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
Josh Felton
@botanyballer.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the Specht lab @Cornell BSA student representative 2023-2025 Lover of bromeliads, genomics, reproductive biology and scicomm!
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!
Better late than never to compile the #botany2026 talks from research done in the #LagoLab! Check out talks by @laufran.bsky.social, Aislinn Mumford, and @evoyeyo.bsky.social tomorrow, and @laymonstera.bsky.social on Tuesday!
Find myself and the rest of the Specht lab at Botany 2026!! #PlantPeopleFTW #Botany2026 @botanyballer.bsky.social @brythebotanist.bsky.social @arayabelle.bsky.social @jlandisbotany.bsky.social @spechtlab.bsky.social
I won’t be at #Botany2026 but for those interested in bryophyte phylogenetics or sex chromosomes check out Seyeon Kim’s talk at 9:30a Monday in Colloquia 1 - Beyond Phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
UVfinder: a tool to extract bryophyte sex-linked gene copies from the GoFlag408 probe set
Premise Target enrichment sequencing using probe sets like GoFlag 408 has revolutionized phylogenetics, yet recent genomic data indicate that some probes may be sex-linked, potentially introducing top...
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Hey. You. Presenter at #Botany2026. Let's use the mic this week, yes?! Yes!
When at #botany2026 you have to botanize! Twas nice to get out on a sunrise hike with some Marx lab mates
Thanks for the shoutout! 🎉 It’s always a pleasure connecting with you. If you’re at #Botany2026, don’t be shy—come say hello! We’d love to hear about your research, career goals, or simply chat about all things plants. 🌿 What are you most excited about at this year’s meeting?
Josh Felton@botanyballer.bsky.social · 4d agoAlways fun catching up with student reps @ajayibenmi.bsky.social and Sara!! Make sure to say hi if you run into them at #botany2026
Always fun catching up with student reps @ajayibenmi.bsky.social and Sara!! Make sure to say hi if you run into them at #botany2026
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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As we all eagerly (anxiously?) await NSF's release of the 2026 GRFP solicitation, please consider signing up as a mentor for BSA's GRFP workshop. We especially need more senior mentors (PIs, postdocs, and research scientists)!
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 11mo agoMentors needed for BSA’s GRFP Workshop! 🌱 The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants. Learn how you can help! mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
The "Florédex" ✨, a pokémon-inspired vector collection of the greatest flower designs and their science is coming along nicely 🌷🧬 All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.
I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!
This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Popping up early in the season #Wurmbea dioica subsp. alba can be found all around the southwest! This species has a complex variation in dioecy where populations here show both unisex flowers and bisexual flowers, this can be seen in the photos below of 3 variations
Thank you ben ❤️ it has been a blast working with you during my tenure as student rep! #botany2025
Benjamin Ajayi@ajayibenmi.bsky.social · last yr.Huge shout-out to @botanyballer.bsky.social for his amazing service as a BSA student rep these past two years! I’m really going to miss all the moments we shared working toward a better BSA experience for students. You’ve made a lasting impact! #Botany2025
Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California! Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!! @ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
Sometimes (especially late in the conference) 5 minute talks just hit the spot! Thorough enjoying Germinating Ideas/Lightening Talks at #Botany2025 Got to see my senior undergrad Magdalyn Rowley-Lange crush her CAM talk ...and we got to see dogs hunting invasive plants!
#UpAllNightWednesday at #Botany2025 will be at Street Bar!!! The first gay bar in Palm Springs 🏳️🌈 Be ready for karaoke!! 🎤 🕺 💃🏽 ✨
Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!
What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab
What happens when a CAM species and a C3 species hybridize? Find out today in Comparative Genomics I at 10:15 (right after the coffee break)! #botany2025 #whambamcam #camgenda
I can’t believe I battled @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social on the dance floor at the #PlantBio2025 annual party 🤣
a group of people are sitting on the floor watching a couple of people dance
ALT: a group of people are sitting on the floor watching a couple of people dance
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My heart is full, my cup overflowing. Wonderful dinner out with my @coloradocollege.bsky.social Jabailylab alumni, from the classes of '19, '20, '22, '25, '26. Our currently ill '28 was greatly missed. I am so proud of these people (a second family!) and grateful to be together at #Botany2025
I'll be presenting my talk "Get Low: Evolutionary Transitions to Non-flying Mammal Pollination in Protea) at 4pm today Tuesday in Mesquite B at #Botany2025! Come learn about Protea in South Africa and what else changes when they species have different primary pollinators!
