Robert Laport
@robertlaport.bsky.social
College of Idaho; Associate Professor & Director of the Herbarium; Plant Evolutionary Ecologist; Botanist; Polyploidy; Views my own www.robertlaport.com
I heard Shelly #1 and Shelly #2 gave a great talk on Monday! Im very lucky! Sad to miss #Botany2026, but glad to finally see some improvement for Mabel this morning. We still have a long way to go. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to check on me and her.
Shelly Gaynor@shellygaynor.bsky.social · 5d agoThough I will not make it to #Botany2026, Doug Soltis and Jacob Landis will tag-team my talk on Monday at 2:15 pm in Population Genomics (San Ignacio)!
Come see Liz talk this morning about her MSc thesis work! 8am in Ecophys #Botany2026
Ben R Lee, PhD@benrlee.com · 3d agoPEACCH Lab presentations at #Botany2026 this week. I'll be giving a talk about dioecious mismatch in northern spicebush on Monday right before lunch and Liz Howe will be giving a talk on spring wildflower ecophysiology on Wednesday at 8!
Come check out my talk on environment and trait relationshios with diversification rate in Asclepias at 11:15 am in the Macroevolution session in San Xavier! #Botany2026
I’m so proud of @laufran.bsky.social for the #botany2026 Cooley Award from @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for work that began as an undergrad in the #LagoLab and continued as a collab during her PhD. She showed that introgression influenced trait evolution in my fave clade, Neotropical bellflowers.
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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Here are 70+ accounts to help you follow along at home for #Botany2026. Are you attending and not in the starter pack? Reply here to be added.
Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson@hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 6d agoI can't make it to #Botany2026 this year, but I don't want to miss out on all the cool plant science being presented. I've made a starter pack to follow along from home (and to find more great botanists to follow year-round). Reply here to be added! go.bsky.app/HdDpDrW
How fun is this quick video on the #Botany2026 poster session! Love the enthusiasm for their work! #PlantPeopleFTW
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 22h agoLast night's poster session was a botanical blast! Here are some fun moments from 5 poster presentations, we wish we could show you them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW
Don't miss part 2 of the #Botany2026 poster session! If you have FOMO, join us for #Botany2027 in Buffalo, New York next year.
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 18h agoWe had to show you some more presentations from last night's poster session, but we're still sad we can't highlight them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW
I cannot believe I won the Moseley Award tonight at #Botany2026! Thank you @botsocamerica.bsky.social
The #Macroecology lab and alumni are so grateful to be at the #Botany2026 meetings in #Tucson ! What a fantastic meeting
Last night's poster session was a botanical blast! Here are some fun moments from 5 poster presentations, we wish we could show you them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW
Hey #Botany2026 and plant peeps, we need help! Who are your favorite fictional botany heroes/villains/characters in media (books, movies, comics, TV, etc.)?
Feedmeseymour Little Shopof Horrors
Alt: Audrey 2 in the plant shop screaming "Feed Me!" - from Little Shop of Horrors movie
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Hi everyone make sure to get some good sleep after Julianna’s talk today, so you can see my talk bright and early at 8am tomorrow!
Julianna Harden@jharden.bsky.social · 2d agoFind myself and the rest of the Specht lab at Botany 2026!! #PlantPeopleFTW #Botany2026 @botanyballer.bsky.social @brythebotanist.bsky.social @arayabelle.bsky.social @jlandisbotany.bsky.social @spechtlab.bsky.social
And if you are at #Botany2026, check out the Symposium on this topic today! Tuesday, August 4, 1:30PM
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · yesterday🔥SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS❄️ #AJB and #AppsPlantSci are accepting proposals for joint special issues focusing on how temperature shapes & constrains plant biology. Proposal deadline: 30 Sep 2026 More info: bit.ly/4fmMhPu @seemasheth.bsky.social #botany #climatechange #ecology #Botany2026
Hey Botany! Come see my talk investigating whether polyploids have different patterns of flower evolution than diploids on Weds at 8:15am in San Xavier. Over 100 undergrads participated in this research! :) #PUIFTW #Botany2026 #PlantPeopleFTW
Blue Beehive booth is now open at #Botany2026! Find some desert bling jewelry, textiles, and cards! #PlantPeopleFTW #sciart (additional items on our Etsy shop!)
Botanists and Plant People are the best! #Botany2026 #PlantPeopleFTW
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2d ago📸 Don't leave without your BSA Photo Booth pic! Bring your crew, strike a pose, and make it official. Explore the exhibit hall (open noon to 7), then dive into the poster session from 5:30 to 7, where fresh research and big ideas take center stage. Say cheese!
Who at #botany2026 is thinking about which talks to see tomorrow? Maybe I humbly recommend our talk on Physalis phylogenomics where we ask the question, why are there so many tomatillo species 50 million years after a (famous to Solanologists) bottleneck? Tomorrow 1:30pm in San Ignacio!
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!
Morning #Botany2026 - come check out a whole set of talks from the lab this morning in Ecophys! Tropical plants, temperate friends, epiphytes, and aquatics - we have it all. Our Belonging in Botany: fostering resiliency discussion is happening from 11-12 today, too. See you there! #dampmuffins
Day 1 of #botany2026 concluded with a whole day of great talks in Developmental & Structural, beautiful cacti and mountains, approaching monsoon, and my two students doing an amazing job presenting their work!! #proudpi #plantpeopleftw
At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.
Though I will not make it to #Botany2026, Doug Soltis and Jacob Landis will tag-team my talk on Monday at 2:15 pm in Population Genomics (San Ignacio)!
Shelly Gaynor@shellygaynor.bsky.social · 5d agoI was really excited to attend #Botany2026, but sadly my cat is very sick and I decided I couldn't leave her right now. I believe @jlandisbotany.bsky.social will be giving my talk. And luckily the @soltislab.bsky.social can do the workshop without me. Really sad to miss this year!
How old are tomatoes, peppers and golden berries? 🍅🌱 We combined fossils with molecular data to time-calibrate the evolutionary history of #Solanaceae Curious about total-evidence dating? Take a look! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Late Cretaceous origins for major nightshade lineages from total-evidence timetree analysis
AbstractBackground and Aims. The timing of the radiation of nightshades (Solanaceae) has been contentious in the literature, with estimates of the crown ag
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Would you like to know about the sweetest Physalis? 🍊🌱 This short note explores diversity across the genus, highlighting traits like berry sweetness and their potential for crop improvement and food systems. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Physalis #Solanaceae #PlantScience #CropDiversity
Wild sweet Physalis: promising underutilized minor crops - Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
Global food security challenges are driving renewed interest in neglected and underutilized crops with high nutritional and agronomic potential. The genus Physalis includes more than 95 species, yet o...
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Chestnut planting time! Nuts from century+ old American chestnuts in Oregon and Washington! Preserving pre-blight genetics from an accidental genetic diversity repository! #TACF #americanchestnut #chestnutrestoration
The best keynote talks make you wish you studied the question the speaker is presenting. In that respect, this amazing talk by Amita Sehgal (UPenn) on how and why flies sleep (which is likely the same reason we do) is just so amazing it’s hard to describe. Mind is truly blown. #Dros26