Our department is adopting a 2-semester core course for entering grad students, 1 semester of grad evolution, 1 semester of ecology. I'd love to see what other depts are doing with equivalent EEB grad core courses, so if you teach one & are willing to share a syllabus & reading list please LMK

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

📢 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

We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

🚨 1 Week Left to Apply! 🚨 The Krieg Lab is hiring a Research Professional in Plant Ecophysiology & Evolution. 📅 Deadline: October 1, 2025 📧 Sending materials (Cover Letter, CV, References) to: kriegc[at]wfu.edu

Trump: "The MMR I think should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel."

Creeping on the ground everywhere is #Banksia dallanneyi, a small prostrate shrub with subterranean stems! It’s found from Geraldton to Albany! Gotta love the prostrate Banksias they are all soo odd!

The final day of the #GoBelowground course on plant belowground #traits consisted of students´ miniprojects on #rooting depth, #bud bank, plant #age structure, fine #root traits and #clonal growth organs. See you next year! Thanks @czechacademy.bsky.social and @ibotcz.bsky.social for the support

so this h1b thing is not even an executive order but a presidential proclamation, and should "not have the force and effect of law" (as per the library of Congress) but that won't make any difference because we seem to be completely resigned to be living in a dictatorship, yes?

there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs. no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

IAPT Webinar Series: Sharing taxonomic data with biodiversity and nomenclature databases! Join us on October 22nd to celebrate the International Day of Climate Action and World Sustainability Day! 🪸🍄🌸🎉 @barbarathiers.bsky.social @pjimmej.bsky.social @isabellarridon.bsky.social

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Oklahoma Republican Files Bill to Mandate Every Public University in State Erect a ‘Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza’

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🌱📚 Love plants and books? The Plant Science Bulletin is looking for book reviewers. There are a few books that may interest our followers! Visit here for more info: botany.org/home/publica... . . . #Botany #bsa #PlantScience #BookReview #PlantScienceBulletin

🎉 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

attending to #GoBelowground this week! meeting so many nice people and already learned so much within these two days. excited for the rest of the week 🤩

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

The government is preparing a massive censorship regime where all broadcasts must be regime-approved.

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

I am recruiting MS students to join my research group at New Mexico State University starting Fall of 2026! Any students interested in late Cretaceous-early Paleogene fossil plants, terrestrial paleoclimate, Earth surface processes, or magnetostratigraphy, please reach out! www.andrewgflynn.com

🌸 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

From the International Journal of Plant Sciences, this From the Archives article reflects on past scholarship examining how plants adapt to changing resource availabilities and levels of environmental stress. Read it for FREE here: ow.ly/yEZQ50WVnxJ @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

Science: only when you write up the manuscript, you realize what you should have done.

🌻 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

Our paper (with @sreinales.bsky.social) finally out today in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. It feels like a birthday present 🤪 academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

I still can't get over how pointless it feels to be writing grant proposal these days.

Get off Twitter NOW. Like literally right now. Delete it from your devices.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

The origin and diversification of Amaryllidaceae: A phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40936225/

#University of #Nebraska to eliminate multiple programs as part of $27.5 million budget cut #AcademicSky www.dailynebraskan.com/news/breakin... and budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-bud...

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

I'm no great fan of roses, but I have fallen for swamp rose, here photographed in Ridges Sanctuary, Door Co., WI. Extravagant sepals; no-nonsense, utterly confident leaflets; gland-tipped hairs speckling the surfaces of the rose hips (swollen hypanthium) and sepals. Beautiful.

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

Unreal. "Forwarding these names, a well-known practice from the McCarthy Era, may well subject a number of faculty, staff, or students to widespread surveillance—a breathtaking breach of trust, ethics, and justice." - Judith Butler, whose name was among the 160 shared with the Trump administration

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Chazz Jordan's phylogenomic analysis of cone flowers (Echinacea) just published! - doi.org/10.3389/fpls.... Chazz's findings suggests rapid diversification in the genus as ancestral populations dispersed from southeastern North America into the midwest.

Analyses of a new genomes for garden asparagus and a Mediterranean basin congener reveal independent origins of dioecy and XY sex chromosomes. The work led by Phil Bentz @pbentz.bsky.social finds no overlap in the two Y-linked sex-determination genes - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... .

Ceramic Aphid wip

🌱 Calling all mentors! The BSA Early Career Committee is bringing back the NSF GRFP Workshop. Sign up to be a mentor if you are a: ✅ Grad student who already received a GRFP or ✅ PI, postdoc, senior researcher Sign up here 👉 forms.gle/sQUwhVryYHJK... #NSFGRFP #botany

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to more than 27 years in prison after Supreme Court panel convicts him of attempting coup.

Dept of Plant Biology at UIUC hiring in any subdiscipline of Mycology and/or Plant-Fungal Interactions tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. Apply by Oct 31, 2025. For complete details including salary and benefit information, visit go.illinois.edu/PlantBiolfac...

alignments are mosaics of autocorrelated genealogies... nearby bases share ancestry until recombination alters the local tree. We derived the distributions of waiting distances for tree-change and topology-change events, extending prior single-population results to arbitrary species tree models.

super excited to share this big project with @daeaton.bsky.social out now in Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy: doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

👨‍🎓 Student research alert! 🌱 John Steinhorst's MSc work now published in @ashs-hort.bsky.social #HortScience! 🌺 Capparis sandwichiana (Maiapilo) seeds have physiological dormancy. This knowledge will help stakeholders in the conservation of this endemic Hawaiian species. doi.org/10.21273/HOR...

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.