I find it strange that some professors run students submissions through AI detectors. If LLMs are trained and retrained on human-written texts, doesn't that mean that any text is more likely to incorrectly flag as AI-generated (false positive)? Try some AI-detectors on your old publication, and see!

🌹Congratulations to Oluwatobi Oso of Yale University, winner of the 2025 Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology. Honorable mention: Christopher Joaquín Muñoz (The University of Texas at El Paso). botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Today is 'A Day for BSA!' Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of BSA supporting the botanical sciences! 🌱 Visit: www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025 🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference! 🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA

We’re nearly 60% of the way to our $15,000 Endowment goal! Every gift powers science, lifts up students, and drives BSA forward. Join the movement—make your impact today and help us reach the finish line! 🌿 Give now: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont... #BSAendowment #IamaBotanist

I'm glad to be this year's recipient of the Don Kaplan Dissertation Award by Botanical Society of America (BSA), the $10k that came with it is my biggest so far! @botsocamerica.bsky.social

#BulbousLab at #Botany2025!

Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California! Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!! @ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social

This is all shades of strange!!!

Are you a #botany professional who makes a comfortable living and is currently not feeling job-stressed? Tenured faculty, I'm looking at you 👀. 🧪 I dare you to meet or beat my $100 donation 💯 to keep PLANTS afloat in the face of @botsocamerica.bsky.social's grant termination!!

So pleased that @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al choose to introduce this great resource in #AppsPlantSci! Check out the press release & the paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #pteridophytes #ferns

This is such a sad news!!!!

The self-replicating cellular organization of shoot apical #meristems New #AJB research by Étienne Couturier, @paulallanos.bsky.social, Antoine Lizée, Sébastien Besson & Jacques Dumais bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience #bryophytes #lycophytes #ferns

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Here we go #Botany2025 is in full swing preparation! Checkout the Symposia and Colloquia and submit a workshop! Abstract submission opening soon. #Iamabotanist #Botany

@botsocamerica.bsky.social BSA Grad students, please respond to the original post so you can be added to the starter pack.

Vamoooosssss.......

Utricularia is one my of fav carnivorous plants. Their traps can suck in prey in less than one millisecond (!!), reaching up to 600g accelerations (!!), which is one of the fastest movements in the plants! #Utricularia #Plantsciences #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌱🌾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ69...

We have an important announcement about #Botany2025: due to unforeseen site renovations at the planned location in Tucson, the conference will have a new location---but the same dates, July 26-30, 2025! For more details, see mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

I have just created a starter pack on #biodiversity 🦠🌳🌲🦋🐸🐠🦅🦔 #redistribution aka #species #range #shifts or species on the #move #SOTM and community composition changes in response to global change drivers 🌐🌍🌎🌏 Let me know if you are interested to join the list go.bsky.app/6KqEpb9

I am planning to recruit a PhD student to begin in my lab at SUNY ESF for the Fall 2025 semester to work on projects in the area of environmental microbiology. I am unable to respond to comments/DMs here. Please email with any inquiries. Please read carefully before emailing.

#FluorescenceFriday is a banger collab from Hannah Moran (@chrmosimann.bsky.social) and Raeden Gray (@thelovelylab.bsky.social). SPIM image of a triple labeled zfish embryo. Sox17-green, sox10-magenta, pitx2-blue. Much more to come!!!

NBIO is hiring. You should come work with us. apply.interfolio.com/155882

Dying hair cells

TRY database, so useful but can be frustrating because a lot of the trait parameters are not standardized. And then there's GIFT, equally super useful but not enough information on a trait I'm looking for - leaf margin! What are y'all's go-to for resolving taxonomic synonyms in R? kewr? taxize?

Miami is a really beautiful city! The greenery is 😍

This is another level of low!!! Terrible for science and research! New Florida law blocks the hiring of students and postdocs from China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela. www.science.org/content/arti...

🌾Check out this cool new paper by Ian Gilman (formerly of Edwards lab, now a pd at MSU!) et al on using machine learning to predict CAM vs. C3 - it could even handle those pesky intermediate C3+CAM phenotypes! 🌵

Asking me to evaluate an applicant's "English speaking ability" is bullshit.

PhD students, Postdocs, and PIs on here, what are you looking forward to the most this 2024? I'll go: 2023 was quite stressful for me personally (and academically), and so I just want to go easy on myself this year. Enjoy fieldwork, collect quality and informed datasets, and enjoy my family!

The other insight is not to expect that you can slow down once you've 'made it' because the goal posts are always shifting. It has to be an active decision.

Academia is never 9 to 5!

Did you know that BSA has a FREE jobs board? Right now there are over 60 positions posted! Check it out at jobs.botany.org #BSAmembers #BotanyJobs

Inaugural Bluesky post (👋 Everyone!): The Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Dept. at Iowa State U. (my dept!) is conducting an open search at the rank of Professor for a new Dept. Chair! isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...

Petition for every methods section to come with an appendix with step by step full details of what you need to do and all possible caveats 🧪

Deadline December 15, 2023! Nominate a leading scholar in comparative development for the Kaplan Memorial Lecture! This prestigious award includes lecture, honorarium, and travel support to the Botany Conference. Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAKaplanLecture #BSAawards

My forthcoming book on oak evolution and ecology is officially in production today, University of Chicago Press, anticipated publication Fall 2024: Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life This has been years in the works. I'm really excited to share it! More to come.

I'd thought being a PhD student is hard. But after passing my candidacy last month, I feel like it's the exam pressure that made it hard. Now that I have to do fieldworks, multiple experiments, grant applications, courses auditing, and be disciplined, looks like "candidate" might actually be harder!

Help us reach our goal of 175 gift memberships & empower students & developing nations' colleagues to 🌼bloom🌼 in the BSA botanical science community! You can also donate memberships by putting an X in the recipient fields. Only 54 memberships to go! crm.botany.org

Princeton EEB and HMEI are hiring (Assistant, Associate, or Full Prof) - we are seeking a broad thinker in the area of biodiversity puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Me too..... been seeing familiar faces already! I don't feel too out of place😊

Botany 2024 Workshop Submission Deadline is November 1, 2023! Share your expertise at this vibrant conference with hands-on sessions like software demos, data analysis tutorials, botanical drawing, and more. For details, visit: botanyconference.org

The Department of Biology at Howard University is searching for a new Chair! Please share and consider applying! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37542311...