WANTED: Lead Collections Manager. Smithsonian NMNH Botany is looking for a Supervisory Museum Specialist to manage the United States National Herbarium and a top-notch collections team. For more information, visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications due in two weeks (1 May 2026).
Anyone with @botsocamerica.bsky.social have contacts in Japan??? 🌸
Promotional graphic with a tropical leaf border for International Plant Appreciation Day, April 13, 2026. Features the PlantingScience logo and heading "Mentor Quotes." Two quote bubbles are shown. The first, from Gina Errico, describes students who wanted to grow plants to share food with their community. The second, from Edi Wipf, describes wanting to help make science more accessible and share in the joy of learning and discovery. Bottom text reads "Support student botanical science exploration with a donation to PlantingScience.org today!" Includes a Donate Here label and QR code.
The scientist mentors behind PlantingScience give their time because they believe in the next generation. 🌿
Their words speak volumes about why this program is worth fighting for.
Please donate to PlantingScience today: crm.botany.org/makeadonation
#IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #STEM 🌿
Promotional graphic with a tropical leaf border for International Plant Appreciation Day, April 13, 2026. Features the PlantingScience logo and heading "Student Quotes." Three quote bubbles contain anonymous student testimonials about how their PlantingScience mentor sparked their interest in plants and science. Bottom text reads "Support student botanical science exploration with a donation to PlantingScience.org today!" Includes a Donate Here label and QR code.
Hear it from the students themselves:
🌿 "His job made me more interested in plants."
🌿 "Plants are something I take for granted."
🌿 "Our mentor made science sound interesting and fun."
Support PlantingScience today! crm.botany.org/makeadonation
#IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #STEM
Green metallic sweat bee hanging out on top of a black eyed susan flower.
Half of my thesis was published today! 🐝🌻 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
Hive mind request.
I’m looking for long term insect (ideally pollinator) monitoring schemes that have conducted weekly/monthly transects/counts for several years. I know of the Bee walks, UKMS, and PoMs in the UK.
I would love some non-UK examples!
🐝🦋🐝🦋🐝🦋
I run a mentorship program for aspiring grad students and 15% of participants this past year used they/them pronouns.
Gender inclusivity needs to be baked into how we do academia.
#TransDayOfVisibility
A dark green promotional graphic for the Botanical Society of America listing BSA awards with April 1 deadlines. The awards listed are: Young Botanist Awards, Developmental and Structural Section Student Travel Awards, Ecological Section Student Travel Awards, Economic Botany Section Student Travel Awards, Genetics and Genomics Section Student Travel Awards, Historical Section Student Travel Awards, Pteridological Section and American Fern Society Student Travel Awards, Systematics Section Student Travel Awards, and Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel Awards. Each award is marked with a leaf icon. The BSA logo appears in the bottom left corner alongside a QR code and the URL www.botany.org/home/awards.html. A green leaf is partially visible in the lower right corner.
The deadline is tomorrow, April 1st, for several #BSAawards!
Whether you are looking to nominate an outstanding graduating senior or apply for funding to attend Botany 2026, nominate/apply today!
Visit www.botany.org/home/awards.html to learn more and submit before the deadline!
I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...
A green gradient promotional graphic for BSA Teaching Section Awards. Two awards are listed with leaf icons. The first is the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award, with a deadline of April 13, 2026, recognizing outstanding contributions to botanical instruction at regional, national, or international levels. The second is the Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award, now open, with a deadline of May 1, 2026, honoring excellence in teaching and service related to botanical education. The Botanical Society of America logo appears in the bottom left, a QR code in the bottom right, and the website www.botany.org/home/awards.html is displayed at the bottom center.
🍃 BSA Teaching Section Awards are open for nominations!
– Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
Deadline April 13, 2026
– Samual Noel Postlethwait Award
Deadline May 1, 2026
Nominate a deserving colleague today!
botany.org/home/awards....
#BSAawards #IamaBotanist #BSATeachingSection
NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:
Botany 2026 conference graphic. Text reads: "Biodiversity at the Boundaries — Botany 2026, August 1-5, Tucson, Arizona. Registration Now Open! Early-Registration Deadline April 30, 2026. Abstract Deadline April 13." Features an illustrated desert landscape with cacti and the logos of six sponsoring societies including the Botanical Society of America. Website: www.botanyconference.org.
Registration is OPEN for #Botany2026 – Biodiversity at the Boundaries, August 1-5 in Tucson, AZ!
– Early-Registration Deadline: Apr 30
– Abstract Deadline: Apr 13
– BSA Travel Awards Deadline: Mar 15
– BSA Sectional Student Travel Awards Deadline: Apr 1
www.botanyconference.org
www.botany.org
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Group photo of PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award recipients at the Botany 2025 conference. Text reads: PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award and Mentored Experience — Now Accepting Applications! Benefits include mentorship, complimentary conference registration, free travel and lodging, meals, a field trip, and a 3-year BSA student membership. Deadline March 15, 2026. Visit botany.org.
Hey Botanical Science Undergrads, the PLANTS Grant deadline is coming up!!
This award covers Botany 2026 travel, lodging, meals, mentorship, a conference field trip & a complimentary 3-year BSA membership.
Deadline: March 15, 2026
For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/...
Square graphic featuring a close-up pink and purple flower background. The Botanical Society of America logo appears at the top. Centered text reads “BSA Impact Award” and “Deadline May 1, 2026.” A description states that the award honors a BSA member, group, or institution for impactful work that builds a more inclusive and engaged community in botanical research and education, including efforts that influence practices and policies or expand access to knowledge and resources through research, teaching, or outreach. A link to www.botany.org/home/awards.html appears at the bottom.
Nominations are open for the BSA Impact Award!
This award honors a BSA member, group, or institution whose work expands access, strengthens community, and improves practices in botanical research and education.
Nomination Deadline: May 1, 2026
Learn more, here: botany.org/home/awards/...
Square graphic with a light beige background featuring a faint world map. At the top, large orange script text reads “BSA Travel Awards.” Below, in orange text: “Deadline March 15th,” followed by bullet points listing Developing Nations, Professional, and Students and PostDoc. Beneath that, “Deadline April 1st” lists Sectional Travel Awards. A small airplane graphic with a dotted flight path appears on the left. A QR code is shown in the lower left corner. The Botany 2026 logo (August 1–5, Tucson, Arizona) and the Botanical Society of America logo appear at the bottom.
Presenting at #Botany2026 in Tucson? Apply for a BSA Travel Award!
March 15 Deadline: Developing Nations, Professional, and Students & PostDocs Travel Awards
April 1 Deadline: Sectional Student Travel Awards
Applicants must be current BSA members.
Learn more & apply: botany.org/home/awards....
“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions."
Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape.
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Pacific Conservation Biology is seeking Associate Editors!
Applications from Pacific Island researchers are greatly encouraged 🇫🇯 🇵🇬 🇳🇿 🇵🇼 🇳🇨 🇼🇸
@pacificconsbio.bsky.social publishes conservation research focussed on our region, and is affiliated with SCBO.
Apply here - connectsci.au/pc/pages/edi...
A problematic stance from someone like @holdenthorp.bsky.social who has the position & privilege that comes with being Editor-in-Chief of Science Journals.
Yes, scientists need to continue to do science.
But science leaders can't leave the risk that comes with speaking up to others. 🧵1/8
"Plumage and Passage" by artist Ernesto Maranje, which prominently showcases the great blue heron and the roseate spoonbill. The mural ironically celebrates South Florida biodiversity.
Giant dredging equipment is positioned in the Intracoastal Waterway near the port.
Underwater camera footage captures the dredge damage to the reef.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning the largest permitted coral reef destruction in U.S. history. Port Everglades expansion would wipe out millions of corals, including the few remaining staghorn corals in Florida. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Proposals due March 2 for the Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach! This program awards up to $1,000 USD for a variety of evolution education and outreach projects, workshops, and events. Apply now! shorturl.at/I8HqO
Learn about science policy from experts in D.C.! Apply for AGU sponsorship to AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) Workshop, happening 12-15 April 2026. Apply by 22 February
Want to gain firsthand insight into the science policy process, network, and engage with fellow students interested in science policy?
Apply for @aguscipolicy.bsky.social sponsorship to the CASE Workshop!
Apps close 22 February at 11:59 pm PST! buff.ly/9FmkyCZ
Flyer for virtual pollinator steward certification workshops for spring 2026 for agricultural landowners, managers, producers, and affiliated professionals in Illinois and Ohio.
Do you work in agriculture and want to learn about pollinators? Join us this spring for the Pollinator Steward Certification workshop! We'll have great presentations and a chance to network with other Illinoisans in ag. Go register at www.pollinator.org/wingspan/ats... to secure your spot! 🐝 🌻
Someone made an actually-organized version of this!!
Green Botanical Society of America graphic titled “BSA Awards with February Deadlines!” A list of awards appears in white text with leaf icons beside each item. • Corresponding Member Awards — Deadline Feb. 2, 2026 • $10,000 Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology — Deadline Feb. 2, 2026 • $10,000 Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology — Deadline Feb. 2, 2026 • $1,500 Graduate Student Research Awards: J.S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award and AJ Harris Graduate Student Research Award — Deadline Feb. 16, 2026 • Public Policy Award — Deadline Feb. 20, 2026 At the bottom is the URL “www.botany.org/home/awards.html,” the Botanical Society of America logo, and a large green leaf image. A QR code appears in the lower right corner.
Several BSA award deadlines are coming up fast in February, including $10,000 dissertation awards, grad student research awards, and public policy awards.
Our new BSA Member Toolkit video shows you how to apply, step by step:
youtu.be/vRZdmrb-cFs?...
Apply today!
www.botany.org/home/awards.html 🌱
You can't reform this shit. This is a death threat.
Make a real impact on the future of the Botanical Society of America—join the BSA Board!
Current BSA members can learn more and submit a nomination at mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
Deadline is February 1, 2026
