Looking for a new job? Want to work with a fun & engaged team of biologists studying plants and animals? Join the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department as an Administrative Associate at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville! Please spread the word.

If you are planning for #Botany2027 and did or did not attend #Botany2026, fill out this form if you need childcare!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... please!! This year there was no childcare and the nursing room is more a custodian closet without a lock, AC, water/sink+light goes off very 5 mins

I can't make it to #Botany2026 this year, but I don't want to miss out on all the cool plant science being presented. I've made a starter pack to follow along from home (and to find more great botanists to follow year-round). Reply here to be added! go.bsky.app/HdDpDrW

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

Symposium for Future Proofing Herbaria. Discussing specimen backlogs. Recommendation to prioritize, be creative, & build a collections club of volunteers to help. Also we found that #bryophytes & #lichens are over-represented & need our energy. doi.org/10.3897/nhcm... #botany2026

The state of herbarium specimen backlogs: Perspectives from bryophyte collections

An herbarium must have its specimens processed, identified and accessioned so that members of the botanical community can readily consult these materials. However, many herbaria struggle to keep up wi...

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What was the term you used for the backlog WIS? @mlinkperez.bsky.social

Stop by the ABLS booth at #Botany2026 to pick up your preordered shirt. Missed the pre-order? Buy a t-shirt in-person at the booth for $22.50. Stop by early while supplies last!

Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs

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...

biorxiv.org

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

Get your ABLS shirt in time for #Botany2026 and show up to the conference in something you really lichen. Don't moss around, the deadline is TODAY!

Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬@mossplants.bsky.social · last mo.

Attending #BOTANY2026? Order a shirt featuring rare SW moss & lichen species. @botsocamerica.bsky.social Order using the link below & pickup your shirt at the ABLS booth in Tucson, AZ, Aug 1-5, 2026. No shipping fees! www.customink.com/g/cqx0-00d2-... Deadline to order July 14, 2026 at 11:59PM ET

Job Opening! Apply to join the the @utkherbarium.bsky.social as our new Herbarium Collections Manager. #jobopportunity #jobopening #jobsearch #herbaria #plants @utknoxville.bsky.social Full Position Posting & Application Instructions: fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Attending #BOTANY2026? Order a shirt featuring rare SW moss & lichen species. @botsocamerica.bsky.social Order using the link below & pickup your shirt at the ABLS booth in Tucson, AZ, Aug 1-5, 2026. No shipping fees! www.customink.com/g/cqx0-00d2-... Deadline to order July 14, 2026 at 11:59PM ET

American Bryological and Lichenological Society Group Order Form - Sign Up Today!

Please pay directly online through Custom Ink. Shirts will be available for pickup at the ABLS booth at the BOTANY 2026 conference August 1-5, 2026 in Tucson, AZ. Shirt Details: 100% recycled materia...

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Student Awards! Marife Minaya Auccapoma (PhD student) working with Dr. Carrie Kiel at the Claremont Graduate University and the California Botanic Garden... 1 of 2

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Student Awards! Ashutosh Sharma (PhD student) working with Dr. Noorunissa Begum at the FRLH Herbarium, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, India.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 SHC Student Awards! Mayra Alejandra Herrera Pacheco (MS student) working with Dr. Manuel Luján Anzola at the Universidad de Antioquia, for the project “Taxonomic revision and update of the genus Arawakia (Clusiaceae s.s.) for Colombia".

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Student Awards! Yun Ye Ho (PhD student) working with Elliot Gardner at Case Western Reserve Univ. for the project "Unearthing the species limits and phylogenetics of Bornean earth figs, Ficus subser. Geocarpicae (Moraceae)".

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Society of Herbarium Curators Student Awards! @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Graduate student Makoa de Almeida is working with Carrie Tribble at the University of Washington for the project "Vegetative Proliferations: Evolutionary Watershed or Dead End?".

Congratulations to the 2026 Society of Herbarium Curators (SHC) Student Awardees! @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Undergraduate student Fanya Yuan working with Dr. Carrie Tribble at the University of Washington for the project “Investigating the Optimal Herbarium Plant Tissue Storage Protocol".

Calling all curious middle schoolers! 🌿 Join us on a Flora Quest, a KidsU Summer Camp @utknoxville.bsky.social! Please help us spread the word! @utkherbarium.bsky.social @wildones-smokymts.bsky.social

The @herbariumcurators.bsky.socialSE USA Chapter is pleased to invite you to Coffee with a Curator: Our next installment of Coffee with a Curator is Megan King presenting a tour of the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University (CHRB) on Friday, April 17th at 1pm CT/ 2pm ET.

Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829... We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!

The state of herbarium specimen backlogs: Perspectives from bryophyte collections

An herbarium must have its specimens processed, identified and accessioned so that members of the botanical community can readily consult these materials. However, many herbaria struggle to keep up wi...

nhcm.pensoft.net

We are currently recruiting @utknoxville.bsky.social students to sign up for our May-term course, EEB 466: Immersions in Collection Research. Please share widely!

The @herbariumcurators.bsky.social SE USA Chapter is pleased to invite you to Coffee with a Curator: Demetra Kandalepas will present a tour of the Glen N. Montz Herbarium at Southeastern Louisiana University (SELU) on Friday, March 20th at 1pm CT/ 2pm ET. (Note this is not our typical time.)

My former grad student Eric Shershen just published the researcher from his second chapter! @utknoxville.bsky.social @utkherbarium.bsky.social Check it out at the link below!

Natural History Collections and Museomics@nhcm.pensoft.net · 6mo ago

Through examining decades of herbarium specimens, researchers have investigated how bryophyte communities in the southern Appalachians respond to ecological disturbances, like the balsam wooly adelgid invasion. Learn more: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.175897

The @herbariumcurators.bsky.social SE USA chapter invites you to Coffee with a Curator: Our next installment will be Clara Minnich from Marshall University Herbarium (MUHW) presenting on Herbarium DNA: A Complicated History of the Destructive Sampling Paradox on Friday, Nov 21st at 1pm CT/2pm ET.

It feels like winter today in Knoxville, but I am already thinking about spring! Spread the word to any students looking for advanced EEB classes. Students can send me an email to pre-register for the course now!

If you want the Forest Service to be anything other than just a logging company get in those public comments, people

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 11mo ago

The dismantling of the US Forest Service is imminent [via @highcountrynews.org]

Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

nature.com

This is no bird! The White Egret Orchid uses its "unique" shape to attract pollinators. 🐞 🦋 🐝