Leaf size is an important trait shaping species distributions globally. We looked at how climate and evolutionary history influence leaf size in conifers! Spoiler: lots of evolutionary conservatism! Check out our paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As we gear up for #botany2026, we are looking for judges for the student presentations in the Physiology and Ecophysiology section. If you will be at the meeting and are willing to judge a few posters and talks, please contact: Brian Maricle [email protected] #BSA #BSAEcophys

It was an amazing week hosting Wray Jones and Kyra Dimitropolis at @wakeforest.bsky.social. They visited my lab to dive into the math, theory, and measurement of plant hydraulics to support their graduate work. 🌿💧📈 #WakeBotany #PlantHydraulics #ferns #cycads

Excited to share that I will be joining Florida State University as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2027! I’m thrilled to build my lab at FSU in the Ecology & Evolution Division within the Department of Biological Science — stay tuned! A huge thank you to my village for all the support!

Someone in the news departments of @nature.com or @science.org needs to take a look at this--its a huge scandal from the scientific supplier that has become a monopoly

#TansleyReview: Carbon uptake, storage, and allocation patterns contribute to blurring of annual 14C signals in tree rings Hessl et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Anyone ever carried a Licor into the US as personal baggage on an airline? If so, any recommendations?

Drought-induced delays in stem hydraulic development shape gas exchange and growth recovery in Douglas fir (Franklin Alongi , Timo Knüver , Scott A M McAdam , Yanick Ziegler , Andreas Gast , Nadine K Ruehr) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

📢Check out our latest blog where PhD student Astrid Ode tests a key prediction from eco-evolutionary optimality (EEO) theory: that plant traits respond to environmental change in a coordinated way to maintain efficient resource use. @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/co...

Get your abstracts in!

BSA President Dr. Ken Cameron has a special message for you this International Plant Appreciation Day! 🌿 youtube.com/shorts/lTWrn... Watch as he shares why PlantingScience means so much to our community and how your support can help keep it growing. Donate here:

🌿 This International Plant Appreciation Day, we are proud to celebrate 20 years of #PlantingScience. With recent NSF funding changes, PlantingScience needs our support to continue its work. We hope you will consider making a donation to PlantingScience today: crm.botany.org/makeadonation #IPAD2026

PlantingScience has inspired nearly 40,000 young scientists over 20 years, but it needs our help to continue. 🌿 Your support means more than ever. Please consider donating to PlantingScience today: crm.botany.org/makeadonation 🌿 #IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #FutureBotanists #STEM

Here are the winners of the first annual Great Botany Bake Off! Students baked their best recipes and provided fun facts about all the plant ingredients! Winners were selected by vibes. #WakeBotany #botany #plantscience @wakeforest.bsky.social @wfubiology.bsky.social

Happy Monday! Remember the deadline for #botany2026 abstracts is coming up. #bsaecophys is also hosting a colloquium on non-foliar gas exchange and a workshop on measuring gas exchange on unusual materials. See the links below! tinyurl.com/BSAecophysCo... tinyurl.com/BSAecophysWo...

If we want to conserve evolutionary history, we need to think about this: change the phylogenetic methods, and you change the conservation outcomes. New paper led by honours student Mina Kearns, with @alexskeels.bsky.social & @keaghanjames.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy Monday! Remember the deadline for #botany2026 abstracts is coming up. #bsaecophys is also hosting a colloquium on non-foliar gas exchange and a workshop on measuring gas exchange on unusual materials. See the links below! tinyurl.com/BSAecophysCo... tinyurl.com/BSAecophysWo...

Happy Tenth Birthday to the LI-6800! We got you a present. www.licor.com/products/pho...

#PlantJob Are you looking for a place to start your independent group and develop all the amazing ideas you have in mind?, consider this to join us @cragenomica.bsky.social www.cragenomica.es/events/sympo...

🌳💧 RESEARCH 💧🌳 Older, field-grown stems of poplars are more vulnerable to drought than leaves – Rimer et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 Scott McAdam

Wow, this is the most intriguing title I've seen this year. It's an interesting paper too!

Abstracts for #Botany2026 🍃 are due on April 13th! If you work on gas exchange (CO2, H2O), carbon dynamics (photo., NSCs), and water relations 💧on organs different from LEAVEs, submit your abstract to the Non-foliar Gas Exchange Colloquium @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/progr...

We know it might seem early, but deadling for abstracts submissions for #Botany2026 are April 13th! Be sure to visit botanyconference.org for more details on the conference! @botsocamerica.bsky.social

It’s that time of year again 🌿✨ Registration for #Botany2026 is OPEN! @botsocamerica.bsky.social Time to start planning talks and reconnecting with colleagues. Who’s going? 🌱

🌎🌐🍁Exciting experiment completed! 🌱 Our lab helped MS student Daniel Wehner wrap up a greenhouse study on how arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum from understory plants may aid sugar maple seedling establishment in high-elevation ectomycorrhizal forests under climate warming. Stay tuned for results!

New BIEN article out! This one digs in to the details of the BIEN #plant database, but importantly, also announces that BIEN is now #CC-BY (see the SI for details on that)! doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

“If O’Neill is confirmed as NSF’s director, the Trump administration will further tighten its control over an agency created by Congress to be independent in its work to advance science.” UCS’s Julian Reyes explains why the Senate should work to block this nomination:

A new paper about optical dendrometry from @profchoat.bsky.social in the Journal of plant hydraulics jplanthydro.org/article/view...

Why are we still spending tens of thousands of $$$ on APC for non-society journals like Nature? Wouldn’t that money be better spent at society journals at least? We are doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to participate in this madness. You don’t need a paper in these journals to succeed.

Exciting position at The School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University. We are looking for an Associate Lecturer in Plant Ecology. A great opportunity to teach, mentor students and contribute to plant ecology research on the Wallumattagal Campus in Sydney.

Listen to the wonderful Laura from @creaf.cat and @uab.cat to hear about her fascinating research and her passion for forests🍃 #trees #climatechange #scicomm

🚨Awards Alert 🚨 Its award season here at SSB! First up: Graduate Student Research Awards. Due March 20, these awards are for collecting data or otherwise enhancing your dissertation. Open to graduate student society members Apply here: www.systbio.org/graduate-stu...

The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.

Nominations are open for the 2026 BSA Young Botanist Awards! 🌿 Recognize an outstanding graduating senior in botanical science and introduce them to the global BSA community. Deadline: April 1, 2026. For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAStudentAwards

Sad to read of the death of Steve Long who contributed a huge amount to #plantscience

#AppsPlantSci and #AJB are accepting proposals for joint special issues highlighting new resources & advances resulting from the #GoFlag project: papers that present research advances, methodological innovations, and resources. Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2026. More details: bit.ly/49JPtDe

Here is a working Starter Pack for Plant Ecophysiologists! Please let us know if you want to be added to this list in a comment or DM. #botany #plantecophys #PhysFam go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Come work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions. unbc.njoyn.com/CL/xweb/xweb... 🧪🌱 #botany

PhD fellowship in Conservation Genetics, Basel jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... The project aims to verify how well reported dynamics of decline in rare plant species align with inferred trajectories of effective population size. #PlantSciJobs

Today at @sicb.bsky.social, @wile-phylote.bsky.social told us bulbs were the worms from tremors so I had to do a quick lunch doodle (seriously neat talk thought)

✨ PhD opportunity studying drought and heatwave effects on threatened plants ✨🔥 Funded by an ARC DECRA awarded to the amazing Dr Ilaíne Matos and co-supervised by Dr Sami Rifai and me! Limited by the character limit here, so please see the attached flyer for all the details - please share widely!

The #BSASwag store opened Friday—and WOW. 💚 Thanks to our amazing community, 70+ items have already been purchased. Don't miss this limited-time opportunity for fun science-forward Stranger Plants shirts, cozy #IamaBotanist beanies, and classic BSA logo gear. 🌱 www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-wi...

🔥job opportunity! #botany #plantconservation

Sounds like a great opportunity for botanists working in seed-free plants!

The Veiled Lady (Phallus indusiatus) releases volatiles that attract insects; as they feed, they pick up spores and redistribute them across decomposing substrates, enhancing both spore dispersal and nutrient cycling in forest litter. Photo credit: @ckrieg.bsky.social #WakeBotany #botany #fungi

Don’t get a boring job. Get a fun job. Be a botanist. #botany #WakeBotany

Join us at the University of Central Florida! 🍊🚀🌴 We’re seeking an Assistant Professor of Plant Physiology! We’ve got growth chambers, hoop houses, greenhouse space, an arboretum, and students chomping at the bit for more plant courses! #PlantPeopleFTW #IAmABotanist jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...

Welcome Dr. Brian Maricle, our new Membership Chair for the BSA Ecophysiology Section! 🌿 An Associate Professor of Biology at Saginaw Valley State University, Brian studies how plants adapt to drought, salinity, and flooding. He earned his Ph.D. from Washington State University. #bsaecophys #BSA