Maribeth Latvis
@maribethlatvis.bsky.social
🌿🌱👩🔬🧬👩💻 📍Osage, Caddo and Quapaw land
Now available everywhere for streaming/download! #PlantPeopleFTW, a song for everyone who loves plants, by Doc Martine and the Botaneers. Feat. appearances by plant people from all over the world. #botany2026 music.apple.com/us/album/pla...
Plant People FTW by Doc Martine and the Botaneers on Apple Music
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At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.
Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!
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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The branches of the plant tree of life become fuzzy for Andean clades! The evolution of many plant groups of the Andes remain unresolved. Here a breakdown of what happens for #Brachyotum, endemic to the Tropical side of these mountains.
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvidence of introgression amid phylogenetic conflict in #Brachyotum, a plant radiation from the Tropical #Andes New #AJB research by @evoyeyo.bsky.social, Ana Bedoya, Fabián Michelangeli, Lucas Majure, Carmen Ulloa Ulloa, & @tropicalbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics // University of Wyoming jobs.chronicle.com/job/37995586... The Department of Botany and the School of Computing invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. #BotanyJobs
Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics - Wyoming, United States job with University of Wyoming | 37995586
Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics Join Our Campus Community! Thank you for your interest in joining the University of Wyoming. Our...
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The @systbiol.bsky.social Mentorship Program is back for 2026-2027! The program pairs off mentees with mentors based on shared interests in systematics and biodiversity research. Low effort, high reward! 12 virtual monthly meetings. More info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Apply by June 12th!
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@pedropezzi.bsky.social & @maribethlatvis.bsky.social generated the first high-quality reference genome (2.29 Gb, N50=162 Mb, BUSCO=98.4%) for Agalinis, a genus of facultative hemiparasite plants distributed throughout the Americas. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag116 #genome #evolution #PlantSky
Hi from Brazil! @pedropezzi.bsky.social We’re collecting the northern range of the Agalinis distribution here. Happy fieldwork Spring Break :)
Do you have undergrads interested in collections-based research? Have them apply to go work with @jmheberling.bsky.social at CMNH! I cannot imagine a better place to work over the summer
Mason Heberling@jmheberling.bsky.social · 6mo agoExciting new undergraduate research opportunities here at Carnegie Museum in Botany! Applications due March 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...
‘Dispersification’ of Agalinis (Orobanchaceae) Into South America Is Associated With Hummingbird Pollination and Perennial Life-History Shifts @pedropezzi.bsky.social @soltislab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Coming soon from @pedropezzi.bsky.social ! 
bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 8mo ago'Dispersification' of Agalinis (Orobanchaceae) into South America is associated with hummingbird pollination and perennial life history shifts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.21.689784v1
The frequency and importance of polyploidy in tropical rainforest tree radiations Schley et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@chukwumaemma.bsky.social Research explores an approach to clarify the phylo relationship & evol history of Alectra. Using seqdata with morph, habitat & climate traits, it aims to reveal diversification, adaptation & future ranges w/implications for conservation & understanding parasitic plant evol.
Thursday’s dinner will showcase UArk Herbarium/Prairie Pedagogy Pop-up Exhibition. It will highlight the UArk Herbarium support for educational and artistic work happening in the Oak Knoll Prairie. Artworks by Caite Ramos, Ellie Johnson, Mikki Young, Peter Brown, Mia Dixon, Kaylee Hutto and more!
@phylojennatics.bsky.social research focuses on macro and micro forces that can influence species abundance in Silene. She is using herbarium specimen data to build a genus phylogeny. Jenna successfully extracted DNA from a specimen from 1892!
Why is it important to press native plants? Find out on Nov 8th at the Fayetteville Public Library! @phylojennatics.bsky.social a PhD student in @maribethlatvis.bsky.social lab will be leading this event! See you there 🌱
Fieldwork highlights from Italy: to understand what a species is PhD student @rlsavage.bsky.social is taking a integrative approach using morphological, genomic & ecological data to determine what a species is in Rhinanthus @maribethlatvis.bsky.social and Emily Carter helped with the fieldwork
Updated tutorials for nQuack today. Want to predict ploidy level of sequence data? See this new tutorial on how to process and model data faster: mlgaynor.com/nQuack/artic...
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We have several exciting events lined up for the 150th anniversary of the UARK herbarium! Check out all the events with this link: biology.uark.edu/herbarium/ev...
Master’s student @arisaemaguy.bsky.social focuses on the Arisaema triphyllum species complex. It has been subject to numerous taxonomic revisions over the past 200 yrs. Morgan is utilizing morphometrics, on both the macro & micro scales, to help herbaria distinguish between the species.
Fieldwork in Brazil to understand how new plant species evolve? Pedro Pezzi @pedropezzi.bsky.social and Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social are taking a multi-pronged approach in Agalinis to understand morphological shifts and species interactions during rapid diversification
