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Ashish Nerlekar @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🌟Publication alert!🌟Destruction of old-growth grasslands is exaggerating the global biodiversity crisis & we don't fully know why some species recover post destruction and not others. Our new study in @pnas.org addresses this gap. 1/5 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🧬 #PlantConservationWeek 🌿 Preface: Using past, present, and future genetic knowledge to inform the conservation and management of plant biodiversity around the globe by Michele Dudash and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/rhr4 #PlantConservation #ConservationGenetics #PlantScience

Conserving plant biodiversity requires conserving genetic diversity. This Special Issue highlights how genomics is helping translate scientific knowledge into practical conservation actions for species facing rapid environmental change.

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Taylor AuBuchon-Elder (she/her) @taelder.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’ll miss you Tucson! Another great #Botany2026 in the books

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Last night's poster session was a botanical blast! Here are some fun moments from 5 poster presentations, we wish we could show you them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Not sure whether I can keep up with managing #Botany2026 conference posts on four platforms…. So this is my vote for making bsky the “official” one for next week.

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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Taylor AuBuchon-Elder (she/her) @taelder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Kayla and I spent a gorgeous few days in Arkansas collecting maternal population vouchers of Crateagus ouachitensis for our team’s Priority US Trees Conservation Grant. Big thanks to the folks at Arkansas State Parks for helping us get the timing just right! #conservation #botanicgardens #usbg #bgci

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/03/2026

Email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation. He's not a scientist, has no relevant expertise, promoted vaccine misinformation, helped gut the CDC, and his Silicon Valley ties raise questions about protecting the public interest. (1/2🧵)

Image with text to email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation.

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Charlie Hale @charleshale.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Our paper is out in MBE! doi.org/10.1093/molb... We tracked TF binding site evolution across 589 grass species, and found that while binding preferences are pretty stable over 80 million years of evolution, individual binding sites have turned over a lot. Thread here: bsky.app/profile/char...

Grasses share a conserved set of cis-regulatory motifs, but individual motif instances have turned over repeatedly across 80 million years of evolution.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Super proud of @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social 's paper, now out on biorxiv! She resolves the origin(s) of polyploid big blue-stem, a dominant species in the midwest tall-grass prairie. Her common garden analysis also informs on environmental adaptation and hints at the impacts of polyploidy.

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The origins and adaptive consequences of polyploidy in a dominant prairie grass

Polyploidy is ubiquitous across North American prairies, which provide essential ecosystem services and rich soil for agriculture. Yet the mechanism driving polyploid abundance is unclear. Multiple hy...

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St. Louis Public Radio @stlpublicradio.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

In Ste. Genevieve, volunteers with Abide in Love are helping ICE detainees stay in touch with their families. “Can you imagine not knowing where your spouse is for five or six days?" said one Abide in Love volunteer.

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Activists in Ste. Genevieve connect ICE detainees with their families

Abide in Love volunteers say their goal is to provide basic aid to immigrants detained in a Ste. Genevieve jail.

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Taylor AuBuchon-Elder (she/her) @taelder.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Had a wonderful time at #botany2025 this year in Palm Springs with my work bestie! Already missing the desert 🏝️ #botany #plantconservation

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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Starting off the final day at #Botany2025 with an analysis of post-fire change in vegetation at National Ecological Observatory Network #NEON sites. #Rosaceae and #Poaceae showed biggest changes with big gains for Bromus tectorum and Vulpia spp.

Marian Lea presents a slide showing the layout of a NEON site.

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

#Botany2025 moratorium on “But it’s a dry heat.”

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Marc Fradera-Soler @mfraderasoler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Heading to #Botany2025? Curious how plants thrive in extreme deserts and drylands? Don't miss our Dryland Floras colloquium, we've lined up a great session! 🌵☀️ 🗓️ Monday, July 28 | 🕗 8:00am–12:00pm | 📍 Mojave Learning Center

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Not a lot has been said about the inside covers of the new Southern Reach paperbacks, but take a look at the ones for Absolution. Gorgeous morphing of swamp sunflowers. Really, the whole package is so beautiful.

bright yellow morphings of sunflowers against a black background.

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Taylor AuBuchon-Elder (she/her) @taelder.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Can't wait for #Botany2025! If you like Andropogoneae or Tropicos, please stop by my poster session for "The Andropogoneae Extended Specimen Project: Implementation"

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I know some of my climate colleagues have been downloading documents and website content from both climate.gov and globalchange.gov websites before they were stripped of content or shut down entirely. But is there a single new mirror site that has these all together? Anyone know?

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Climate

NOAA experts provide data, tools and information to help people understand and prepare for a changing climate.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 29/06/2025

BREAKING NEWS: Senator Mike Lee Forced to Withdraw Plan to Sell Public Lands Thank you to everyone who spoke up by emailing and calling your senators. Your opposition worked, and over a million acres of public lands have been saved as a result.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

NONE in Life science?! NONE?!

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hey #botany2025 friends, is anyone going to the conference who wants to volunteer to be the "host" of the Botanists of Color affinity group meetup? The initial host can't attend the meetings :( Being host = being the contact person w/ BSA, and maybe saying a few welcome statements before event.

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Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Let me tell you how well iNat works right now. 3 yrs ago, I saw & posted something unusual for an arid sagebrush ecosystem. Noted it as Coral Fungi, confirmed ID & good enough. But this past Spring, humans with real experience & knowledge constructively debated the observation. This is the way.

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Dog Vomit Slime Mold (Fuligo septica)

Dog Vomit Slime Mold from W Saddlebow Dr, Reno, NV, US on April 8, 2022 at 07:49 AM by Marianne Denton. Hiking Whites Creek Trail for 19 years, and I’ve never seen this before.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🌱 BSA issues statement on Supporting our Community & Making our Voices Heard 🌱 "We are absolutely committed to supporting the well-being of all our members by providing safe spaces where they can connect, collaborate, and develop professionally." mailchi.mp/botany.org/b... #botany #iamabotanist

Screenshot of the Botanical Society of America's statement on Supporting our Community and Making our Voices Heard.

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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period." Read full statement 👉 blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-co….

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WHO @who.int · 11/02/2025

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Early-career botanists: Apply for the BSA Public Policy Award! Attend Congressional Visits Day (April 28-30, 2025) in DC, receive policy training & advocate for science. Apply by Feb 21! botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #BSAEarlyCareerScientists #IamaBotanist

This image shows part of the capitol in DC and the text: Botanical Society of America Public Policy Award. Deadline February 21, 2025.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 29/01/2025

Make them tell you, specifically, what you're not allowed to do. Don't make changes you guess that they want. Don't offer them a menu of things that you infer they might be telling you not to do. Do the work you proposed, and received funding to do, unless instructed otherwise in specific detail.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My NSF panel later this week finally officially cancelled. "Aim to reschedule." I'm so sad for the early career folks who this will impact - I hope this can get rescheduled so that funding decisions can still be made... 🧪

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Michelle Stitzer @mcstitzer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A monumental effort -- huge thanks to everybody involved! And see what individual plants and their genomes look like here: mcstitzer.github.io/panand_assemblies

$A screenshot of the linked website, with nine Andropogoneae species (Andropogon chinensis, Andropogon gerardi, Andropogon burmanicus, Anatherum virginicum, Bothriochloa laguroides, Chrysopogon serrulatus, Cymbopogon citratus, Cymbopogon refractus, Elionurus tripsacoides, Hemarthria compressa, Heteropogon contortus, and Ischaemum rugosum).$

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Taylor AuBuchon-Elder (she/her) @taelder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I had an absolute blast searching, coordinating, and collecting wild Andropogoneae for this project. Congrats to Michelle Stitzer and everyone involved!

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Taylor AuBuchon-Elder (she/her) @taelder.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Hey #Botany2025 folks! Is anyone aware of some small travel grants *not* geared to/exclusive for students? As a @botsocamerica.bsky.social Public Policy committee member, I'd love to attend in person this year, but funding is tight for non-faculty, non-profit career pros!

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there! More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org #Botany2025

Graphic promoting Botany 2025 in Palm Springs, CA, taking place July 25-31, 2025. The tagline reads "Botany Without Barriers" against a bright blue sky with tall palm trees. Logos of supporting societies are displayed along the bottom, including the Botanical Society of America, American Fern Society, ASPT, Society of Herbarium Curators, IAPT, and ABLS.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🌱Hey BSA members! – Get involved with your scientific society & join a committee! Students members are welcome on select committees. Deadline: Feb 1, 2025. Committee Info: botany.org/home/governa... To Apply: committees.botany.org Not a current BSA member? Renew/join today & apply! www.botany.org

A promotional graphic for the Botanical Society of America (BSA). The left side features a list of open committees: Committee on Committees, Development Committee, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee*, Early Career Professional Development Committee, Education Committee*, Election Committee, Financial Advisory Committee, Information Technology Committee*, Investment Committee*, Public Policy Committee*, Publications Committee*, and Graduate Student Research Award Committee (* indicates there are openings for students). The right side has a blue background with the text "JOIN A BSA COMMITTEE" and "Deadline is February 1, 2025." The BSA website (www.botany.org) and a floral illustration are also included. Only current BSA members can join committees, but non-members can join the Society to get involved.

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