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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Has any other #Botany2026 attendees been humming the #PlantPeopleFTW song by @martinebotany.bsky.social all morning? 🎶🌺🎼👨🏻‍🌾🎵

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Elizabeth McCarthy @emccnicotiana.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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

Slide screenshot with the text below and many front facing flower photos on a black background showing Nicotiana flowers with varying shape and color. Text: Patterns of flower evolution different in Nicotiana section Suaveolentes allopolyploids compared to those observed in Nicotiana diploids--Elizabeth McCarthy1, Marissa Mc Lean1, Kendra Muscato1, Francesca Gambale1, Erin Hamm1, Kaylee Hughen1, Kylie Nolan1, Colin Woodruff1, Jacob Landis2, Mark Chase3, Corinne Mhiri4, Marie-Angèle Grandbastien4, Douglas Soltis5, and Pamela Soltis5--1SUNY Cortland, USA, 2Cornell University, USA, 3Curtin University, Australia, 4INRAE, France, 5University of Florida, USA

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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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!

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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!

Poster with talks from the Lagomarsino Lab at LSU:

Lauren Frankel (former undergrad)
Introgression and trait evolution in the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae)
Monday at 8:45 in the Cooley Award Session
Tucson C-D

Aislinn Mumford
Evolution of Color in Palicourea, a Genus of Neotropical Flowering Plants
Monday at 11:30 in Ecology I
San Pedro 2

Dr. Diego Paredes-Burneo (former PhD student)
Rapid Diversification and Phylogenomic Conflict Across the Tropical Andean Flora
Monday at 2:15 in the Cooley Award Session
Tucson C-D

Laymon Ball
Clarifying species boundaries in a Neotropical complex: Hillia subgenus Hillia (Rubiaceae)
Tuesday at 11:15 in Systematics & Taxonomy
San Ignacio

Each talk has an image of the speaker to the left and their study system to the right. It's purple and gold.

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Hannah E. Marx, PhD @hannahmarx.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Excited to see everyone this week at #Botany2026 ! Check out what our lab has been working on 🌵 :

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#BOTANY2026 PRESENTATIONS

Bryana Olmeda, MS
Monday 8/3, 1:45-2:00pm, San Pedro 1
A Floristic Study Of The Vascular Flora Of The Brokeoff Mountains, Southcentral NM

Lila Kleppner, Undergrad
Monday 8/3, 5:30-7:00pm, Poster P74
Using over 100 years of herbarium records and citizen science data to explore alpine phenology in the Adirondacks

Dylan Sheng, Lab Technician
Monday 8/3, 5:30-7:00pm, Poster P87
Impact of mountain aspects on alpine community assembly across western North America

Hannah Marx
Tuesday 8/4, 8:00-8: 15am, Tucson Ballroom F
Symposium Introduction: Advancing Alpine Plants as Models of Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics at the Boundaries of Plant Survival

Joseph Kleinkopf, PhD candidate
Wednesday 8/5, 1:45-2:00pm, Tucson C-D Biogeography and biome evolution in Erigeron L. (Asteraceae)

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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I won’t be at #Botany2026 but for those interested in bryophyte phylogenetics or sex chromosomes check out Seyeon Kim’s talk at 9:30a Monday in Colloquia 1 - Beyond Phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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UVfinder: a tool to extract bryophyte sex-linked gene copies from the GoFlag408 probe set

Premise Target enrichment sequencing using probe sets like GoFlag 408 has revolutionized phylogenetics, yet recent genomic data indicate that some probes may be sex-linked, potentially introducing top...

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey. You. Presenter at #Botany2026. Let's use the mic this week, yes?! Yes!

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

When at #botany2026 you have to botanize! Twas nice to get out on a sunrise hike with some Marx lab mates

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Benjamin Ajayi @ajayibenmi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Thanks for the shoutout! 🎉 It’s always a pleasure connecting with you. If you’re at #Botany2026, don’t be shy—come say hello! We’d love to hear about your research, career goals, or simply chat about all things plants. 🌿 What are you most excited about at this year’s meeting?

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Always fun catching up with student reps @ajayibenmi.bsky.social and Sara!! Make sure to say hi if you run into them at #botany2026

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Elizabeth McCarthy @emccnicotiana.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We made it to Tucson and picked up some more botanists on the way! #Botany2026 #PlantPeopleFTW

5 botanists in a cab heading to Botany 2026

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

As we all eagerly (anxiously?) await NSF's release of the 2026 GRFP solicitation, please consider signing up as a mentor for BSA's GRFP workshop. We especially need more senior mentors (PIs, postdocs, and research scientists)!

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The "Florédex" ✨, a pokémon-inspired vector collection of the greatest flower designs and their science is coming along nicely 🌷🧬 All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Popping up early in the season #Wurmbea dioica subsp. alba can be found all around the southwest! This species has a complex variation in dioecy where populations here show both unisex flowers and bisexual flowers, this can be seen in the photos below of 3 variations

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Thank you ben ❤️ it has been a blast working with you during my tenure as student rep! #botany2025

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Oluwatobi (Tobi) Oso @oso-tee.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California! Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!! @ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Sometimes (especially late in the conference) 5 minute talks just hit the spot! Thorough enjoying Germinating Ideas/Lightening Talks at #Botany2025 Got to see my senior undergrad Magdalyn Rowley-Lange crush her CAM talk ...and we got to see dogs hunting invasive plants!

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

#UpAllNightWednesday at #Botany2025 will be at Street Bar!!! The first gay bar in Palm Springs 🏳️‍🌈 Be ready for karaoke!! 🎤 🕺 💃🏽 ✨

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab

Laymon receives the award from Dave Tank.

Charlotte gives the her statement after the award is announced.

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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

What happens when a CAM species and a C3 species hybridize? Find out today in Comparative Genomics I at 10:15 (right after the coffee break)! #botany2025 #whambamcam #camgenda

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

My heart is full, my cup overflowing. Wonderful dinner out with my @coloradocollege.bsky.social Jabailylab alumni, from the classes of '19, '20, '22, '25, '26. Our currently ill '28 was greatly missed. I am so proud of these people (a second family!) and grateful to be together at #Botany2025

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Dr. Nora Mitchell @noraflora10.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I'll be presenting my talk "Get Low: Evolutionary Transitions to Non-flying Mammal Pollination in Protea) at 4pm today Tuesday in Mesquite B at #Botany2025! Come learn about Protea in South Africa and what else changes when they species have different primary pollinators!

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Dr. Nora Mitchell @noraflora10.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A few moments from the poster session at #Botany2025!

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Thanks everybody who came to the student mixer last night! The vibes were magnificent and it was great to meet new folks! #botany2025

So many student botanists outside on the patio at Oscar’s

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Wanna hear about eastern Penstemon funkyness? Stop by poster #102 at 6:15!

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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Come see me at the poster session tonight (P16) for two separate applications of @inaturalist.bsky.social in Monarda… showcasing iNat’s help for understanding organismal biology at both super broad (thousands of observations) and super targeted (single observation) scales 🙂 #Botany2025

Title of my poster: iNaturalist-facilitate natural history in Monarda

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Thanks all that came through the BIPOC mixer this morning at #botany2025 !! Just a sliver of the diversity here at the conference #biodiversity

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hey #botany2025 make sure to check out the Disabled in Botany symposium this afternoon (1:30, Catalina)!!

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Elizabeth McCarthy @emccnicotiana.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

#Botany2025 ! My talk is in Smoketree D/E today (Mon) at 11:45am, but more importantly, these FANTABULOUS @sunycortland undergrads have posters tonight! Come learn about how polyploidy affects Nicotiana flowers! :) 💖

Slide advertising SUNY cortland undergrad posters at Botany 2025 on how polyploidy affects Nicotiana flowers: posters 181, 184, and 186

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Mason McNair, PhD (he/him) @sarraceniamason.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

How can technology like 3d printing help your research, teaching, and outreach? Come find out today at 11:30 in Smoketree C in the education and outreach section #Botany2025

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Dear #Botany2025 speakers - please DO use the microphone (stand by the podium so it can pick you up) so that those of us who have hearing issues/are hard of hearing/are d/Deaf can hear your excellent science! Thanks! Props to the meeting organizers for setting up subtitles in Powerpoint, yayyyyyy

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Taylor AuBuchon-Elder (she/her) @taelder.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Can't wait for #Botany2025! If you like Andropogoneae or Tropicos, please stop by my poster session for "The Andropogoneae Extended Specimen Project: Implementation"

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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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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Spanish #NotMoss dispersing its seeds

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Packing for #Evol2025? Bring your new and gently used field gear and clothes that you no longer use to donate to the Field Gear Swap! Hosted by the tri-society Diversity Committees - drop by their booth to donate or pick up! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @evolmtg.bsky.social

Cartoon drawings of a Hawaiian shirt, flashlight, compass, and camping tent. Text: Evolution 2025 Field Gear Swap, Diversity Committees Booth.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Join a Zoom workshop this Friday from science writer Dr. Katherine Xue to to get ideas on how to write a hometown op-ed for the McClintock Letters initiative to tell your community why science funding matters! Link here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

McClintock Letter-Writing Workshop flyer. For all of the information, visit: https://blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-initiatives/the-mcclintock-letters/

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

A flyer with the heading McClintock Letter-Writing Workshop. Details are Friday, June 6th, 12pm ET and 9am PT, virtual.

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF! Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts. We must make noise! Pls RT!!!! #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

SSE, SSB, and ASN logos. Text: Tri-societies Week of Action for NSF. Science under siege: Over 1000 NSF grants have been terminated by political appointees- threatening the foundation of American innovation and education, and more cuts loom; entire research programs are being erased without explanation. What’s at stake? STEM education for K-12 students, jobs and infrastructure in rural communities, support for veterans in research and education, cybersecurity and national defense innovation, global leadership in science and technology. Join the week of action: Contact Congress: Switchboard: (202) 224-3121, tell them to protect NSF. Share your story: Post on social media #WithoutNSF #SupportNSF #SaveNSF, engage local media; use our media tool to reach out to local reporters and newspapers; engage others: communicate the importance of NSF to colleagues, friends, and family.

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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Yesterday Tr*mp froze all NSF funds, today he announced a 56% budget cut. This is going to devastate science in the US. I've spent the morning calling my reps to raise hell and applying for jobs as it's clear I can't sustain my freelance scicomm business on NSF funding anymore (1/n) #scicomm #nsf 🧪

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