@martinebotany.bsky.social
President-Elect, Botanical Society of America. #PUI Prof + Herbarium Director at Bucknell. #FirstGen college. Sexual systems evolution, conservation, taxonomy. "Plants are Cool, Too!": https://tinyurl.com/mr3nv85w #iamabotanist #Botany2026 #botany
👀Find out more about the research behind the cover in author Rosemary Glos' 'Behind the Paper' post!
🛼Rosemary discusses synergistic interactions between plant defence traits, using a beard-trimmer in the field, and the joys of roller derby!
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starting March 1, 2026, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are prohibited from using central government funds to pay Article Processing Charges for high-priced OA journals, specifically Nature Communications and Science Advances.
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Not spending money that is appropriated for science is a tricky subject to explain, but for people in limbo (like myself, as I mentioned yesterday), it can have cause serious career harm.
Many celebrated the NIH budget bill. It’s not supporting science when an unchecked bottleneck still remains.
My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15
csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...
So effing great
05.03.2026 09:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And they’re off!! 800 seed bombs loaded up with native seeds coming to an abandoned lot near you 😘
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Macro photograph, in top view, of two insects standing on a cluster of small, 4-petalled white flowers. Both insects have a red head and thorax and black at their back ends. The beetle on the right is slightly broader, and has a narrow white line separating the red and black parts of its body, as to suggest a narrow ant waist.
Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.
05.03.2026 00:25 — 👍 144 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 1
the "lost" species Monarda mexicana is still out there! Known from just 2 historical collections (most recent from the 1950s). Imagine my joy in stumbling on a picture of it on @inaturalist.bsky.social !!! We've now documented the first known modern populations and revived the species name:
05.03.2026 03:38 — 👍 37 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Pictures of two faucet snails from different angles to show identification features on a ruler to show scale with the following text: Invasive Species Spotlight: Faucet Snail / Mud Bithynia (Bithynia tentaculata) Key Identification Features: Small shell approximately 12-15 mm at full size with a rounded spire of 5-6 whorls and the shell opening (aperture) less than half the total height of the shell Shell color can vary from shiny light brown to black “Right-handed” (dextral) shell opening with covering called an operculum that is whitish and calcified with a pattern of concentric rings
Species spotlight for National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Invasive faucet snails are a growing concern in the Champlain Basin and Great Lakes region and can outcompete native snails, clog drain and intake pipes, and spread parasites to birds.
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#NISAW #InvasiveSpecies #Wildlife #Ecology
Yellow four-petal flower with red spots at petal bases
Eulobus californicus, the California Primrose, blooming in Anza-Borrego today #nativeplants 🌿
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Big congrats to Bucknell's Rebecca Beneroff for winning Best Student Presentation for a Poster in the Division of Botany at the #SICB2026 conference!! @botanicalbecks.bsky.social
www.chrismartine.com/lab-news/ben...
Devani Jolman in a Bucknell sweatshirt
Excited to launch the new lab website, including the announcement that Devani Jolman will be joining us as the new Burpee Postdoc!
www.chrismartine.com
Hooray for herbaria!
11.02.2026 12:25 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
10.02.2026 23:39 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1It's time to gear up for #Botany2026 and submit an abstract!
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We’ve gathered over 4000 literature records on Rhododendron 🤯 👏🏼
References span 459 years of investigation and discovery 🌸💡
Topics range from ecology, reproductive biology, horticulture, medical chemistry, physiology, evolution and even some materials science 👀
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www.zotero.org/groups/47355...
Celebrating @kheyduk.bsky.social’s big day.
#coffeepotramen
Students from the Herbarium Curation course in Bucknell’s herbarium
Pleasure to host Donald McClelland’s Lycoming College students in the Manning Herbarium this afternoon. Central PA PUI botany powers, unite!
#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW
Emerging flower buds from bare, frozen ground
Temps in the single digits F, ~20 inches of snow cover — but the central PA winter aconite is still on its way to an early February bloom.
#botany
A comparison of female and hermaphrodite flowers of meadow checkermallow (Sidalcea campestris).
Pollinator-mediated fitness differences do not fully explain the maintenance of #gynodioecy in Sidalcea campestris
New #AJB research by Brooklyn Richards, Thomas Kaye & F. Andrew Jones
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #Malvaceae #pollen #pollinator
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, Melissa L. Sevigny
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, Melissa L. Sevigny
Continuing on my theme of dunking on the Glen Canyon Dam, but with actual human women who are boss lady scientists who do pre-dam botanical research
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Register for the Smithsonian's National Botanical Symposium, “American Botany: 250 years of Discovery” 29 May '26. I'll be speaking on American oaks, w/ several greats: @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Caroline Strömberg, Wes Knapp, & Rose Bear Don't Walk.
Join us!
naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...
Me, also!
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Photo of the Australian bush tomato Solanum tudununggae. Grayish prickly calyx fully encloses the dry and mature berry held inside except for a 3 cm pore at its apex. Silvery-blue foliage in background plus flowers with purple corolla and yellow anthers.
From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci #PlantDispersal issue 🌱
A simple and affordable protocol to assess censer seed dispersal: First confirmation of the mechanism in the genus #Solanum
By Abigail Motter, @martinebotany.bsky.social & Melody Sain
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany
New online today in Applications in Plant Sciences, chapter of Abigail Motter's Bucknell undergrad honors thesis confirming the 1st censer mechanism of seed dispersal in #Solanum. Loads of effort from Abigail & Melody Sain went into this one. #botany
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Pennsylvania outside, bush tomato country inside.
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Snow
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I first saw the heretical combination of the subheading of "ECOLOGY" and title, "The beauty of slag," and I swooned.
Check out this terrific and fun story in UChicago Magazine about the novel ecosystem/slag research we're working on locally! #WildCalumet
mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi...
Don't miss your chance to be on a BSA committee! Deadline to apply is February 1.
To learn more about BSA committees, including 8 with student position openings, visit: botany.org/home/governa...
#BSAcommittees #IamaBotanist #BSAleadership
🌍 Did you know? The African continent is home to about 20% of the world’s bird species! 🦅
This incredible biodiversity is highlighted in the IPBES #RegionalAssessment for Africa, showcasing the continent's vital role in global ecosystems.
ℹ️ https://www.ipbes.net/assessment-reports/africa
