Do you fish in freshwater? Please share or/and complete survey gathering data on observations of insects for a study on aquatic insect population declines! The link to survey is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89. Especially in need of information from #Canada, #SouthAmerica, #Africa & #Australia!

After several years studying grasses and forbs in Yellowstone National Park in the US, researchers have formally documented the power of bison as nature’s own fertilizing agents. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

We are recruiting a Research Scientist in Genetics trained in plant population genetics to run the Conservation Genetics Research Program! This is an incredible opportunity to work on a diverse and active team in a biodiversity hotspot!!! recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

Congrats to Dr. Haley Carter, who completed her Ph.D. from the Northwestern/Chicago Botanic Garden Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation last year: “Causes and consequences of floral scent diversity in a rare evening primrose,” co-advised by Dr. Krissa Skogen and Dr. Norm Wickett!

Is the Most Effective Pollinator Principle a zombie idea? How do plants adapted to one pollinator shift to another without traversing an adaptive valley? How should we measure fitness in pollinator selection studies? We explore these questions and more in a new review doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

Write-up of Shannon's paper, with a neat photo of a #bee face. news.unt.edu/news/2025/un...

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

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

Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure—it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great 🌟Editing is easier than Creating🌟

🐝 Congratulations to Dr. Jackie Fitzgerald, who recently defended her PhD: “Dimensions of Difference: Multi-Scale Consequences of Trait Variation in Bumble Bees” under the guidance of Dr. Paul CaraDonna!

Y’all, big news, I found out where they’re keeping them all

Looking for evidence to inform invasive species management decisions? This free resource from @naturalareas.bsky.social is a great starting place, feature work from numerous ecosystems.

Super excited to see the published Editorial for our Special Issue on Ecology of Gene Expression. We began working on this in 2023, and we have some excellent papers to share (1) Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌼🎨 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color." 🎨🌼 Floral shape & color impact heat accumulation & thermal stability of the floral microenvironment in a subalpine #meadow By Jennifer Apland, Katherine Riddle & Matthew Koski doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #pollination

Floral syndromes predict the most effective #pollinators in five species of #Salvia New #AJB research by Arturo Tavera, Martín de Santiago-Hernández, Víctor Rosas-Guerrero, Clementina González & Eduardo Cuevas doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #bees #hummingbirds #Lamiaceae

Mikhaela Neequaye will be speaking at an upcoming webinar hosted by BioSci Toolkit CIC on Wed 4 June, marking World Environment Day. In the meeting they'll be discussing an important and timely topic: representation in environmental science, plant science, and ecology. Book here: buff.ly/yoK8lb8

Help BSA raise funds to support the PLANTS program! NSF terminated our award, but our community is stepping up! Donate today to support a leadership & mentoring program that supports the next generation of plant scientists! #SupportPLANTS botany.org/.../plants-g... crm.botany.org/makeadonation

Here's my federal funding story #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF #scicomm 🧪

The LSU herbarium is featured in the most recent Country Roads. Check out the article here! countryroadsmagazine.com/lsu-herbarium/

Definitely worth mentioning Dr. Katie Wenzell @kewenzell.bsky.social's hard work leading this project! She and my research associate Dr. Mikhaela Neequaye did fabulous work on this paper and deserve all the credit!

Very happy to see the work from my postdoc with @plantpollinator.bsky.social finally out! We explored floral color shifts in two monkeyflower species across floral traits, gene expression, and pollinator responses to understand early stages of floral divergence: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...