CIPRES is shutting down at the end of June: www.phylo.org .

It's been such a good resource for the phylogenetics community. Thanks to #NSF and Simons for funding it and for all the people who have worked to grow and sustain this for so long.

Eeee!!!! So, good news: me and @lepidodendron.bsky.social will be co-hosting a symposium at EPPC this year looking at plant Paleoart!!!!! This has been a long time coming, so I'm incredibly excited that we can finally announce it! #paleoart #paleobotany #conference #FossilFriday #botany

We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute!

www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...

An digital illustration of a scrubland/pinyon-junper woodland. There is shallow, flowing, water in a sandy wash with some large rocks. The plantlife is mostly rabbitbrush and big sagebrush, but pines, deciduous trees, and joshua trees are visible going further back toward the scrub covered hills. These plants communities combine in these spots between the biomes we more commonly think of, making them extremely biodiverse. While this particular landscape is based on the Mojave-San Gabriel Mountain transition zone, this particular place doesn't actually exist. Instead, the image is based on Puma Canyon (Phelan, CA) Lost Lake (San Bernardino, CA) and the drive up Lone Pine Canyon (Lytle Creek, CA)

A landscape I did for Transition Habitat.

This place doesn't actually exist though.
It's a made up landscape based on photos I took at Lost Lake, available photos of Puma Canyon, and my commute thru the San Gabriel Mountains.

A representation of the ecotone~

#sciart #ecotone #scrubland #art

Almost twenty years of difference, still believe it's a great motto!

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Fixed-Term) Across history, plant propagation has been essential for both medicinal and food production practices. The UK boasts a rich tradition of plant cultivation dating back to medieval times, where gardens ...

Really cool postdoc job here at Nottingham for someone interested in plants and historical documents, with @razda5.bsky.social. Fixed term until March 2028. Deadline is Friday!

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Everyone adds "KPop logistic growth carrying capacity" to their slides, and uses them until their students start saying, "isn't that the movie dad liked as a kid?"

Transverse section of fossil wood showing files of polygonal to rounded conducting cells and 5 rays (the brown vertical "lines")

#FossilFriday reminder that there are very old fossil #plants with very well preserved cellular detail!
This is a piece of wood from a tree that grew ~340 million years ago (early Carboniferous) in what is now France, prepared as thin-section & seen under the microscope 🔬 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany #botany

Palaeosphere dinoboys, who claim they have to pile on a documentary for kids, because it's getting in the way of education, surprisingly rarely stand on a soapbox to scream at the actual systemic powers, that lead to erosion of academic funding and accessibility.

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Check out the four-week residential program being offered - application deadline 7 April. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/cer...

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established?

In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience

▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Photo of the flaring base of a tree covered with green bryophytes. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

Lest you think epiphytes are found only in the tropics, look to the bryophytes. Mosses & liverworts survive drought by drying without dying. They can shrivel up on dry days but resurrect in the next rain. #bryophyte #moss #liverwort #epiphyte #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Late Cretaceous origins for major nightshade lineages from total-evidence timetree analysis AbstractBackground and Aims. The timing of the radiation of nightshades (Solanaceae) has been contentious in the literature, with estimates of the crown ag

How old are tomatoes, peppers and golden berries? 🍅🌱

We combined fossils with molecular data to time-calibrate the evolutionary history of #Solanaceae

Curious about total-evidence dating? Take a look!

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Graduate Student Position (M/F) 0204 Graduate Student Position (M/F) in Parallel Evolution of Clonality in Angiosperms...

We are looking for a new PhD student: Parallel Evolution of Clonality in Angiosperms www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

A fibrovascular bundle of a Cretaceous palm

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But no plants? Another example as plants being seen as a backdrop rather than a centrepiece. Obviously we all have our favourites, but surely Crested Cow-wheat is a bit more of a looker than most mammals...

The Boneyard The latest from bestselling, award-winning author Riley Black. Expect strange dinosaurs, amazing invertebrates, and other prehistoric wonders, exhibited right in your inbox.

Want original fossil stories right to your inbox? Sign up for my newsletter! Everyone gets weekly paleo jottings and updates on my writing, and paid subscribers get an original, reported article every Wednesday. 🧪

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🤓 New M.Sc. program: Earth System Dynamics & Evolution 🤓
fau-earth-system-science.github.io starting October 2026! PostDoc positions available

I wonder, how do you guys manage to get academic collaborators to contribute to things? It seems like I am always helping others but rarely getting help when I need it...

#JobAlert #PhD 🌱

We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers.

We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition.

Interested? Please get in touch for more information!

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob

Early basal angiosperm Jixia from the Lower Cretaceous of Northwest China: evidence for the radiative expansion of the Jehol Biota The late Early Cretaceous witnessed the rapid radiation and extensive expansion of early angiosperms in terrestrial ecosystems, though the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we d...

A new lobed leaf with affinities with the Austrobaileyales from the Early Cretaceous of China. Good to see our predictions based on Mesodescolea from the Early Cretaceous of Argentina coming true! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌿 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!

A statue of a Carnotaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur, stands in front of the building of the Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio in Trelew, Argentina

First day in one of my favourite places!

Loving the reconstruction of Sagaria, an underappreciated angiosperm from the Early Cretaceous of Campania, Italy!

Because of Valentine's Day we had today a Flower Flocking #paleostream, covering different kinds of fossil angiosperms!
Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!

Owens Valley Station — White Mountain Research Center Geolocation: 37°21’38”N / 118°19’36”W Elevation: 1252m (4108’) The Owens Valley Station is our headquarters and is open year round. We are located 6 km (4 miles) east of Bishop in Owens Valley at…

Join a summer workshop on phylogenetic comparative methods for biomechanists at UC Riverside from June 21-27. Apply by March 15, 2026. For more info and details, visit: https://www.wmrc.edu/owens-valley-station/ #workshop

Shoot apical meristem and initial vascular development of a late Palaeozoic spermatophyte (order Medullosales) AbstractBackground and Aims. The medullosans are ancient spermatophytes (order Medullosales) with an unusual stem anatomy and have been studied extensively

A stunning work on the anatomy of the apical meristem in Medullosans, showing fascinating similarities with extant cycads!

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Screaming flower character, blushing smiling flower character left to right

Academic Societies when a young woman dares to be slightly outspoken (left) the same Societies when a misogynistic controversial geriatric is openly affiliated with a high-profile peadophile sex trafficker (right)