We're pleased to welcome @camilledelavaux.bsky.social to the New Phytologist Board of Advisors! Camille is the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science. www.newphytologist.org/news/new-phy...

Work led by @pbentz.bsky.social shows that two of eight dispersals of Asparagus out of Southern Africa were associated with shifts to dioecy and independently evolved XY sex determination systems.

📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in genetics, entomology, and host-microbe interactions. Please consider and share with others in need. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

The January issue of New Phytologist is online now, featuring on the cover @roseamarks.bsky.social’s article on the physiology and genomics of the resurrection plant, Myrothanus flabellifolia. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... (I’m posting here for Dr. Marks, who is currently doing field work off the grid)

My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA buff.ly/Pc1KOaC

I am looking to hire a postdoc interested in combining genetics and evolution to understand why telomeres vary so much in plants. My group has been developing Mimulus a genetic model for studying plant telomeres and we have really cool research brewing. Please check ad for detail. Deadline is 12/31.

Today is the last day to register! Please consider doing so - it is going to be a fun one! Register here: evomics.org/apply-worksh... bsky.app/profile/jlst...

Absolutely happy to share our latest publication!🥳🎉 The first manuscript of the first PhD candidate of my team! 🥹🤩 Huge congratulations to our brilliant Asif Ahmed Sami for his excellent work! ✨️ academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

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.

Analyses of a new genomes for garden asparagus and a Mediterranean basin congener reveal independent origins of dioecy and XY sex chromosomes. The work led by Phil Bentz @pbentz.bsky.social finds no overlap in the two Y-linked sex-determination genes - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... .

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

🌾The Functional traits in primary producers: recent advances and future directions special feature is open for proposals!🍄 🌲Proposal submissions close 15 September, more details here: buff.ly/e8PTkMM

#iamabotanist #herbarium #botany2025

#iamabotanist #herbarium #botany2025

On the cover of @natplants.nature.com this month: @leobaumgart.bsky.social @greensi.bsky.social @abmora.bsky.social @omalley-regulome.bsky.social et al. map binding sites for 360 TFs across 10 🌿plant🌿 species using a new multiDAP approach Here is Sharon's explainer 🧵: bsky.app/profile/gree...

Awesome research with implications for understanding of transitions between CAM and C3 modes of photosynthesis in yaccas agaves and their relatives!

hi friends, let me know if you'd like a zoom link for my defense next week!

I love this trend in polyploid research: “With new data and techniques, we can finally tackle this horribly complicated group!” “And guess what? It’s even worse than we imagined!” But seriously, excellent work!

Day 3 of popgen we talked about effective population size. No, I don't really understand it. You probably don't either. But I highly recommend this fantastic guide about how to think about Ne onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

Come be my colleague (& @jacquelyngill.bsky.social's and other great folks)! UMaine is hiring a Genetics Facilities Manager to lead the CORE eDNA and DNA Sequencing Labs. Hiring range is $75-85k (up $20k from previous round) fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Some months later, work is now published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Biodiversity Collections Task Force is a nascent effort to help collections through anticipated difficult times in the near future. We are planning a webinar series, beginning in September 2025. Let us know which topics would be most useful to you: lnkd.in/gQmyMKmN

Let congress know that pro-growth = pro-science!

Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

Check out this interview with BSA member and BSA Director at Large for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Karolina Heyduk! botany.one/2025/06/karo...

The #OpenGreenGenomes Project, supported through our #CommunityScience Program, represents 35 major evolutionary plant lineages — including M. polymorpha, or liverwort. For decades it has been used as a model for evolutionary studies. 🖥️🧬🌱 @jleebensmack.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social

Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664

Call your congressional representatives and Senators!

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

9/ 🚨🚨🚨 CALL TO ACTION Call your elective representatives to tell them how these draconian cuts will directly harm (as applicable): your state your local communities your trainees yourself See the #SaveNSF website for some inspiration: www.savensf.com/take-action

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer ssb2026.github.io

⏰ASPB Member Opportunity: Early Career Representative Application closing soon!🌱 Learn more and apply by June 1!👉https://ecr.secure-platform.com/a #PlantScience

🚨 Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (Austin, TX) is looking for a Director of Gardens and Collections 🏵️ 👩‍🌾 Required 5+ years of garden leadership & team mgmt, 👩‍🎓 Bachelor’s in horticulture, ecology, landscape architecture or related 💸 $85k+ #horticulturejobs #publicgardenjobs #nativeplantjobs

Summer fun!

Come join the vibrant plant biology research community at @universityofga.bsky.social #UGAPlantCenter - plantcenter.uga.edu

Just commented here too - can be anonymous, and standing up for NSF/NIH takes less time than standing in line at the grocery store checkout!!

If you’re a scientist who values strong institutional support, join us! The GMI is currently hiring new Group Leader positions, including a Junior Group Leader to lead an independent research group addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. Links below.

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A piece in this issue of Nature by Michael S. Lubell "Cuts to US science will take a generation to repair — leaders must speak up now" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out this initiative led by the student-run organization Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club! They are asking scientists to contribute to a letter-writing campaign about the impacts of funding cuts. (And they hosted a great "how to write an OpEd" webinar yesterday!)

AAU, APLU, ACE & 13 universities filed a lawsuit contesting the cutting of overhead cap on NSF grants #resist www.aau.edu/key-issues/l...

If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑‍🔬🧬🖥️🦑

#WithoutNSF I wouldn't be a scientist. NSF grants funded my undergrad research experiences, graduate and postdoctoral projects, and years of work in my own lab. The funding freezes and cuts we're seeing mean my students probably won't have similar opportunities lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...

NSF celebrates its 75th anniversary on May 10th. The best way we can celebrate decades of innovation and service is to let NSF remain an *independent* science agency at the forefront of global discovery.