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Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Studying Castilleja makes a botanist wish they had chosen some easy branch of science like theoretical physics” H. W. Rickett (paraphrased; Wildflowers of the US)

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hemiparasitic #Castilleja presence is correlated with increased plant #biodiversity across montane plant communities New #AJB research by Jordan Argrett, Makena Lang, Anders Hastings, Y. Anny Chung, Nina Wurzburger & Charles Williams doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

Several erect flowering stalks of Castilleja septentrionalis with dense spikes of pale creamy-white to greenish-yellow bracts, growing within a montane meadow at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We hope you enjoyed Chris Martine's BSA Incoming President's Special Lecture! We agree that plant people are what makes #Botany2026 (and the broader botanical community) so special! Here are our attendees' favorite things about plant people 💚🌿 #PlantPeopleFTW

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Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ren Hamm debuting the Castilleja foliolosa genome! #botany2026

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Now available everywhere for streaming/download! #PlantPeopleFTW, a song for everyone who loves plants, by Doc Martine and the Botaneers. Feat. appearances by plant people from all over the world. #botany2026 music.apple.com/us/album/pla...

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Plant People FTW by Doc Martine and the Botaneers on Apple Music

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Coming soon to a streaming platform 🎶 near you. #plantpeopleFTW

Cover image for the new single by Doc Martine and the Botaneers. (Text is Plant People For the Win over a background of green plants.)

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Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Orobanchaceae colloquium finished ✅. Amazing work being done in the coolest clade 😎 #botany2026

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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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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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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 30/06/2026

It's as official as it can be: The Yoder Lab has been very lucky to receive NSF funding to develop our TARDIS method of modeling plants' flowering activity in varying environments. Watch for grad (MSci) opportunities in Fall 2027, and a postdoc position sooner than that 🌿 buff.ly/OHpbfB0

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The Yoder Lab is building the TARDIS, with new support from NSF

Chaparral whitethorn, Ceanothus leucodermis, bearing flowers and fruits near the Red Box Picnic Area along the Angeles Crest Highway in early May, 2026. (Flickr, jby) Why do Joshua trees grow only …

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Diego Paredes-Burneo @evoyeyo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The branches of the plant tree of life become fuzzy for Andean clades! The evolution of many plant groups of the Andes remain unresolved. Here a breakdown of what happens for #Brachyotum, endemic to the Tropical side of these mountains.

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Botany One @botany.one · 02/06/2026

Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics // University of Wyoming jobs.chronicle.com/job/37995586... The Department of Botany and the School of Computing invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. #BotanyJobs

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Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics - Wyoming, United States job with University of Wyoming | 37995586

Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics Join Our Campus Community! Thank you for your interest in joining the University of Wyoming. Our...

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The @systbiol.bsky.social Mentorship Program is back for 2026-2027! The program pairs off mentees with mentors based on shared interests in systematics and biodiversity research. Low effort, high reward! 12 virtual monthly meetings. More info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Apply by June 12th!

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Mentorship Program

Last updated May 14, 2025

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@pedropezzi.bsky.social & @maribethlatvis.bsky.social generated the first high-quality reference genome (2.29 Gb, N50=162 Mb, BUSCO=98.4%) for Agalinis, a genus of facultative hemiparasite plants distributed throughout the Americas. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag116 #genome #evolution #PlantSky

GBE | Chromosome-Level Reference Genome of the Beach False Foxglove, Agalinis fasciculata (Orobanchaceae)

The beach false foxglove (Agalinis fasciculata) is a hemiparasitic plant in the family Orobanchaceae. This is the first chromosome-level genome assembly for the genus and will support studies of the evolutionary history of Agalinis and genome evolution across the family.

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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Well that’s pretty cool

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Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Hi from Brazil! @pedropezzi.bsky.social We’re collecting the northern range of the Agalinis distribution here. Happy fieldwork Spring Break :)

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Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · 07/02/2026

Do you have undergrads interested in collections-based research? Have them apply to go work with @jmheberling.bsky.social at CMNH! I cannot imagine a better place to work over the summer

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Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

‘Dispersification’ of Agalinis (Orobanchaceae) Into South America Is Associated With Hummingbird Pollination and Perennial Life-History Shifts @pedropezzi.bsky.social @soltislab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The frequency and importance of polyploidy in tropical rainforest tree radiations Schley et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ploidy, estimated for each individual with nQuack, mapped on the phylogenetic tree of Inga. The ASTRAL phylogenetic tree was inferred by previous work (Schley et al., 2025) based on 1305 loci from the Mimobaits target bait capture set and contains a single accession per species.

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

@chukwumaemma.bsky.social Research explores an approach to clarify the phylo relationship & evol history of Alectra. Using seqdata with morph, habitat & climate traits, it aims to reveal diversification, adaptation & future ranges w/implications for conservation & understanding parasitic plant evol.

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Thursday’s dinner will showcase UArk Herbarium/Prairie Pedagogy Pop-up Exhibition. It will highlight the UArk Herbarium support for educational and artistic work happening in the Oak Knoll Prairie. Artworks by Caite Ramos, Ellie Johnson, Mikki Young, Peter Brown, Mia Dixon, Kaylee Hutto and more!

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

@phylojennatics.bsky.social research focuses on macro and micro forces that can influence species abundance in Silene. She is using herbarium specimen data to build a genus phylogeny. Jenna successfully extracted DNA from a specimen from 1892!

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Why is it important to press native plants? Find out on Nov 8th at the Fayetteville Public Library! @phylojennatics.bsky.social a PhD student in @maribethlatvis.bsky.social lab will be leading this event! See you there 🌱

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Fieldwork highlights from Italy: to understand what a species is PhD student @rlsavage.bsky.social is taking a integrative approach using morphological, genomic & ecological data to determine what a species is in Rhinanthus @maribethlatvis.bsky.social and Emily Carter helped with the fieldwork

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Updated tutorials for nQuack today. Want to predict ploidy level of sequence data? See this new tutorial on how to process and model data faster: mlgaynor.com/nQuack/artic...

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We have several exciting events lined up for the 150th anniversary of the UARK herbarium! Check out all the events with this link: biology.uark.edu/herbarium/ev...

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Master’s student @arisaemaguy.bsky.social focuses on the Arisaema triphyllum species complex. It has been subject to numerous taxonomic revisions over the past 200 yrs. Morgan is utilizing morphometrics, on both the macro & micro scales, to help herbaria distinguish between the species.

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Anahí Espíndola (she/ella) @analyssi.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If you are or you know people on an #H1B, get in touch with your U international office to get guidance and know what you/they should/should not be doing. I just received the information below from #AAUP. Feel free to share and check in with your immigrant friends/colleagues. They are not doing ok.

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Fieldwork in Brazil to understand how new plant species evolve? Pedro Pezzi @pedropezzi.bsky.social and Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social are taking a multi-pronged approach in Agalinis to understand morphological shifts and species interactions during rapid diversification

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

THRILLED to announce that my NSF "Closing the gap: The history of river connections with the formation of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on the evolution of plants in rivers" in collab w/Carlos Jaramillo at STRI and Caroline Strömberg at UW was awarded! Add for a PhD student+a postdoc to come🧵

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

In today's Poetry Clinic, I address the question of how to carry forest's quiet with us. For me, the best approach is writing: note-taking while I am in the forest quiets my mind, writing up the notes afterwards seals the memories. w/ a quote from Edwin Way Teale. poetryclinic.org/how-do-i-car...

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How do I carry the forest’s quiet with me? - Poetry Clinic

SVG, Somerset, NJ, United States

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Nature @nature.com · 19/05/2025

📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you! Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences go.nature.com/3FhzbVE

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PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you

Nature - Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.

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Society of Herbarium Curators @herbariumcurators.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Congratulations to the 2025 SHC Student Awardees! Undergrad Andrew Ruegsegger with Dr. Maribeth Latvis at U of Arkansas studying “Plant community assembly in an insular grassland biodiversity hotspot: microbial and environmental effects on phylogenetic and functional diversity of Ozark glades".

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Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We were thrilled to host a series of Kaleidoscope Science events! We used screen printing as a medium to explore how multiple layers combine to enhance our understanding of biodiversity. We printed Agalinis fasciculata! @uarkherbarium.bsky.social

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Congratulations to the NSF GRFP awardees! This was an especially competitive year because the number of awardees was down by 51%. To the students who didn't get it: my heart goes out to you. This was an especially competitive year. I hope this doesn't deter you from research.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If a student you know received an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP, encourage them to contact their Congressional representatives! 🧪

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Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Made it to Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais, Brazil for botanical adventures. I’ve missed this! @pedropezzi.bsky.social

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Maribeth Latvis @maribethlatvis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Prairie Practice and Pedagogy gallery opening: UArk Fine Arts in collaboration with @uarkherbarium.bsky.social 🤝. Kids these days with their punk rock plant zines 🥲

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Welcome back to UARK, Sarah J! Dr. Sarah Jacobs, U of A alum, was our dept seminar speaker this week. Assistant Curator of Botany and Howell Chair of Western North American Botany at @calacademy.bsky.social, Dr. Jacobs studies paintbrushes (Castilleja) & gave a fascinating talk about the group.

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

So here's a cool thing we're doing with the UA School of Art this weekend. Reception is Friday, March 14 at 6:00 at the sUgAR Gallery, in the lower level of the Pryor Center, 1 E. Center St., downtown Fayetteville. Camille Gros - sweet flyer!

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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK) @uarkherbarium.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

@phylojennatics.bsky.social and @rlsavage.bsky.social, botanists and PhD students with the @maribethlatvis.bsky.social Lab in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at the @uarkansas.bsky.social recently taught students about botany, plant collecting, and biodiversity at the Holcomb Elementary STEM Night!

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