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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Estoy buscando tesistas de licenciatura e interesados en aplicar a la maestría.

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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD @tribblelab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tribble Lab & University of Washington Herbarium crew at #Botany2026!

A grid of six portraits of researchers from the Tribble Lab, each with their name and presentation topics, with floral graphics above the title "TRIBBLE LAB."

Poster Session
Grand Ballroom
M 5:30–7:00

Elizabeth Kenny
The morphology and systematics of Allium crenulatum (P254)

Emily Humphreys
Which came first? A modeling approach for examining the role of preadaptation in plant evolution onto harsh soils (P158)

Hayden Wright
The Columbia River Basin: an under-recognized hotspot for vascular plant endemism in central Washington State (P20)

Makoa de Almeida
Habitat heterogeneity and insularity affect fern reproduction strategies (P210)

Fanya Yuan
Investigating the optimal herbarium plant tissue storage protocol (P232)

Cooley Awards
M 8:45, Tucson C-D

Lauren Frankel
Introgression and trait evolution in the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae)

Macroevolution
W 9:30, San Xavier

Carrie Tribble
Umbels mediate faster diversification rates and radiation in a Neotropical radiation

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Narimane Chatar @narimanechatar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Excited to share our latest study highlighted on the cover of @science.org 🥳Combining a 3D dataset representing 250 taxa spanning the whole Cenozoic, 3D modelling & printing and material testing; we deciphered the form-function relationship in the lower 🦷 of mammals www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I have officially started as Investigadora at the Instituto de Biología, UNAM. UNAM is a dream come true! Life is hectic! And I'm so excited for the immediate future, that will certainly involve liverworts, phylogenetics, and dogs! Follow my adventures here, ixchelgzlzr.github.io/es/

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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

¿Te interesa postularte a una beca de Estancias Posdoctorales por México (SECIHTI) para desarrollar investigación en sistemática y evolución de hepáticas talosas complejas de México en el Instituto de Biología, UNAM? ¡Estoy buscando una persona interesada en preparar conmigo la propuesta!

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek 🦕 Late Cretaceous origins for major nightshade lineages from total evidence timetree analysis by González Ramírez and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q76r @ixchelgr.bsky.social #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

Nightshades are much older than we thought. New fossil-informed analyses push their origin back nearly 100 million years, reshaping the evolutionary timeline of one of the world’s most important plant families.

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Instituto de Biología, UNAM @ibunam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

CONVOCATORIA (JOB ANNOUNCEMENT) del Instituto de Biología, UNAM, para una Persona Investigadora de Tiempo Completo en el área de Botánica Sistemática (Full Time Research Scientist in the field of Systematic Botany). Consulta la convocatoria en: www.ib.unam.mx/ibunam/Convo...

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Eduardo Amorim @cegamorim.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM

Adapted from Axelsson et al. 2013 Fig 2c: Histogram showing the distribution of diploid amylase copy number in wolf (n=35, blue) and dog (n=136, red). Dogs carry more copies of the starch-digesting gene AMY2B than wolves. Additional copies make dogs better than wolves at digesting starchy foods like grains & vegetables.

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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Our paper inferring the timing of evolution of Solanaceae using a Bayesian total-evidence dating approach is now out in Annals of Botany! 🥔🌱 It will be part of a special issue highlighting the fundamental role of the fossil record in understanding the history of life. tinyurl.com/327354tb

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Late Cretaceous origins for major nightshade lineages from total-evidence timetree analysis

AbstractBackground and Aims. The timing of the radiation of nightshades (Solanaceae) has been contentious in the literature, with estimates of the crown ag

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program! Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025. Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF... @systbiol.bsky.social

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A couple weeks ago we crawled among the redwoods looking for bryophytes. I finally got a little time to write about it! It’s just a tiny bit liverwort-biased! ixchelgzlzr.github.io/CNPS_bryowalk

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A California Native Plant Society public hike: learning little plants among the redwoods

*Main post picture by Sunit Mody

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Interested in learning basic statistical concepts in Spanish during #Evol2025? This workshop is for you! @tropicalbotany.bsky.social and I are talking about it. Official registration in the meeting website. Thanks to @systbiol.bsky.social for the support (workshop in Spanish, bilingual materials.

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Únete a nosotras en #Evol2025! No hay nada mejor que aprender sobre modelización estadística con la única e inigualable @roszenil.bsky.social-excepto hacerlo in español! //Join us! Nothing's better than learning about statistical modeling from the one and only Rosana ZF- except doing it in Spanish!

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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Vittaria appalachiana (Appalachian Gametophyte). This neat fern is native to Appalachia and scattered areas beyond. Related to shoestring ferns, it exists only as a gametophyte in rock shelters and other sheltered habitat. #Fern #plants #nativeplants #Appalachia #botany #photography #nature

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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Today I led a public hike to see some bryophytes! It was an awesome experience! I’m so happy people are interested in looking at little plants 💚💚

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct #pteridophytes By @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al in #AppsPlantSci bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Endophytic #bacteria discovered in oil body organelles of the #liverworts Marchantia polymorpha & Radula complanata New #AJB research by Blair Young, Barbara Thiers, James White, & Lena Struwe bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience

A confocal microscope photo of the cells of Radula complanata with fluorescent staining of cell walls and oil bodies.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann as the #Botany2025 Plenary Speaker! A leader in neotropical biodiversity, she serves as President & Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor at WashU, driving plant science & conservation forward. www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Annnouncing Dr. Amy Litt as the #Botany2025 Regional Botany Lecturer! Dr. Litt's research has taken her from the wonderful flowers of Vochysiaceae, to the evolution of flower development genes, & now to the stunning manzanitas (Arctostaphylos). Learn more! www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html.

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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Looking for geological data? 🪨⚒️ We've got you! Check out our new R package for accessing Macrostrat 👇

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Introducing New Zealand's latest Bug of the Year- the magnificent Ngāokeoke / Velvet Worm! NZ has two genera: one lays eggs (Ooperipatellus, 1st photo) and another gives live birth (Peripatoides, 2nd). They also deposit sperm which burrow through their partner's skin, but that's another story! 🧪

A photograph of a velvet worm - an orange and purple-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture.

A photograph of a velvet worm - an Blue and yellow-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture.

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Isaac Lichter Marck @ca-naturalist.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Very excited to introduce the newest genus of wild sunflowers, a tiny desert annual covered in dense wool and heads with just two small ray florets. Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net

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Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Next Thursday! Jesus Martinez-Gomez February 13th, 2025 7-8 pm PT “The genetic basis of variable ultraviolet pigmentation in yellow monkey flowers (Erythrante sect. Simiola)" Zoom link at calbotsoc.org/botany-speak... #PlantScience #evobio

A photo of speaker Jesus Martinez-Gomez by a river with lots of plants around.

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Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Please consider non-profit society journals when you choose a journal for submitting your work AND for reviewing/editing.

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Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Announcing the 30th CalBotSoc Graduate Student Symposium on April 5, 2025 at Cal Poly SLO! A great opportunity for grads and undergrads to present research in a friendly setting. Plus, field trips to local wildflower displays!! Registration and info at calbotsoc.org/graduate-stu...

A drawing of Calochortus obispoensis by Emma Fryer with the date of the symposium

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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

La semana pasada, se llevó a cabo el taller filo-bayes en la UNAM ¡Chequen nuestros materiales en Español ixchelgzlzr.github.io/filo_bayes_U...! Un placer trabajar con Rosana Zenil-Ferguson y Santiago Ramírez Barahona! ¡Gracias al talentoso grupo de estudiantes!

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Dr. Kat Magoulick @kmagoulick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Well for my first official post here I'm excited to say that the first chapter of my dissertation on Glyptotherium migration during GABI is out today in Ecography. Huge thanks to @mirantakouvari.bsky.social at @graphicssci.bsky.social who helped with this figure! doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Image of Glyptotherium on a map of North and South America showing fossil localities and possible migration routes

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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Día 2 de nuestro taller de filogenética bayesiana en RevBayes en la UNAM!!! 100% en español!!!!

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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD @tribblelab.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

New HiSSE model just dropped! We show that gains and losses of single chromosomes sometimes (but not always!) increases speciation in sedges. Plant evolution is complex and messy, but advances in macroevolutionary models are slowly allowing us to catch up.

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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I am very excited to share this pre-print where we looked at the phylo-diversity patterns of bryophytes in California. Are the conservation priority areas the same as for vascular plants? How do we maximize information for groups with few records? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Spatial Phylogenetics with Continuous Data: an Application to California Bryophytes

Spatial phylogenetics is premised on the idea that species are not discrete categorical entities, but instead lie on a hierarchical evolutionary continuum that contains rich biological information val...

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