Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM

Our paper inferring the timing of evolution of Solanaceae using a Bayesian total-evidence dating approach is now out in Annals of Botany! 🥔🌱 It will be part of a special issue highlighting the fundamental role of the fossil record in understanding the history of life. tinyurl.com/327354tb

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

It posted more than a week ago, but I finally find time to share my work with @iochromaland.bsky.social and @rociodeanna.bsky.social on the divergence times of Solanaceae! It has been one of the greatest collaborations in my lifetime with two inspiring scientists! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program! Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025. Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF... @systbiol.bsky.social

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

A couple weeks ago we crawled among the redwoods looking for bryophytes. I finally got a little time to write about it! It’s just a tiny bit liverwort-biased! ixchelgzlzr.github.io/CNPS_bryowalk

Interested in learning basic statistical concepts in Spanish during #Evol2025? This workshop is for you! @tropicalbotany.bsky.social and I are talking about it. Official registration in the meeting website. Thanks to @systbiol.bsky.social for the support (workshop in Spanish, bilingual materials.

Únete a nosotras en #Evol2025! No hay nada mejor que aprender sobre modelización estadística con la única e inigualable @roszenil.bsky.social-excepto hacerlo in español! //Join us! Nothing's better than learning about statistical modeling from the one and only Rosana ZF- except doing it in Spanish!

Vittaria appalachiana (Appalachian Gametophyte). This neat fern is native to Appalachia and scattered areas beyond. Related to shoestring ferns, it exists only as a gametophyte in rock shelters and other sheltered habitat. #Fern #plants #nativeplants #Appalachia #botany #photography #nature

Today I led a public hike to see some bryophytes! It was an awesome experience! I’m so happy people are interested in looking at little plants 💚💚

The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct #pteridophytes By @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al in #AppsPlantSci bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Endophytic #bacteria discovered in oil body organelles of the #liverworts Marchantia polymorpha & Radula complanata New #AJB research by Blair Young, Barbara Thiers, James White, & Lena Struwe bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience

We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann as the #Botany2025 Plenary Speaker! A leader in neotropical biodiversity, she serves as President & Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor at WashU, driving plant science & conservation forward. www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html

Annnouncing Dr. Amy Litt as the #Botany2025 Regional Botany Lecturer! Dr. Litt's research has taken her from the wonderful flowers of Vochysiaceae, to the evolution of flower development genes, & now to the stunning manzanitas (Arctostaphylos). Learn more! www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html.

Looking for geological data? 🪨⚒️ We've got you! Check out our new R package for accessing Macrostrat 👇

Introducing New Zealand's latest Bug of the Year- the magnificent Ngāokeoke / Velvet Worm! NZ has two genera: one lays eggs (Ooperipatellus, 1st photo) and another gives live birth (Peripatoides, 2nd). They also deposit sperm which burrow through their partner's skin, but that's another story! 🧪

New #Azolla #microbiome #CCGP paper! With @tribblelab.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social and @fernway.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very excited to introduce the newest genus of wild sunflowers, a tiny desert annual covered in dense wool and heads with just two small ray florets. Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net

A moss petting zoo? How cool! www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

Next Thursday! Jesus Martinez-Gomez February 13th, 2025 7-8 pm PT “The genetic basis of variable ultraviolet pigmentation in yellow monkey flowers (Erythrante sect. Simiola)" Zoom link at calbotsoc.org/botany-speak... #PlantScience #evobio

Please consider non-profit society journals when you choose a journal for submitting your work AND for reviewing/editing.

Announcing the 30th CalBotSoc Graduate Student Symposium on April 5, 2025 at Cal Poly SLO! A great opportunity for grads and undergrads to present research in a friendly setting. Plus, field trips to local wildflower displays!! Registration and info at calbotsoc.org/graduate-stu...

New #liverwort #microbiome preprint just dropped! With @ixchelgr.bsky.social Check out our work using the #CCGP data! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

La semana pasada, se llevó a cabo el taller filo-bayes en la UNAM ¡Chequen nuestros materiales en Español ixchelgzlzr.github.io/filo_bayes_U...! Un placer trabajar con Rosana Zenil-Ferguson y Santiago Ramírez Barahona! ¡Gracias al talentoso grupo de estudiantes!

Well for my first official post here I'm excited to say that the first chapter of my dissertation on Glyptotherium migration during GABI is out today in Ecography. Huge thanks to @mirantakouvari.bsky.social at @graphicssci.bsky.social who helped with this figure! doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Día 2 de nuestro taller de filogenética bayesiana en RevBayes en la UNAM!!! 100% en español!!!!

I am super excited and proud to share the paper of my two undergraduate students, where we look at how a liverwort adapted to drylands uses its scales for as sunscreen!! bioone.org/journals/mad...

New HiSSE model just dropped! We show that gains and losses of single chromosomes sometimes (but not always!) increases speciation in sedges. Plant evolution is complex and messy, but advances in macroevolutionary models are slowly allowing us to catch up.

I am very excited to share this pre-print where we looked at the phylo-diversity patterns of bryophytes in California. Are the conservation priority areas the same as for vascular plants? How do we maximize information for groups with few records? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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