How Thousands of Phone Snapshots Solved a Flower Colour Mystery
www.botany.one/how-thousand...
Nearly 10,000 People Helped Confirm a Botanical Hunch. Were You One of Them?
#Botany #PlantScience
The United States National Herbarium is seeking a Lead Collections Manager! For complete requirements and application procedures, please visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications and all supporting documentation must be received online by 1 May 2026.
!! Wow, NPR article highlighting botanist @naomibot.bsky.social !!
Using herbarium genomics to understand the history of a global plant invasion www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
Yesterday I had the honor of delivering a sermon on the science and humanity of gender. Here's the whole thing, in both audio and pdf formats.
uucvan.org/services/the...
Today I'm teaching about responsible AI usage in my Computer Science capstone class. I regularly emphasize the need to understand code and to cite anything AI generated. But how can I make the point that AI is reducing depth of understanding because students no longer have to dig for answers? (1/6)
Plant genome sequence assembly and annotation workflow. Figure source: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12623-z
Interested in the genetic secrets of your favorite plant?
A genome sequence might reveal them. We wrote down a workflow from DNA extraction & sequencing to genome sequence assembly & annotation. It includes a hands-on guide with example commands.
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics
Accessible guest link for our new Science paper:
Population genomics of Anopheles darlingi, the principal South American malaria vector mosquito
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www.science.org/eprint/VRMSQ...
Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829...
We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!
Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens!
Read it in Science
dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie...
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi-science.bsky.social
Very excited to announce that the final version of this is live now at @nature.com!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!
A colorful mess: Widespread exchange of pigmentation genes across the Parulidae phylogeny
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/a...
Based on the PLoS Biology paper by Kevin Bennett and his colleagues | #ornithology
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
When I was there 2 weeks ago there were no pollinators - I suspect the plants and insects are not in sync -hoping the bloom continues long enough for the pollinators to catch up.
Orthologous synteny provides robust structural evidence for the ancestral angiosperm ε-WGD www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
the "lost" species Monarda mexicana is still out there! Known from just 2 historical collections (most recent from the 1950s). Imagine my joy in stumbling on a picture of it on @inaturalist.bsky.social !!! We've now documented the first known modern populations and revived the species name:
Taxonomists: If you liked the old TAXACOM mailing list, we've restarted it. You can sign up, here:
groups.google.com/g/taxacom
Please share widely! We don't have access to the old lists. If you know any taxonomists, let them know, and pass it on.
#science #academia #taxonomy
A phylogeny showing that Drosera anglica (2n = 40) has a subgenome from the Drosera linearis (2n = 20) lineage and a subgenome from the Drosera rotundifolia (2n = 20) lineage with photos of Drosera linearis with long, narrow leaves, Drosera rotundifolia with wider than round leaves, and Drosera linearis with intermediate, oblong leaves.
Origin of subgenomes in the circumboreal, allopolyploid, carnivorous plant #Drosera anglica
New #AJB research by Rebekah Mohn & @yangyayy.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Caryophyllales #Droseraceae #Hawaii #phylogenomics #polyploidy #sundew
Terrific essay on unavoidable complexity by @philipcball.bsky.social
"It is not yet clear what a curriculum—not to mention both a public and a professional narrative—that begins [w/pleiotropy + polygenicity] would look like. But it would surely look more like real biology.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961
A centromere but not just a centromere: structure and evolution of a selfish chromosomal supergene in monkeyflowers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...
An historic illustration of bees and other insects flying around a flowering bush.
All BHL staff have been secured! 🧪 As we enter our next chapter, the team who steward BHL’s collections & infrastructure remain in place, led by Colleen Funkhouser in her new role of Managing Director. Meet the team guiding BHL forward:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/celebrating-bhl-team.html
My good friend and director of the natural history museum of Denmark is looking for a curator for #bryophytes. Thus, if you like these small #plants, you should really apply. Great place to work, great city and amazing plants.
#sciencejobs #plantscijobs
www.linkedin.com/posts/nina-r...
Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
Do you have undergrads interested in collections-based research? Have them apply to go work with @jmheberling.bsky.social at CMNH! I cannot imagine a better place to work over the summer
We’re excited to share the Pan-genomes Doorstep Meeting @ #PEQG26! Join this 3-hour workshop on evolutionary applications of pangenomics, covering construction, analysis, phylogenetics, annotation & graph QC. Register separately or as an add-on to PEQG: genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/do...
Cool backstory to this paper: it started as an REU project with co-author Luke Sparreo. Luke was one of those students who makes you work hard because he finishes your 7-week stretch goal in week 1. He did a lot of the work on connecting language phylogenies to maps. Come join this REU!
Interested in working to apply ARGs to real data in messy plant genomes? (Yeah it sounds hard). DM or email!
Register for the Smithsonian's National Botanical Symposium, “American Botany: 250 years of Discovery” 29 May '26. I'll be speaking on American oaks, w/ several greats: @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Caroline Strömberg, Wes Knapp, & Rose Bear Don't Walk.
Join us!
naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...
A comparison of female and hermaphrodite flowers of meadow checkermallow (Sidalcea campestris).
Pollinator-mediated fitness differences do not fully explain the maintenance of #gynodioecy in Sidalcea campestris
New #AJB research by Brooklyn Richards, Thomas Kaye & F. Andrew Jones
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #Malvaceae #pollen #pollinator