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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First-year CURE class getting down to business on their semester-long greenhouse experiments.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#SICB division spotlight on DOB The Division of Botany is the newest SICB division, & was formed to encourage the inclusion of #plants in the study of comparative patterns and integration in #biology. Check it out via this site and see if you'd like to join: sicb.org/divisions/di... #botanists
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
♻️🆓: A continental-scale analysis reveals the latitudinal gradient of stomatal density across amphistomatous species: evolutionary history vs. present-day environment doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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A continental-scale analysis reveals the latitudinal gradient of stomatal density across amphistomatous species: evolutionary history vs. present-day environment
AbstractBackground and Aims. Amphistomy is a potential method for increasing photosynthetic rate; however, the latitudinal gradients of stomatal density ac
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Forest under stress: responses and recovery of water relations across scales during the compound drought in summer 2022 Shekhar et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Schematic showing the links of tree-scale (root-, stem-, and leaf-level) and ecosystem-scale water relations during the compound soil and atmospheric drought at CH-Lae.
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Wake Forest University @wakeforest.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Wake Forest is proud to be ranked No. 17 in LinkedIn’s 2026 Top Colleges. The ranking recognizes the 50 U.S. colleges that best prepare graduates for long-term career success. #ProHumanitate Read more: wakefo.rest/3TZORUu
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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Has any other #Botany2026 attendees been humming the #PlantPeopleFTW song by @martinebotany.bsky.social all morning? 🎶🌺🎼👨🏻‍🌾🎵
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dexcem.bsky.social @dexcem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Folk Lab had a blast at #Botany2026!
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Application of a novel schema for describing #fossil #fern foliage & investigating taxonomic & morphological change across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in western North America New #AJB research by Fern Holian, Emily Sessa, Richard Barclay et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
A side-by-side morphological comparison of fern fossil Allantodiopsis erosa to representatives of modern families: Aspleniaceae, Athyriaceae, Osmundaceae, Diplaziopsidaceae, Polypodiaceae, and Thelypteridaceae.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We are so happy to have Linda Vorobik as an exhibitor at #Botany2026 — thank you for sharing your botanical knowledge and artistry with us! Be sure to stop by and say hello while you're in the exhibit hall. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One last salud to #Botany2026! Thank you for a wonderful week of plants and plant people. We have so much more to share from the conference and will be posting lots in the coming weeks. And we're already looking forward to #Botany2027 in Buffalo!
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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
That’s a wrap for all of our section’s sessions. Thanks to everyone who came and presented such awesome research this year. See you next year in Buffalo! #bsaecophys #botany2026
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Jessica A. Savage @savageplantphys.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Please come so we can get a section photo! We will be there by 315pm
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Jessica A. Savage @savageplantphys.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join the Phys Ecophys or if you like acronyms the PEP section (we love our carboxylases) tonight at the All Society Mixer. #Botany2026 Find us by the tables near LICOR and the DEI tables!
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Meredith Zettlemoyer @montanaplantlab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Catch Meredith at #Botany2026 in Tuesday's symposium on #alpineplants as models of eco-evo dynamics to learn about range wide thermal tolerance in alpine bistort!
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Martine and Williams Labs were in the house tonight at #Botany2026. #plantpeopleFTW
Rows of smiling botanists at the plenary session.
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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Better late than never to compile the #botany2026 talks from research done in the #LagoLab! Check out talks by @laufran.bsky.social, Aislinn Mumford, and @evoyeyo.bsky.social tomorrow, and @laymonstera.bsky.social on Tuesday!
Poster with talks from the Lagomarsino Lab at LSU:

Lauren Frankel (former undergrad)
Introgression and trait evolution in the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae)
Monday at 8:45 in the Cooley Award Session 
Tucson C-D

Aislinn Mumford
Evolution of Color in Palicourea, a Genus of Neotropical Flowering Plants
Monday at 11:30 in Ecology I
San Pedro 2

Dr. Diego Paredes-Burneo (former PhD student)
Rapid Diversification and Phylogenomic Conflict Across the Tropical Andean Flora
Monday at 2:15 in the Cooley Award Session
Tucson C-D

Laymon Ball
Clarifying species boundaries in a Neotropical complex: Hillia subgenus Hillia (Rubiaceae)
Tuesday at 11:15 in Systematics & Taxonomy
San Ignacio

Each talk has an image of the speaker to the left and their study system to the right. It's purple and gold.
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Julianna Harden @jharden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Find myself and the rest of the Specht lab at Botany 2026!! #PlantPeopleFTW #Botany2026 @botanyballer.bsky.social @brythebotanist.bsky.social @arayabelle.bsky.social @jlandisbotany.bsky.social @spechtlab.bsky.social
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs
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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Trying to keep up with all things Ecophys this #Botany2026 ? Check out our website! sites.google.com/d.umn.edu/bo...
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Conference Events Sunday 1:30-5:30pm Workshop - Beyond the leaf: Methodologies for Measuring Gas Exchange from Non-planar and Unusual Sample Materials. 10:30pm-12:30am Connect at with Phys and Ecoph...
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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Who’s excited for our #bsaecophys workshop tomorrow at #Botany2026 ? There are still a few spots open if there are still folks interested!
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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This Lego minifig looks very familiar, not to mention the instrument he’s using…
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
☀️ Just in time for #Botany2026! ☀️ We're thrilled to announce Season 2 of A Botanical Podcast! Four episodes are currently available at www.buzzsprout.com/2446995 Feat. @kheyduk.bsky.social @martinebotany.bsky.social Aam Schneider & Caprice Disbrow! #botany #plantscience
Graphic announcing Season 2 of A Botanical Podcast.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Also on the topic of ecophys - there are still spots in our LiCor workshop on Sunday afternoon! We just got off a planning call, it's going to be awesome! Come learn all about how to measure and troubleshoot weird stuff (i.e., not corn leaves). #Botany2026
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Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#Botany2026 is nearly here! We have a great lineup of talks and posters from our lab! Check out the image for times & people!)! Can't wait to experience my first Botany!! @jentomology.bsky.social
Russell lab talks and posters at Botany 2026 -

Monday:

Jenny Kate Burrow
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM San Pedro 2
American elderberry’s next top pollinator: evaluating the role of arthropods in pollination

Tabitha E. Moul
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM  San Pedro 2
Drivers of resource partitioning among prairie bumble bees
 
Maev Winchester
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM  Poster Session - Arizona Grand Ballroom
Plant invasions in tallgrass prairies negatively impact plant-pollinator interactions (P104) 
Oscar Peterson

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM  Poster Session - Arizona Grand Ballroom
Fool me once: Successful mimicry in a cryptically dioecious plant species despite bee learning (P65) 

Tuesday:

Avery L. Russell
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM San Xavier
Getting salty: salt addition enhances the quality of low-quality nectar 

Wednesday:

Kaitlyn Pankratz
8:00 AM - 8:15 AM San Xavier
Imperfectionism: The Evolutionary History of Intersexual Mimicry in Begoniaceae
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Check out some exciting new projects from grad students at #Botany2026 ! 🌸🌼🌱
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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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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#Botany2026 is almost here! The Bulbous Lab will be there in full force (see image for times and locations of our talks)! Can’t wait to see everyone and hear about all the awesome botanical science going on!
List of times and locations for presentations at the Botany 2026 conference
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Jessica A. Savage @savageplantphys.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Check out the amazing talks and posters from my lab at #Botany2026 #ecophys
Pictures of flowers and phloem and list of speakers and presentation information for Jessica Savage, Abbey LinkedIn, Amelia Krings and Cat Law.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As you're making your itinerary on the #Botany2026 app, check out some of these lab presentations!!!
Flier that reads "Heyduk lab at Botany 2026" followed by a list of presentations. Posters include Dominique Pham ("Do Better or Die: Drought stress memory in an epiphytic CAM bromeliad" P120), Ed McAssey ("Plants and Civilization: An interdisciplinary approach to engaging undergraduate students in Botany" P261), and Dantony Lewis ("Comparative Analysis of the CAM genes in the Agavoideae" P27).

There is a note that says "Also check out “Belonging In Botany: Fostering Resiliency Discussion”
Come ready to share your struggles and collaboratively build solutions
Tues. 11-12, Tucson Ballroom E"

Talks listed include:
Karolina Heyduk (Mon 10:00 San Pedro 1) "Homoploid hybridization: the end of a lineage or a driver of novel phenotypes?"
Weijun Liang (Tues. 2:00 San Xavier) “YELLOW INTENSITY (YIN): a conserved gene that downregulates corolla carotenoid accumulation in Mimulus (monkeyflowers)"
G Young Kim (Tues. 8:00 San Pedro 1) “Investigation of weak Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) in Peperomia reveals initial steps toward a CAM pathway.”
Erika Moore Pollard (Tues. 8:45 San Pedro 1) “The fast and the frugal: Nitrogen tradeoffs and genomic insights into bromeliad adaptation and evolution.”
Ellie Loew Mendelson (Tues. 9:00 San Pedro 1) “Assessing photosynthetic pathways in aquatic plant species”
Claire Marino (Tues. 11:30 San Pedro 1) "Giant cubes and muddy shoes: manipulating microclimate to study Symplocarpus foetidus’ ecophysiology in situ”
David Wickell (Wed. 10:30 Tucson AB) “Facultative CAM in Littorella uniflora: linking photosynthetic plasticity to environmental change”
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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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Katya Isabelle Bandow @botanykat.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Leaf size is an important trait shaping species distributions globally. We looked at how climate and evolutionary history influence leaf size in conifers! Spoiler: lots of evolutionary conservatism! Check out our paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Leaf Size in Conifers: Global Associations With Climate and Evolutionary History
Global patterns in leaf size are linked to climatic trade-offs, so we explore these relationships in a major group of plants, the conifers. Using contemporary phylogenetic methods, we show that conif....
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Nature @nature.com · 01/07/2026
A biology journal trialled paying their reviewers and found it led to faster first editorial decisions – and increased review quality. go.nature.com/446SaLu
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Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief
A biology journal which paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.
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Pablo Macias Torres @pablomaciastorres.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A high-quality peer review should always be standard. But paying reviewers seems reasonable, especially when journals charge such substantial publishing fees and the reviewing process is so important
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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As we gear up for #botany2026, we are looking for judges for the student presentations in the Physiology and Ecophysiology section. If you will be at the meeting and are willing to judge a few posters and talks, please contact: Brian Maricle bmaricle@svsu.edu #BSA #BSAEcophys
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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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Christopher Krieg 🌿 @ckrieg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It was an amazing week hosting Wray Jones and Kyra Dimitropolis at @wakeforest.bsky.social. They visited my lab to dive into the math, theory, and measurement of plant hydraulics to support their graduate work. 🌿💧📈 #WakeBotany #PlantHydraulics #ferns #cycads
Graduate students visit the Krieg Lab at Wake to learn fern hydraulics.Graduate students visit the Krieg Lab at Wake to learn fern hydraulics.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
They never would have gotten Al Capone for tax fraud if only he'd been elected president of the US and told the IRS not to ever audit him.
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just got an alert that views for the Biology PhD Stipends database spiked over the past weekend! Lets keep this database up-to-date, if your program increased their EEB PhD stipend, submit an update: 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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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Picture of a person (me) holding a stuffed beaver toy and a laptop that reads “McKenzie Lab at Oregon State University”
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Excited to share that I will be joining Florida State University as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2027! I’m thrilled to build my lab at FSU in the Ecology & Evolution Division within the Department of Biological Science — stay tuned! A huge thank you to my village for all the support!
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
#TansleyReview: Carbon uptake, storage, and allocation patterns contribute to blurring of annual 14C signals in tree rings Hessl et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
Fig. 1 The path of 14C from cosmic rays to cellulose. Green arrows denote newer pools of 14C and brown arrows denote older pools.
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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Drought-induced delays in stem hydraulic development shape gas exchange and growth recovery in Douglas fir (Franklin Alongi , Timo Knüver , Scott A M McAdam , Yanick Ziegler , Andreas Gast , Nadine K Ruehr) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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Drought-induced delays in stem hydraulic development shape gas exchange and growth recovery in Douglas fir
Drought delays stem water transport development in Douglas fir, constraining recovery of photosynthesis and growth by disrupting daytime expansion patterns
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Wake Forest University @wakeforest.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Welcome, Dr. Townsend! 🌎 Prominent ecosystem scientist and author Alan Townsend, Ph.D., will lead the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. wakefo.rest/4cgTWxh
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Acclaimed author and scientist Alan Townsend to head Wake Forest Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability | Wake Forest News
Prominent ecosystem scientist and author Alan Townsend, Ph.D., will lead the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability.
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Wake Botany @wake-botany.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Here are the winners of the first annual Great Botany Bake Off! Students baked their best recipes and provided fun facts about all the plant ingredients! Winners were selected by vibes. #WakeBotany #botany #plantscience @wakeforest.bsky.social @wfubiology.bsky.social
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD position: Tree-water-relations - Sensing water potentials from leaf to stand scale In @simonhaber.bsky.social ‘s lab @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de Deadline: 15 April 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common? HERBARIA. UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!
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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Happy Monday! Remember the deadline for #botany2026 abstracts is coming up. #bsaecophys is also hosting a colloquium on non-foliar gas exchange and a workshop on measuring gas exchange on unusual materials. See the links below! tinyurl.com/BSAecophysCo... tinyurl.com/BSAecophysWo...
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