!! Wow, NPR article highlighting botanist @naomibot.bsky.social !!

e-bikes are pure joy on wheels

Fellow botanists! The first issue of Madroño for 2026 is now complete online and open access. Please use the link at the bottom to access the site. We have a new article type this issue, ‘Commentary’, as well as the annual ‘Dedication’. Please check them out. mailchi.mp/calbotsoc/ma...

Learn more about the current California Botanical Society council, and who you may likely interact with! Here is our first batch of the council! We are excited to introduce you to: Adriana - Director at Large Brianne - Outreach Coordinator & Nemophila Editor Andy - Social Media Coordinator

On April 25th, CalBotSoc will be having our 2026 Annual Banquet and Mixer! We have recently added a Student Poster Presentation to our agenda! Use the QR Code on the right to submit your poster for our upcoming Banquet. Make sure register and purchase your tickets for the Banquet and field trips!

Our current volume of Madroño is dedicated to Dr. Peggy Lee Fielder in recognition of her exceptional contributions to conservation biology, rare plant ecology, the California Natural Reserve System, and the advancement of botanical sciences. Learn more: doi.org/10.3120/0024...

We are looking for Botany Ambassadors for the California Botanical Society! This is a perfect opportunity to both expand your Botany scientific literacy, and science communication skills! If you are interested please email Brianne Palmer at [email protected] for more info

Just sent one!

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

What is meant when we discuss and talk about species? Historically, the history of species concepts goes back over 2000 years! Brent D. Mishler in Madroño discusses the importance of “getting straight about species.” DOI: doi.org/10.3120/0024... #MadronoMondays #Madrono #botany

This upcoming Thursday (3/12/26), Nancy R. Morin will host a talk on Nemacladus from 7 to 8 pm on Zoom. Nancy will discuss the many puzzles that still exist in this fascinating genus. Free, everyone welcome. Link to zoom link is here: calbotsoc.org/.../botan.......

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So excited to do some vernal pool and Sierra foothill botanizing!

1. I’m quite happy with this popular piece that Lee Dugatkin and I wrote recently. For the next two weeks it’s free to read on the American Scientist website.

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

Registration is now open! Early-bird closes April 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

This thread is sickening. But it's so important not to look away.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Out in @science.org this week: SIPS binds to a conserved region of SRK to control interspecies incompatibility in Brassicaceae. This contrasts with SRK's variable region, which is involved in self-incompatibility interactions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

Check out AJB's special issue "Paradigm shifts in flower color" a bunch of cool papers on flower coloration with a focus on non-pollinator drivers of color variation 🌸🌼🌺https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/2026/113/1

Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework? Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.

To hell with this. @nature.com has only the power we choose to give them by publishing in their profiteering journals. We can take it all away by publishing only in society journals: @newphyt.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social @jxbotany.bsky.social @annbot.bsky.social @aobp.bsky.social

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

A caveat: this survey was done by Frontiers, a garbage company with a pro-AI stance, recruiting respondents by email. I'm sure there is some self-selection of who actually opens emails from Frontiers.

Nature would do well to publish more content like this thoughtful piece from @kevinbaker.bsky.social and fewer Buzzfeed listicles gussied up as career advice "Five productivity hacks for using AI in your scientific workflow"

Nice demonstration of different pollinator species "pulling" floral morphology in different directions for optimal pollen deposition, in two South African wildflower species 🌿 buff.ly/m0f1Fp2

Our economy is a big circle jerk

Short version: Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet. Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care Trump: No Schumer: Okay

proof that evolutionary biologists can be good parents 😂

This profile is pretty much proof that Seattle stands a very good chance of soon having its most Seattle (laudatory) mayor ever And there's a bonus surprise for the evolutionary biologists in the audience www.thestranger.com/news/2025/10...

lol lmao

Spooky treat from my kid’s Halloween bag 😱@jrossibarra.bsky.social

What was the hardest part of grad school for you? Was it having a kid, the thesis defense? I told them nope, it was being the only & the first. The only Inupiaq at UW Madison for most of my years there, one of 250 Natives on a campus of over 40K, the first Native to earn a PhD in my program🧵

I heard rumors about this but devastating to see it happening.. “the PPFP faculty hiring incentive is sunsetting as of fall 2025” 💔 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

My amazing colleague Shelley Sianta (not on bsky) is looking for a tech to join her new lab at UT Austin. The position will involve lab, greenhouse, and field work to study local adaptation and speciation in plants. Please share! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc

One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Excited by this breakthrough work led by Dr. Lauren Stanley (now Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University). Lauren was able to develop for the first time floral dip/spray transformation methods in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...

Very happy to share that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina in January! My group will be working on environmental phage ecology and evolution, and I am recruiting for the upcoming year (more info below).

Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

I'll add here that MSU's Plant Biology Dept is world class, has a great chair, and is full of excellent scientists. #scijobs