Come to the LICOR booth for a Section group photo at the next coffee break ! #bsaecophys

Please come so we can get a section photo! We will be there by 315pm

Plant Ecophys (BSA)@bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · yesterday

Come to the LICOR booth for a Section group photo at the next coffee break ! #bsaecophys

Trying to keep up with all things Ecophys this #Botany2026 ? Check out our website! sites.google.com/d.umn.edu/bo...

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Conference Events Sunday 1:30-5:30pm Workshop - Beyond the leaf: Methodologies for Measuring Gas Exchange from Non-planar and Unusual Sample Materials. 10:30pm-12:30am Connect at with Phys and Ecoph...

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Tribble Lab & University of Washington Herbarium crew at #Botany2026!

We will also have two special sessions! A workshop Sunday August 2, 1:30 to 5:30 pm Measuring Gas Exchange from Non-planar and Unusual Sample Materials And a Colloquium Monday August 3, 8:00 am to noon Non-foliar gas exchange: mechanisms and implications for a changing world #bsaecophys

‼️Job Alert: UC Berkeley Geography is hiring a TT Asst Prof in Global Env Change with expertise in physically-based understanding of environmental change and how env change is transforming the lived experiences of communities. Pls repost and share widely, thx!: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05449

Assistant Professor - Impacts of Global Environmental Change - Department of Geography

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Leaf size is an important trait shaping species distributions globally. We looked at how climate and evolutionary history influence leaf size in conifers! Spoiler: lots of evolutionary conservatism! Check out our paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Leaf Size in Conifers: Global Associations With Climate and Evolutionary History

Global patterns in leaf size are linked to climatic trade-offs, so we explore these relationships in a major group of plants, the conifers. Using contemporary phylogenetic methods, we show that conif....

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Check out @botanykat.bsky.social's awesome new paper!!! 🍃

Katya Isabelle@botanykat.bsky.social · last mo.

Leaf size is an important trait shaping species distributions globally. We looked at how climate and evolutionary history influence leaf size in conifers! Spoiler: lots of evolutionary conservatism! Check out our paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Gearing up to do battle again with our reimbursement system. I can do hard things!!!

Lone Warrior's Stand: Battle Bymyself

ALT: Lone Warrior's Stand: Battle Bymyself

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A high-quality peer review should always be standard. But paying reviewers seems reasonable, especially when journals charge such substantial publishing fees and the reviewing process is so important

Nature@nature.com · last mo.

A biology journal trialled paying their reviewers and found it led to faster first editorial decisions – and increased review quality. go.nature.com/446SaLu

A biology journal trialled paying their reviewers and found it led to faster first editorial decisions – and increased review quality. go.nature.com/446SaLu

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal which paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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As we gear up for #botany2026, we are looking for judges for the student presentations in the Physiology and Ecophysiology section. If you will be at the meeting and are willing to judge a few posters and talks, please contact: Brian Maricle bmaricle@svsu.edu #BSA #BSAEcophys

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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Jeremy is wonderful, highly recommend applying to join his lab!!

Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · last mo.

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

Botrychium rubellum, our Red Lanceolate Moonwort, seen Saturday at Dry Gulch #nativeplants 🌿 There are things we never imagined out there. 🤗

Four postdoc positions - Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology (BCI EDGE)integrating population & evolutionary genomics, community ecology, metabolomics, & long-term forest dynamics to investigate the evolutionary processes maintaining tropical forest diversity stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... 🧪 🌐 🌾

BCI Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology project

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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

Pretty sad numbers coming out of NSF this year, particularly when you adjust them for inflation. It is clear that new attitudes are counting on profit-driven industry to lead science and technology, not public good. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

The NSF is on Track for its Worst Year in Generations – Grant Witness

Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.

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The BIOME team is on its way to Sardinia! 🚢🌳 Following campaigns in Switzerland & Ecuador, our PhD students are kicking off a new field season studying Mediterranean holm oak forests together with Alberto Tarroni. Proud to partner with FoReSTAS & colleagues from the University of Padua. 👇

Biotic interactions biogeography: A framework for understanding how species interactions shape biodiversity patterns across scales 🧪🌐https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003813

Biotic interactions biogeography: A framework for understanding how species interactions shape biodiversity patterns across scales

Biogeography and ecology have long developed in parallel. This Essay explores how new data on species interactions across large scales now allow their integration, opening fresh insights into how biod...

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yikes!

Coleen Murphy@ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

It was an amazing week hosting Wray Jones and Kyra Dimitropolis at @wakeforest.bsky.social. They visited my lab to dive into the math, theory, and measurement of plant hydraulics to support their graduate work. 🌿💧📈 #WakeBotany #PlantHydraulics #ferns #cycads

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

I shared on LinkedIn already, but I wanted to post here as well since I've got a different audience: I will be joining the Department of Plant Pathology at the @universityofga.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor on Aug 1!! I will keep studying #Aspergillus & #Fusarium that infect plants & humans 🥰

Other red state publics better get ready because the signs are clearly pointing in that direction and have been for a while. Shared governance has been made a mockery of for years, and intrusions of boards and politicians on course offerings etc. is commonplace.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

Early summer wildflowers continue appear on our land & the newly acquired parkland adjacent. The theme for the week was yellow, with Helenium amarum (Bitterweed), Hypericum punctatum (Spotted St. John's Wort) & possible county record Linum medium texanum (Texas Stiff Yellow Flax) making a show 1/2

Only one week left to apply for the full professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research at our institute @unituebingen.bsky.social ! Please re-post.

Oliver Bossdorf@bossdorf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute! Please re-post!

This episode is now available on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In Our Time - The Evolution of Trees - BBC Sounds

How trees first arose from small plants and changed the world, and why new trees emerge.

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Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Palaeobotany on the radio at 9am! @christophermberry.bsky.social and Jenny McElwain talking about the Evolution of Forests on In Our Time on Radio 4. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... #Paleobotany

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n