Ainun Nadhifah 🇮🇩
@inunnadhif.bsky.social
PhD student Bryology, botany, plant systematics West Java - Indonesia
🌿 Congratulations to Ainun Nadhifah (UT Knoxville), recipient of the 2026 A. J. Sharp Award for the best student presentation in the Bryological & Lichenological sessions at Botany 2026! Honorable Mention: Katelyn Ouzts (Weber State University). 👏 #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW
From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci Phylogenetic Networks issue HybSuite: An integrated pipeline for hybrid capture #phylogenomics from reads to trees (by Yu-Xuan Liu, @miaosun.bsky.social, et al) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantscience #Elaeagnaceae #bioinformatics
Abstract submission (and early-bird!) deadline for the BioSyst.EU approaches! You have until Sunday, May 31st to send it in! Join us and our fellow European systematics associations in Uppsala, August 17-19, 2026 for the 4th BioSyst.EU meeting! Details: www.trippus.net/BioSyst2026 #BioSystEU2026
BioSyst.EU 2026
A three-day conference celebrating European systematics and biodiversity research at its origin
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Metzgeria furcata. Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #liverworts #wątrobowce #Marchantiophyta #bryophytes #mszaki #bryology
Good news for moss lovers! There will be a 2nd edition "Mosses of Europe". Pre-orders are possible from July 15 on. Mosses of Europe is one of the most comprehensive works ever made. It shows around 1250 moss taxa of Europe, illustrated by more than 10.000 photos. mossesofeurope.com
MossesofEurope
Mosses of Europe is the most comprehensive reference work on European mosses. This 3 volume set covers identification, taxonomy and detailed descriptions, supported by high quality photographs.
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RNA from herbarium samples is more stable than previously thought and can be extracted for different uses genome.cshlp.org/content/earl.... Study led by @atyszka.org and in collaboration with @philcarella.bsky.social @khongsamchia.bsky.social @phylonatworks.bsky.social @sciencedrew.bsky.social
Herbaria provide a valuable resource for obtaining informative mRNA
Although DNA has built the framework for molecular insights from museum collections, the utility of archival RNA remains largely unexplored. Likely a consequence of the known instability of RNA relative to DNA, this has effectively precluded the use of herbaria for transcriptomics. Here, we challenge the assumption that herbaria cannot be used for transcriptomics by assembling transcriptomes from RNA extracted from herbarium specimens. Through systematic comparison of transcriptomes from fresh-collected, silica-dried, and archival specimens, we demonstrate the suitability of herbarium-derived RNA for transcriptomics. We show the practical applicability of archival mRNA by functionally validating a plant immune receptor synthesized from a specimen collected in 1956. These results contradict the community consensus regarding archival RNA and open the door to subsequent transcriptomic explorations of rare and extinct plant species. Our findings highlight the importance of preserving and utilizing the diversity embedded within herbarium collections.
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Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8
Proposals are due May 18 for this year’s Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and up to $3500 for 3rd years and above. Learn more and apply now! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
PhyKIT v2.1.44 can now plot quartet pie charts on a phylogeny Quartet discordance can be calculated from gene trees or parsed from ASTRAL output (-t 2) Another feature kindly suggested by @latincassia.bsky.social! I'm super grateful for user feedback and the opportunity to address community needs
It may not feel like spring has sprung, but we’re busy busy SSBees! 🌸🐝 Due this Friday: Grad student research awards: www.systbio.org/graduate-stu... Mini-ARTS: www.systbio.org/mini-arts-aw... One month warning: Ernst Mayr: www.systbio.org/ernst-mayr-a...
Github page: github.com/nhu92/SPrOUT
GitHub - nhu92/SPrOUT: A computational pipeline designed for predicting species taxonomic information from single and mixed plant samples, using target sequencing arrays.
A computational pipeline designed for predicting species taxonomic information from single and mixed plant samples, using target sequencing arrays. - nhu92/SPrOUT
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New from our lab! Introducing SPrOUT: Species Prediction of Unknown Taxa. We developed and tested a novel method to ID plants in mixed DNA with Angiosperms353 using cumulative phylogenetic distances. >98% accuracy to family level for in silico and real test data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The 2026 Ernst Mayr Award Competition is open! This is SSB's student talk award. Students selected to compete will deliver their talk during the virtual Evolution meetings May 20-22, 2026. Applications close April 15, 2026. For information on registration, see: www.systbio.org/ernst-mayr-a...
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
PearTree — Phylogenetic Tree Viewer
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Tiny plant, giant genome! 🌱🧬 We’re excited to share the final version of our paper in @GigaScience: the first complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly of the liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia. Thanks @ncn.gov.pl Check out the full open-access study here: doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Giant chromosomes of a tiny plant—the complete telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the simple thalloid liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia (Jungermanniopsida, Marchantiophyta)
AbstractBackground. The liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia, a dioicous, simple thalloid species, is notable for its cryptic diversity, habitat adaptability,
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Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
Davis Summer Population Genomics Program
Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...
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Interested in learning about hornworts? Check out the on-line hornwort class www.eaglehill.us/programs/sem...
Go Bulls! 🤘🏼
Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 10mo agoBHL is growing! We’re thrilled to welcome University of South Florida Libraries @usflibraries.bsky.social: the 1st of the new BHL Members joining us during our transition to independence. blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/12/anno... More support news coming soon! #BHLTransition #GiveBHLWings 🧪 📖 🌏
🚀 Big news from BHL! 🌱 We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess 🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...
BHL Transition Update #6: Fundraising Campaign – Support the Future of Open Biodiversity Knowledge
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is launching a new public fundraising campaign to help us navigate our transition to independence. This is our first major campaign since the announcement th…
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🌱 Help secure the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! 🙏 Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩💻 🌱 🌏 🧪 🔗 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
If you are fond of bryophytes, be welcome to join the Bryology starter pack. Say hi so I can add you #Botany #PlantScience go.bsky.app/C2v8MT4
🤩 At the #Collections Club community #scientists initiative at the #FieldMuseum, volunteers have processed over 300,000 #scientific #specimens, records & objects to make valuable #data accessible to #researchers worldwide. 👏 More about the latest paper in our #journal via the @pensoft.net blog 👇
Community scientists digitized over a quarter-million items and records at the Field Museum
Volunteers and members of the “Collections Club” of the Field Museum provide a blueprint for how community scientists can help researchers around the world.
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