Thais Vasconcelos

Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

11.08.2025 16:45 — 👍 121    🔁 108    💬 2    📌 3

This shows an image of Andrew Hipp and the Botany 2025 logo. Text: Botany 2025, Botany without Barriers, Palm Springs, CA. ASPT Incoming President's Talk Andrew Hipp, Director of the herbarium and senior scientist in plant systematics, The Morton Arboretum.

Andrew Hipp of The Morton Arboretum will deliver the ASPT Incoming Presidents' Talk at #Botany2025! 🌿

To learn more about his career, publications, and public and educational outreach, visit: www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html

19.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

University Assistant postdoctoral University Assistant postdoctoral

Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.

Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

26.02.2025 11:30 — 👍 75    🔁 65    💬 0    📌 2

Eight herbarium sheets displaying various specimens of the blueberry genus, each with detailed labels and color calibration bars. The text above provides code for searching and downloading specimen metadata and images. Image credit: OUHC and BRIT herbaria.

mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria from openly available specimen images

New in #AppsPlantSci by @tvasconcelos.bsky.social & @jboyko.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @r-foundation.bsky.social @gbif.org #botany #biodiversity #iamabotanist

28.01.2025 18:57 — 👍 84    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 2

Excited to start this new phase for our MICH herbarium and to work on implementing our 2025-2030 strategic plan! 😄🌿🌾🍁🌎

02.01.2025 16:14 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹

Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

12.12.2024 11:23 — 👍 466    🔁 180    💬 22    📌 38

The botanists are inviting YOU to Plantsgiving 🌱 On Thurs we'll be documenting the plant species in our Thanksgiving meals, and we'd love it if you do, too! Follow along & join in using #Plantsgiving 🌱 THANKYOU @martinebotany.bsky.social for starting this wonderful tradition!

#plantscience #botany

25.11.2024 13:05 — 👍 74    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 5

Agnes Dellinger: Unlocking Flowers' Secrets Botany One interviews Dr. Agnes Dellinger to learn more about how she became interested in the interaction between plants and pollinators.

Agnes Dellinger: Unlocking Flowers’ Secrets
https://botany.fyi/mp5z38

@caordonezparra.bsky.social interviews Dr. Agnes Dellinger to learn more about how she became interested in the interaction between plants and pollinators.

#Botany #PlantScience

18.11.2024 17:01 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

a potential nasty consequence. these are profile likelihoods for a default model (b/d) and a more model (a/c). (b/d) is what you'd get fitting a standard Pagel model with ARD. You get these horrible likelihood ridges for parameter estimates (e.g., b. theta4). But for the same dataset, there is a slightly non-standard model (non-standard in the sense of it's not ER/SYM/ARD) that has really nice statistical behavior

I wrote this about finding the optimal discrete character model structure. I hope this will be useful for empiricists. The main point is that relying only on the package default models is bad and can have nasty consequences or parameter estimates and ASR.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

18.11.2024 19:23 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2

I'm building a Starter Pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists. It's hard to gather usernames using the search tool. Please add your name to this thread if you want to be added!

17.11.2024 15:19 — 👍 195    🔁 66    💬 138    📌 1

Herbaria and herbarium peeps starter pack! Not exhaustive; tell me who else to add.

go.bsky.app/J3orEaP

12.11.2024 17:56 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 7    📌 0

Hey, thank you for creating this one! Can you add me too? Im a curator at MICH :)

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