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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Haven’t posted on here in a while but recent grad from my lab, Dr. Keana Tang made the front cover of AJB ✨

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

#TansleyReview: Homology and heterochrony in the evolution of #conifer #SeedCones Kelly K. S. Matsunaga 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Fig. 1 Morphology of extant conifer seed cones.

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Was happy to be greeted by inky caps this am. This mushroom excretes enzymes to digest itself to spread more spores. When the dark spores mix with the digestive fluids, it gives the mushroom an inky appearance. So goth, I love it.

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XENOFAUNA @xenofauna.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Godzilla vs. Biollante commission!

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Oregon State University Botany and Plant Pathology @osubpp.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is hiring a Directory of the Herbarium

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Thanks to all the authors and reviewers who are contributing to this special issue! 🌿⛏️ Many papers are still in review/in revision but some are already available online: academic.oup.com/aob/search-r... #paleobotany #FossilFriday

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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

Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

New logo(s) just dropped. Self expression in my research endeavors has been important for me lately. Low key, Tony Hawk pro skater logo was an inspo for these

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I'll have more info in a few weeks when I get back from fieldwork but I'll be recruiting 2 graduate students to begin in 2026 (1 PhD, 1 MS). My lab investigates macroevolutionary dynamics using phylogenetic methods & the fossil record. Please share with students having strong research interests!

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Was greeted by this massive slime mold in my garden this morning. One of my fav organisms

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Recently installed a cassette player in my 94 Chevy c1500. Physical media brings me so much joy

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

KUPB scoured central KS for 100 million year old plants. Prospects ahead

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Also special shoutout to the ancestors 🖤

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Some good news: I’ve officially been awarded tenure with promotion in rank to Associate Professor and Associate Curator Thanks to all those who supported me along the way ❤️

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Our paper is now published🌲⛏️🇦🇶 #paleobotany #fossil #botany

Sections of fossil wood showing small rings

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is something I’ve done with @briladwig.bsky.social as broader impact activities for grants. I’d love to see more academics make zines.

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Im so bummed to see this. Cipres had been an incredible computational resource to my research program. As an ECR I depended on it to run so many phylogenetic analyses, many if which ended up in my publications. I’m really sad to see it go. Much gratitude for the people who kept Cipres running

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Please share this opportunity widely! Instructors: @fmachado.bsky.social @alencarlrv.bsky.social @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social Jacqueline Sztepanacz, Patrick Carter & Joe Felsenstein (virtually)

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

@briladwig.bsky.social is finally on bluesky! It’s been a blessing to collab with her on paleo inspired zines. Check her out

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

What an opportunity to work with an amazing (paleo)botanist!

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

As a horror fan, I have to share (with permission) this student made zine. It def gives some Junji Ito vibes imo

Psychedelic zine cover with person that has fern fiddleheads for hair

Zine pages discussing fiddle head form and the golden ratio.

Zine illustrations and words discussing the unsettling nature of ferns (opinionated)

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Lately ive been really into zines. They are a great alt medium to convey info and community happenings. This semester I made a EC activity in my biodiversity class that had students make their own zines focusing on their favorite organism in class. Check this out (shared with permission)

Zine illustration of fern reproductive morphology including sori

A fern haiku with a tree ferns and a dinosaur

Illustrations of fern leaf morphology including the zine

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

There aren't many paleobotanist over here yet, but here's a Starter Pack of people who I follow because they're either paleobotanists🌿, do paleobotanical art🪷, or post about plants in a way relevant to #paleobotany🍁. It's currently a small list, so lemme know who needs adding. go.bsky.app/HkFEbfL

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AshPoust @ashpoust.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We're hiring a curator of Botany! The University of Nebraska State Museum is looking for a botanist (broadly concieved) to head the Bessey Herbarium. Good collection (350k specimens/3k types), good people! Please apply or share: The UNL application site link is: employment.unl.edu/postings/93856

Pressed plant (originally collected by Bessey) preserved on a paper background.

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I am recruiting graduate students this year to join my lab in Tucson! If you are interested in studying the evolution of plant diversity, polypoidy, and chromosomal evolution, please reach out about opportunities in my lab! Details about applying to EEB and our new CAMBIUM NRT in the thread below! 🧪

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Reminiscent of a random beach beach day on James Ross Island, Antarctica This one is for you @jdwitts.bsky.social #fossilfriday

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James Witts @jdwitts.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Blue sky for Bluesky! This #FossilFriday enjoy expansive views of the López de Bertodano Formation on Seymour Island, Antarctica. Taken early 2024 during @antarcticsurvey.bsky.social fieldwork. I'm standing ~on top of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary.

A barren rocky landscape under a clear blue sky. The layers of rock appear to 'dip' to the right.

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Mongolian oak (Q. mongolica) buries its embryo deeply betw the cotyledons. Good move! Squirrels nip off the tips of the acorns to keep them from germinating in the cache. Of 6 taxa studied, only Q. mongolica germination was unaffected by artificial clipping. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Students/postdoc told me this was the result of a lab bonding activity

Arts and craft piece created by students depicting Clippy from Microsoft word.

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

When my collaborator, Selena Smith, and I process these Cretaceous fruits we are able to observe and collect amazing details of tissues and cells. All of which are important for identifying and analyzing the relationships of these Antarctic fossils

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David Tan @mangrovepitta.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hi fellow Bluesky scientists. We have a job opening for a new assistant professor of biology and herbarium curator here at the University of New Mexico! Come join our fantastic community at the Museum of Southwestern Biology! See the link below for more details. unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Assistant Professor of Biology and Herbarium Curator

We invite applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Biology and Curator of the Herbarium at the Museum of Southwestern Biolog...

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Distributing a couple hundred paleobotany/art zines across Lawrence and KC. May these pieces transport readers to a place of awe and curiosity. Things we all need. This is a collabo between myself and illustrator Bri Ladwig #sciart #illustration #plants #fossils

Two zine issues called In Praise of an Echo

Illustration of a cathedral-like rainforest

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Tree ferns are nice and all, but our main objective was to recover 3D preserved Cretaceous flowering plants. Long story short: mission accomplished. We found a shocking diversity of flowers and fruits that chronicle which groups were diversifying in the Southern Hemisphere during the Cretaceous

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Proud to collaborate w/ illustrator, Bri Ladwig on creating paleobotaby inspired zines. Each issue is full of Cretaceous plants and thrills. We just completed issue 2 which covers lianas. More issues on the horizon 🤘🏾 Check em out here: briladwig.myshopify.com/collections/... #paleoart #zines

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Post your most popular #art from Twitter🍁 I've never had anything actually go viral or get many likes, but this Ginkgoales leaf montage ended up being my most popular piece of art: so YAY for paleobotany!!! #paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

This expedition resulted in 9000 lbs (!!!) of ~80 million year old fossils including those reflecting ancient rainforest type of environments such as this tree fern stump

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Cool autumn temperatures in North America rn have me reminiscing about an Antarctic expedition I led earlier this year to collect Cretaceous plants. (Thx to NSF for funding). Will post more pics soon

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

After the 3 years of delays, my team and I are finally en route to Antarctica. Our objectives are to recover and describe 80 million yr old plant fossils in Antarctica to better understand the evolution of modern ecosystems in Gondwana. Check out our project logo designed by Bri Ladwig Stays tuned

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James Saulsbury @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

New📜in PNAS! Age-dependent extinction and the neutral theory of biodiversity (w/ great collaborators @tomopfuku.bsky.social , Connor J. Wilson, Trond Reitan, & Lee Hsiang Liow) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

One of the most amazing shows in biology abt to go down in dem ovules. Watch the Sea in the Seed on YouTube. You won’t regret it.

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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Congrats to @bruceslieberman.bsky.social for being recognized for his work the make the Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology open access.

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2023 Shulenburger Award

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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

I haven't been very active here still trying to understand the mood. However, since I see many paleoart people following me, I will remind everyone of my plant paleoart posts. The first was dedicated to my beloved and often misrepresented cycads

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Palaeobotany for Paleoartists: Fossil Cycads

In recent times, I have been interested in the way that fossil plants are represented (or more often, not represented) in palaeoartistic works. Though I have started a project trying to combat this is...

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

I'm recruiting a MS student to join my lab at the University of Oklahoma in fall '24. We use fossils, fieldwork, & phylogenetic methods to study macroevolution in extinct marine invertebrates, especially echinoderms. Please share & feel free to reach out!

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

My lab has been 3D printing 80 million year old conifer cones from Antarctica. These are great for education. Theyre also reliable references for writing descriptions. The stl files will be available for others soon ⭐️

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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

#Cornell has an open faculty position on plant #biodiversity! I'm on the search committee - free feel to reach out if you have any question! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25644

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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Still learning new platform. Here is the link to the write up of our new post-bacc program .

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Building tomorrow’s scientific workforce

KU training program focused on climate change, biodiversity

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

First issue of In Praise of an Echo is printed and folded. This zine is a collab btwn illustrator Bri Ladwig and yours truly. The goal of this work is to use the intersection of art and science to inspire awe and connection to plants and deep time. Below is a smol preview

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Brian Atkinson @habitualb.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Paleobotany zine collab with illustrator Bri Ladwig coming soon. Stay tuned 🍂

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