Testing fundamental hypotheses of colonization success in the ferns www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

A collage of 1) a meerkat in the Kalahari desert, wearing a tracking collar while stood beside the entrance to its burrow, 2) a 3D scan of a subterranean burrow, 3) a map showing burrow locations and their usage patterns.

🚨 Please share: PhD opportunity

🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾

💡 Big ecological Qs
📡 Geophysical scanning
🌍 Field ecology & behaviour
📊 Big data & code

with me & @geophysics-adam.bsky.social
APPLY www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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

People keep asking me if I use AI to make writing easier. And I keep telling them: I do not want it to be easier.

Whenever I have done any good work, it's because I either thought about it a LOT or I have inadvertently spent ten years thinking about it so it comes easy. The thinking is the point.

Just 5 days left to submit! Submissions close April 6th!!
Website: lstewart22.github.io/FLOhRA/
Submission form: forms.gle/rLNHta6F3zv5...
🎨📷🌱
@creaf.cat

Elsevier costs were ~£1.7B in 2025 newsletter.journalology.com/p/elsevier-2...

Compare that to arXiv 👇

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? 🌱

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Associate Professor of Plant Science Associate Professor of Plant Science Salary: Grade 9 (£61,759 - £73,708 p.a, depending on experience)This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for elements of the job to be undertak...

Apply before April 23rd to join us as Associate Professor at Leeds
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

I'm building an intro to R course to help students get up to speed on the basics. It's called 'R for Nervous Humans'. Modules 1-4 are up now. No interactivity though, for reasons. Feedback welcomed.

arcaravaggi.github.io/r-for-nervou...

#statistics #rstats

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...

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

Comparative Evolution of Photosynthetic Light Response Curves: Approaches and Pitfalls in Phylogenetic Modeling of a Function-Valued Trait

Rebekah Evelyn Davis, @plantevoecophys.bsky.social, Eric Goolsby

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

#PlantScience

Busy week for papers in the lab! First PhD paper out for BERRI student Dan Gaudet with a method to measure kynurenine in plants.
In humans the kynurenine is a primary tryptophan degradation pathway to NAD. In plants much less is known making this a great step.

www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejo...

Happy to be serving as a guest editor for a special issue in Plant Science on new, unusual and non-traditional plant growth regulators. We invite original research articles and reviews addressing all aspects of non-canonical signaling molecules in plants. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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

Can anyone suggest a review of hormonal regulation of molt in birds? Particularly how it might differ between pre-juvenile, pre-basic, pre-alternate etc? @skwinnicki.bsky.social?

JND 0.0025! I wonder if the color gamut of our devices has an appreciable impact?

It's official!!!! #Botany2026 here we come!

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.

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

When I first started PhD research on genetically modified poplar I went to a co-op meeting that helped fund the research.

I met a scientist who worked in private industry developing gm plants. He told me what my results would be and ended up being >90% correct. (1/4)

I’ve been foolishly optimistic about funding but this is scary.

No one in my Department has gotten tenure without a major grant.

Not good for Assistant Professors in foundational research…

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.

“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

Please consider letting the BLM know that their plan to increase logging in old Oregon forests is terrible forest science:

One as Head of Plant Science at Leeds
The new Plant Sciences page is now live and linked to from the FBS Research and Innovation homepage - interested in joining or collaborating? Learn about the research and opportunities by visiting this website! biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/plant-sciences

I have never been more glad that I have resisted the digitization of my classes.

Botany is the study of plants.

We're hiring at CSUN. Vertebrate Functional Morphologist. Please apply!
We still allow DEI, which I horribly need to specify.
(I'm also not on the committee, but happy to answer any questions!)

Students out there, I have a PhD project cutting across biology, material science and biomedicine that requires a highly capable, diverse and brave applicant. if you think this is for you please Apply using the link below. All details in the website!!

Project: eb4bm.org/project/engi...

Shared and Divergent Processes Linked to Monocot Diversity Across the Mediterranean Climate Regions Aim The five Mediterranean regions of the globe are plant biodiversity hotspots, and there has not been a comparative analytical framework examining correlates of diversity across these regions. Of .....

Monocots. 🌴
Geophytes. 🪻
Mediterranean biome. 🔥
Phylogenetic diversity. 🤓
Check. It. Out. 🥳

(This project took 5+ years for various reasons. Science takes time sometimes and that’s ok!)

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