Penstemon lunch at #Botany2026 @aidanwshort.bsky.social @botanist-brooke.bsky.social Liz Mays @trinitydepatie.bsky.social @t-shy.bsky.social Josh Stevens @botanicalbecks.bsky.social
Trinity Depatie
@trinitydepatie.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Montana studying the evolution of rapid touch-sensitive stigma closure in monkeyflowers and other core Lamiales taxa. Spread kindness like wildflowers!!!! 🌸 www.trinityhdepatie.com
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!
Wohoo! Yes, postdocs at #Botany2026, please come to the Postdocs in Botany affinity group on Monday from noon to 1:30pm. Arizona Grand Ballroom… @botanist-brooke.bsky.social and I will see you all there! :)
Chris Martine | Plant People FTW@martinebotany.bsky.social · 3d agoAnd 9% are postdocs. That's 96 amazing peeps at #Botany2026 who could turn up for Monday's Postdocs in Botany affinity group social in the Arizona Grand Ballroom. #plantpeopleFTW
Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
Feb 1 deadline approaching for our @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social QBio summer course on Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals. @streichan.bsky.social @maurazimmermann.bsky.social @maizel-lab.org @yusuke-mori.bsky.social @akankshi.bsky.social @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social
New preprint is up! Not going spoil the results for you 🤓 but we looked at some “bird” vs “bee”-pollinated Penstemon hybrid zones and came away with some pretty unexpected results!
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 7mo agoGenomic signatures of reproductive isolation are decoupled from floral divergence in a long-standing hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.17.700129v1
It is not too late to donate. Contributions will help support a wonderful society and its awesome members! #ADayforBSA 🌱🌻🍄
Heather Cacanindin@hcacanindin.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe have just cross the $10,000 mark. Let's keep pushing to make that $15K goal! Thanks everyone for standing up for the botanical sciences! #ADayforBSA
I'm so thrilled that this paper is now out in American Journal of Botany! This paper marks a couple of exciting firsts for me - it is the first chapter of my dissertation and my first first-author publication 🎉. I hope folks enjoy reading it and become fans of personate flowers in Penstemon!
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last yr.The unique morphological basis & repeated evolutionary origins of personate flowers in #Penstemon New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon
Hot off the presses and so so thrilled. Thanks to @inaturalist.bsky.social + computer vision we found something beautifully simple: Red and orange flowers bloom later than all the other colors in the eastern United States. Paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kwzh3QW8S...
Happy international plant appreciation day!! Shout out to this amazing Bristlecone pine and the perfect Penstemon plants that I love so much! #LetsGoPlants #IamaBotanist
The deadline to apply for the 2025 PLANTS grants is coming soon on March 1, 2025! The PLANTS grant is a travel award for underrepresented undergraduates to attend #Botany2025. It offers special programming and includes registration, travel, meals, and lodging. Visit: botany.org/home/awards/...
Had the opportunity to chat with In Defense of Plants about my favorite plant, Galax urceolata. We dive into its ecology, genome evolution, and the fascinating world of polyploidy. Check out this week’s episode:
Stephen A. Smith@blackrim.bsky.social · last yr.www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2025... awesome episode of @shellygaynor.bsky.social work on Galax!
Love making maps Here are some samples from Penstemon newberryi x davidsonii hybrid zone at Virginia Lakes trail in the Sierras Color = flower color!
The first chapter of my dissertation with @carriewessi.bsky.social is now available as a preprint!! Give it a read if you are interested in learning more about the evolutionary history of an EXTREMELY cool floral type called personate flowers!!
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 2y agoThe unique morphological basis and parallel evolutionary history of personate flowers in Penstemon https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626427v1
Evolutionary genetics focussed friends!! Has anyone successfully applied for the NRSA F32 (postdoc level) fellowship in the past 3 years? Or perhaps do you know someone that has? Please feel free to send me a message if you are willing to share tips, advice, materials, etc. 😊 🌱Thanks in advance 🎉
Hey #Botany2024 stop by my talk tomorrow morning to FINALLY hear about what @carriewessi.bsky.social and I have learned about the genetic architecture of Penstemon’s personate flowers!! Tuesday - 8:30am- Development & Structure - Grand Gallery B
Can’t help but smile when my favs P. smallii and P. hirsutus are flowering!!! Happy Friday from the cutest eastern Penstemon flowers 😀
My second batch of F2s are almost done flowering, but let’s take a moment to appreciate their beauty one more time!!! #firstblueskypost
