Christopher Krieg 🌿

I’ve been foolishly optimistic about funding but this is scary.

No one in my Department has gotten tenure without a major grant.

Not good for Assistant Professors in foundational research…

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.

“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

Please consider letting the BLM know that their plan to increase logging in old Oregon forests is terrible forest science:

One as Head of Plant Science at Leeds
The new Plant Sciences page is now live and linked to from the FBS Research and Innovation homepage - interested in joining or collaborating? Learn about the research and opportunities by visiting this website! biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/plant-sciences

I have never been more glad that I have resisted the digitization of my classes.

Botany is the study of plants.

We're hiring at CSUN. Vertebrate Functional Morphologist. Please apply!
We still allow DEI, which I horribly need to specify.
(I'm also not on the committee, but happy to answer any questions!)

Students out there, I have a PhD project cutting across biology, material science and biomedicine that requires a highly capable, diverse and brave applicant. if you think this is for you please Apply using the link below. All details in the website!!

Project: eb4bm.org/project/engi...

Shared and Divergent Processes Linked to Monocot Diversity Across the Mediterranean Climate Regions Aim The five Mediterranean regions of the globe are plant biodiversity hotspots, and there has not been a comparative analytical framework examining correlates of diversity across these regions. Of .....

Monocots. 🌴
Geophytes. 🪻
Mediterranean biome. 🔥
Phylogenetic diversity. 🤓
Check. It. Out. 🥳

(This project took 5+ years for various reasons. Science takes time sometimes and that’s ok!)

dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Manatees in the clear water of a springfed stream in Florida.

The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.

A comic-style portrait of Charles Darwin dreaming about the tree of life Illustration by Dorota Paczesniak

#DarwinDay is celebrating how Darwin’s scientific work, perseverance and intellectual bravery made biology the scientific field we know today, united through the concept of #evolution 🧪🐡

A collage of four photos showing different cacti

Enjoying a nice day at the Desert Botanical Garden before the @aaas.org meeting kicks off tonight. Such beautiful gardens!
#AAASmtg

14 people posing in the herbarium, with mounted specimens in the foreground

Very happy to host almost 40 folks in the Manning Herbarium today through the Bucknell Institute for Lifelong Learning. So many excellent questions and lots of genuine interest in why collections matter. #iamabotanist

Sad to read of the death of Steve Long who contributed a huge amount to #plantscience

RIP NSF PRFB

Although the focus is "Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Biological Sciences to Strengthen and Safeguard Biotechnology Innovations"... 😅

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

🔥🔬🌲 Postdoc Opportunity at Duke! to study the drivers and impacts of post-fire forest loss in the western U.S.

Position is part of the inaugural SCALES fellowship, an exciting program funding interdisciplinary research addressing key climate challenges. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31549

Here is a working Starter Pack for Plant Ecophysiologists! Please let us know if you want to be added to this list in a comment or DM. #botany #plantecophys #PhysFam

go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7

Got your prototype right here!
#LI-6400SE

Just published! A terrific special issue in #AJB #SocietyJournal #FlowerColor

Its the first day of spring semester at Bucknell! What's blooming in the Museum collection greenhouse?!

We've got orchids(That Oncidium 👀), camellia, begonia,...

Graphic for a Botany360 event titled “How to Be a Successful BSA Student Rep.” The BSA logo appears at top left on a teal-to-green gradient background. Two photos are centered: on the left, Benjamin Ajayi in a light blue patterned shirt; on the right, Sara Pedraza standing outdoors by a lake in a black jacket. Their names appear beneath their photos. Text reads “A Discussion Session led by BSA Student Representatives.” Event details at the bottom say “Wednesday, 2–3 PM EST, 1.28.26,” with a QR code and “Register Here!” and the URL “www.botany.org/calendar.”

Join current Student Reps for "How to Be a Successful BSA Student Rep" a Botany360 session on what the role involves, how to advocate for student voices, & how this experience builds leadership and professional skills.

Wed. Jan 28, 2026 • 2–3 PM EST • Free

Register:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

As I browse around, I keep an eye out for (what I think) are surprising facts.

This 2021 paper estimated that the USA, China and the UK spend USD 2.5 billion on peer review, based on the contribution made by researchers.
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Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352

Photo of a squid

Photo of a walrus on ice

We currently have TWO open positions within the GBIF Secretariat!

🐙 Senior software data enginee within the Engineering team 🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
📍Applications close 9 Jan 2026

🦭 Data administrator within the Data Products team
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
📍Applications close 13 Jan 2026

Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Experiments manipulating tree species diversity and measuring effects on ecosystem function have been important tools for assessing how biodiverse forests can accumulate biomass, store carbon and help...

Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪
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Applications due 18th January. careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...