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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

Two women stand in an herbarium smiling, each holding a specimen

Even though #Botany2025 is over, the botany hasn’t stopped for the #LagoLab! Aislinn and I are spending a few days working at @mobotgarden.bsky.social with Charlotte Taylor and our beloved rubes. #Rubiaceae #Taxonomy #Classification #Phylogeny #WomenInSTEM

Only three more talks left - first, Elizabeth White, a phd candidate from the @soltislab.bsky.social, presenting on post-enm analysis at the #Botany2025 Soltis lab workshop

DFW to Palm Springs flight is crawling with botanists. Poster tubes abound.

#Botany2025 #plantpeopleFTW

Martinez-Gomez Lab Plant Evo-Devo

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

www.martinezgomezlab.com

The fruit of the towering tree locally known as sapucaia (Lecythis pisonis Cambess.) on the forest floor of the Atlantic Forest of Parque Nacional do Descobrimento, in southern Bahia, Brazil. Photo by Flávia Rosa

catalogoUCsBR: A new R package and application for creating comprehensive plant species lists for Brazilian Protected Areas

New in #AppsPlantSci by Bochorny, de Melo & Forzza

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @jardimbotanicorj.bsky.social #conservation #biodiversity #botany #herbaria

Close-up photo of a cluster of white, narrowly tubular flowers with dark stigmas. Foliage is in the background. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2

Cestrum (📷: C. diurnum) is one of 3 genera in Cestroideae—Cestreae, all found in the American tropics & subtropics. The flowers have interesting pollination (birds, moths, etc.), but one unusual characteristic is that their chromosomes are extra-large, up to 14 μm long! #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

We are unanimous.
This is a fantastic book on the subject of plant resins.

Today is #TropicsDay !

The Americas' tropical biomes harbor incredible biodiversity but have experienced dramatic declines due to habitat change.

— @‌ipbes.net #RegionalAssessment for the #Americas

Conserving these ecosystems is crucial for our planet's future.🌎🧪

#WeAreTheTropics

Presente aquí también!

Check out @justkathe.bsky.social talk on #Cavendishia #Ericaceae phylogenomics at 5pm tonight in Olympia I! 🫐⛰️🧬

#LagoLab #evol2025

Come tonight to the poster session to Edison Rea’s poster on Biogeography of Tropical American Magnoliaceae. Edison is a graduate student in my lab and just completed extensive and difficult fieldwork in Ecuador!

Tropical Botany course 2025
#VeraBlanca
#CostaRica

A screenshot of a webpage titled "Taxonomy Time Machine" showing the taxonomic lineage and descendants of the Influenza A Virus

NCBI's Taxonomy changes over time. We built Taxonomy Time Machine to track these changes:

🕰️ app: taxonomy.onecodex.com
📄 pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Illegal trade in timber and flora poses a significant challenge to sustainable resource management, conservation, and regulatory compliance. Hosted by Dr Bárbara Meyer-Sands and Dr Victor Deklerck.

Introducing the organizers of our Symposia.

We are excited to introduce the brilliant minds behind our Symposia at the AETFAT conference.
Meet Dr Victor Deklerck
World Forest ID
Belgium

Unveiling the symposia topics

We are excited to announce the topics of our upcoming symposia at the AETFAT conference

Symposium:
The origins of responsibility: traceability science for sustainable timber and commodity market access
#AEFAT2025

This image shows 4 years of students and mentors who were part of the PLANTS program. Text: PLANTS undergraduate travel award and mentored experience. Join the 2025 PLANTS cohort! Deadline March 1, 2025. www.botany.org

The deadline to apply for the 2025 PLANTS grants is coming soon on March 1, 2025!

The PLANTS grant is a travel award for underrepresented undergraduates to attend #Botany2025. It offers special programming and includes registration, travel, meals, and lodging.

Visit: botany.org/home/awards/...

A fossilized leaf imprint is embedded in a textured stone background. Overlaid on the image are bold white banners with black text. The top banner reads “BSA Paleobotanical Section Awards,” the central banner highlights “Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant,” and the bottom banner displays the application deadline, "March 15, 2025." The website "www.botany.org" is listed at the bottom.

🌿 The Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, presented by the BSA Paleobotanical Section, is open! 🌿

Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany.

Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/...

#BSAawards #IamaBotanist

Come showcase your work on #taxonomy, #conservation, #evolution, #biogeography of #African #plants and #fungi at next year's AETFAT conference in Ghana, 3-8 August 2025.

Call for Abstract Submission now open!

The AETFAT Congress 2025 is coming to Ghana!

Join us for from August 3rd -8th 2025, as we explore the rich plant diversity of Tropical Africa
Theme: Diversity, conservation, and sustainable use of African plants in a changing natural world.

Check out www.letsbotanize.org and sign up for the inaugural Science Communication Internship Program for Spring 2025!

Deadline is January 31st!

Frost covered shrubs in the foreground under a grey, featureless sky.

A frozen, snow-covered pond lined by cattails covered in frost.

A chicken-like bird with feather-covered feet is walking a cross the snow.

A snow-covered field under a cloudy sky. It is almost impossible to discern the horizon.

Scenes from my #solstice afternoon:
1. Shrubs covered in rime from this morning's freezing fog
2. Sleeping marsh, waiting for spring
3. Sharp-tailed grouse with feather-covered feet
4. Snow-covered field -- can you see the horizon?
#birds 🌿

A fantastic blog post describing the experiences and top tips from Evidence Champions on embedding evidence into their work, including our own experience at @plantlifeuk.bsky.social as explained by Tim Pankhurst.
about.conservationevidence.com/2024/12/09/t...

Common misconceptions of speciation Abstract. Speciation is a complex process that can unfold in many different ways. Speciation researchers sometimes simplify core principles in their writin

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

This image shows a list of BSA awards that are now open. To learn more about these, and other BSA awards, visit: https://botany.org/home/awards.html

Did you know that BSA gives out over $125,000 in awards & grants each year? Don't miss your chance to take advantage of these opportunities!

Visit botany.org/home/awards.... and learn about awards that are now open, including two $10,000 research awards, $1500 GSRAs, and $500 UGSRAs!

A promotional graphic for the Botanical Society of America (BSA). The left side features a list of open committees: Committee on Committees, Development Committee, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee*, Early Career Professional Development Committee, Education Committee*, Election Committee, Financial Advisory Committee, Information Technology Committee*, Investment Committee*, Public Policy Committee*, Publications Committee*, and Graduate Student Research Award Committee (* indicates there are openings for students). The right side has a blue background with the text "JOIN A BSA COMMITTEE" and "Deadline is February 1, 2025." The BSA website (www.botany.org) and a floral illustration are also included. Only current BSA members can join committees, but non-members can join the Society to get involved.

🌱Hey BSA members! – Get involved with your scientific society & join a committee! Students members are welcome on select committees. Deadline: Feb 1, 2025.

Committee Info: botany.org/home/governa...

To Apply: committees.botany.org

Not a current BSA member? Renew/join today & apply! www.botany.org

Integrating datasets from herbarium specimens and images to treat a Neotropical myrtle species complex AbstractBackground and Aims. Herbaria are the most important source of information for plant taxonomic work. Resources and technologies available today, su

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Integrating datasets from herbarium specimens and images to treat a Neotropical myrtle species complex

Models and Methods for Biological Evolution Biological evolution is the phenomenon concerning how species are born, are transformed or disappear over time. Its study relies on sophisticated methods that involve both mathematical modeling of the biological processes at play and the design of efficient algorithms to fit these models to genetic and morphological data. Models and Methods for Biological Evolution outlines the main methods to study evolution and provides a broad overview illustrating the variety of formal approaches used, notably including combinatorial optimization, stochastic models and statistical inference techniques. Some of the most relevant applications of these methods are detailed, concerning, for example, the study of migratory events of ancient human populations or the progression of epidemics. This book should thus be of interest to applied mathematicians interested in central problems in biology, and to biologists eager to get a deeper understanding of widely used techniques of evolutionary data analysis.

Models and Methods for Biological Evolution | Wiley Online Books onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10....