jessamine finch

Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
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📣 Job Opportunity: Plant Conservation Post Doctoral Associate (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)🌿

🌎 Escondido, CA
🧑‍💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants
⌛ 3y FT
💸 $87k

Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc - Conservation Communications Technician Are you passionate about plants and storytelling? The Atlanta Botanical Garden is seeking a creative Conservation Communications Technician to support the Southeastern Center for Conservation in bring...

📣 Are you passionate about plants and storytelling? The Atlanta Botanical Garden is seeking a Conservation Communications Technician.

📱 requires experience creating social media content for an org
📆 Jan./Feb. 2026 start
⌛ part-time, temp
💸 $22/hr

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Poster with brown and white artwork featuring an assembly line of people coming out of and returning to a factory, while out the workers are fed and cared for by women

'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #womensart #Monday

Intraspecific plant chemodiversity at plot level has contrasting effects on arthropod functional groups Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

#Chemodiversity is an important driver for plant–arthropod interactions 🌿 🪲 🐝. For more info check out this very impressive work by RU members Lina Ojeda-Prieto, @robinheinennl.bsky.social binheinennl.bsky.social and Wolfgang W. Weisser together with Eliecer L. Moreno doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Work With Us - Center for Plant Conservation Join the CPC's National Office team and help us further our mission to save rare and imperiled plants species.

📣 The Center for Plant Conservation seeks an experienced scientist and leader to join their team as Director of Science and Conservation!

🎓 Related phd, experience may sub
🌟 7+y leadership
👩‍💻 Remote
💸 $100-115k
📆 Open till filled, Nov. 28 for priority consideration

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On Nov 12th, 6pm Eastern, join us for a talk by Georgia Silvera Seamans entitled "Black New Yorkers' Arboreal Legacy!" It's sure to be a fascinating historical dive. Join us in person or virtually via zoom! Details & registration here www.torreybotanical.org/lecture-sche...

🧪🌎🌿🌾 #botany #history

We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous.

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

It makes me SO PROUD that the entire Native Plant Trust herbarium collection is now available on CNH. This would not have happened without the amazing work of my former colleagues Fitz Dettmer and Kate Wellspring. Together we can unlock the power of small herbaria! 🌿

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Friday 11/7 at 5:30, join NEBS to hear a talk by Dr. Chris Martine! Dr. Martine is a David Burpee Professor of Plant Genetics and Research and Director of the Manning Herbarium at Bucknell University AND President-Elect of the Botanical Society of America. For details and to register: rhodora.org

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...

(A) An adult female in the field on Sicyos angulatus. (B) Back view of an adult female reared on cucumber, whose hindleg organs are covered with fungal hyphae (arrowheads). (C) Magnified image of the hindleg organ. (D to L) Morphology of hind tibia of adult male [(D) to (F)], immature adult female [(G) to (I)], and mature adult female [(J) to (L)]. [(D), (G), and (I)] Brightfield images. [(E), (H), and (K)] Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images. [(F), (I), and (L)] Magnified SEM images. (M to O) Peculiar behavior of egg-laying adult female. After laying each egg (M), the female rhythmically scratches the hyphae-covered hindleg organ with tarsal claws of the opposite hindleg (N) and then rubs the egg surface with the claws in a skillful manner (O). Also see movie S1. (P to R) Egg mass covered with fungal hyphae at 0-day (P), 3-day (Q), and 10-day (R) intervals after oviposition. Reddish color of 10-day eggs reflects the body color of developing nymphs inside.

What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps.

Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm

Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.

To manually turn off go to:

Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off

do folks have any idea how much cops cost?!

it would be less expensive to just feed people.

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

🌿 PhD Opportunity: Healing and Harm 🌍
How do invasive species & climate change impact medicinal plants? What does that mean for conservation in one of South Africa’s most biodiverse regions?

👇 More info below

Close-up of round pink and white milkweed blooms with shiny green heart-shaped leaves among greenish rocks.

Serpentine Milkweed (Asclepias solanoana) is a rare, endemic California plant which grows in Serpentine #rock barrens.💚

Serpentine/Serpentinite info. here...
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#AlphabetChallenge #CaliforniaNativePlants #iNat #NaturePhotos 📷🌱

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Yes, solutions for nature are also solutions for health!

This new analysis finds urban greening is "associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes including improved physical and mental health, increased physical activity, improved childhood development, and reduced exposure to harms."

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

Figure showing seed morphology and seedling development stages of Vellozia sessilis. Seeds (A) germinated seed with radicle (B) root and coleoptile development (3-4 days after germination) (C) coleoptile and formation of the first leaf - eophyll (5-6 days after germination) (D) root and leaf development (9-10 days after germination) (EF) growth of the second leaf and root (15-20 days after germination) (G) seedling (26 days after germination) (H). Photographs by B. Schindler.

To ensure its survival, researchers developed a seed conservation protocol for long-term storage in germplasm banks, an important step toward securing its genetic diversity for the future. 🌾(7/8)

Samara The newsletter of the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP).

New Samara just dropped celebrating 25 years of the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership!

Check it out here: www.kew.org/science/our-...
👀 pg. 25 for Atlanta Botanical Garden 🍑🫘

Seed fatty acid composition and physical dormancy in fire-prone ecosystems AbstractBackground and Aims. The maintenance of seed banks and timing of germination are fundamental to ensuring population persistence. Physical dormancy

While we found no correlation between seed dormancy-breaking temperatures and fatty acid composition, our research showed that fatty acid composition was distinct in different seed tissue types and shaped by habitat!

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1093/aob/... 🌱 (2/2)

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath

Curator of Plants & Sustainability - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page Apply to Curator of Plants & Sustainability at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto is looking for a Curator of Plants and Sustainability #academicjobs #iamabotanist royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...

Aegean pahtway finds.