Plants of the National Parks is available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller. geni.us/Ywmh #NationalParks #Plants #WildPlants #NPS #PlantsOfTheNationalParks #Botany #NativePlantsUSA #NatureBooks #PublicLands #PlantScience #NatureEducation
Rachel Savage
@rlsavage.bsky.social
University of Arkansas PhD student | Botany, Phylogenetics, Parasitic plants |
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!
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 · 4mo 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
A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...
NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds
A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.
statnews.com
The new GBIF website is amazing! Exciting day for taxonomists🌱 It even makes it easier to find type specimens and related records!
🥁 Introducing.... the new and improved GBIF.org! 😍 Our refreshed website brings a series of enhancements to both the technical capabilities and user experience of GBIF infrastructure. Explore the new features on GBIF.org:🐅 🔗 gbif.link/new-gbif.org
On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...
In the last two weeks, 1% of new NSF awards were in biology. Just one grant of 97. One. Biology in the US is on hold until there’s a regime change.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6mo agoBetween 2/28 and 3/13, 97 awards were issued: Directorate of Math and Phys Science: 36 Engineering: 19 Computer and Info Science: 14 STEM Education: 10 Geosciences: 8 Tech, Innov, Partnerships: 5 Social, Behav, Econ Sci: 4 Biol Sciences: 1 2/2
Many parasitic plants produce tiny seeds as light as dust: you can barely even see them. But zoom in with a powerful enough microscope, and suddenly they reveal a hidden trove of jewels. (Thanks to Renata Piwowarczyk for the photos; microscopy by Justyna Kasińska)
‘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/...
Latvis lab just arrived in Baton Rouge for the SSB conference! Excited to try Elsie’s plate and pie. @pedropezzi.bsky.social @chukwumaemma.bsky.social #SSB2026
We 💚 the Stranger Plants—and now they’re on #BSAswag! The shirts feature bold illustrations by BSA’s own Catrina Adams, with a list of each species by common & scientific name on the back. BSA members (exp. 2026+) get 10% off—email aneely@botany.org for code. www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-wi...
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
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
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...
Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation. I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
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
Any suggestions on bringing back pressed plant specimens thru customs?
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
go.nature.com
Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
browndailyherald.com
As a curator at a natural history museum, I'm gutted to learn about the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. If anything, we need to fund, protect and preserve museum collections and uphold institutions of scientific and cultural knowledge now more than ever.
@phylojennatics.bsky.social and @rlsavage.bsky.social, botanists and PhD students with the @maribethlatvis.bsky.social Lab in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at the @uarkansas.bsky.social recently taught students about botany, plant collecting, and biodiversity at the Holcomb Elementary STEM Night!
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