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
Bryan MacNeill
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Postdoc CornellEEB 🌱 Black Lives Matter🧑🏻🔬 #iamabotanist 🌻 Views are mine 🌺
Hi everyone make sure to get some good sleep after Julianna’s talk today, so you can see my talk bright and early at 8am tomorrow!
Julianna Harden@jharden.bsky.social · 2w agoFind 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
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
#Botany2026 swing by the DEI table during the poster session tonight to chat with us ( @brythebotanist.bsky.social Caroline Brose) and snag some #DisabledInBotany tattoo-styled stickers and fidget spinners!!!!
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
New paper just dropped! In a collaboration led by @jdyeakel.bsky.social, we explored how body size and the bioenergetics of trophic interactions constrain coexistence and shapes the evolution of body size and diets in mammalian carnivores. 🐺🦊🐅🐆🐻🦁
Bioenergetic trophic trade‐offs determine mass‐dependent extinction thresholds across the Cenozoic
Body size constrains trophic interactions, shaping the feasibility of species' populations. Over macroevolutionary timescales, these constraints feed back to shape selection on body size and diet. We...
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Are you a #Botany2026 attendee interested in leading an Affinity Group? Help create community spaces at this year's meeting! Email bsa-manager@botany.org by May 15 for more information.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr EITM Texas Tech U notifies its five universities of a new campus "Don't Say Gay" policy barring professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core and lower-level courses, eliminating related fields of study, and requiring skipping textbook chapters on the topic. 1/2
Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics
The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.
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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...
APG V Survey - Extended Deadline
Dear Colleagues: We are soliciting community input on a draft of APG V, which is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M8ZWZoJTj1mFYUe_bRKrP-NCwwEzoGuC/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=11366933678134...
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Ecological change may be a common initiator of evolutionary pollinator shifts Agnes S. Dellinger @the-kunsze.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who does not want an AMAZING 3D printed fly???? This Drosophila was printed for me today as a prop for a talk at the @rigb.org It caused a minor commotion on the tube on my way home. And I LOVE IT - @bittelmethis.bsky.social 🤓🪰🤘
Great stuff from the uber-talented-and-smart @botanicalbecks.bsky.social - a first-year MS student here at Bucknell studying Penstemon. #sciart #plantpeopleFTW #scicomm
SICB journals@sicbjournals.bsky.social · 4mo agoICB's #art in #bio April's featured #artists/ #scientists featured to celebrate #creativity persisting: Marieke Van Der Maelen – art can be found on Instagram at @House_Of_Paidia & Rebecca Benneroff, @martinebotany.bsky.social lab. integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/fine-art-ame...
Just ordered a BSA trucker cap and a Planting Science pocket tee. #PlantPeopleFTW #Botany2026
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 4mo ago🌿 The BSA Spring Swag Store is here! Two gorgeous new designs by BSA's own Catrina Adams, including the stunning Resilient collection and a woodcut-style design to benefit PlantingScience.org. BSA members can email aneely@botany.org for 10% off. www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-sp...
6 days! #Botany2026
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe abstract deadline for #Botany2026 is April 13! Share your research with 1,000+ botanical scientists from around the world at this year's conference in Tucson, Arizona. Submit at botanyconference.org! Early registration ends April 30th, save by being a member of BSA and registering now!
Some Scilla blooming outside the building today :)
#Flower color variation in Digitalis purpurea: #Pollination & soil influences across native & introduced populations New #AJB research by @slozadagobilard.bsky.social, Pamela Espinoza Peñaloza, Giovanni Pascucci, Zainab Aliwi et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #bumblebees
Gene and genome duplications have contrasting impacts on biosynthetic and flower developmental pathways in California poppy (Le-Han Rössner , Clemens Rössner , Doudou Kong , et alr) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Gene and genome duplications have contrasting impacts on biosynthetic and flower developmental pathways in California poppy
The analysis of the California poppy genome sequence and expression atlas reveals contrasting histories of duplication and loss for metabolic pathway and f
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Did you know it costs us $64 a month to host Biology PhD stipends? Excited for this upgrade which takes our hosting costs to $0! mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...
Biology PhD Stipends
Biology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet.
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Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867
Cornell University, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Job #AJO31867, WDR-00057721 Postdoctoral Associate, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Early Spider Orchid Ophrys sphegodes at Durlston, Dorset this morning. Always a treat to see orchids by the sea. A good few dozen seen, but many thousands on the way over the next few weeks. @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Ecologists love response ratios for meta-analysis❤️ But… they can’t be converted into other effect sizes—making it impossible to have a unified dataset of all published effect sizes in ecology I fix this with a conversion to Hedges’ d to help unify our data! (Link to Ecology Letters paper below):
JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Morphological and anatomical changes during the flower-to-fruit transition in species of the parasitic family Loranthaceae. V Botero-Castaño, F Gonzalez, @nataliapabonm.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PlantScience
If you consider 'hiring’ AI instead of a graduate student, you're saying the quiet part out loud: PhDs are viewed as a PI's labor force not academics studying for an advanced degree... www.science.org/content/arti...
Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes
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The Botanical Society of America's Impact Award is now accepting applications! These awards highlight those building a more inclusive community through research, teaching, or outreach. Apply, or encourage others to, and see info in link! @botsocamerica.bsky.social botany.org/home/awards/...
BSA Impact Award
leading scientists and educators since 1893
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Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman ▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie... ▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...
It's official!!!! #Botany2026 here we come!
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 5mo agoRegistration is OPEN for #Botany2026 – Biodiversity at the Boundaries, August 1-5 in Tucson, AZ! – Early-Registration Deadline: Apr 30 – Abstract Deadline: Apr 13 – BSA Travel Awards Deadline: Mar 15 – BSA Sectional Student Travel Awards Deadline: Apr 1 www.botanyconference.org www.botany.org
