Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Check out this new pre-print that covers a survey-based study of Plant Awareness Disparity! This work was led by undergraduate researcher Ari Hoffman, who was supervised by my postdoc advisor @TNCVasconcelos and me:
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🌿 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!
ASPT is excited to launch a five-part special webinar series, “Taxonomy: What is it good for?”, spotlighting voices from the global plant taxonomy community and the real-world impact of systematic research. We kick things off Friday, February 6 at 12 PM ET with Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London). Her talk, “Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)” . . . dives into one of the largest and most fascinating plant genera on Earth—and shows why taxonomy is absolutely essential to science, conservation, and society. Registration is free. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7317682353817/WN_uouPXpdySw-UUfG32sjAzw#/registration #ASPT #PlantTaxonomy #Systematics #Botany #PlantScience #TaxonomyMatters #Solanaceae #Solanum #Webinar #ScienceTalks #Biodiversity #Herbaria
ASPT is launching a free 5-part webinar series, “Taxonomy: What is it good for?” on the real-world impacts of systematics. Join us Feb 6 for @sandyknapp.bsky.social's “Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae).”
Register and share!
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When @omearabrian.bsky.social saw the manuscript, he described it as: ‘What if this figure could be an entire paper?’
I choose to interpret that as high praise.
Now accepted at AmNat: The geometry of macroevolution (with Dan Rabosky). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of
@systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social!
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Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
This shows an image of Andrew Hipp and the Botany 2025 logo. Text: Botany 2025, Botany without Barriers, Palm Springs, CA. ASPT Incoming President's Talk Andrew Hipp, Director of the herbarium and senior scientist in plant systematics, The Morton Arboretum.
Andrew Hipp of The Morton Arboretum will deliver the ASPT Incoming Presidents' Talk at #Botany2025! 🌿
To learn more about his career, publications, and public and educational outreach, visit: www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html
Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Eight herbarium sheets displaying various specimens of the blueberry genus, each with detailed labels and color calibration bars. The text above provides code for searching and downloading specimen metadata and images. Image credit: OUHC and BRIT herbaria.
mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria from openly available specimen images
New in #AppsPlantSci by @tvasconcelos.bsky.social & @jboyko.bsky.social
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @r-foundation.bsky.social @gbif.org #botany #biodiversity #iamabotanist
Excited to start this new phase for our MICH herbarium and to work on implementing our 2025-2030 strategic plan! 😄🌿🌾🍁🌎
In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹
Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
The botanists are inviting YOU to Plantsgiving 🌱 On Thurs we'll be documenting the plant species in our Thanksgiving meals, and we'd love it if you do, too! Follow along & join in using #Plantsgiving 🌱 THANKYOU @martinebotany.bsky.social for starting this wonderful tradition!
#plantscience #botany
Agnes Dellinger: Unlocking Flowers’ Secrets
https://botany.fyi/mp5z38
@caordonezparra.bsky.social interviews Dr. Agnes Dellinger to learn more about how she became interested in the interaction between plants and pollinators.
#Botany #PlantScience
a potential nasty consequence. these are profile likelihoods for a default model (b/d) and a more model (a/c). (b/d) is what you'd get fitting a standard Pagel model with ARD. You get these horrible likelihood ridges for parameter estimates (e.g., b. theta4). But for the same dataset, there is a slightly non-standard model (non-standard in the sense of it's not ER/SYM/ARD) that has really nice statistical behavior
I wrote this about finding the optimal discrete character model structure. I hope this will be useful for empiricists. The main point is that relying only on the package default models is bad and can have nasty consequences or parameter estimates and ASR.
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I'm building a Starter Pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists. It's hard to gather usernames using the search tool. Please add your name to this thread if you want to be added!
Herbaria and herbarium peeps starter pack! Not exhaustive; tell me who else to add.
go.bsky.app/J3orEaP
Hey, thank you for creating this one! Can you add me too? Im a curator at MICH :)
