Well, fuck… maybe the lead we got as kids will stop the virus

“The researchers noted that the parenting penalty was more pronounced among mothers who were trained in departments without women in senior positions, highlighting the importance of female mentors.”

Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829... We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!

This is something I’ll repost pretty much regardless of context

This week's featured Florida natives: trees. This is part of an undergraduate project on public opinion of native plants. We know you love Florida natives, so why not contribute to this important research? Survey: buff.ly/9J7sZAL

Is Your Child Suffering from Brain Rot or Quoting Finnegans Wake? [SATIRE] www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-...

Really cool!

#TeamPapyrus!!!!! #2026MMM

#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!

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion). Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

Hey Botanical Science Undergrads, the PLANTS Grant deadline is coming up!! This award covers Botany 2026 travel, lodging, meals, mentorship, a conference field trip & a complimentary 3-year BSA membership. Deadline: March 15, 2026 For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/...

🌿 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!

Moss (Physcomitrium patens) protoplasts (wallless cells) transformed with chloroplast envelope protein tagged with mGFP (green). The chlorophyll autofluorescence is in magenta. The protrusions of the chloroplast envelope are called stromules. #microscopymonday, #plantcells, #plantmicroscopy, #moss

The global oil market is integrated. Changes to supply or demand in one place cause price effects that ripple around the 🌎. But did you know this is true for non-branded bulk food products like grains & vegetable oils? Below are export prices of maize (corn) from the US, the EU, & the Black Sea.

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

Cool work on Marchantia development

We are offering a fully funded two-year postdoctoral position focused on sex chromosome evolution and speciation in the *Jaera albifrons* species complex. Please find the advertisement attached. We welcome applications from interested candidates. Join us :-)

Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am! We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal. His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!

I'll save everyone the click, it's just this chart:

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

Beautiful work on moss morphology and development

Florida’s population grew last year, over 196k, but ~88% came from abroad.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

This is a great thread on feeding yourself

Reposting again because according to Reddit threads, another round of RWR emails went out today.

Prob 20% of my feed used to be academics stressed about writing, but 100% of them would endorse this sentiment.

They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*. If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE

“At NSF, the net reduction of 205 STEM Ph.D.s between 1 January and 30 November constituted 40% of its total pre-Trump Ph.D. workforce of 517, by far the largest percentage at any agency. STEM Ph.D.s also make up a larger percentage of the total workforce at NSF than at any other agency…”.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

Come work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions. unbc.njoyn.com/CL/xweb/xweb... 🧪🌱 #botany

Applications for 2026 Botany Travel Awards to support the resident study of collections in the United States National Herbarium are due on 15 February. This year, awards will be for six weeks, with a stipend of $6,000! For more information, please visit: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

This whole thread on the enormous influence of the wellness industry is eye opening, but the links to eugenics really struck a chord with me

Read more about this story on Botany One: botany.one/2026/01/we-h... 5/6

Cool thread on the early evolution of land plant vascular tissue

You can be forgiven when you overlook moss as a clue to solve a crime. Over the last 150 years researchers found only elven in the scientific literature reported cases. But these tiny plants can give you important clues about where somebody or somewhat has been. 🧵1/5 Image credit: Field Museum

I scrolled straight to the end to find Florida

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

Hector and Harold enjoying some Christmas Eve grapes and lettuce

There are some magic little lands out there in the world.

This exercise has some great questions to ask students in class that expose some very common misconceptions

This is a pretty digestible assessment of where EVs are great and their future in the US

Great thread on ret-conning obamas energy strategy and data on fossil fuel economics over the past two decades

The one that works for me: - a million seconds is ~11.5 days - a billion seconds is ~31.7 years - a trillion seconds is ~31,700 years Big difference

Friends, I hardly ever get to post this… Bryophyte faculty job!!! botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

everything about this image is a marvel.

UF Biology is searching for an Asst Prof in Evolution, Ecology of Infectious Disease - spread the word! @ufresearch.bsky.social @ufgeog.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

🌍 Today Paraguay celebrates Virgin of Caacupé Day ! 🇺🇸 Celebrating the Virgin of Caacupé Day in Paraguay. 🌐 Feliz Día de la Virgen de Caacupé en Paraguay. #PublicHoliday #GlobalCulture #SwiftPassage

Collaboration request: Resources for Inclusive Evolution Education Apply: tinyurl.com/RIE2-apply Info: tinyurl.com/RIE2-info US/Canada instructors of undergrad biology/evolution are invited to participate in a study to understand the impacts of inclusive evolutionary biology educational materials.