Check out the latest news and incredible images from our members, Alexander N Schmidt-Lebuhn (CSIRO, Australian National Herbarium).

📣 The latest issue of the journal published by The International Compositae Alliance (TICA) is out! Check it out at: www.compositae.org/capitulum_04...

Very excited to share my first solo Tansley Insight. An integrated view on the hydraulics of aboveground plant meristems, and the framework of my future work as part of this community #PlantScience @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

phenotypic selection on flower thermoregulation depends on air temperature. huuuuge effort by many lab members past and present. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Plants are a big part of your favorite sci-fi and fantasy franchises. Plant biologist Molly Edwards aka @science-irl.bsky.social was on the See Jurassic Right Back To School series chatting her own plant-obsessed origins, and so much more: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Perhaps the best paper title of the year has been dropped 🧪🎤

How fast do plants actually grow? And which growth processes matter most for organ size? We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social

So excited to have been a part of this work!!!

Sign up for @laymonstera.bsky.social's free ASPT @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social webinar, "Phylogenomics and macroevolution of a florally diverse Neotropical plant clade," featuring phylogenomics, biogeography, niche & pollinator evolution! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @tropicalbotany.bsky.social

Excited to share I have defended my PhD dissertation. Thanks a bunch to colleagues and friends that helped and collaborated along this journey!

This is my kinda college hotel. My room has a coffee table book of all the plants on campus, organized phylogenetically! At Huazhong Agricultural University.

It was a real pleasure to speak with Sofie as part of the @disabledscientists.com podcast series!

Work with 4-5th graders? Check out our 'Coral Reefs & Our Changing Oceans' 3-part lesson series on OER Commons! 🪸👩‍🏫 Students build a coral reef food web, then explore how human impacts influence it through hands-on group activities! oercommons.org/courseware/l... #TEKS #NGSS #K-12 #teachersky

You can now preorder signed copies from CLASH: www.clashbooks.com/new-products...

Excited to share this work, out today in MBE! In polar fishes, we found that antifreeze protein genes expanded in copy number at low temperatures and contracted in the deep sea, highlighting a role of depth and pressure in AFP evolution. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*. Instead, they DROPPED exponentially. Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

A treat to hear from (and briefly chat with) @plantteaching.bsky.social today at the #NBIAST2025 event today

Zagrosia persica (Hausskn.) Speta Syn: Scilla persica Asparagaceae Iran April 2025 Elevation 1800m #scilla #Asparagaceae

Gawking at hawking Hummingbird hawk moth Canon R5 and Sigma 150mm SS1/2500 F8 ISO3200

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

A new Jurassic fossil from Scotland, Breugnathair elgolensis, shows a combination of snake-like jaws and teeth with a lizard-like body and limbs, providing direct evidence of diverse squamate traits early in their history. #Paleontology #Evolution #Fossils 🧪🐍🦴⚒️ Paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Okay I really actually need to spend my weekend writing.

📢Paper alert!🐝🪻 We studied flower advertising and temperature on Royal irises. Flowers heat 10-35 min faster than ambient, likely offering the pollinators a head start in the morning. @telavivuni.bsky.social @yuvalsapir.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jpe/article/...

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📢 Happening this Friday! Join us for the #Botany360 Graduate Research Fellowship Writing Panel on Oct 3, 2025 at 1 pm ET. Hear from reviewers & grad students on writing strong NSF GRFP applications + fellowship tips. Free & open to students! Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #IamaBotanist

Super excited about this review/new data preprint on aquatic plant photosynthetic methods - turns out its *hard* to measure stuff underwater! Led by awesome grad in the lab @ellliieee.bsky.social with postdoc @wickellomics.bsky.social and some brilliant people at LiCor! 💧🌿

Redonk. #iamabotanist #Apocynaceae www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

Was very excited (easy to see lol) to receive a postdoc achievement award for excellence in mentorship yesterday at the Cornell postdoc association meeting!

Pleased that the Manning #Herbarium at Bucknell University is among 400 surveyed for this new paper -- and especially to be among the 261 small collections caring for 7.6 million specimens! #iamabotanist @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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

Unexpected day at RSPB Titchwell yesterday... saw a Red-necked Phalarope (lifer for me and a rarity here!) and maybe a White-tailed Sea Eagle! First 4 photos: Wood-Pigeon on a nest (why in September, silly bird?); Syrphus sp. hoverfly; Wall Brown butterfly; Curlew Sandpipers and a Ruff for scale.

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.

The "Florédex" ✨, a pokémon-inspired vector collection of the greatest flower designs and their science is coming along nicely 🌷🧬 All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.

Iranian Astragalus Species: A world of diversity! Did you know there are over 900 Astragalus species in Iran's flora? It's a truly amazing number!

We still need >60 plant submissions for the Botany & Dragons Bestiary! Please share the flyer with your students! #iamabotanist #plantsci #ttrpg forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Convocatoria para PhD en New York Botanical Garden. Ayúdenme a compartir! Proyecto estudiando filogeografía de plantas de rio y modelos de conección de ríos luego del levantamiento del Istmo de Panama. Interesados en evolución de plantas Neotropicales💦👇 anamariabedoya.weebly.com/opportunitie... 1/2

Congratulations to all involved. Just downloaded it so I can read it on the bus ride home.

Our "Joshua tree is CAM" paper is finally out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Data collection started back in 2021, when we saw weird results in some RNAseq that made me stop and wonder if Joshua trees, long thought to be C3, were actually...CAM!

Did you see @racheljabaily.bsky.social new open educational resource "Biology of Plants" coloring textbook when you were at #Botany2025 ? No? WELL GO CHECK IT OUT: oercommons.org/courses/the-... Gorgeous illustrations by MGB Hurst 😍

#botany2025 was incredible! Thank you to all the organizers, speakers, and conference center staff! I loved seeing old seeing old friends and making new ones! I always come home inspired and renewed! See you all in Tucson in 2026!

So proud of @ca-haus.bsky.social who presented a poster at his first Botany!! #Botany2025 He’ll be applying for grad school in the Fall—drop him a message if you are recruiting new Masters students interested in flowering plant research! 🌸🌿

Terrible photos, but THAT'S MY SISTER!

Germinating ideas lightning talks are going by fast in Mesquite C! #Botany2025 don't miss them!

The BSA awarded more than $140,000 in awards (research, travel, hardship) to its membership this year!! @botsocamerica.bsky.social 💚💚

Shout out to @brythebotanist.bsky.social, @stressedbranch.bsky.social, and Caroline for facilitating discussions about disability at #Botany2025. I thought this was an obscure access need that I dealt with alone so it was amazing hearing so many other people with different disabilities chime in.

I know @brythebotanist.bsky.social is an amazing scientist and educator right!?!?!

These resources look amazing! Thank you

Come friends! Let’s have the biggest turn out yet!! #Botany2025 #PlantPeeps #DisabledInBotany