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

#Botany2025 Come to the Disabled in Botany and Allies mixer happening tomorrow at 4PM in Mesquite H!

Matching the fit to the figures

Up first is @brythebotanist.bsky.social

Beautiful visual and spoken poetic presentation by Mayra Concepcion on disability, building community, and gardening. #Botany2025

@plantpollinator.bsky.social gives voice to the frustration of working in field sciences as a disabled person. Biggest challenges: assumptions & attrition from persistent exclusion, not disability itself. #Botany2025 (Also a quick preview of cool orchid work: see more on that at tomorrow 9:15AM.)

What plant species are best represented in open educational resources? @brythebotanist.bsky.social reveals it's Arabidopsis thaliana, Zea mays, Brassica oleracea, B. rapa, and Lespedeza. #Botany2025 #PlantAwarenessDisparity

Disabled in Botany symposium starting out with SO MANY amazing resources for open educational resources (OER) presented by @brythebotanist.bsky.social #Botany2025

@brythebotanist.bsky.social points out that the geosciences are doing a good job adapting lessons to take advantage of rocks and minerals accessible to all students on campus. Botanists should follow their lead to lower physical access barriers. #Botany2025 #DisabledInSTEM

Felt this was symbolic of me

#Botany2025 here we come!!! 💖

Folks we made it. Happy Botany2025 everyone!

This is going to be me tomorrow omg I’m so ready

Botany 2025 Symposium talk FINISHED 😮‍💨

Speaking of #Botany2025 and #monkeyflowers/#Mimulus/#Erythranthe/#Diplacus, I've put together my usual list of talks and posters that feature our favorite group of species! Feel free to peruse here and get in touch if I've somehow missed you and I'll add you in! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So excited for Botany! See everyone in Palm Springs this weekend 😄

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8

I'll be joining the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University in Mid August as an Assistant Professor. cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/

I love watching @lajeunesselab.bsky.social talk about meta-analysis - so inspiring. At ESMARConf2025 he explores teaching meta-analysis in a world with AI resources to help students youtu.be/vOVhHnI2Ylc?... @eshackathon.bsky.social

Our work on re-engineering soybean floral traits to attract bee pollinators is up on BioRxiv! Shout-out to first author, Dr. Nicole Szeluga, who led this project and the tremendous team of scientists at the Danforth Center, UC-Davis, and the JIC, who made the project possible + funders: FFAR & USB

bear corn, a native Orobanchaceae, is a non-photosynthetic #parasitic #plant, #flowering now in #Ithaca forests (parasitic on roots of beaches and oaks)

We're excited to share PlantCAD browser tracks: a new, unpublished dataset integrating AI techniques for plant genome analysis. Explore it here: github.com/andorfc/Plan... We welcome the community's feedback and innovative use cases for this data!

You know Aloe vera, and you may have put some on your sunburn last weekend. But what about the other 594 species of Aloe? Read about one of the most diverse succulent plant groups in the world, and how they evolved in @annbot.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/aob/... (Advanced Access)

Found out today my agave research was cited in another agave paper 🥲🥲🥲🥲 DAY MADE 🍾

NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Work on things you really care about, not just the latest trend." Meet Prof. Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social, the evolutionary biologist uncovering the secrets of plant-pollinator relationships. wp.me/pdRZhH-lXk #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

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