📢 The Darbaker Prize in Phycology nomination deadline has been extended to November 1st! 🌿 Learn more about this $2500 award and submit nominations: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025Awards #Phycology #AlgaeResearch #IamaBotanist

BSA’s Graduate Research Fellowship Writing Workshop is back! Whether you’re applying for the NSF GRFP or another graduate-level fellowship, this workshop will help you craft clear, compelling research statements. Apply by Sept. 26: forms.gle/wfFPhVUELj47... Workshop date to be announced soon!

Insect visitation patterns in diploid #Centaurea aspera & its related allotetraploid & triploid hybrids: Similar rates but distinct assemblages New #AJB research by Alfonso Garmendia, Hugo Merle, Pau Lucio-Puig & María Ferriol doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #polyploidy #Asteraceae

Sources of variation in plant chemical diversity: Lessons from Malagasy #Ficus New #AJB research by Linh M. N. Nguyen, Jana Ebersbach, Diary Razafimandimby, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Henriette Uthe, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Madagascar #figs #chemodiversity

🎉 Honoring the 2025 Edgar T. Wherry Award Recipient, James Brock (University of Auckland)! Presented by the BSA Pteridological Section, this award recognizes exceptional student research in pteridology. Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSASectionAwards

#Nitrogen enrichment reduces parasitism in an annual hemiparasite New #AJB researc by Jasmine Taite & Paul Nabity doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience #climatechange #Poaceae #pollution #ecology

We’re proud to announce the 2025 Phytochemical Section Presentation Awardees! 🏅 Best Presentation: Melanie Madrigal 🏅 Honorable Mention: Chase Hearn 🏅 Best Poster: Karen Campos Secenas 🏅 Honorable Mention: Abbigale Baum Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Honoring the 2025 Physiological & Ecophysiological Section Awards Recipients! 🏅 LI-COR Prize Presentation Award: Daniel Mok 🏅 LI-COR Prize Poster Award: Amelie LeTierce 🏅 Presentation Award: Malinda Barberio 🏅 Poster Award: Osedipo Adegbeyeni Visit: botany.org/home/awards.... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz

🌸 Congratulations to Grace Burgin (Harvard University), winner of the 2025 Margaret Menzel Award, and Keana Tang (University of Kansas), winner of the 2025 Maynard Moseley Award! Menzel Award – botany.org/home/awards/... Moseley Award – botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Honoring the 2025 Ecological Section Student Presentation & Poster Award Recipients! 🏅 Graduate Presentation: Brooklyn Richards 🏅 Graduate Poster: Alex Arena 🏅 Undergraduate Posters: Bjoyrn Domst & Sarah Jones Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Celebrating the 2025 Developmental & Structural Section Presentation and Poster Award Recipients! 🏅 Best Poster Award: Elissa Sorojsrisom (Columbia University) 🏅 Katherine Esau Award: Austin T. Nguyen (Universtity of Kansas) Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Proud to recognize the 2025 Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant Recipients! 🌿 Alexander Lowe (National Museum of Natural History) 🌿 Giovanni Cristian Nunes (Museo Egidio Feruglio, Argentina) Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSACichanAward

🌿 Celebrating excellence in Bryology, Lichenology & Paleobotany! The 2025 A.J. Sharp Award goes to Kristen Hillegass (Univ. of Kentucky) & the 2025 Isabel Cookson Award goes to Tengxiang Wang (Penn State Univ.). botany.org/home/awards.... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSASectionAwards

🌱 Celebrating the 2025 SE Section/Association of Southeastern Biologists Student Presentation Award Recipients! Best Presentation: Daniel Stanton (UF IFAS Citrus Research & Education Center) Best Poster: Annabelle Mayes (Georgia Southern University) botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz

🌾 Let's show support for the 2025 Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel Award Recipients: Andrea D. Appleton (Harvard University), Jaxon Reiter (University of Lethbridge), and Niall S. Whalen (Florida State University)! botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSACheadleAward

🎉 Congrats to the 2025 Sectional Travel Award Recipients! These awards, given by BSA’s scientific sections, support students with travel and/or registration funding to present their research & build connections at the Botany Conference. botany.org/home/awards.... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🌿 We’re proud to recognize Kyra N. Krakos (Maryville University) as the 2025 recipient of the Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award! Presented by the BSA Teaching Section, this award honors excellence in teaching botany. Learn more here: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

📖 🎉 Honoring the the 2025 Grady L & Barbara D Webster Structural Botany Publication Award winners: Jacob S. Suissa, Andrews A. Agbleke & William E. Friedman (Harvard) for "A bump in the node: The hydraulic implications of rhizomatous growth." Details: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz

🪻 We’re pleased to share the 2025 Student and PostDoc Registration Award Recipients! These awards help support early-career botanists by covering registration and travel costs for the Botany Conference. Learn more here: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #StudentAwards

🌵 🎉 Celebrating the 2025 Professional-Level Travel Award Recipients! This year’s awards include the Professional Travel, Developing Nations Travel, & Hardship Travel Awards—providing vital support for botanists to attend the Botany Conference. #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

New evidence of Miocene forest #grasses from #Ethiopia & #Kenya: Implications for biogeography, #evolution & paleoecology New #AJB research by Bonnie Jacobs, Alice Novello, Caroline Strömberg, Ellen Currano, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #paleobotany #Poaceae

🌺 We’re proud to celebrate the 2025 PLANTS Grant Recipients! This program supports undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds to attend the annual Botany Conference. To learn more about this program, visit: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PLANTSGrants

Congrats to the 2025 Young Botanist Award Recipients! 🌱 🎉 These awards honor outstanding graduating seniors in the botanical sciences. Learn more here: botany.org/home/awards/... Make sure to nominate outstanding graduating seniors you know in 2026! #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Meet the 2025 Undergraduate Student Research Award winners! 🌱 Andrew Conlon 🌱 Lena Kadau 🌱 Will Pearce 🌱 Alex Risdal 🌱 Nicole Stark 🌱 Brooke Tillotson Learn more about these $500 student awards here: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSAUGSRAs

🌿 We are excited to present the recipients of the 2025 Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Awards! 🌟 Each award provides $1,500 to support graduate student research across the botanical sciences. For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSAGSRAs

🌿 Congrats to the 2025 recipients of the J.S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award, Anthony Garcia (Univ. of Washington), and the AJ Harris Graduate Student Research Award, Nora Heaphy (Univ. of Vermont)! For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🌸 We are delighted to share that Sara Sofia Pedraza Narvaez (University of California, Los Angeles) is the winner of the 2025 Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology. Learn more here: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🌹Congratulations to Oluwatobi Oso of Yale University, winner of the 2025 Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology. Honorable mention: Christopher Joaquín Muñoz (The University of Texas at El Paso). botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🌱🏛️ Congratulations to Kimberly A. Brown (Native Plant Society of Oregon) for receiving the 2025 Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant! This grant awarded $1,000 to her project, "Creating Accessible and Educational Native Plant Gardens." botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🌿🏛️📣 Congrats to Rina Talaba (Chicago Botanic Gardens & Northwestern) & Katherine Wolcott (Univ. of Miami), recipients of the 2025 Public Policy Awards! Rina and Katherine were able to take part in the 2025 Congressional Advocacy Event. botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🌼 Congrats to Naomi Volain (Plants Go Global) & Dr. Jenn Yost (Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo), recipients of the 2025 Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award! This award honors outstanding contributions to botanical education. botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🪻Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Diggle (University of Connecticut), the recipient of the 2025 Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture Award! Learn more about this award here: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSAKaplanAward

🌻 We are proud to recognize Dr. Tanisha M. Williams (University of Georgia) as the 2025 BSA Impact Award Recipient! This award honors individuals whose efforts have had a broad and lasting impact on the botanical community and beyond. botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🎉 Help us celebrate Natalia Pabón-Mora (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia), the 2025 BSA Corresponding Member! This recognition is given to distinguished international scientists who have made major contributions to the plant sciences. botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🌿 Join us in applauding Dr. Fay-Wei Li (Cornell University), recipient of the 2025 Emerging Leader Award! This award recognizes early-career scientists who show exceptional promise for leadership in the botanical sciences. botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

👏 Congratulations to the 2025 BSA Distinguished Fellows: – Tia-Lynn Ashman, University of Pittsburgh – Mudassir Asrar, University of Balochistan – Suzanne Koptur, Florida International University This award is the highest honor BSA can bestow. botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz

🎉 It’s time to celebrate! The 2025 BSA Award Winner Blitz is here. Over the next week we’ll be sharing with you the incredible students, scientists, and educators who have been recognized with BSA awards this year. #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Check out this new podcast episode from the Native Plant Society of New Jersey---feat. BSA President-Elect @martinebotany.bsky.social! npsnj.org/the-wildstor... #botany #plantscience #iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW

Mentors needed for BSA’s GRFP Workshop! 🌱 The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants. Learn how you can help! mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

We’re excited to announce the Call for Symposia, Colloquia, & Workshop Proposals for #Botany2026, Aug. 1–5, 2026 in Tucson, AZ. Help us explore this year’s theme: Biodiversity at the Boundaries. There is a hard deadline of October 16 for Symposia and Colloquia proposals. www.botanyconference.org

The origin & diversification of #Amaryllidaceae: A phylogenetic & biogeographic analysis New #AJB research by Zoë Dennehy-Carr, Kálmán Könyves, Chris Yesson, John David & Alastair Culham doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience #biogeography #FossilFriday #evolution

🌼🎨 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color." 🎨🌼 Heat drastically alters floral color & pigment composition without affecting flower conspicuousness By Eduardo Narbona, Francisco Perfectti, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Brassicaceae

Elevated #ozone promotes the dominance of invasive plant species in low-diversity native plant communities New #AJB research by Yan Li & Ayub M. O. Oduor doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #biodiversity #invasiveplants #ecology

Dispersal across Wallace's Line: A case study in #Endiandra New #AJB research by Jiayi Song, Deby Arifiani, Jens Rohwer, David Kay Ferguson & Yong Yang doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #Lauraceae

Trait specialization facilitates autonomous selfing ability in a mixed-mating plant New #AJB research by @hannamakowski.bsky.social, Keric Lamb, Austin Kim, Emily Scott & Laura Galloway doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #boyany #plantscience #evolution #pollen @uvabio.bsky.social

Applications for the 2026 Pivot to Plants Fellows Program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are now open. Location: St. Louis, MO Application Deadline: October 15, 2025 Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026 Estimated Stipend: $37,275 Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

🌼🎨 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color." 🎨🌼 Color polymorphism in #Anemone coronaria: Correlations with soil, climate & flowering phenology By Tzlil Labin, Banisha Phukela, Tamar Keasar, Nirit Lavie-Alon & Yuval Sapir doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

Refugial isolation & ecological niche differentiation promote genetic divergence of #Oresitrophe & #Mukdenia in Northeast Asia New #AJB research by Maoqin Xia, Joongku Lee, Limin Yu, Xianyun Mu, Wei-Mei Jiang, Doug Soltis, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience @soltislab.bsky.social

🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Adaptive plant traits under anthropogenic burning regimes: A database for UK heath and mire plant species By @kimsimp.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data,” led by @emcassey.bsky.social, @erikarmoore11.bsky.social, Mafe Torres Jimenez & ‪@yannickwoudstra.bsky.social‬ Deadline 30 Nov 2025 botany.org/home/publica...