I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here:
mhibbins.github.io
I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!
We just published a review 🗞️😁:
‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection
Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it.
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Hi from Brazil!
@pedropezzi.bsky.social
We’re collecting the northern range of the Agalinis distribution here. Happy fieldwork Spring Break :)
Don't miss out on the #BSAawards with a deadline of THIS SUNDAY, March 15th!
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BSA is giving out over $150,000 in awards this year for students, early-career, mid-career, and professional members!
Apply today!
#BSAtravelawards #BSAresearchawards #Iamabotanist #Botany2026
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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
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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/...
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What is #pollinator #health, and why does it matter now more than ever?
🔎Discover the scope of the field, our mission and more as a new 💎 #OpenAccess #journal in our very first editorial 👇
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Genome for Agalinis fasciculata, coming up! 🧬
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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
"Without research, we cannot have a future where people and planet thrive"
An interview with BSA member
@sandyknapp.bsky.social!
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New preprint is up!
Not going spoil the results for you 🤓 but we looked at some “bird” vs “bee”-pollinated Penstemon hybrid zones and came away with some pretty unexpected results!
‘Dispersification’ of Agalinis (Orobanchaceae) Into South America Is Associated With Hummingbird Pollination and Perennial Life-History Shifts
@pedropezzi.bsky.social @soltislab.bsky.social
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Check out AJB's special issue "Paradigm shifts in flower color" a bunch of cool papers on flower coloration with a focus on non-pollinator drivers of color variation 🌸🌼🌺bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/2026/113/1
Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for the first webinar in our 2026 series: "Taxonomy: What is it good for?"
Free to all! Join us to hear @sandyknapp.bsky.social's "Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)"
Pls register & share:
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Latvis lab just arrived in Baton Rouge for the SSB conference! Excited to try Elsie’s plate and pie. @pedropezzi.bsky.social @chukwumaemma.bsky.social #SSB2026
Support from @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social up to $1500 is available for masters and doctoral students to conduct fieldwork, herbarium studies, and/or laboratory research in any area of plant systematics. Join ASPT today, and apply by Feb 28, 2026... details below:
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Coming soon from @pedropezzi.bsky.social !

This story has been such a long time coming! We found that the family of MYB transcription factors that makes pink tomatoes has a wacky cousin involved in the evolution of red flowers in Iochroma. #MYBs4Ever
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Undergraduate Community at Evolution Program. Applications due January 20, 2026.
The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...
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📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!!
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
Funds available for grads and postdocs to visit @burkemuseum.bsky.social collections! Applications due Dec. 15th. Please share!
Thursday’s dinner will showcase UArk Herbarium/Prairie Pedagogy Pop-up Exhibition. It will highlight the UArk Herbarium support for educational and artistic work happening in the Oak Knoll Prairie. Artworks by Caite Ramos, Ellie Johnson, Mikki Young, Peter Brown, Mia Dixon, Kaylee Hutto and more!
@chukwumaemma.bsky.social Research explores an approach to clarify the phylo relationship & evol history of Alectra. Using seqdata with morph, habitat & climate traits, it aims to reveal diversification, adaptation & future ranges w/implications for conservation & understanding parasitic plant evol.
@phylojennatics.bsky.social research focuses on macro and micro forces that can influence species abundance in Silene. She is using herbarium specimen data to build a genus phylogeny. Jenna successfully extracted DNA from a specimen from 1892!
The time has come again! TBS has #grants available to undergrads, masters & doctoral students alike for #research, field work or workshop attendance! Grants are available to society members - learn more & apply at www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/
🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾 #botany
Picture of MEME students on the beach
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
How many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Fieldwork highlights from Italy: to understand what a species is PhD student @rlsavage.bsky.social is taking a integrative approach using morphological, genomic & ecological data to determine what a species is in Rhinanthus
@maribethlatvis.bsky.social and Emily Carter helped with the fieldwork
We have several exciting events lined up for the 150th anniversary of the UARK herbarium!
Check out all the events with this link: biology.uark.edu/herbarium/ev...
One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇