🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek Expanded character sampling inspired by a new Cretaceous conifer seed cone from California: importance of morphology in resolving relationships among the Cupressaceae by @kpfeiler.bsky.social et al. 👉 doi.org/q76b @kunhm.bsky.social @ku-eeb.bsky.social #PlantEvolution

Cretaceous moss–cyanobacteria association reveals trophic interactions in polar forests of Antarctica Walker et al. habitualb.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

You are not going to want to miss Dr. Mihai Tomescu's Kaplan Memorial Lecture at #Botany2026, "Dead Plants Do Tell Tales!" Visit www.botanyconference.org for more information, and don't forget that the early-registration deadline is TOMORROW, April 30th!

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Revisiting the enigmatic Cheirolepidiaceae: origins, phylogenetic relationships, and a new whole-plant concept doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Revisiting the enigmatic Cheirolepidiaceae: origins, phylogenetic relationships, and a new whole-plant concept

AbstractBackground and Aims. The extinct conifer family Cheirolepidiaceae spanned from the Late Triassic to early Paleocene and was worldwide distributed.

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There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

Join us in celebrating Brian Atkinson on his tenure promotion! His dedication to fossil plant research and mentoring the next generation of paleobotanists makes him an invaluable part of our team at @kunhm.bsky.social & @kubiology.bsky.social! Congrats, Brian! 🎉

The Friedman Lab in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan seeks a technician to generate, curate, segment, and archive micro-CT data for extinct and extant cichlid fishes. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

Research Laboratory Technician Senior / Friedman Lab - Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - Indeed.com

University of Michigan

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For International Women's Day, let's pay homage to the great plant anatomist Katherine Esau. In her long career, she transformed our understanding of plant structure through her research and her very important books. She is my academic grandmother, advisor of my advisor.

It's not much, but it's there to help for any colleagues who find themselves needing it: www.paleosoc.org/paleontologi...

New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

The consequences of budding speciation on trees

Abstract. Paleobiologists have long sought to explain how alternative modes of speciation, including budding and bifurcating cladogenesis, shape patterns o

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there are still 6 days left to apply to join my group at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt as a PhD Student in #Paleobiology! Are you interested in how the rock record shapes our undersanding of macroevolutionary dynamics of #plants in the #Mesozoic? @sgn.one www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...