We had to show you some more presentations from last night's poster session, but we're still sad we can't highlight them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW

Penstemon lunch at #Botany2026 @aidanwshort.bsky.social @botanist-brooke.bsky.social Liz Mays @trinitydepatie.bsky.social @t-shy.bsky.social Josh Stevens @botanicalbecks.bsky.social

Big #Botany2026 Monday for the lab: great posters by @botanicalbecks.bsky.social and Maria Aguilar (her 1st!) and awesome talk by new Burpee postdoc @devanijolman.bsky.social on her PhD work at ODU. #plantpeopleFTW

Hey #Botany2026 check out Stone Lab PhD student Sara Wuerstl’s talk this morning in the Reproductive Processes section! 9:15 Tucson C-D

Hey Botany! Come see my talk investigating whether polyploids have different patterns of flower evolution than diploids on Weds at 8:15am in San Xavier. Over 100 undergrads participated in this research! :) #PUIFTW #Botany2026 #PlantPeopleFTW

Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!

Wohoo! Yes, postdocs at #Botany2026, please come to the Postdocs in Botany affinity group on Monday from noon to 1:30pm. Arizona Grand Ballroom… @botanist-brooke.bsky.social and I will see you all there! :)

Chris Martine | Plant People FTW@martinebotany.bsky.social · 3d ago

And 9% are postdocs. That's 96 amazing peeps at #Botany2026 who could turn up for Monday's Postdocs in Botany affinity group social in the Arizona Grand Ballroom. #plantpeopleFTW

SO PUMPED for #Botany2026 !! We will be a little late to the party (not arriving until this evening) but very much looking forward to an amazing conference with all my plant buddies More on lab presentations soon!

As you're making your itinerary on the #Botany2026 app, check out some of these lab presentations!!!

At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.

On June 23 of this year, I presented my first in person presentation at a conference (#Evol2026)!

Had to move this guy the other day as it was in the line of fire for lawn care. Eastern box turtle (genus Terrapene)

It's as official as it can be: The Yoder Lab has been very lucky to receive NSF funding to develop our TARDIS method of modeling plants' flowering activity in varying environments. Watch for grad (MSci) opportunities in Fall 2027, and a postdoc position sooner than that 🌿 buff.ly/OHpbfB0

The Yoder Lab is building the TARDIS, with new support from NSF

Chaparral whitethorn, Ceanothus leucodermis, bearing flowers and fruits near the Red Box Picnic Area along the Angeles Crest Highway in early May, 2026. (Flickr, jby) Why do Joshua trees grow only …

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Penstemon whippleanus, our Whipple’s Penstemon, blooming yesterday in Dry Gulch #nativeplants 🌿

Yesterday marked the last day of my first year as a professor! Whew, what a whirlwind. But it’s been so rewarding! This is my Plant ID final—100 plant species for the students to identify. They did so well! I’m so grateful for such an amazing botany class 🌿 #iamabotanist #botanyprofessor

#Evol2026 I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027. Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: jacob.berv@charlotte.edu More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.

BIG NEWS! A new $6,000 award from the Botanical Society of America. Thanks to our generous donors from the Girolami family for establishing an endowed award to honor established researchers. #Botany #IamaBotanist #Botany2026 #Botany2027

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Introducing the Guido Girolami Award in Botany! This new BSA award honors scientists 20+ years post-PhD whose influential work reflects the mission of the BSA. Awardees receive a $6,000 award & present a lecture at the Botany Conference. Nominations open early 2027. botany.org/home/awards/...

Probably a bit late, but if anyone in Cleveland for #Evol2026 has some free time, the Cleveland museum of art (open until 9PM tonight; 10am-5PM tomorrow) is FREE and has a ton of exquisite and culturally significant works of art! Here’s just one example. There were 4 Van Goghs on the other wall

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

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

ADA leaders were forcibly removed from their own meeting for sharing copies of an ADA OpEd critical of Jay Bhattacharya. Thanks to you it's now got >125,000 views. As CDC interim director, Jay also blocked publication of this paper because it showed that COVID vaccines work. You know what to do.

Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults

This case-control study estimates vaccine effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines among adults with COVID-19–associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and COVID-19–associated hosp...

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The academic hiring system is simply not designed for candidates like me. It privileges a kind of performative intellectualism—the ability to stand at a whiteboard and extemporize about science as if you were some kind of 19th-century naturalist 😂 😂 😂 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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If you’re in Cleveland for #Evolution26 RUN don’t walk to @jillmlove.bsky.social ‘s talk on the genomic basis of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in Mimulus laciniatius!!!! Tomorrow at 5:15pm!!! #Mimuluspropaganda

Jill M. Love, PhD 🏳️‍🌈@jillmlove.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And if you’re going to Evolution, come to my talk to hear about this project’s equally cool (but less finished 🤫) genomic side! “Linking a genomic locus for leaf shape plasticity to natural selection in the wild” - Monday, June 22 @ 5:15 PM - Ecological Genetics II - Room 24

Having a nice time hanging out at the #Evol2026 meeting in Cleveland Strange sense of calm being just an attendee… get to focus more on all the great talks!

The lab is en route to #Evol2026! We’ve got several talks:

Minibwa is a hybrid of bwa-mem and minimap2 and the successor of bwa-mem for short-read mapping. ~4X/2.5X as fast as bwa-mem/bwa-mem2 for WGS reads at comparable accuracy. Native support of directional bisulfite-seq. Applicable to long reads. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2606.15357

Scientific journal editor here: If you're invited to peer review an article and you can't do it, please just click "no." That tells me "this person can't do it, I should invite someone else." Otherwise the system waits 3 weeks to tell me that you didn't respond and I should invite someone else.

The article is good because it points out may of the ways in which the Trump administration is destroying science in the USA But it doesn’t go far enough. We need to do MORE than call our representatives. What we need is to organize together to further amplify this message to the world

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Here's the article. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Multiple positions available: ​ Postdoc PhD students

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