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Angela McDonnell (she/her)

@angelajmcd.bsky.social
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Botany & plant evolution. Assistant Prof at St. Cloud State University. Also ma, human bean, systematist, herbarium curator, greenhouse lurker, & nerd.

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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Here he goes… ! #botany2025 #botanistsftw
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Martine Lab past/present/affiliated dinner at Lulu. Really dig these folks. 🥰 #Botany2025 #plantpeopleFTW
18 botanists with links to the lab at a restaurant in Palm Springs
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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
A close-up of the @uchicagopress.bsky.social @chicagojournals.bsky.social swag buffet available to #Botany2025 attendees. You can see @ijpsjournal.bsky.social bandanas, pens, and magnets, plus @asn-amnat.bsky.social magnets. Swing by to pick some up!
Chicago press booth at Botany2025, covered with journal issues and swag.
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Great talks and discussions happening at #Botany2025. Check out the starter pack to follow along (and let me know if you're attending so I can add you): go.bsky.app/Gu9T4st
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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Chris Martine identifying newish invasive loosestrife 😎😭
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Yes! Drop in and see Rebecca in the 2nd half of the poster session!! #Botany2025
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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Excited to showcase my new Open Educational Resource for intro college level Botany. It's a hybrid textbook, lab manual, and workbook. Published and ready for anyone to implement! I'll be showcasing it in the Educational section of #Botany2025 today and handing out copies & stickers!
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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Dr. Catrina Adams, Botanical Society of America Director of Education, steps up last minute to give our plenary address. YOU are a role model and absolute icon! Thanks for this, and for all you've done to get PlantingScience K-12 outreach to 20 years! Here's to the next 20! #Botany2025
A person giving a talk w a slide
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Single biggest clutch performance in my 23 years of Botany meetings. Finds out 20 minutes before the start time that she is stepping in … and KILLS it. Well done, Catrina! #Botany2025
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
9 years ago I went to my first Botany with Julienne & @robertlaport.bsky.social lab when @willweaver.bsky.social and I were undergrads. All 3 undergrads in that photo now have PhDs and Robs an associate prof! #Botany2016 #Botany2025
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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Excited to talk about our work on the relationship between bud depth in the soil and bulb size this morning (8:45, Mojave) at #Botany2025! 🪻😍🧅 If you can’t make it, check out the paper for all the info! Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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Deeper Bulbs Are Larger | International Journal of Plant Sciences: Vol 186, No 4
Premise of research.Belowground bud placement generally offers plants protection from aboveground disturbances, such as frosts and fires. However, deeper bud placement requires more reliance on stored...
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Dowell Lab @dowelllab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Dowell Lab is headed to #Botany2025, come check out some of our amazing talks to see what we’ve been up to!
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Jill M. Love, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @jillmlove.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Giving my first talk at Botany! So excited! #botany2025
Investigating the adaptive significance of leaf shape plasticity in a California endemic monkeyflower, Mimulus laciniatus
Tue, Jul 29 • 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Type Contributed Papers
Track Ecology
Part of: Ecology IV: Global Change & Adaptation
Smoketree CO - Convention Center & Hotel
Presenter
Jill Love
Tulane University, United States
Kathleen Ferris
Tulane University, United States
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Packed room for the @soltislab.bsky.social #Botany2025 workshop. If you cannot make it, all the resources can be found here: github.com/soltislab/Bo...
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Jesús Martínez-Gómez @jesusgm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025 Reach out! www.martinezgomezlab.com
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Martinez-Gomez Lab
Plant Evo-Devo
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Blue Beehive Studio @bluebeehivestudio.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
While it didn't work out to be a vendor in California for #Botany2025 this week, I'm excited to be there virtually through social media! This week only - the entire shop is 10-25% off. I'll be adding more pieces over the next several days, too. BlueBeehiveStudio.Etsy.com
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Naomi Fraga @naomibot.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I am excited to welcome #Botany2025 to my big backyard in the California desert. I kicked off the conference with a field trip up the Palm Springs tramway to explore the beautiful flora of the San Jacinto Mountains. I hope everyone enjoys Palm Springs!
Field trip participants Desert view
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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Made it to Phoenix! 1/2 the SCSU Botany contingent is almost to #botany2025. (The other 1/2 is already there and won race 😂)
Two people sitting on a plane
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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Mesquite 4 beta released! Many new features, esp. phylogenomic. Check out the trailer and longer video on the home page: www.mesquiteproject.org, and use the download link there to get a copy. Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).
The Mesquite icon shown, as a Mesquite leaf against a black background, and as a leave against the sun and a blue sky.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“For example, if a $50,000 student loan balance is discharged, and the balance is taxed at an effective rate of 25%, that could result in a tax bill of over $12,000, due all at once. This could be particularly problematic for medically disabled borrowers…given their inability to work.”
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Katie Wenzell @kewenzell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Very happy to see the work from my postdoc with @plantpollinator.bsky.social finally out! We explored floral color shifts in two monkeyflower species across floral traits, gene expression, and pollinator responses to understand early stages of floral divergence: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Within-species floral evolution reveals convergence in adaptive walks during incipient pollinator shift - Nature Communications
During evolution, how adaptive walks cross fitness valleys remains unclear. This integrative study on monkeyflowers reveals that convergence in large steps (floral color and gene expression) drives a ...
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#taxonomistappreciationDay is today.. and we have not migrated the graphic! So here it is!
pun with file cabinet showing different organisms "filed"
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In honor of March Madness, enjoy this piece from last year about Botanical Team Mascots, from my spouse in UNC' Herbarium and the NC Botanical Garden. How can you resist the Fighting Okra or the UNC School of the Arts Fighting Pickles! 🧪 ncbg.unc.edu/2024/03/05/m...
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March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots - North Carolina Botanical Garden
By Carol Ann McCormick Curatrix, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium As we enter the Bracket Season, a.k.a. March Madness, I have been contemplating sports team names, colors,... Rea...
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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In April sometime in the 90’s, I saw an ad for jello beans. I asked my mom probably 20 times to buy however many jello boxes it took to get a jello bean mold (am very prone to advertising). I’ve been moving this heirloom everywhere for like 25 years. Kids asked for jello yesterday. It is time.
A red plastic tray mold for bean shaped jello jigglers.
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Norm Wickett @reactionnorm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years. Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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University Assistant postdoctoral
University Assistant postdoctoral
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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Yesterday, students and I hosted a successful cyanotype workshop for middle school girls; it went so well and we had a lot of fun. Hold on to the little stuff, y’all.
A group of girls holding cyanotype prints they made, standing in a sunny greenhouse.
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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
My kids systematically check me for weaknesses like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park testing the fence
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Tariff-inflated prices pass the pain along to consumers, many of whom voted for Trump. Good job, asshole.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Memo directs all NSF grantees to comply with EOs, in particular "this may include, but is not limited to "conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks Full note:
Picture of NSF memo that reads: Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-25-13, issued on January 27, 2025, directs all Federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of their financial assistance programs to determine programs, projects, and activities that may be implicated by the recent Executive Orders. Therefore, all review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis. NSF has created an executive order implementation webpage to ensure the widest dissemination of information and updates. We will continue to communicate with you as we receive additional guidance.

All NSF grantees must comply with these Executive Orders, and any other relevant Executive Orders issued, by ceasing all non-compliant grant and award activities. Executive Orders are posted at whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions. In particular, this may include, but is not limited to conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks or violates Federal anti-discrimination laws. Please work with your institutional research office to assist you in complying with the Executive Orders. You can also direct your questions through this webform.

Thank you for your work advancing science, engineering, technology and innovation for our nation.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"All review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis." NSF statement on the impact of Trump administration executive orders. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
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NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
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Joely DeSimone @joely-desimone.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NSF PRFB fellows: talk to your POs and transfer the remaining year’s balance of salary and research funds by 5pm today!! Dm me if you want to join the prfb slack where fellows are sharing info with each other #nsf #nsfprfb
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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I need a Gulf of Mexico t-shirt stat
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...
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WHITE HOUSE RALLY · VizEvents
The White House has just frozen federal funding, a move that could halt payments within days to states and households relying on essential programs like SNAP food aid, housing assistance, education, h...
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
My NSF panel later this week finally officially cancelled. "Aim to reschedule." I'm so sad for the early career folks who this will impact - I hope this can get rescheduled so that funding decisions can still be made... 🧪
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
As of this AM, it is uncertain how NSF postdoc fellows will be impacted. If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals. This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.
new.nsf.gov
Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE)
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2025
I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I'm seeing folks posting about NSF pausing operations or sending stop-work notifications to PIs (I haven't received one, despite having two active proposals). Please be very careful about what you post and share. Vet information first. Cite sources. Maintain credibility via information hygiene.
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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Gluing magnets onto this printed rack is a lot harder than I thought it would be… 🤡
A 3d printed rack with 8 magnets glued onto it, with room for 8 more magnets to be added.A red 3d printed rack that with four neodymium magnets glued on it, there is room for 12 more magnets.
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Mason McNair, PhD (he/him) @sarraceniamason.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery
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Joana Bergmann @joanabergmann.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery.
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If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery.
A red zinnia inflorescence with a leaf footed bug sitting on one of the ray florets.
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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
It’s a good day to emasculate what you can… even if it’s just a tomato flower.
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Chestbursty @chestrovert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The entirety of the Muppet Babies cartoon series exists within the 3 minutes that Piggy sings in Muppets Take Manhattan, this is easily explained using Inception rules
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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Honestly writing code with AI might be my favorite use of the tool. Or maybe it’s the meeting summaries in zoom… not sure. 😂
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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My colleague Steve sent me more Schiedea seeds; and they are germinating! It’s the best news of this week, tbh.
A small petri dish with seeds and seedlings inside, sealed up with parafilm.A small petri dish with seeds and seedlings inside, sealed up with parafilm.
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Jay @jaycubed2k.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Don't even email me if you're using a serif font, I swear to god
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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