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.

If you are planning for #Botany2027 and did or did not attend #Botany2026, fill out this form if you need childcare!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... please!! This year there was no childcare and the nursing room is more a custodian closet without a lock, AC, water/sink+light goes off very 5 mins

Hey #Botany2026, mark your schedule for an amazing talk by Kelly González, postdoc in my research group on ecological niche modeling and whether riverweeds (Podostemaceae) care for anything other than river rapids!! Tomorrow at 2:15 pm at San Luis 1

Hey #Botany2026! I'll be presenting a new video series in the Education & Outreach session that might be of interest to the herbarium crowd 👀🌿 Come by San Luis 2 at 11:45!

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

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!

Better late than never to compile the #botany2026 talks from research done in the #LagoLab! Check out talks by @laufran.bsky.social, Aislinn Mumford, and @evoyeyo.bsky.social tomorrow, and @laymonstera.bsky.social on Tuesday!

My heart is full— I’m so grateful to be part of these brilliant scientists’ journeys into full realization of their capacity and career goals. They’re also just a really fun hang and my favorite group of people, the hands down best part of my job. #LagoLab #botany2026

Just a little drink with #LagoLab alums @laymonstera.bsky.social and @evoyeyo.bsky.social to kick off #Botany2026

🌵Botanists🌺 on the move: make sure to say to our 🦜ornithologist🦩 friends on their way to #AOS2026 when you pass them in the airport in route to #Botany2026! (The Baton Rouge airport could have been a @lsumns.bsky.social seminar audience early this morning 😅.)

Good news- the #LagoLab is at a steady state! Incoming grad student @ca-haus.bsky.social moved into Baton Rouge yesterday. He’ll be at #Botany2026 too! 🎉 Campbell will be the first grad student who doesn’t have any overlap with my first grad students. A true generational turnover 😭.

Laura Lagomarsino, PhD@tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 6d ago

After seven fun, productive years as a #LagoLab PhD student, @laymonstera.bsky.social is off to a postdoc Berkeley with Sarah Kocher. I’m going to miss her but she’s so ready for her career ahead!! (We’d all be crying in this goodbye photo if we weren’t going to see her on Sunday at #botany2026 😅)

I 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

Tribble Lab & University of Washington Herbarium crew at #Botany2026!

After seven fun, productive years as a #LagoLab PhD student, @laymonstera.bsky.social is off to a postdoc Berkeley with Sarah Kocher. I’m going to miss her but she’s so ready for her career ahead!! (We’d all be crying in this goodbye photo if we weren’t going to see her on Sunday at #botany2026 😅)

Wanna hear about introgression and pollination syndromes? Boy, do I have a talk for you! I'll be presenting my last dissertation chapter in the Cooley Award session on Monday, 8:45am in room Tucson C-D! #botany2026

Beyond dry & fleshy: Hidden developmental & anatomical transitions in #Solanaceae fruit #evolution New #AJB research by @nataliapabonm.bsky.social, Estefanía Elejalde-Baena & Santiago Pérez-Ospina doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

The Careers in Botany Panel fills up every year, and #Botany2026 is no exception. The panel is at capacity, but we want to introduce the ten botanists giving their time to talk with students and postdocs about how they built their careers. Sunday, Aug 2, 3:30 to 5:00 pm

Do dogs need glasses? Most dogs have 20/75 vision, seeing at 20 feet what a human can see at 75 ft. Not great. But would they benefit from corrective lenses? The answer is: probably not. Let's talk about the good & bad of 'dog-o-vision'.

Smart Dog Wearing Glasses

Alt: Smart Dog Wearing Glasses: a black Labrador retriever (I think?) wearing a human pair of glasses suddenly reacts with alarm to something off-camera. It's in a generic home or apartment with tan carpet and white walls, with vertical blinds over a window.

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Make sure everyone comments on this rule. I do think there may be some compromise here. Putting a time limit on the visa is not crazy, it’s the length that’s the problem. Make PhD 8 years, masters’ 4, and bachelor’s 6 with automatic extensions for OPT, and then it’s a much more reasonable rule.

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

🌿 Applications are NOW OPEN for the ROOT & SHOOT RCN Fall SI-MI Mentoring Course! This free, online training helps plant scientists become more effective mentors by exploring how social identity, power, and culture shape mentoring relationships. Space is limited! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I know y'all *just* finished writing you public comments on the fascist NIH takeover plan but the fascist NSF takeover plan public comment period is now open (until August 24) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...

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Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’

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There are many comments up on the OMB rule but there are now many that claim to be in favor of the rule and they are well written and anonymous- claiming to be tenured professors worried about waste fraud and abuse. We need as many real, unique comments as possible that show how bad this rule is

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

The Sam Noble Museum is hiring a Collection Manager for the Fish Collection! Come work with me in Oklahoma! Please share widely! #TeamFish #MuseumJobs jobs.ou.edu/jobs/curator...

Curator Archivist - Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Pay Range: Targeted salary $18.99 per hour, based on experience Benefits Eligible: Yes Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (may include some weekends) Travel: May be required For Be...

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Do it! Today!! Right now!! Check it off your to-do list ✅. Time is running out to comment on the OMB proposal which hollow out science in the US. You have until Monday but you won’t want to do it over the weekend- so do it now!!

Andrew Ho@andrewdeanho.bsky.social · 4w ago

Faculty/research colleagues, this form helped me to draft a personal comment in 5 minutes and also appreciate how terrible this OMB proposal is for educational & measurement research. Comments due by 7/13, please sign on. ombcomment.netlify.app?link_id=5&ca... www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria, USA. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405

Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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It's almost East Coast bedtime on Day 1 of the United States of Science 2026! You all absolutely killed it today. We filled 1268 bubbles today!! 23 States are DONE, & 8 are within 10 bubbles. You are all incredible!! Keep the momentum going here. Fill bubbles here givebutter.com/USS2026

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · last mo.

The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026

I have officially started as Investigadora at the Instituto de Biología, UNAM. UNAM is a dream come true! Life is hectic! And I'm so excited for the immediate future, that will certainly involve liverworts, phylogenetics, and dogs! Follow my adventures here, ixchelgzlzr.github.io/es/