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Erika R Moore-Pollard

@erikarmoore11.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Connecticut studying functional trait tradeoffs in bromeliads 🍍 Also involved in genomics and systematics of the sunflower family 🌻🥬🌼 ermoore-pollard.com

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Dr. Sarah Carey @scarey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am thrilled to share our pre-print for CBS-tools: a k-mer based analysis that utilizes whole-genome sequencing of a few sex-identified isolates to guide users from the discovery of the heterogametic sex through identifying the sex-determination region www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Identifying, phasing, and structurally annotating sex chromosomes for genome assemblies using CBS-tools
A complete reference genome for species with chromosomally-determined separate sexes should contain scaffolds for all sex chromosome homologs. However, sex chromosomes present distinct computational c...
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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📣 Submit your manuscript to a Special Issue of Biopreservation and Biobanking focused on Botanical Biobanking for Research and Conservation—ranging from seeds, pollen and spores to tissues, DNA and living collections 🫘🧬🌿 Submissions due: March 31, 2027 journals.sagepub.com/page/bpb/bot...
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Mandel felt welcomed at her first Botany Conference, and now she passes that experience on to her own trainees. YOUR Journey, and every journey it makes room for, is OUR Story of creating a safe scientific community. 🌱Give to the BSA Endowment this #DayforBSA! day-for-bsa.botany.org/2026
A Day for BSA quote graphic. White text quotes Jennifer Mandel, who attended her first Botany Conference as a postdoc and found a welcoming, international mix of scientists; she says BSA has been a home for her and her trainees through awards, grants, and connections, ending “Thank you BSA!” Below is a photo of Jennifer smiling and holding a sunflower, beside the circular A Day for BSA logo. Bottom text: “YOUR Journey — OUR Story. Give to the BSA Endowment Today!”
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The BSA is truly a special org - if you are able, please consider donating. Overwhelming, funds donating go toward student support. 💚
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you saw our new paper and thought "I didn't know aquatic plants use CAM!" boy do we have a fun project for you! Our lab is developing high throughput methods to screen plants for CAM. Do you work on, or know of, a plant that you think could be using CAM? Let us know! 👉 forms.gle/AyQc5KgzEYoM...
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Are your plants CAM suspicious?
Have you ever wondered if the plants you work on are... living a double life working the nightshift? We are too. Our lab is looking to identify and screen more plants for CAM activity. We are beginnin...
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
From the #AppsPlantSci Non-model Plants special issue Techniques and challenges in studying photosynthetic diversity in freshwater submerged vascular plants (by @ellliieee.bsky.social, @wickellomics.bsky.social, @kheyduk.bsky.social, et al) doi.org/10.1002/aps3... #photosynthesis #aquaticplants
Various leaf cross sections and views of leaf surfaces of submerged aquatic species. From left to right and clockwise:  Leaf surface of Littorella uniflora, a leaf cross section of L.  uniflora, leaf cross section of Vallisneria sp., the adaxial leaf surface of Vallisneria sp., leaf cross section of Egeria densa, and the rosette growing tip of E. densa. Credit: Ellie Loew-Mendelson
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Final reminder! #AppsPlantSci is accepting applications for our Reviewing Editor board. It's a great opportunity for postdocs & grad students to get hands-on experience in the editorial & review process. Apply by Aug 15. Term starts Sept 15 2026 More info: botany.org/home/publica...
The graphic reads: Call for Reviewing Editors. Deadline August 15, 2026". The Botanical Society of America and Applications in Plant Sciences logos are at the bottom.
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Erika R Moore-Pollard @erikarmoore11.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Had a great time as a RE with APPS and would suggest it to anyone wanting to gain some editorial experience! Reach out if you have any questions! #IloveAPPS
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Blue Beehive Studio @bluebeehivestudio.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thank you #Botany2026! Our donation-post-conference tradition continues! $300 went to A4TE (Advocates for Trans Equality), and $100 went to the The Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter & Sanctuary in Tucson, AZ. Please visit their sites to learn more about what they do! #sciart #PlantPeopleFTW
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John Hodge @jghodge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
As someone a bit earlier on in their career I gotta say I can’t thank the #botany2026 committee (and the @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social and D&S subsections) for letting me lead a symposium, it was a fantastic opportunity and I feel like a lot of great conversations were had (and connections made!)
Conference room showing me leading off the Eco-Evo-Devo symposium
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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
PSA to #faculty #SearchCommittees as you gear up for this year’s round. Send out questions in advance! This is #inclusive and levels the playing field. It is #equitable and easy to do. #academia #faculty #eeb #disabledinstem #hiring #evojobs #ecoevo #ecoevojobs #Botany2026 #Ecology #Evolution
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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
That’s a wrap for all of our section’s sessions. Thanks to everyone who came and presented such awesome research this year. See you next year in Buffalo! #bsaecophys #botany2026
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Don't miss the BSA Incoming President's Special Lecture by Chris Martine at 6pm in Tucson E-F! "When it comes to community, it's #PlantPeopleFTW" — we couldn't agree more! #Botany2026
Group photo of past and present individuals who have worked in Chris Martine's lab.Chris Martine
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Lauren Frankel @laufran.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
thank you so much to the ASPT @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for this honor!! I feel so proud and touched to be recognized for the Cooley Award! 💗💗 #botany2026
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Hey #Botany2026 friends, our Belonging in Botany speaker had to cancel unfortunately (we hope to get him back next year!). Instead we're trying something different. We're going to have a discussion-based workshop to help us connect across our common struggles and share ways to stay resilient 1/2
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.
Interested in Polyploidy and Population Genetics?

Florida State University, Join the Gaynor Lab. My lab is open to both Ph.D. and master students through the Ecology and Evolution area in Biological Sciences at FSU - applications are due December 1st!
I also have funding to support a postdoctoral researcher and a technician during my first three years at FSU. The postdoctoral researcher will focus on polyploidy population genomics. The technician will help with lab work including flow cytometry for genome size estimation and DNA sequencing preparation.

If you are interested in joining the lab, please send me an email with a CV/resume and a brief explanation of your research interests and your career goals

Find out more at mlgaynor.com and email me at  shellyleegaynor at gmail.com
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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I will be presenting at #botany2026 during the Development & Structure Part 2 session at 4:30 PM local time in San Luis 1. I will be talking about sex systems in the capitulum and the models we are using to approach questions on the links between floret sex, location, and symmetry! (1/2)
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Lauren Frankel @laufran.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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
Title slide of talk with bold text: "Introgression and trait evolution in the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae)"
Author list: "Lauren Frankel, Ana Maria Bedoya, Katherin Arango-Goméz, Nicholas Brigida, Laura Lagomarsino, Cécile Ané"
and colorful floral photos of Neotropical bellflowers lining the bottom of the slide.
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Erika R Moore-Pollard @erikarmoore11.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Come see what I’ve been up to for the last year! Excited to showcase the trials and tribulations of my work on the ecophysiology and genomics of bromeliads 🍍
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Postdocs & grad students: Do you want hands-on experience in the editorial and review process? Apply to join the #AppsPlantSci Reviewing Editor board. Applications due Aug 15. Term starts September 15 2026. For more info: botany.org/home/publica... #botany #plantscience #iamabotanist
The graphic reads "Call for Reviewing Editors, Deadline August 15, 2026". Logos for the Botanical Society of America and Applications in Plant Sciences are at the bottom.
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Jill M. Love, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @jillmlove.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🎉 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....
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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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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
From the #AppsPlantSci Phylogenetic Networks issue Ancient hybridization & #phylogenetic discordance: Exploring evolutionary complexity in #Asteraceae (Ellestad, @erikarmoore11.bsky.social @carolsiniscalchi.bsky.social @jennifermandel.bsky.social et al) doi.org/10.1002/aps3... #evolution #botany
Phylogenetic relationships and inferred hybridization events at the base of the full nuclear phylogeny. Tribes are colored by subfamily as indicated in the legend on the bottom left. The left main tree shows the species relationships as bifurcating black edges, representing well-supported phylogenetic splits. Colored edges represent hybridization events inferred from six individual subtree analyses using PhyloNetworks (SNaQ), with colors corresponding to each subtree shown in the panels on the right. Hybrid edges connect two parental lineages to a single hybrid node, representing gene flow into the recipient lineage.
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Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Integrative analysis of CAM photosynthesis reveals its impact on primary metabolism in Yucca academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social
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Integrative analysis of CAM photosynthesis reveals its impact on primary metabolism in Yucca
Abstract. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) is an adaptation that temporally separates carbon uptake at night from photosynthesis during the day. CAM has
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Jazlyn Mooney @jazlynmooney.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Revision of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification has been underway! The group is requesting community feedback until April 22nd. Here is a link to a survey to gather feedback, which includes links to the manuscript and the new classification: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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APG V Survey - Extended Deadline
Dear Colleagues: We are soliciting community input on a draft of APG V, which is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M8ZWZoJTj1mFYUe_bRKrP-NCwwEzoGuC/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=11366933678134...
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Heather Cacanindin @hcacanindin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It's a BIG DAY! Abstracts are due and we celebration International Plant Appreciation Day! #IPAD2026 #BOTANY2026
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April Wei @aprilwei.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We introduce grapp, a collection of GRG-based command-line tools that resembles PLINK2: variant and sample filtering, GWAS with covariates, PCA, and data export as native graph operations. Routine analyses can now be done easily and orders-of-magnitude faster with grapp, with minimal upfront cost.
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Heather Cacanindin @hcacanindin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Y'all know you have a few days left to submit an abstract for #Botany2026, right? www.botanyconference.org
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
6 days! #Botany2026
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Yesterday's rain was a godsend as spring continues to rush forward. Here are 4 more lovlies: Andersonglossum virginianum (Wild Comfrey), Trillium catesbaei (Bashful Wakerobin), Uvularia perfoliata (Perfoliate Bellwort) & Packera aurea (Golden Ragwort) 1/2
Andersonglossum virginianum
Wild ComfreyTrillium catesbaei Bashful Wakerobin
Uvularia perfoliata
Perfoliate BellwortPackera aurea
Golden Ragwort
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Gantt chart? More like Cantt chart.
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David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
How do pairs of DNA loci - such as enhancers and promoters - find each other inside the nucleus? 🤔 Most models assume the random forces driving locus motion are independent in space New preprint by @janniharju.bsky.social: this assumption fails in living cells 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus
Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
DEADLINE IN 1 WEEK 🌿SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS🌿 #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,” led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers. More info at botany.org/home/publica... #botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience
The text at the top reads: “APPS Special Issue Call for Papers: Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential”. The image shows a phylogenetic tree on the left side, with images illustrating each genus in the tree on the right. Images from top to bottom are Hypogymnia inactiva, Imshaugia aleurites, Cladonia asahinae, Leptogium sp., Graphis plumierae, Opegrapha niveoatra. A QR code is in the bottom left corner. The text at the bottom reads: “Proposal deadline March 16, 2026”.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci special issue "Branching out: Resolving #PlantEvolution through #Phylogenetic Networks" Introducing ghostbuster: a new tool to detect cryptic ghost lineage introgression in genomic datasets (by Forsythe et al) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany
Species and gene trees showing expected sequence divergence under ingroup versus ghost lineage introgression models.
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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Today's accomplishment: needed to convert HOMER motif files to MEME motif files, wrote a script to do it and put it on GitHub for everyone doing motif-y things to use! Find it here: github.com/achpardo/hom... and let me know how it works for you!
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GitHub - achpardo/homer_to_meme: Script to convert HOMER .motif files to MEME-format motif files (Python).
Script to convert HOMER .motif files to MEME-format motif files (Python). - achpardo/homer_to_meme
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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants
In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...
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Rebecca (BeKa) Leuschen-Kohl @bleuschenkohl.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Are you a postdoc in a plant-related field such as🌿 Plant Biology 🌿 Agriculture & Crop Sciences 🌿 Ecology & Environment 🌿 Plant Pathology & Protection or 🌿 Biotechnology ? We invite you to join a community of 700+ postdoctoral researchers from around the world at www.plantpostdocs.com
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Richard Littauer @richlitt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Taxonomists: If you liked the old TAXACOM mailing list, we've restarted it. You can sign up, here: groups.google.com/g/taxacom Please share widely! We don't have access to the old lists. If you know any taxonomists, let them know, and pass it on. #science #academia #taxonomy
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Claire Menard @clairecodes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Excited to say that I am on the job market and will be looking for postdoc or job opportunities either remotely or in the Seattle, WA area. I will be finishing up my PhD in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics sometime late summer or early fall of this year. Please let me know if you know of anything!
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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
🐻Excited that my and @littlemuseums.bsky.social 's paper on the demographic history of American black bears across the eastern range is up! While I think the phylogeography aspects are interesting, our key point is that named subspecies are unsupported. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It was great being involved in this paper. Check it out for an update on what’s going on in the world of Cyanidiophyceae biology!
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Lauren Eserman-Campbell @laeserman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📄🚨New paper from our Florida conservation team showing the positive impact of habitat restoration on biodiversity. And the coolest part- this work was done without herbicide! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cumulative restoration action leads to improved vegetative response in shrub‐encroached wet prairies of coastal Florida, U.S.A.
This study shows effective restoration of shrub-encroached wet prairies may require more than conventional management tools. The cumulative effect of three treatment approaches, removal of woody shru...
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Jim Leebens-Mack @jleebensmack.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Work led by @pbentz.bsky.social shows that two of eight dispersals of Asparagus out of Southern Africa were associated with shifts to dioecy and independently evolved XY sex determination systems.
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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!
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Post-Doctoral Associate
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three quantitative biology postdoctoral fellow po...
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Florian Schimdt, PhD student in the group, is in Cabo Verde collecting Diplotaxis sp. . 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde is my favourite country on earth because of its people, culture and biodiversity. 1/3
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Spatial genetic structure of #Arundinaria appalachiana (hill cane), an upland #bamboo species endemic to the southern #AppalachianMountains, USA New #AJB research by Jonathan Evans & Ashley Morris doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience #botany #conservation
Large hillcane ramet with multiple branches located at the Franklin State Forest study site.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🌿SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS🌿 #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,” led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers. Proposals due by 16 March 2026 More info at botany.org/home/publica... #botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience
The text at the top reads: “APPS Special Issue Call for Papers: Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential”. The image shows a phylogenetic tree on the left side, with images illustrating each genus in the tree on the right. Images from top to bottom are Hypogymnia inactiva, Imshaugia aleurites, Cladonia asahinae, Leptogium sp., Graphis plumierae, Opegrapha niveoatra. A QR code is in the bottom left corner. The text at the bottom reads: “Proposal deadline March 16, 2026”.
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Happy recruitment/interview season for PhD students! Recruiting students in ecology & evolutionary biology? Make sure your department's stipend is accurate in our database: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
Salary to living wage plot with only 4 programs falling aprove the 1:1 line and paying a living wage.
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