How Seeds Travelled Through Plant History www.botany.one/how-seeds-tr... From fruit-eating animals to wind and self-launching seeds, flowering plants have changed their travel strategies as climates shifted over millions of years. #Botany #PlantScience

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt

Four postdoc positions - Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology (BCI EDGE)integrating population & evolutionary genomics, community ecology, metabolomics, & long-term forest dynamics to investigate the evolutionary processes maintaining tropical forest diversity stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... 🧪 🌐 🌾

📣 We're recruiting for an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌿 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Michelle Obama: "Barack and I have always said this Center is grounded in our stories, but it has never been about us. It's never been for us." "A lasting legacy isn't an award or a name on a building or the number of zeroes in a bank account, but the difference we make in one another's lives."

🚨Proposed OMB rule could let political appointees override peer review, cancel grants mid-project, ban certain research topics, restrict publishing and more.🚨 Stand up for science! Learn more and use our resources to submit a public comment today ⬇️ agu.quorum.us/campaign/163...

outstanding 👏 ‘Every box has been opened’: London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐

🌳Global analysis of 556 tree populations shows mast-seeding periods cluster tightly at 2–3 years. Climate plays only a weak, species-specific role—suggesting strong evolutionary constraints on reproductive timing 👉️ buff.ly/zF8sps1

Another handful of sand in the gears: Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient. This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Contrasting responses of pollen and fruit to whole-tree heating in two tropical savannah species doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

relevant 👇

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

I just learned that OMB is required to respond to every comment on the anti-peer-review rule. So that means our comments really matter, at the very least by gumming up the gears. Send your comment today.

White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

A judge has temporarily blocked the National Science Foundation from dismantling a globally significant weather and climate research center in Colorado.

First time going to #Botany2026? Don't miss this #Botany360 student-led discussion on how to make the most of the conference! Designed for students, but open for everyone. 🌿 June 10 | 1–2 PM EST Led by BSA Student Reps Benjamin Ajayi & Sara Pedraza Learn more here: www.botany.org/calendar/dis...

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

Breaking News from @theathletic.com: Rising Brazilian teenager João Fonseca knocked Novak Djokovic out of the French Open in a five-set thriller, coming from two sets down to win. Djokovic’s hopes of a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam are over — for now. nyti.ms/4vjClwB

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

what a story! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/s...

this 🧵 explains how doing Science in US may disappear…

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

👇 GDP and beyond: why treating nature as capital cannot save the planet www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meanwhile, more on the shitweaselry within the NSF. For unexplained reasons they've put all grants to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Duke on hold.

Just hit #DuckDuckGo. No AI results 😉

Hi #dendrometer community! 🌳 The #GlobalDendrometerNetwork website is live: globaldendro.org 📣Join our meeting on 29 May, 10:00 CEST to discuss the global metadata call, website & updates. 📧No invite but want to attend? ☎️Get in touch! @globaldendro.bsky.social #forestmonitoring

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I’ve seen Ebola up close. I got it while treating patients in West Africa in 2014,” Craig Spencer writes in a guest essay. “I know how destructive the disease can be — and how unprepared we are for its return.”

Key human defenses against pathogens were forged billions of years ago in microbial battles with viruses. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/3RTyCap

No. Just no. There are simply no toxic pollutants that the Trump administration doesn't love. All environmental regulations protecting public health are being destroyed. "EPA wants to repeal limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking #water" www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Decolonial science in the Amazon demands active and equitable seats at the table (by Deliane Penha) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"2024 global temperature record is consistent with model-predicted warming" | Our new article in @pnas.org (open access): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Happy 100th birthday to the living legend and national treasure that is Sir David Attenborough. Few figures alive have done as much for nature and conservation as Sir David, and we've been very lucky to work with him over the years. #DavidAttenborough #Attenborough100 #Nature #PlanetEarth

🇧🇷 ⚽️ sensacional!!!’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj7u...

Happy Birthday, Sir 🎉🎈 bbc.com/news/article...

🏆 ESA is proud to announce its 2026 award recipients, honoring outstanding contributions to ecology through research, teaching, mentorship, sustainability, and service Learn more about the award recipients in our full announcement: https://ow.ly/WYZX50YVyJI

‘The job description is changing’: mathematician Terence Tao on the rise of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another giant in the global environmental community has passed away. RIP Peter Raven. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete...

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

The University of Hawaiʻi has been designated by NOAA as the Pacific Reef Research Coordination Institute to support coral reef conservation in the Pacific. The institute will conduct research, collaborate with various stakeholders, and implement NOAA’s coral reef strategies. 🌊

🔍 Take-home: genomic data are reshaping our understanding of Neotropical biogeography—highlighting the central role of the Atlantic Forest in generating plant diversity. (7/7) 👉 doi.org/q262 #PlantScience #Biogeography #Evolution #Neotropics #Phylogenomics

The US National Science Foundation is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences go.nature.com/4vLQGTB

Happy Earth Day 🌎 (#Artemis II, NASA)

Freshly published paper led by @santiagotrueba.bsky.social on leaf water losses across vascular plants 🌳🔬🧪 The 50-fold variation in gmin across ecological groups was weakly related to phylogeny with evidence for convergent evolution in response to climate 🌡️💦 @newphyt.bsky.social

this is a-m-a-z-i-n-g !!!

Botanist/plant ecologist E. Lucy Braun is one of the most influential ecologists in North American history. + First woman President, Ecological Society of America, 1950 + Helped establish plant ecology as a rigorous academic discipline She was born #OTD in 1889. #WomenInSTEM #conservation #ecosky