#Botany2026 swing by the DEI table during the poster session tonight to chat with us ( @brythebotanist.bsky.social Caroline Brose) and snag some #DisabledInBotany tattoo-styled stickers and fidget spinners!!!!
Haley A Branch
@stressedbranch.bsky.social
Postdoc at Yale 🌱 studying why plants be stressing so much 🌵evo-ecophysiology 🏳️🌈 she/her #DisabledInSTEM 💻 https://haleyabranch.weebly.com/
"How two hybridizing monkeyflowers resist phenotypic homogenization" I'm very happy to share this. We would really appreciate your feedback!
Jenn Coughlan@jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 4d agoSo proud of this manuscript- lead by the fantastic @henryarenas.bsky.social with two undergraduates (Cage Cochran and Quinn Evans) each doing a Herculean effort during their honors theses, and Hongfei Chen helping out tremendously with lab work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
So proud of this manuscript- lead by the fantastic @henryarenas.bsky.social with two undergraduates (Cage Cochran and Quinn Evans) each doing a Herculean effort during their honors theses, and Hongfei Chen helping out tremendously with lab work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Maintenance of phenotypic divergence in two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation
Sympatric species often exhibit permeable reproductive barriers, yet many of them coexist as phenotypically distinct entities. One way to account for this apparent paradox is that selection on loci th...
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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.
Passionate about dryland & desert flora? Join the Dryland Floras Mixer at #Botany2026! Whether you attended last year's colloquium or are new to the network, grab a coffee on your way & join us to connect and collaborate. All are welcome! 🌵 August 4 | 9:45 - 10:15 AM 🌵 Sundeck Hospitality Ste 6339
More context on Dr. Morteza Mahmoudi's launch of the Academic Parity Movement: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Bullied in science: I quit my job and launched an advocacy non-profit
Ahead of the Academic Parity Movement’s annual conference, co-founder Morteza Mahmoudi describes how it supports whistle-blowers.
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Gina Baucom@gbaucom.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat is academic bullying, and how do you know when criticism has crossed the line into harassment? In the newest Evolution Exchange, I talk with Dr. Morteza Mahmoudi (Academic Parity Movement) and Dr. Aaron Roussell about bullying, mobbing, and doxxing. A long but 🌶️ convo! tinyurl.com/87nyfbzk
Botany knows no boundaries! 🌍 Join the International & Immigrant Botanist Mixer at #Botany2026, an informal gathering to connect with botanists from around the world. Grab a coffee on your way and join us, all are welcome! 🌵 Monday, August 3 | 3:00 to 4:00 PM 🌵 Sundeck Hospitality Suite 6339
I'm very excited and so grateful to receive an NSF CAREER award - we'll be testing ideas about how CAM evolves using C3+CAM intermediate species and teaching students how plant physiology and genomics can simultaneously inform our understanding of plant biodiversity. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... 1/2
Award Details - NSF Award Search
Find award details and explore award abstracts and publications.
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🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Phenotypic plasticity is broadly adaptive across an elevation gradient in the Cutleaf Monkeyflower
Leaf shape plasticity expression is variable in Mimulus laciniatus.
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Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”
NSF X-Labs
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
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WTF. Amid proposals to slash NSF's budget and eliminate support for social/behavioral research: 1.5 BILLON to "research outside of traditional institutions" ("independent teams of researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs"). That's >20% of proposed FY '27 budget. #psychscisky #academicsky 🟦🧠
Now accepting applications for our 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards support students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs to conduct #ecology and #evolution research. Deadline is June 30, 2026: bit.ly/4umYKZd #science
Applications for 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution Now Open
The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution.
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I had the best time at @zoology.ubc.ca's annual Debbie and Justin Wragg-Schmidt Zoology Spring Symposium! What a privilege to be invited as their plenary speaker and I got to nerd out with so many cool people! Was lovely being back in the motherland 🇨🇦 talking about corals 🪸
So far that little stand has sold approximately 120 plants!!! It's done so well that I am going to go get more from Pinelands Nursery before our upcoming market this Saturday. Like... damn, has hyping native plants in this neighborhood over the last 2 years actually had its intended effect?!
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3mo agoTime for an experiment! You know those cute little roadside stands with honors-system eggs or produce? Look, I know I live in "big scary Philadelphia oooh 👻" but I'm gonna try it. What's the worst that can happen? Thieves create habitat for native bees? Jokes on them! I wanted them to do that!
Proposals are due May 18 for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and $3500 for 3rd years and above. Evaluation criteria and sample proposals available online: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers
Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling. Deadline is 30th April www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) in mycorrhizal biogeography and species distribution modelling
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NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/n...
NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race
The NIH Data Book page reporting Research Project Grants (RPG) and Fellowship awards by race has been updated for FY2025. Completely unsurprisingly, despite the impression that may have been convey…
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What an amazing feat- congrats to everyone!!!!!!!!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought
Populations that are declining as a result of climate change may need to evolve to persist. Although evolutionary rescue has been demonstrated in theory and in the laboratory, its relevance to natural...
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Registration is OPEN for #Botany2026 – Biodiversity at the Boundaries, August 1-5 in Tucson, AZ! – Early-Registration Deadline: Apr 30 – Abstract Deadline: Apr 13 – BSA Travel Awards Deadline: Mar 15 – BSA Sectional Student Travel Awards Deadline: Apr 1 www.botanyconference.org www.botany.org
🌿 Applications are open for the Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Awards (GSRAs), including the J. S. Karling and AJ Harris awards. BSA supports graduate student research in botanical science with these $1,500 awards. Deadline: February 16, 2026. Apply now: botany.org/home/awards/...
So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏 #IAmABotanist 🌱
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 6mo ago🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Haley Branch! 🏵 The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution
The effect of #drought stress on the limits & costs of plasticity in floral longevity in response to #pollinator decline New #AJB research by Caelen McCabe & Christina Caruso doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Lobelia
Nominations are open for the 2026 BSA Young Botanist Awards! 🌿 Recognize an outstanding graduating senior in botanical science and introduce them to the global BSA community. Deadline: April 1, 2026. For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAStudentAwards
What can we learn from the first GWAS on bryophyte immunity? Have these plants evolved immune mechanisms similar to or different from those of angiosperms? (Spoiler: both!) Our latest paper is out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123 #Marchantia #Colletotrichum #EVOteam #LRSV
Reposting again because according to Reddit threads, another round of RWR emails went out today.
Noam Ross@noamross.net · 6mo agoNSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!
