I find it strange that some professors run students submissions through AI detectors. If LLMs are trained and retrained on human-written texts, doesn't that mean that any text is more likely to incorrectly flag as AI-generated (false positive)? Try some AI-detectors on your old publication, and see!

🌹Congratulations to Oluwatobi Oso of Yale University, winner of the 2025 Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology. Honorable mention: Christopher Joaquín Muñoz (The University of Texas at El Paso). botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Today is 'A Day for BSA!' Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of BSA supporting the botanical sciences! 🌱 Visit: www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025 🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference! 🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA

We’re nearly 60% of the way to our $15,000 Endowment goal! Every gift powers science, lifts up students, and drives BSA forward. Join the movement—make your impact today and help us reach the finish line! 🌿 Give now: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont... #BSAendowment #IamaBotanist

I'm glad to be this year's recipient of the Don Kaplan Dissertation Award by Botanical Society of America (BSA), the $10k that came with it is my biggest so far! @botsocamerica.bsky.social

#BulbousLab at #Botany2025!

Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California! Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!! @ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social

This is all shades of strange!!!

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Are you a #botany professional who makes a comfortable living and is currently not feeling job-stressed? Tenured faculty, I'm looking at you 👀. 🧪 I dare you to meet or beat my $100 donation 💯 to keep PLANTS afloat in the face of @botsocamerica.bsky.social's grant termination!!

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last yr.

NSF Terminates Funding for Successful Workforce and Leadership Program in the Botanical Sciences botany.org/home/awards/... #botany #plantscience

So pleased that @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al choose to introduce this great resource in #AppsPlantSci! Check out the press release & the paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #pteridophytes #ferns

Florida Museum of Natural History@floridamuseum.bsky.social · last yr.

A coalition of 36 herbaria across the United States have teamed up to create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants ✨ ferns ✨ called the PteridoPortal. Full story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/biol... Paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is such a sad news!!!!

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last yr.

NSF Terminates Funding for Successful Workforce and Leadership Program in the Botanical Sciences botany.org/home/awards/... #botany #plantscience

The self-replicating cellular organization of shoot apical #meristems New #AJB research by Étienne Couturier, @paulallanos.bsky.social, Antoine Lizée, Sébastien Besson & Jacques Dumais bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience #bryophytes #lycophytes #ferns

🌴 BOTANY 2025 SWAG IS HERE! 🌴 Grab your gear now—tees, hoodies, totes & hats with several colors to choose from! Available through May 30, 2025. Limited shirts onsite, so don’t wait and get your favorite color and size! Shop here: www.bonfire.com/store/botany... #Botany2025 #BotanyWithoutBarriers

Here we go #Botany2025 is in full swing preparation! Checkout the Symposia and Colloquia and submit a workshop! Abstract submission opening soon. #Iamabotanist #Botany

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Botany 2025 symposia & colloquia have been announced & workshop submissions are reopened until Feb 1. Check out the latest details: mailchi.mp/botany.org/botany2025. We look forward to seeing you this summer in Palm Springs, CA, July 26-30, 2025! #Botany2025 #IamaBotanist #ItIsaDryHeat

@botsocamerica.bsky.social BSA Grad students, please respond to the original post so you can be added to the starter pack.

Benjamin Ajayi@ajayibenmi.bsky.social · 2y ago

go.bsky.app/7jCJxEq @botanyballer.bsky.social @imenarv.bsky.social @oso-tee.bsky.social @poppybot.bsky.social

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Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there! More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org #Botany2025

Utricularia is one my of fav carnivorous plants. Their traps can suck in prey in less than one millisecond (!!), reaching up to 600g accelerations (!!), which is one of the fastest movements in the plants! #Utricularia #Plantsciences #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌱🌾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ69...

Bladderwort: This Plant Eats Faster Than You

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Jo Latimore@jolatimore.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bladderwort: How a carnivorous aquatic plant could be used in mosquito control. (!) The images alone! entomologytoday.org/2024/03/27/b... #MacrophyteMonday #Utricularia #AquaticPlants #biocontrol

We have an important announcement about #Botany2025: due to unforeseen site renovations at the planned location in Tucson, the conference will have a new location---but the same dates, July 26-30, 2025! For more details, see mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

I have just created a starter pack on #biodiversity 🦠🌳🌲🦋🐸🐠🦅🦔 #redistribution aka #species #range #shifts or species on the #move #SOTM and community composition changes in response to global change drivers 🌐🌍🌎🌏 Let me know if you are interested to join the list go.bsky.app/6KqEpb9

I am planning to recruit a PhD student to begin in my lab at SUNY ESF for the Fall 2025 semester to work on projects in the area of environmental microbiology. I am unable to respond to comments/DMs here. Please email with any inquiries. Please read carefully before emailing.

#FluorescenceFriday is a banger collab from Hannah Moran (@chrmosimann.bsky.social) and Raeden Gray (@thelovelylab.bsky.social). SPIM image of a triple labeled zfish embryo. Sox17-green, sox10-magenta, pitx2-blue. Much more to come!!!

NBIO is hiring. You should come work with us. apply.interfolio.com/155882

John Tuthill@tuthill.bsky.social · 2y ago

My department (UW Neurobiology and Biophysics) is hiring. Open search. 2 positions. A good place to live and do science. I just took a walk outside and there were hundreds of crows eating acorns under a big red oak down by the lake. Join us. apply.interfolio.com/155882

Dying hair cells

TRY database, so useful but can be frustrating because a lot of the trait parameters are not standardized. And then there's GIFT, equally super useful but not enough information on a trait I'm looking for - leaf margin! What are y'all's go-to for resolving taxonomic synonyms in R? kewr? taxize?

Miami is a really beautiful city! The greenery is 😍

This is another level of low!!! Terrible for science and research! New Florida law blocks the hiring of students and postdocs from China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela. www.science.org/content/arti...

🌾Check out this cool new paper by Ian Gilman (formerly of Edwards lab, now a pd at MSU!) et al on using machine learning to predict CAM vs. C3 - it could even handle those pesky intermediate C3+CAM phenotypes! 🌵

Asking me to evaluate an applicant's "English speaking ability" is bullshit.

PhD students, Postdocs, and PIs on here, what are you looking forward to the most this 2024? I'll go: 2023 was quite stressful for me personally (and academically), and so I just want to go easy on myself this year. Enjoy fieldwork, collect quality and informed datasets, and enjoy my family!