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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Who at #botany2026 is thinking about which talks to see tomorrow? Maybe I humbly recommend our talk on Physalis phylogenomics where we ask the question, why are there so many tomatillo species 50 million years after a (famous to Solanologists) bottleneck? Tomorrow 1:30pm in San Ignacio!

S-allele phylogeny from Paape et al. 2008 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18209194/ showing the Physalis / Witheringia bottleneck

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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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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This tiny world is actually the top of a fence post.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Sci-comm is hard. I loved these and other similar signs around the zoo but then overheard a family seeing the arrow and explaining that Utahraptor evolved into hornbills.

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Tracy Heath @trayc7.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I just learned about this USDA bee lab that is about to be shutdown by the Trump administration. Like many science related decisions from this admin, this short sighted decision will have longterm scientific, ecological, and economic consequences. #SavetheBees theconversation.com/shutting-dow...

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Shutting down federal bee labs threatens bees, beekeepers and the US food system

When honey bees get sick, their beekeepers turn to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis lab for help. That crucial resource is now disappearing.

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

How do you turn a purple flower white? Another from lab, led by @damianmicroeco.bsky.social and Emily Glasgow, with big contributions from Martin Henry, Margaret Li, and Amanda Peake. Mendelian Polymorphisms for the Win! #evolbio #plantscience

White-flowered Ipomoea hederacea, lacking anthocyanins in the flowers and throughout the plant

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This lab group is ready to rock on some botany research this summer. Thank you #NSF and #CUBoulder for the support that made this possible!

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A while back I timidly knocked on a neighbor's door to ask if they would mind not pulling up the native Physalis in their side yard. They humored me as I explained why and got a little into the weeds, so to speak. Now this is the ICONIC sign they have posted on the fence behind the plants.

Sign reads: CU Boulder Research Site (unofficial). The site marked below with the orange and white flags is home to the northernmost known site of this wild tomatillo. It is part of the physalis family which is a nightshade. YOU CAN HELP THIS CU BOULDER + COMMUNITY RESEARCH ENDEAVOR. 1. Please take care around these plants (I know they look like weeds). In September you'll see tiny green tomatillos. 2. Do not allow dogs to pee on this area or near the orange flag one house over [yes they also recruited another neighbor] 3. Do not pick them, touch them, walk on them, etc. 4. Tell someone about research in the community!

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

An embroidery hoop containing an aerial view embroidered landscape. It depicts the BARC in Maryland with green and brown field plots and a building area in the bottom right corner.

A zoomed-in angled view of an aerial embroidery. It shows field plots and buildings.

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

What is your Biology or EEB departments minimum PhD stipend? Update it here: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

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Biology PhD Stipends

Biology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/04/2026

There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news. But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials. Keep funding science!

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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This unbelievable microscopic image taken by Hans Kerp is of an early land plant from ~409 million years ago. Exquisite preservation in Scottish sandstone (Rhynie Chert) reveals sperm cells (upper right) released on a fateful day by the “antheridium.” The paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

So you know Datura, the jimsonweeds, with the fancy erect flowers and the scary coat of knives on the outside of the fruit? Meet Daturodendron, a TREE version of Datura, discovered and described by my amazing Solanologist colleagues. onlinelibrary-wiley-com.colorado.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1002/...

Images of the new genus Daturodendron showing its giant erect flowers and tree habit.

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here: mhibbins.github.io I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!

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Hibbins Lab

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Thais Vasconcelos @tvasconcelos.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Research Fellow - Vasconcelos Lab | U-M Careers

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

WANTED: Lead Collections Manager. Smithsonian NMNH Botany is looking for a Supervisory Museum Specialist to manage the United States National Herbarium and a top-notch collections team. For more information, visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications due in two weeks (1 May 2026).

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We really only have labor for ~130 regular contributed virtual talks. So, yes! Get those talks in! Late submissions decided via Thunderdome.

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Heather Cacanindin @hcacanindin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Over 800 abstracts and counting! There's still time to submit and present a talk or poster at #Botany2026 in Tucson.....but write it up quickly and submit in the coming hours. Don't miss out! www.botanyconference.org

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My friend and fellow scientist with a fantastic radio voice has this great podcast called Science Faire. Here I talk *much* too fast about flower color and plant pigments: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s.... But go check out the other cool episodes! lucybethpohl.wixsite.com/sciencefare-...

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Why is Flower Color Important Ecologically? With Stacey Smith

Podcast Episode · Science Fare · April 6 · 4m

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Columbia Heights is the suburb where Liam Ramos lives, a small working-class highly diverse community just savaged by ICE during its occupation. There's a mutual aid fund and benefit this Saturday. 1) Please come if you're local. My band is playing a set and we're not bad! 2) Please share & donate.

A yellow flyer reading "Heights Aid," listing several bands. It's from 4-9 on Saturday at Rail Werks Brewing. The QR code goes to - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-local-CH-families

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S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

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UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence

In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The real damage comes years later, with elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issues. This is chemical warfare, with delayed carnage. Worse than radiation sickness. I am ashamed to be American today. 2/2

Would it have been so much worse if it had been a nuke? Consider the fact that birth deficiencies and rates of leukemia and cancer in Iraq, post 2003- invasion, are worse than what was observed in Hiroshima. In Japan, rates of leukemia rose by 660% in the years following the bomb. In Falluja, it increased by 2,200%. The toxicity of war has never been greater, and we are in no way reckoning with
the scope of the horror that's been unleashed.

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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

holy shit

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I love caves, inflatables and science communication. This month is #colorectal cancer awareness month - the disease that has been ruining me the last 20 months. Get a colonoscopy folks. It’s not as fun as what I’m doing here but it ain’t that bad either.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

2026 basically

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

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Rocío Deanna @rociodeanna.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The seed fossil record of Solanaceae revisited is out! Using morphometrics and micro-CT data from 110 fossils and 354 extant taxa, we described 6 new genera and 6 new species, doubling fossil diversity for the nightshades! 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/tax.... @iochromaland.bsky.social

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

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Bob Thomson @rcthomson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Systematic Biology’s January 2026 issue (75.1) is out! It launches our 75th anniversary series, debuts the new Invited Review article category, features a Tillandsia Spotlight, along with a nice mix of empirical & methods papers. Check it out: academic.oup.com/sysbio/issue... @systbiol.bsky.social

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Do you care about the future of the US NSF and science in general? The agency is seeking feedback on the draft Strategic Plan. www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

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NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for the first webinar in our 2026 series: "Taxonomy: What is it good for?" Free to all! Join us to hear @sandyknapp.bsky.social's "Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)" Pls register & share: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...

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Changes to NSF peer review

They're not good. At all.

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Come learn with us! #REU!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

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Sara Brinton @sarabrinton.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

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Donate Blood

Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

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NSF Education & Training Application | ETAP

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Jeremy M. Brown @jembrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Ok, we're down to the last 10 (!) spots available to register for #SSB2026 in Baton Rouge in January. Who's in? ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

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