Dr Jasmine Janes

the galaxias hex logo showing a fun-coloured illustration of a green galaxias fish. The head, gills and fin in the centre with light green on the underside, green lips and wavy shades of green on its back, with blue and orange markings by its eye and gills. The background is light orangey-salmony colour in a sunburst style

🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨

📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia

galaxias.ala.org.au

#rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟

A thread 🧵👇

Students collecting vegetation data in the Organ Mountains

Plants with soil and roots

Students collecting plants from forest understory

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share!

Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort!

We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

A yellow and red donkey orchid.

Diuris porrifolia - the small eared donkey orchid

🧪🌱#orchids

I was so excited when I saw this one! Pterostylis recurva - the jug greenhood. Only just processing photos now… a year later 🤣

🧪🌱 #orchids

A big black slug has eaten its way inside a puffball mushroom.

Found this slug having a good munch on this puffball mushroom yesterday.

🍄🧪

So true!

AusAMF: The Database of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities in Australia Motivation Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are central to plant nutrient acquisition, soil carbon dynamics, and ecosystem resilience. Yet, their biogeography remains incompletely characterised, pa...

The database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Australia is out!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

You can access data summaries via the website www.ausamf.com

We have data from 610 sites with data from another 500 locations to be added by the end of the year!

Thanks to all collaborators

A multiflowered orchid. The flowers are green and white.

Spent a few days camping before coming back to the office to run ridiculously long run-time analyses. Camping was better. Enjoy this Platanthera orbiculata orchid.

🧪 #orchids

Phalaenopsis violacea frm. Magenta. A bright magenta flower with yellow tips at the petals and sepals.

I always underestimate how long it takes to submit a manuscript. I mean, why would anyone think it takes 2.5 hrs to upload some files?
Anyway, let’s celebrate that small win with this orchid pic!

Two brown and white slipper orchids

Just some pretty Cypripedium montanum (mountain lady’s slipper) to brighten your day.

🧪🌱 #orchids

Four large plastic tubs sit on metal racks. The tubs contain small pots of orchids. There are lots of extra metal racks in the image.

Orchids are safe & sound in their new home.
Next mission = fill this greenhouse cell with orchids 🤣
#orchids

These are all Platanthera but four different species. I’ve had Spiranthes do well before but otherwise most of my lab orchids have been Australian natives.

Pots of emerging orchids being placed in plastic tubs

Packing up 130 native orchid plants so they can travel to their new home at UNBC.

#orchids

Just heard @erc.europa.eu will increase funding for grantees relocating to #Europe. Researchers based in the US or elsewhere in the world, can apply for €1 million beyond the usual max amount to set up a lab or #research team, if scientifically justified. Now to be €2 million.

🧪 #grants #academic

Excited to say that I will now be a Senior Editor for the Journal of Biogeography (JBI).

Love getting back to the roots of phylogeny & phylogeography

Really proud of the team I am working with at the moment. We attended an ‘ideas lab’ & pulled together a solid set of ideas into something that could help the future of biodiversity in BC. We did it all in the crazy timeframe of two weeks.

No matter the outcome, the effort from the team was huge.

A white flower with a yellow-orange centre.

What a massive two weeks. Big grant development & application & final exams. Enjoy this orchid while catching a breath.
Dendrobium ‘Frosty Dawn’
#orchids

View from a hotel toward Granville Island. Lots of buildings and roads, with a cloudy sky.

In Vancouver for a few days, hanging out with a bunch of genomics folk. Good to see some old friends and some new ones.

COMPASS Pathfinders: Conservation Leaders | COMPASS

NEW: Apply for COMPASS Pathfinders Program!
www.compassscicomm.org/compass-path...

Eligibility:
* You work in conservation in North America (incl. Caribbean)
* Your work is directly informed by science &/or Indigenous knowledge (incl. research, policy, comms, partnerships)

Deadline April 7. 🧪🌎🦤

If you reach out to Jamie Gorrell at UNBC he will be able to tell you more about the field work opportunities. Alternatively you could apply for one of the field jobs with the marmot recovery foundation. They advertise every year.

@csee-scee.bsky.social @marmotrecovery.bsky.social
@nature.org

Please share 🧪
We seek 2 postdocs to work on Vancouver Island marmots in the following areas :
1 - demographic models.
2 - conservation genomics.
Positions based at UNBC, working with MRF. Full details here

marmots.org/recovery-eff...

#conservation #jobs

“These data, although scanty…”

My new goal - use scanty in a published paper 😆

I would have hoped this was illegal… it’s kind of a contract put in place at a certain time under certain rules at that time. 😞

2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Fourwaves - 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

10 days left to submit an abstract. Slots for oral presentations heavily dependent on date of submission, so get on with it!
event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pag...

Ok, no more reading for a while. The past two weeks have been nuts - 25 assignments, 30 scholarship applications & 6 undergrad theses. Officially on grading strike for the rest of the week.

@univcan.ca

@nicolakoper.bsky.social @unbc-nresi.bsky.social @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social

A network plot showing interactions between plants and insects. Diptera and Rosaceae are very common.

A slide showing a map of Stone Mountain Provincial Park and some scenery. Mountains, lakes, beaver and caribou.

Just presented some plant-insect work for the BC Parks e-summit. Great diversity of talks with topics from social sci, management & more.

🧪 #biodiversity