🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

I'm very excited and so grateful to receive an NSF CAREER award - we'll be testing ideas about how CAM evolves using C3+CAM intermediate species and teaching students how plant physiology and genomics can simultaneously inform our understanding of plant biodiversity. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... 1/2

From the #AppsPlantSci Phylogenetic Networks issue Ancient hybridization & #phylogenetic discordance: Exploring evolutionary complexity in #Asteraceae (Ellestad, @erikarmoore11.bsky.social @carolsiniscalchi.bsky.social @jennifermandel.bsky.social et al) doi.org/10.1002/aps3... #evolution #botany

Integrative analysis of CAM photosynthesis reveals its impact on primary metabolism in Yucca academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Revision of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification has been underway! The group is requesting community feedback until April 22nd. Here is a link to a survey to gather feedback, which includes links to the manuscript and the new classification: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's a BIG DAY! Abstracts are due and we celebration International Plant Appreciation Day! #IPAD2026 #BOTANY2026

We introduce grapp, a collection of GRG-based command-line tools that resembles PLINK2: variant and sample filtering, GWAS with covariates, PCA, and data export as native graph operations. Routine analyses can now be done easily and orders-of-magnitude faster with grapp, with minimal upfront cost.

Y'all know you have a few days left to submit an abstract for #Botany2026, right? www.botanyconference.org

6 days! #Botany2026

Yesterday's rain was a godsend as spring continues to rush forward. Here are 4 more lovlies: Andersonglossum virginianum (Wild Comfrey), Trillium catesbaei (Bashful Wakerobin), Uvularia perfoliata (Perfoliate Bellwort) & Packera aurea (Golden Ragwort) 1/2

Gantt chart? More like Cantt chart.

How do pairs of DNA loci - such as enhancers and promoters - find each other inside the nucleus? 🤔 Most models assume the random forces driving locus motion are independent in space New preprint by @janniharju.bsky.social: this assumption fails in living cells 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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...

DEADLINE IN 1 WEEK 🌿SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS🌿 #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,” led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers. More info at botany.org/home/publica... #botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience

From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci special issue "Branching out: Resolving #PlantEvolution through #Phylogenetic Networks" Introducing ghostbuster: a new tool to detect cryptic ghost lineage introgression in genomic datasets (by Forsythe et al) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany

Today's accomplishment: needed to convert HOMER motif files to MEME motif files, wrote a script to do it and put it on GitHub for everyone doing motif-y things to use! Find it here: github.com/achpardo/hom... and let me know how it works for you!

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are you a postdoc in a plant-related field such as🌿 Plant Biology 🌿 Agriculture & Crop Sciences 🌿 Ecology & Environment 🌿 Plant Pathology & Protection or 🌿 Biotechnology ? We invite you to join a community of 700+ postdoctoral researchers from around the world at www.plantpostdocs.com

Taxonomists: If you liked the old TAXACOM mailing list, we've restarted it. You can sign up, here: groups.google.com/g/taxacom Please share widely! We don't have access to the old lists. If you know any taxonomists, let them know, and pass it on. #science #academia #taxonomy

Excited to say that I am on the job market and will be looking for postdoc or job opportunities either remotely or in the Seattle, WA area. I will be finishing up my PhD in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics sometime late summer or early fall of this year. Please let me know if you know of anything!

🐻Excited that my and @littlemuseums.bsky.social 's paper on the demographic history of American black bears across the eastern range is up! While I think the phylogeography aspects are interesting, our key point is that named subspecies are unsupported. doi.org/10.64898/202...

It was great being involved in this paper. Check it out for an update on what’s going on in the world of Cyanidiophyceae biology!

📄🚨New paper from our Florida conservation team showing the positive impact of habitat restoration on biodiversity. And the coolest part- this work was done without herbicide! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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.

Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!

Florian Schimdt, PhD student in the group, is in Cabo Verde collecting Diplotaxis sp. . 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde is my favourite country on earth because of its people, culture and biodiversity. 1/3

Spatial genetic structure of #Arundinaria appalachiana (hill cane), an upland #bamboo species endemic to the southern #AppalachianMountains, USA New #AJB research by Jonathan Evans & Ashley Morris doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience #botany #conservation

🌿SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS🌿 #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,” led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers. Proposals due by 16 March 2026 More info at botany.org/home/publica... #botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience

Happy recruitment/interview season for PhD students! Recruiting students in ecology & evolutionary biology? Make sure your department's stipend is accurate in our database: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

Distribution of Gene Tree Topologies with Duplication, Loss, and Coalescence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700405v1

🌿SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS🌿 #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,” led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers. Proposals due by 16 March 2026 More info at botany.org/home/publica... #botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience

Hit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly. www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

Looking for something to do next today at #PAG33? Stop by Plant Gene Expression Analysis, starting at 4:00PM in Pacific F-G!

This is today! Go check it out and say hi to Anna!

Check out the new issue of the Plant Science Bulletin, featuring a special article by BSA Executive Director, Heather Cacanindin, with a behind-the-scenes peek at Botany conferences! PDF: botany.org/userdata/Iss... Flipbook: issuu.com/botanicalsoc... #botany #plantscience #iamabotanist #Botany2026

#PAG33 friends, go check out postdoc in the lab Anna Pardo's talk on Monday at 4:20pm in the Plant Gene Expression Analysis Workshop. She's talking about a huge time course RNA-seq dataset from a homoploid Yucca hybrid that uses both C3 + CAM photosynthesis! @annapardo-phd.bsky.social Yucca tax:

New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua 🌱🏝️🌋 w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694722

On December 5th, the official launch of the Flora Uruguaya Online took place in the Faculty of Agronomy at the Universidad de la República, Montevideo/Uruguay. Congrats!! 🌻🌸🇺🇾💻🎉 florauruguaya.org Also check out the article available in Taxon. 😊 Photos: João Iganci

My final paper from my postdoc with @trevorrife.bsky.social is out! If you've ever manually counted or sorted seeds, sampled tissue with a hole punch, filled tubes or plates with beads/seeds this is for you! dx.doi.org/10.1002/csc2... Get the designs free here: www.printables.com/model/135088...

Differential expression of flavonoid biosynthetic pathway genes drives the production of transgressive pigments in #Nicotiana section Repandae allotetraploids New #AJB research by @emccnicotiana.bsky.social, @jlandisbotany.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #polyploidy

Has your EEB/Biology department updated its minimum PhD pay for 2025-2026? Let us know here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

Want to use nQuack, but would rather use a VCF file? New tutorial on how to do just that: mlgaynor.com/nQuack/artic...

🚨 Submit proposals TODAY if you want to contribute to this special issue!!

In the context of Thanksgiving (and in general), I am always amazed by how hard the American mainstream try to erase/ignore the history of colonialism, and how the first successful harvest in the colony was followed by the eventual genocide of the Native Americans.

Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎

Spatiotemporal dynamics of CYCLOIDEA expression during early floral development in monkeyflower www.cell.com/current-biol...

New paper just posted with @rschley.bsky.social et al: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... (1/n)

⏳⏰ Less than a week left to submit proposals! Don’t miss the chance to contribute to this upcoming special issue 🌿

📣 The latest issue of the journal published by The International Compositae Alliance (TICA) is out! Check it out at: www.compositae.org/capitulum_04...