🧵 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

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Drought during a key post-fire stage for recovery success filters plants with enhanced fitness under water stress in a Mediterranean obligate seeder doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

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!

#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

I must complete the required security training. To do so, I must use the learning platform. The learning platform requires signing up for the new credential system. There is a training to sign up for the new credential system.

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

🌿🧬 Trees from harsher climates show more growth‑timing flexibility. But the genes behind that plasticity aren't under selection—unlike the genes controlling the traits themselves. What does that mean for forest resilience in a warming world? 🌍🌱 #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Duke is a particularly powerful hedge fund/university. There is no reason it needs to bow to the anti-DEI bullshit except for the fact that it was always looking for an excuse to do so.

Testing fundamental hypotheses of colonization success in the ferns https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.16.719039v1

🚨 Please share: PhD opportunity 🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾 💡 Big ecological Qs 📡 Geophysical scanning 🌍 Field ecology & behaviour 📊 Big data & code with me & @geophysics-adam.bsky.social APPLY www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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

People keep asking me if I use AI to make writing easier. And I keep telling them: I do not want it to be easier. Whenever I have done any good work, it's because I either thought about it a LOT or I have inadvertently spent ten years thinking about it so it comes easy. The thinking is the point.

Just 5 days left to submit! Submissions close April 6th!! Website: lstewart22.github.io/FLOhRA/ Submission form: forms.gle/rLNHta6F3zv5... 🎨📷🌱 @creaf.cat

Elsevier costs were ~£1.7B in 2025 newsletter.journalology.com/p/elsevier-2... Compare that to arXiv 👇

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? 🌱

Apply before April 23rd to join us as Associate Professor at Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

I'm building an intro to R course to help students get up to speed on the basics. It's called 'R for Nervous Humans'. Modules 1-4 are up now. No interactivity though, for reasons. Feedback welcomed. arcaravaggi.github.io/r-for-nervou... #statistics #rstats

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...

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Comparative Evolution of Photosynthetic Light Response Curves: Approaches and Pitfalls in Phylogenetic Modeling of a Function-Valued Trait Rebekah Evelyn Davis, @plantevoecophys.bsky.social, Eric Goolsby www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

Busy week for papers in the lab! First PhD paper out for BERRI student Dan Gaudet with a method to measure kynurenine in plants. In humans the kynurenine is a primary tryptophan degradation pathway to NAD. In plants much less is known making this a great step. www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejo...

Happy to be serving as a guest editor for a special issue in Plant Science on new, unusual and non-traditional plant growth regulators. We invite original research articles and reviews addressing all aspects of non-canonical signaling molecules in plants. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🍃 BSA Teaching Section Awards are open for nominations! – Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award Deadline April 13, 2026 – Samual Noel Postlethwait Award Deadline May 1, 2026 Nominate a deserving colleague today! botany.org/home/awards.... #BSAawards #IamaBotanist #BSATeachingSection

Can anyone suggest a review of hormonal regulation of molt in birds? Particularly how it might differ between pre-juvenile, pre-basic, pre-alternate etc? @skwinnicki.bsky.social?

It's official!!!! #Botany2026 here we come!

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.

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

When I first started PhD research on genetically modified poplar I went to a co-op meeting that helped fund the research. I met a scientist who worked in private industry developing gm plants. He told me what my results would be and ended up being >90% correct. (1/4)

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

Please consider letting the BLM know that their plan to increase logging in old Oregon forests is terrible forest science:

One as Head of Plant Science at Leeds The new Plant Sciences page is now live and linked to from the FBS Research and Innovation homepage - interested in joining or collaborating? Learn about the research and opportunities by visiting this website! biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/plant-sciences

I have never been more glad that I have resisted the digitization of my classes.

We're hiring at CSUN. Vertebrate Functional Morphologist. Please apply! We still allow DEI, which I horribly need to specify. (I'm also not on the committee, but happy to answer any questions!)

Students out there, I have a PhD project cutting across biology, material science and biomedicine that requires a highly capable, diverse and brave applicant. if you think this is for you please Apply using the link below. All details in the website!! Project: eb4bm.org/project/engi...

Monocots. 🌴 Geophytes. 🪻 Mediterranean biome. 🔥 Phylogenetic diversity. 🤓 Check. It. Out. 🥳 (This project took 5+ years for various reasons. Science takes time sometimes and that’s ok!) dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....

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.

#DarwinDay is celebrating how Darwin’s scientific work, perseverance and intellectual bravery made biology the scientific field we know today, united through the concept of #evolution 🧪🐡

Enjoying a nice day at the Desert Botanical Garden before the @aaas.org meeting kicks off tonight. Such beautiful gardens! #AAASmtg

Very happy to host almost 40 folks in the Manning Herbarium today through the Bucknell Institute for Lifelong Learning. So many excellent questions and lots of genuine interest in why collections matter. #iamabotanist

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

Although the focus is "Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Biological Sciences to Strengthen and Safeguard Biotechnology Innovations"... 😅

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

🔥🔬🌲 Postdoc Opportunity at Duke! to study the drivers and impacts of post-fire forest loss in the western U.S. Position is part of the inaugural SCALES fellowship, an exciting program funding interdisciplinary research addressing key climate challenges. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31549

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

Just published! A terrific special issue in #AJB #SocietyJournal #FlowerColor

Its the first day of spring semester at Bucknell! What's blooming in the Museum collection greenhouse?! We've got orchids(That Oncidium 👀), camellia, begonia,...

Join current Student Reps for "How to Be a Successful BSA Student Rep" a Botany360 session on what the role involves, how to advocate for student voices, & how this experience builds leadership and professional skills. Wed. Jan 28, 2026 • 2–3 PM EST • Free Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n