I find it strange that some professors run students submissions through AI detectors.
If LLMs are trained and retrained on human-written texts, doesn't that mean that any text is more likely to incorrectly flag as AI-generated (false positive)?
Try some AI-detectors on your old publication, and see!
Dark gray poster with a red floral border. Text reads: “BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology, 2025 Recipients.” Centered is a portrait of Oluwatobi Oso, smiling outdoors in a tan coat, Yale University. Below, under “Honorable Mention,” is a smaller portrait of Christopher Joaquín Muñoz, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, with text: “The University of Texas at El Paso.” BSA logo in bottom corner.
🌹Congratulations to Oluwatobi Oso of Yale University, winner of the 2025 Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology.
Honorable mention:
Christopher Joaquín Muñoz (The University of Texas at El Paso).
botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist
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Today is 'A Day for BSA!' Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of BSA supporting the botanical sciences!
🌱 Visit: www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025
🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!
🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA
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We’re nearly 60% of the way to our $15,000 Endowment goal!
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The follow-up goal is to continue publishing scientific articles - products of the funding! And to finish this PhD! Vamoooos
I'm also open to talking about what I think are my tips to these specific successes in grad school, whether in writing, interview, podcast, video, or whatever... I guess I should be strong willed enough to do one! Maybe I'll just inspire myself with one of my empowering mantras😅.
I'm always seeking support, so if anyone knows which sources funds biological research, particularly plants, please send them to me. I'm also open to collaborations!
I remain grateful to all my support and funding sources,Yale GSAS @yalegsas.bsky.social, Yale Peabody Museum, Yale Institue for Biospheric Studies, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social, BSA, IAPT @iaptglobal.bsky.social, ASPT, and Roboflow @roboflow.com, amongst others
The littlest of things inspire me the most (ask my wife😂), and I hope that you were at least pumped by the 3rd mantra.
...in order of determination.
1. "I can"
2. "Just do it"
3. "Try"
4. "Na person wey shoot shot dey score" (You can only miss the shots you take, but what if you score?)
5. "Na person wey give up F*** up" (it's altogether challenging, but you can't give up, perseverance is key)
But somehow, I limited myself to posting about it just on WhatsApp - not fair enough! Sometimes, I don't even post it because I worry I won't be able to individually respond "thank you" to every "congratulations."
Anyway, this is me inspiring you and others like me with 5 of my favorite lines...
Beyond the fact that money is super important for research, I'd also usually apply for these things hoping that if I get it, it can inspire many others like me from low income backgrounds and underdeveloped/developing countries, first-gen or even a parent juggling family with studying for a degree.
Getting one research grant/funding/award every year was a goal I set for myself when I started my PhD at Yale in 2021. I have since won 8 research awards, 3 travel awards, and some other prizes - the previous always higher than the last, and I hope it continues that way!
I'm glad to be this year's recipient of the Don Kaplan Dissertation Award by Botanical Society of America (BSA), the $10k that came with it is my biggest so far!
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
Yes indeed it was!!
Haha, unbeatable!!!
Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California!
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
This is all shades of strange!!!
Are you a #botany professional who makes a comfortable living and is currently not feeling job-stressed? Tenured faculty, I'm looking at you 👀. 🧪
I dare you to meet or beat my $100 donation 💯 to keep PLANTS afloat in the face of @botsocamerica.bsky.social's grant termination!!
So pleased that @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al choose to introduce this great resource in #AppsPlantSci!
Check out the press release & the paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#pteridophytes #ferns
This is such a sad news!!!!
A circular diagram resembling a moth atop five colorful geometrical figures.
The self-replicating cellular organization of shoot apical #meristems
New #AJB research by Étienne Couturier, @paulallanos.bsky.social, Antoine Lizée, Sébastien Besson & Jacques Dumais
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience #bryophytes #lycophytes #ferns
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#Botany2025 #BotanyWithoutBarriers
Here we go #Botany2025 is in full swing preparation! Checkout the Symposia and Colloquia and submit a workshop! Abstract submission opening soon. #Iamabotanist #Botany
@botsocamerica.bsky.social BSA Grad students, please respond to the original post so you can be added to the starter pack.
Vamoooosssss.......
I'd like to be added...
Utricularia is one my of fav carnivorous plants.
Their traps can suck in prey in less than one millisecond (!!), reaching up to 600g accelerations (!!), which is one of the fastest movements in the plants! #Utricularia #Plantsciences #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌱🌾
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ69...
