Christopher Krieg 🌿

📣 We're hiring! Great opportunity for someone to join us in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading working on #crop #protection #agronomy. See jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... for all the details.

Don’t get a boring job.
Get a fun job.
Be a botanist.
#botany #WakeBotany

🔥job opportunity!
#botany #plantconservation

A mushroom with a white reticulate structure and a brown cap on the top

The Veiled Lady (Phallus indusiatus) releases volatiles that attract insects; as they feed, they pick up spores and redistribute them across decomposing substrates, enhancing both spore dispersal and nutrient cycling in forest litter. Photo credit: @ckrieg.bsky.social
#WakeBotany #botany #fungi

The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

Yet another way the GRFP will bias towards financially secure, non-working, networked students from large, well-resourced institutions. sigh.

I *know* NSF POs understand the difficulties obtaining official transcripts, and certainly in the timeframe available. They might not have control over this.

I'm taking applications for a PhD student to work in my lab for just shy of two more weeks! Happy to talk to interested candidates about potential projects.

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply!

careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

Wake Forest’s Sabin Center to Present National Geographic CEO Jill Tiefenthaler | Wake Forest News Jill Tiefenthaler, chief executive officer of the National Geographic Society, will deliver the keynote address for the Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability’s conference, “Sustainable, Just...

Wake Forest welcomes Jill Tiefenthaler, CEO of National Geographic, on Nov 13 for a keynote about exploring and taking action to make a positive impact in the world. Join us to hear her insights on how global exploration can inspire real‑world solutions. 🌿 https://wakefo.rest/4oefdMG

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

job alert: UC Davis is looking to hire a 9 month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mycology in the Department of Plant Pathology. More details below, for full consideration submit by 1 December 2025

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

This is idiotic. So many different ways that this gets done depending on the field and even the individual lab group.

The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona.

Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona.

Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument.

A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

Two people standing next to each other in front of sunflowers

🚀🍊 Blast off! 🍊🚀

Excited to share that next month Zach and I will be joining the Department of Biology at the University of Central Florida!

Because of our love for midcentury modern design, we will only acknowledge the Citronaut as the official mascot. 😉

@emberts.bsky.social @ucf.bsky.social

Found more paleobotanists here and added them to the starter pack.
Let me know if I am missing someone!!!

go.bsky.app/B7Y3ja7

A practical guide to characterising ecological coexistence Coexistence is simultaneously one of the most fundamental concepts of ecology, and one of the most difficult to define. A particular challenge is that, despite a well-developed body of research, seve...

How can we identify #coexistence in #ecology? There are at least three common approaches (structural stability, eigenvalues, and invasion), and each investigates different aspects of community dynamics (equilibria, locally stable equilibria, and global stability). 1/2

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

An upward view of a lush forest canopy with tall trees stretching toward the sky. The image shows numerous straight, tall tree trunks with textured bark and vibrant green foliage overhead. The trees appear to be mature hardwoods, creating a dense, natural cathedral-like ceiling of leaves. Text overlaid on the image reads "NATURE HEALS" and "Biodiversity supports mental health" in dark text. A smaller text block from the IPBES Nexus Assessment describes the relationship between nature and health. The IPBES logo appears in the top right corner. The photograph emphasizes the height and density of the forest, with sunlight filtering through the leaves creating a natural green glow throughout the scene.

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay 🌍

#DidYouKnow Healthy ecosystems support healthy minds?

IPBES #NexusAssessment confirms: biodiversity and functioning ecosystems improve mental health. Access to biodiverse environments facilitates recovery from stress, depression & other health-related conditions.🏡🧪

Welcome Dr. Brian Maricle, our new Membership Chair for the BSA Ecophysiology Section! 🌿

An Associate Professor of Biology at Saginaw Valley State University, Brian studies how plants adapt to drought, salinity, and flooding. He earned his Ph.D. from Washington State University.

#bsaecophys #BSA

Folks who recently landed jobs: how long did it take to wean youself off the addiction/Stockholm syndrome of ecoevojobs.net?

A Deal That Would End Universities’ Independence The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.

Excellent summary of what signing this “compact” will mean to Universities

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Drone operations today. #Biodiversity and #bioeconomy on the Rio Nanay, Northern Peru

Here is a great job for the right plant physiologist.

Hey Botany friends, any PI at a grad-degree-granting institution want to help us out with a "applying to grad school" panel on Oct 9th at 4:30 est? 🙏 Come share your wisdom!

Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage An initial round of nine schools, including Dartmouth, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, are being asked to sign a wide-ranging “compact.”

I can't believe we're at this point - if universities want feferal funds, they have to kowtow to the government - www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Taught plant anatomy class about stomata today (they are the coolest). Didn't get to work in any of my puns tho:

What's stomata with you?!
This is a great op-pore-tunity to learn about plant water relations!
something something guard cells (I ran out of time to workshop this one)

@afs1893.bsky.social

Get symposium and colloquium proposals together for Botany 2026, the joint meeting of @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social @botsocamerica.bsky.social @herbariumcurators.bsky.social @iaptglobal.bsky.social + Am Bryological Society and Am Fern Society... best meeting of the year!

mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

Our new review just got published in JXB - together with
@likeyoda1.bsky.social
we discuss recent findings on mechanisms that cells use to 'decide' between dividing and differentiating in plants 🪴 tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b

What a dream job!

I don't know the origin of this photo, I saw it via Forest Machine Magazine. It shows a cut log with internal scarring and heartwood discolouration creating the shape of a tree within the trunk.

Tree inside tree.