Lauren Eserman-Campbell

Cumulative restoration action leads to improved vegetative response in shrub‐encroached wet prairies of coastal Florida, U.S.A. This study shows effective restoration of shrub-encroached wet prairies may require more than conventional management tools. The cumulative effect of three treatment approaches, removal of woody shru...

📄🚨New paper from our Florida conservation team showing the positive impact of habitat restoration on biodiversity. And the coolest part- this work was done without herbicide! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mock IJPS cover showing an undergraduate researcher pipetting

In the March 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

Population genetics and conservation of the rare and endangered Florida-endemic Conradina glabra (Lamiaceae)

@laeserman.bsky.social et al.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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On the cover of New Phytologist volume 248, issue 5: Photo of a Joshua tree (Yucca jaegeriana) at dawn in the Mojave Desert.

On the cover of our #LatestIssue: Photo of a Joshua #tree (Yucca jaegeriana) at dawn in the Mojave #Desert. Image courtesy of Karolina Heyduk.

📖 See Heyduk et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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One week left to apply for this position!!!

Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc - Research Scientist, Genetics The Atlanta Botanical Garden seeks a highly qualified scientist with training in plant population genetics to serve in the role of Research Scientist in Genetics within the Southeastern Center for Con...

We are recruiting a Research Scientist in Genetics trained in plant population genetics to run the Conservation Genetics Research Program! This is an incredible opportunity to work on a diverse and active team in a biodiversity hotspot!!! recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

🌿 'A Day for BSA' (day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025) is this Wednesday!

Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of advancing botanical science, and then help us reach our campaign goal of $15,000 raised for the BSA Endowment with a gift of any amount.

Give today!
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Assistant/ Associate Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is hiring a Directory of the Herbarium

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!

We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

I have some super exciting news to announce! Starting today, I have accepted the position of Director of Research at the Atlanta Botanical Garden! I’m so thrilled for this next adventure and so grateful for this opportunity! Here’s to the next chapter in plant conservation!!

US should reject color-blind racial ideology The Trump administration’s executive orders (EOs) 14281 (1), 14173 (2), and 14151 (3) suggest that diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives give jobs and other opportunities to unqualified women and people of color. These EOs use “color-blind” language and ideology (4)—unfounded claims that structural racism no longer exists (4, 5)—to attempt to create a false narrative that ongoing “preferential treatment” for people in protected categories leads to favoritism that must be eliminated in the name of fairness. To provide a clearer understanding of who benefits and suffers from racism in the US, and how inequities can be addressed, politicians, scientists, and the public must recognize that color-blind language perpetuates structural racism and avoid its use (4).

While I was taking a break from BlueSky this letter I co-authored with Dr. Bonilla-Silva and PhD Candidate Summer Blanco was published in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apparently my former MS committee member is involved here, truly not surprised. I spent 7 years at SELU and had nothing but a horrible experience. Toxic people in a toxic place apparently 🤷‍♀️

Great talks from RaMP scholars @tuataratuatarae.bsky.social and Ava Joseph in this morning Systematics & Taxonomy session #Botany2025

BSA members meeting 3pm Pasadena - all members welcome! #botany2025

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

Careers in botany going strong at #botany2025 !!

Norm buys a hotel room

Dr. Norman Wickett @reactionnorm.bsky.social has arrived. #Botany2025

Field trip participants

Desert view

I am excited to welcome #Botany2025 to my big backyard in the California desert. I kicked off the conference with a field trip up the Palm Springs tramway to explore the beautiful flora of the San Jacinto Mountains. I hope everyone enjoys Palm Springs!

Hey #botany2025 friends, is anyone going to the conference who wants to volunteer to be the "host" of the Botanists of Color affinity group meetup? The initial host can't attend the meetings :( Being host = being the contact person w/ BSA, and maybe saying a few welcome statements before event.

Coming to #Evol2025 and considering a non-academic career? Join me for our panel discussion on Friday afternoon!!

The photo is of the book the Flora of Colorado by Jennifer Ackerfield. The cover photo shows different plant communities in Colorado.

At the American Public Gardens Association in Denver meeting this week, glad I grabbed a copy of the Flora of Colorado 😍 it’s beautiful

Dang. I got a whole lab full of eBay ones for the price of one new pipet 😭

Second the rainin universal pipets. Older rainin pipet lites are so cheap on eBay, I’m annoyed that the new pipet lites are all plastic where the old ones have metal components that make them easier to service.

Yep, I’ll be there! @tuataratuatarae.bsky.social will be there too!

What a tragic loss. Shu-Mei was such a kind, incredibly smart, and truly empathetic mentor. Such a joyful person.

I’m so grateful to have known her. She so patiently walked me through my first conference poster. Later, she was a vital member of my graduate committee.

She will be so missed.

Judge orders Trump admin to rescind memo directing mass firing of federal workers The judge's direction to the Office of Personnel Management does not reinstate any dismissed employees.

“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency,”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The UConn RaMP postbac research program application closes 🚨TONIGHT🚨 at 11:59 PM! 🧬🔬 Don’t miss your chance to join the 2026 cohort and kickstart your research journey!

Use the link in our bio to apply 📲🌟 It's not too late!

‘The risk of extinction is accelerating’: world’s botanic gardens raise alarm with space to protect endangered plants running out University of Cambridge research suggests living collections have collectively reached peak capacity

We’re delighted that our latest paper on the world’s living plant collections has now been published.

You can find it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Grateful for the exclusive by @donnalferguson.bsky.social, here: shorturl.at/GnYIQ