Josh Felton

Thank you ben ❤️ it has been a blast working with you during my tenure as student rep! #botany2025

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

Sometimes (especially late in the conference) 5 minute talks just hit the spot! Thorough enjoying Germinating Ideas/Lightening Talks at #Botany2025 Got to see my senior undergrad Magdalyn Rowley-Lange crush her CAM talk ...and we got to see dogs hunting invasive plants!

#UpAllNightWednesday at #Botany2025 will be at Street Bar!!! The first gay bar in Palm Springs 🏳️‍🌈 Be ready for karaoke!! 🎤 🕺 💃🏽 ✨

Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!

Laymon receives the award from Dave Tank.

Charlotte gives the her statement after the award is announced.

What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab

What happens when a CAM species and a C3 species hybridize? Find out today in Comparative Genomics I at 10:15 (right after the coffee break)! #botany2025 #whambamcam #camgenda

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I can’t believe I battled @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social on the dance floor at the #PlantBio2025 annual party 🤣

Eight people in a line smiling

My heart is full, my cup overflowing. Wonderful dinner out with my @coloradocollege.bsky.social Jabailylab alumni, from the classes of '19, '20, '22, '25, '26. Our currently ill '28 was greatly missed. I am so proud of these people (a second family!) and grateful to be together at #Botany2025

I'll be presenting my talk "Get Low: Evolutionary Transitions to Non-flying Mammal Pollination in Protea) at 4pm today Tuesday in Mesquite B at #Botany2025!

Come learn about Protea in South Africa and what else changes when they species have different primary pollinators!

A few moments from the poster session at #Botany2025!

So many student botanists outside on the patio at Oscar’s

Thanks everybody who came to the student mixer last night! The vibes were magnificent and it was great to meet new folks! #botany2025

Wanna hear about eastern Penstemon funkyness? Stop by poster #102 at 6:15!

Title of my poster: iNaturalist-facilitate natural history in Monarda

Come see me at the poster session tonight (P16) for two separate applications of @inaturalist.bsky.social in Monarda… showcasing iNat’s help for understanding organismal biology at both super broad (thousands of observations) and super targeted (single observation) scales 🙂 #Botany2025

BIPOC botanists at the mixer

Thanks all that came through the BIPOC mixer this morning at #botany2025 !!

Just a sliver of the diversity here at the conference #biodiversity

Careers in botany going strong at #botany2025 !!

Hey #botany2025 make sure to check out the Disabled in Botany symposium this afternoon (1:30, Catalina)!!

Slide advertising SUNY cortland undergrad posters at Botany 2025 on how polyploidy affects Nicotiana flowers: posters 181, 184, and 186

#Botany2025 ! My talk is in Smoketree D/E today (Mon) at 11:45am, but more importantly, these FANTABULOUS @sunycortland undergrads have posters tonight! Come learn about how polyploidy affects Nicotiana flowers! :) 💖

How can technology like 3d printing help your research, teaching, and outreach? Come find out today at 11:30 in Smoketree C in the education and outreach section #Botany2025

Dear #Botany2025 speakers - please DO use the microphone (stand by the podium so it can pick you up) so that those of us who have hearing issues/are hard of hearing/are d/Deaf can hear your excellent science! Thanks!

Props to the meeting organizers for setting up subtitles in Powerpoint, yayyyyyy

Can't wait for #Botany2025! If you like Andropogoneae or Tropicos, please stop by my poster session for "The Andropogoneae Extended Specimen Project: Implementation"

The Dowell Lab is headed to #Botany2025, come check out some of our amazing talks to see what we’ve been up to!

YouTube video by Botanical Society of America Videos Botany360: Make the most out of Botany 2025: A student conference guide

Here is the uploaded Botany360 conference guide. @botsocamerica.bsky.social @botanyballer.bsky.social

youtu.be/goEVbnKIAtI

Spanish #NotMoss dispersing its seeds

Cartoon drawings of a Hawaiian shirt, flashlight, compass, and camping tent. Text: Evolution 2025 Field Gear Swap, Diversity Committees Booth.

Packing for #Evol2025? Bring your new and gently used field gear and clothes that you no longer use to donate to the Field Gear Swap! Hosted by the tri-society Diversity Committees - drop by their booth to donate or pick up! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @evolmtg.bsky.social

McClintock Letter-Writing Workshop flyer. For all of the information, visit: https://blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-initiatives/the-mcclintock-letters/

Join a Zoom workshop this Friday from science writer Dr. Katherine Xue to to get ideas on how to write a hometown op-ed for the McClintock Letters initiative to tell your community why science funding matters!

Link here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

A flyer with the heading McClintock Letter-Writing Workshop. Details are Friday, June 6th, 12pm ET and 9am PT, virtual.

Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding?

Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!

Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

SSE, SSB, and ASN logos. Text: Tri-societies Week of Action for NSF. Science under siege: Over 1000 NSF grants have been terminated by political appointees- threatening the foundation of American innovation and education, and more cuts loom; entire research programs are being erased without explanation. What’s at stake? STEM education for K-12 students, jobs and infrastructure in rural communities, support for veterans in research and education, cybersecurity and national defense innovation, global leadership in science and technology. Join the week of action: Contact Congress: Switchboard: (202) 224-3121, tell them to protect NSF. Share your story: Post on social media #WithoutNSF #SupportNSF #SaveNSF, engage local media; use our media tool to reach out to local reporters and newspapers; engage others: communicate the importance of NSF to colleagues, friends, and family.

Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF!

Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!

Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.

We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

Yesterday Tr*mp froze all NSF funds, today he announced a 56% budget cut. This is going to devastate science in the US. I've spent the morning calling my reps to raise hell and applying for jobs as it's clear I can't sustain my freelance scicomm business on NSF funding anymore (1/n)

#scicomm #nsf 🧪

Extensive modulation of a conserved cis-regulatory code across 589 grass species The growing availability of genomes from non-model organisms offers new opportunities to identify functional loci underlying trait variation through comparative genomics. While cis-regulatory regions ...

New preprint from my PhD! How cis-regulatory evolution shaped grass diversification worldwide
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We looked across 589 (!) grass species to ask:
— What regulatory changes enabled grasses to adapt?
— How can this inform crop breeding for resilience?

Here’s what we found: