Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Just over one week left to apply to work as a PhD student with me in one of the most beautiful ecosystems in the US!

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales @astragaler.bsky.social‬, @wile-phylote.bsky.social‬, @tribblelab.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

How to use and interpret the #adaptationinertia framework of #phylogenetic comparative methods based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to study adaptation: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Pienaar et al. 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿 DEADLINE APPROACHING Submit your proposal by Nov 30 to the #AppsPlantSci special issue: “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data” botany.org/home/publica... @yannickwoudstra.bsky.social @erikarmoore11.bsky.social @emcassey.bsky.social #genomics

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The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

New Assistant Professor Posting: @dartmouthears.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and/or Geobiology apply.interfolio.com/176517 🧪🌎

A bit of early November fall color from the front yard. Viburnum lentago, Quercus montana, Cornus ‘Stellar Pink’ and Rhus aromatica. #iamabotanist

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Don’t be RUSHing to any conclusions to quickly, this ain’t no Restionaceae but instead #Jacksonia restioides! A common leafless species that forms a tangled mass of stems that do at first glance look kinda like a rush, and what is even better is those large show flowers!

@chukwumaemma.bsky.social Research explores an approach to clarify the phylo relationship & evol history of Alectra. Using seqdata with morph, habitat & climate traits, it aims to reveal diversification, adaptation & future ranges w/implications for conservation & understanding parasitic plant evol.

@phylojennatics.bsky.social research focuses on macro and micro forces that can influence species abundance in Silene. She is using herbarium specimen data to build a genus phylogeny. Jenna successfully extracted DNA from a specimen from 1892!

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

My (most ever?) convoluted #pumpkin. Deets in the alt-text.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

My amazing colleague Shelley Sianta (not on bsky) is looking for a tech to join her new lab at UT Austin. The position will involve lab, greenhouse, and field work to study local adaptation and speciation in plants. Please share! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

🔥🌱 The new #AJB Special Issue, “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches," is now online! 🌱🔥 This issue features studies from evolutionary, ecological, organismal, physiological, fire management & conservation perspectives. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...

The deadline to apply to the Assistant Curator in Mycology or Cryptogamic Botany position we are advertising at NBYG is THIS Friday! Happy to chat about my experience at NYBG and the cool science going on here. Come be our colleague!! jobs.jobvite.com/nybg/job/o8I...

👻 With Halloween just around the corner, we asked some members of our BTI community what would really scare them in a haunted house 🎃😱

I am humbly asking all major media outlets not to abet or normalize the anti-constitutional designs of the current American President.

#Fire avoidance & long-term population decline in the endangered Florida ground #lichen #Cladonia perforata within a pyrogenic habitat New #AJB research by @sterlingherron.bsky.social, Katherine Charton, Sarah Haller Crate, Stacy Smith, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

It may have wings but it can’t fly (the quail I spooked accidently near by did tho…) this is the winged stemmed Dampiera, #Dampiera alata. It’s a wide ranging southwest species found growing in a variety of habitats, this one growing on a hillslope on lateritic soils.

not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

More images from @pacifiplankton.bsky.social this time of hornwort spores! These start off as a tetrad and break apart. Thinking these belong to Paraphymatoceros pearsonii, also growing on the Stanford campus. @diatomsattack.bsky.social @sfmicrosociety.org

New preprint alert! 🚨 “Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Mesquite 4.02 update released! It fixes a few bugs and adds Codon Alignment and various other improvements. Also, much faster with genomics files with 1000s of loci. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social

Paragraph h requires UCLA to prohibit anonymous protest and demand university IDs and mask removal. "Individuals who fail to comply with these policies will be subject to discipline, being escorted off campus, detained for trespass and referred for prosecution."

Wait, this agreement requires *UCLA* to pay A BILLION DOLLARS TO DONALD TRUMP??? (I mean, yes, technically the "United States" but it's the United States that's supposed to be paying UCLA with all the grants that Trump froze!!!)

The Department of Defense has accepted a $130 million donation from a "friend" of President Trump — but the agency refuses to say who it is

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

Come join us in Knoxville! The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.). Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis. Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)! Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Polyploidization in diatoms accelerates adaptation to warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

The new issue of #AppsPlantSci is online! Highlights include an approach to improve DNA #metabarcoding accuracy, new bait sets for #Amaranthaceae & the Astragalean clade, and a PCR assay to detect toxic #Digitalis species in food products. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany

Welp. I had been using Spotify exclusively since 2011, but running ads for ICE was the last straw. I have known I need to cancel for a while, but I was dragging my feet. That's it man. Fuck spotify. Just cancelled my subscription.

Large-scale #hornwort plastomes unlock RNA editing, new species, and diversification history. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Xu et al. @WileyPlantSci

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share! Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort! We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

New on the Belowground blog: To understand plant resilience to fire, look belowground plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/t...

Still fascinated with #webR and its potential for teaching stats Here students can play (even from their phones) and find out themselves how the p-value depends on sample size pakillo.github.io/LM-GLM-GLMM-... #rstats