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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.

Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

At any point any postdoc has had a 1,2,3,5 page research statement, teaching statement, curatorial, 5 year vision plan. It would be nice if across specific bio fields we could standardize some document length/types.

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I think this is excellent and always more guidance is better. However, one of the big problem with materials that I see and that specific rubrics could worsen is that every institution requires already so many different lengths and types of materials.

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you are planning for #Botany2027 and did or did not attend #Botany2026, fill out this form if you need childcare!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... please!! This year there was no childcare and the nursing room is more a custodian closet without a lock, AC, water/sink+light goes off very 5 mins

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is a great lineup of tropical botany talks!

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey #Botany2026, mark your schedule for an amazing talk by Kelly González, postdoc in my research group on ecological niche modeling and whether riverweeds (Podostemaceae) care for anything other than river rapids!! Tomorrow at 2:15 pm at San Luis 1

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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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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m just going to say Begonia flowers are definitely crazy and you should go listen to Kaitlyn talk about this.

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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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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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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

That bomarea phylo logo is 🔥🔥🔥

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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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Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#Evol2026 has been a blast!! Hope to see some of you mutuals at my talk this evening. Let’s talk about dogs and fossils and dog fossils 😎

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hi! I will be looking for a new postdoc to start in January. A colleague interested in population ecology and really good at stats is what the lab needs. Not in evolution but only an email away.

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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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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Just make sure it stays outside while it's flowering 😜

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The dangers of uploading a paper in AI generative tools...

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Wow wow wow! Congratulations!! I need to come visit you there! ;)

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I’m finishing my tenure as Chief Meeting Organizer for the Evolution Meetings. Apply to replace me! Without a doubt, this is my favorite service I’ve ever done. In trying times, it was a real balm to get together weekly with a group devoted to making the best meetings we can for students.

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Very sorry to hear this and for your loss. I met him once in a GRC where he presented his very important paper on African cichlids. Excellent presentation, and he was very welcoming. My deepest condolences to his colleagues and family.

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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy

Graphical ad for Hobson Lab Parakeet sociality & cognition Postbac Research Technician, with a graphic showing a flock of monk parakeets flying towards a social network, two unmarked monk parakeets perched, and examples of our individually color-marked birds showing their dye marks and color codes

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

New paper showing clustering of the many traits across reproductive strategies of angiosperms. Lots of interesting discussions that gave raise to this piece. But only possible thanks to the hard work of Andrew Helmstetter, Sylvain Glémin, and Jos Käfer. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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An angiosperm‐wide perspective on reproductive strategies and floral traits

Flowering plants have many modes of sexual reproduction, notably varying from selfing to outcrossing, and from bisexual flowers to individuals with separate sexes (dioecy). These reproductive modes ...

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Jeremy M. Brown @jembrown.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Very excited for this incredible lineup of talks at #SSB2026! ssb2026.github.io/talks.html For those giving talks, more instructions will be sent shortly. @systbiol.bsky.social

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Came to #ssb2026 for the original chicken figers and to pet the most adorable yellow lab ever #RocotoManzano. See you this afternoon in the "Rev the Bayes and Q the matrix" workshop, get ready for graphical models, math, and trait evolution!

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

My Mardi Gras season has begun! My #SSB2026 has begun! My Mardi Gras SSB season jams begun! #LaissezLesBonsTempsRouler with @roszenil.bsky.social @nicolas-cr.bsky.social #LagoLab #ZeFeLab

Laura, Rosana, Nico, Edison and Daniel enjoy the afterglow of eating tacos outside. Nico and Edison have glowing Mardi Gras beads on.

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seanmhoban.bsky.social @seanmhoban.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Graduating college soon or recent college graduate? Looking to advance your career in botany, plant conservation and similar topics? Apply to the RAMP program at one of four premier botanic gardens!...

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

As the year wraps, it's time to celebrate marine biodiversity! Nominate your favorite new-to-science *marine* species. form.vliz.be/en/form/worm... The species must have been validly published in 2025. It can be extant or extinct. @marinespecies.bsky.social @vliz.be @oceancensus.bsky.social

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WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species 2025 Nomination Form | Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I understand the need for documentation, but a lot could be clarified simply by speaking directly to an administrator. This gives me flashbacks of trying to claim mileage from a trip and getting into a loophole because the typical road was closed due to landslides = 4 meetings totalling 3 hours.

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Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Thrilled to share that @corriemoreau.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Evolution, digging into the varied ways that extreme worker plasticity impacts genome evolution in turtle ants! Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol... Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh

Image of Cephalotes varians workers and a soldier nestled in their twig nest. Image via https://stevenwang.smugmug.com/Ants/List-of-Genera/Cephalotes/i-CjXZ3b9

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Pascal Title @ptitle.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is a small review of recent diversification methods (for molecular phylos), what they have achieved, their challenges, and a small opinion on where they are going. We are hoping this is useful for people trying to understand the myriad of methods available.

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Lead by @ptitle.bsky.social, equal contributions from @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and me. Created for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social "An evolving view of lineage diversification" academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Humpback whales Humuhumunukunukuapua’a (reef triggerfish) Synchronous fireflies Monarch butterflies overwintering Moose

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Really good summary of our work on poricidal anthers! I am printing this phylo in a big poster!

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This work is the result of a lot of persistence, my co-authors especially @draverbee.bsky.social and @nicrodemo.bsky.social, greatly improved by reviewers and handling editors. Poricidal anthers evolved multiple times but this phenotype stayed in lineages 50 my after the origin of all angiosperms.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Second this recommendation. Daniel is a wonderful colleague and this is a great opportunity.

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment. #iamabotanist Details (+ application portal) here: lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5

Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.

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