@johnjschenk.bsky.social
Botanist
Two happy scientists smiling in front of a research poster.
So proud of @ca-haus.bsky.social who presented a poster at his first Botany!! #Botany2025 He’ll be applying for grad school in the Fall—drop him a message if you are recruiting new Masters students interested in flowering plant research! 🌸🌿
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This July I had the privilege of representing Ohio University at #Botany2025 with the work I’ve done on flowering plants in the Schenk Lab. It was incredible seeing the diversity of research being done across the country and the passion that drives it. Those who made this possible are tagged below!
05.09.2025 15:50 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Just in time for #botany2025, ya girl got her PhD 🎉
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Went for the vertigo but stayed for the Penstemon! The tram up Mount San Jacinto State Park is definitely worth it!
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Join the Society of Herbarium Curators today! Membership benefits include Student Research Awards and an active Eary Career Section that is great for networking! Join at the link below or via theQR code.
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Just got word that the NSF had to cancel the BSA's PLANTS program. This makes me so sad, we were doing such wonderful things with this program, fostering the next generation of diverse leaders.
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
OU has a TT Assistant Professor position in Environmental and Plant Stress Biology. Apps are due in 1 week. Please send to all botanists working on any aspect of plant stress (abiotic or biotic stress, plant path., etc.) www.ohiouniversityjobs.com/postings/51693
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Hydrangea aspera Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don (Hydrangeaceae) is a shrub indigenous to the mesic areas in Asia. In their study, Schenk et al. determined that Hydrangeaceae underwent three significant shifts toward increased diversification rates, although H. aspera was not part of the radiations. A similar pattern of three significant shifts toward increased diversification rates were also identified in Loasaceae. Although an ecological transition accompanied by a speciation rate increase was noted in a clade of Philadelphus (Hydrangeaceae), and a biogeographic transition occurred with an increased speciation shift in a clade of Deutzia (Hydrangeaceae), the only clade that exhibits a phylogenetic pattern consistent with ecological opportunity was Mentzelia section Bartonia (Loasaceae), which diversified in Mesoamerica where the two families originated. Photo by J. Schenk.
Comparative diversification analyses of #Hydrangeaceae & #Loasaceae reveal complex evolutionary history as species disperse out of Mesoamerica
New #AJBN research by @johnjschenk.bsky.social, Sarah Jacobs & Larry Hufford
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #Botany #plantscience #hydrangea #evolution
Some of the best people I know are trees
22.10.2024 13:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As is systemic racism wasn't already doing a good job keeping people out homes
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Via ZMEScience.com (link below) – "The tiny hairs covering the gympie gympie plant release a potent neurotoxin. Credit: hiep phamcong / Flickr / CC BY 2.0" https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/natural-sciences/biology-reference/plants-fungi/what-is-gympie-gympie/
Also via ZMEScience.com: "Electron micrograph of the stining hairs. Credit: Marina Hurley."
Share a plant fact. It doesn't need to be obscure! (Photos optional.) 🌱
Gympie-gympie "is one of the world’s most poisonous plants. A slight brush with its leaves is enough to deliver unimaginable pain that has been described as 'like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time.'"
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This is so cool Andrew, congratulations!
08.12.2023 00:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Welcome to Johan Tial Ling, the new postdoc in our lab! Excited to see what we do! www.ohio.edu/cas/tcling
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