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BSA President Dr. Ken Cameron has a special message for you this International Plant Appreciation Day! 🌿

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🌿 This International Plant Appreciation Day, we are proud to celebrate 20 years of #PlantingScience.

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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

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!

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If we want to conserve evolutionary history, we need to think about this: change the phylogenetic methods, and you change the conservation outcomes. New paper led by honours student Mina Kearns, with @alexskeels.bsky.social & @keaghanjames.bsky.social

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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...
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The LI-6800 with a poorly-edited party hat on.

Happy Tenth Birthday to the LI-6800! We got you a present. www.licor.com/products/pho...

#PlantJob Are you looking for a place to start your independent group and develop all the amazing ideas you have in mind?, consider this to join us @cragenomica.bsky.social www.cragenomica.es/events/sympo...

Fig. 1.Reverse vulnerability segmentation in Populus species is only observed in branches grown for >1 year in the field. Mean leaf (black) and stem (gray) optical vulnerability curves of (A) P. trichocarpa (n=3, mean ±SE) grown in a glasshouse; (B) in young single-year growth branches (circle) and older (4–6 year old) branches (triangle) of P. grandidentata (n=4, mean ±SE); and (C) in 3-year-old glasshouse- (circle) and field- (triangle) grown branches of P. deltoides (n=4, mean ±SE). The solid horizontal line represents 50% of the embolized xylem area.

🌳💧 RESEARCH 💧🌳

Older, field-grown stems of poplars are more vulnerable to drought than leaves – Rimer et al.

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#PlantScience 🧪 Scott McAdam

Wow, this is the most intriguing title I've seen this year.
It's an interesting paper too!

Abstracts for #Botany2026 🍃 are due on April 13th! If you work on gas exchange (CO2, H2O), carbon dynamics (photo., NSCs), and water relations 💧on organs different from LEAVEs, submit your abstract to the Non-foliar Gas Exchange Colloquium @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/progr...

We know it might seem early, but deadling for abstracts submissions for #Botany2026 are April 13th!

Be sure to visit botanyconference.org for more details on the conference!

@botsocamerica.bsky.social

It’s that time of year again 🌿✨

Registration for #Botany2026 is OPEN!

@botsocamerica.bsky.social

Time to start planning talks and reconnecting with colleagues. Who’s going? 🌱

🌎🌐🍁Exciting experiment completed! 🌱 Our lab helped MS student Daniel Wehner wrap up a greenhouse study on how arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum from understory plants may aid sugar maple seedling establishment in high-elevation ectomycorrhizal forests under climate warming. Stay tuned for results!

BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, ...

New BIEN article out! This one digs in to the details of the BIEN #plant database, but importantly, also announces that BIEN is now #CC-BY (see the SI for details on that)!

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Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible!

-Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

Trump’s Nominee to Run NSF is Unqualified, Conflicted, and a Threat to Science If O’Neill is confirmed as NSF’s director, the Trump administration will further tighten its control over an agency created by Congress to be independent in its work to advance science.

“If O’Neill is confirmed as NSF’s director, the Trump administration will further tighten its control over an agency created by Congress to be independent in its work to advance science.” UCS’s Julian Reyes explains why the Senate should work to block this nomination:

A new paper about optical dendrometry from @profchoat.bsky.social in the Journal of plant hydraulics

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2 - Gold Open Access - same publishing process as above. The difference is that when an article is accepted for publication, the author/s or funder/s pay an Article Processing Charge (APC). The final version of the published article is then free to read for everyone. The APC to publish Gold Open Access in Nature is £9390.00/$12850.00/€10850.00.

Why are we still spending tens of thousands of $$$ on APC for non-society journals like Nature?

Wouldn’t that money be better spent at society journals at least? We are doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to participate in this madness.

You don’t need a paper in these journals to succeed.

Associate Lecturer in Plant Ecology PRIMARY DETAIL - Salary package: $123,435 FTE (Level B.1) plus 17% employer's superannuation contribution and annual leave loading. - Full-time- 35 hours per week, fixed term for 36 months - Based at ...

Exciting position at The School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University.

We are looking for an Associate Lecturer in Plant Ecology.

A great opportunity to teach, mentor students and contribute to plant ecology research on the Wallumattagal Campus in Sydney.

Listen to the wonderful Laura from @creaf.cat and @uab.cat to hear about her fascinating research and her passion for forests🍃
#trees #climatechange #scicomm

Graduate Student Research Awards The Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) Graduate Student Research Awards assist graduate students conducting research in systematics. These grants are for collection of preliminary data or to...

🚨Awards Alert 🚨

Its award season here at SSB!

First up: Graduate Student Research Awards. Due March 20, these awards are for collecting data or otherwise enhancing your dissertation. Open to graduate student society members

Apply here:
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Manatees in the clear water of a springfed stream in Florida.

The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.

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Nominations are open for the 2026 BSA Young Botanist Awards! 🌿

Recognize an outstanding graduating senior in botanical science and introduce them to the global BSA community.

Deadline: April 1, 2026.

For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/...

#BSAStudentAwards

Sad to read of the death of Steve Long who contributed a huge amount to #plantscience

"AJB and APPS Special Issue Call for Papers”. Photos, clockwise from top left: Pleopeltis michauxiana, Sequoiadendron giganteum, unidentified moss species, Azolla cristata. The text beneath the image reads: “New Perspectives from the Genealogy of Flagellate Plants (GoFlag)”. Photos by Jessie Pelosi.

#AppsPlantSci and #AJB are accepting proposals for joint special issues highlighting new resources & advances resulting from the #GoFlag project: papers that present research advances, methodological innovations, and resources.

Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2026.

More details: bit.ly/49JPtDe

Here is a working Starter Pack for Plant Ecophysiologists! Please let us know if you want to be added to this list in a comment or DM. #botany #plantecophys #PhysFam

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Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes.

Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records.
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Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.