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🥳¡Este 2024 #SEBOT cumple nada más y nada menos que 5 años!🥳
Este lustro hemos pasado de reunir 5 asociaciones a 7 y hemos llegado a los 1000 socios ¡Gracias por hacerlo posible!

Image collection of bryophyte-rich plant communities provided by Richard Droker - highly browsable library of micro-environments
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We are looking for 2 postdocs and a technician to join our team studying evolution and development of complex flowers. Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?unit=u0...

Image with big text in the centre reading "I'm now on Patreon!" surrounded my lots of drawing of plants, with a few insects scattered amongst them.

Hi All,
I have a bit of an announcement:

I now have a Patreon!

So you can go support me over there and get access to some exclusive stuff!
www.patreon.com/JulianneKiely

#Patreon #patreoncreator #paleobotany #paleoart #Paleontology

Friends, I am looking high and low for a someone who can come on my podcast and talk about living systems, abiogenesis, and hypothetical theories of types of life forms! Please share far and wide and help me locate an amazing podcast guest!

A cool open access paper on plant architecture vs. hungry mammals by some of my botanists colleagues 🌿🦌

Beth: Shutting this important scientific resource hurts everyone. It’s time for Duke’s Board to think about their responsibilities to humanity, and not just sources of profit. Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium

Read the comment and sign to save Duke's herbarium: "Shutting this important scientific resource hurts everyone. It’s time for Duke’s Board to think about their responsibilities to humanity, and not just sources of profit." chng.it/mCDr85Kh

Embracing uncertainty: The way forward in plant fossil phylogenetics Although molecular phylogenetics remains the most widely used method of inferring the evolutionary history of living groups, the last decade has seen a renewed interest in morphological phylogenetics....

my first paper of the year (and my first ever single author paper) has been finally published!

Do you work on fossil plants? Do you feel that your phylogenies are too uncertain? Don't fear uncertainty, EMBRACE IT! 🧪🌾🌱

My department is hiring! Assistant prof of Hydrology, Geology, or Geomorphology. Our incredible "Klamath Knot" region has diverse geology, amazing rivers, and incredible restoration work. I love working here, and am happy to chat with anyone who is interested 🌎 🧪#geosky jobs.sou.edu/postings/11861

Kahakuloa operculispora , a new Hawaiian simple thalloid liverwort in a new genus and family, K...

A new family of #liverwort has been found in #Hawaii! This is not a taxonomic change to an existing species. This is based on new fieldwork & analyses of a previously unknown genus and species. Hello, Kahakuloaceae! #Marchantiophyta #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
www.mapress.com/bde/article/...

Speaking of fossils, I don't feel like I've found my Paleo "tribe" here yet.

#FossilFriday and #TrilobiteTuesday don't seem to get the same reach as they did on the dead bird site.

Who should I be following? Should I post more of my collection? My Paleo #SciArt?

Eeee! I finally have my copy of @palaeogames.bsky.social and Dr Michael O'Sullivan's new #tabletopgaming #dinosaur guidebook! It was great being involved with a tiny part of the process, and I'm so pleased that #plants are getting some attention in this book! #FossilFriday #paleobotany #dnd

🌿Plant Development Postdocs🌿! It would be great to have you in the next 'Pathway to Independence' programme cohort- its aimed at supporting postdocs going on the job market. Full details can be found at journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi.... Application deadline 31 January 2024.

Did you know that BSA has a FREE jobs board? Right now there are over 60 positions posted!

Check it out at jobs.botany.org

#BSAmembers #BotanyJobs

Very exciting tenure-track job in Evolutionary Paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at UC Riverside (my alma mater Ph.D program) —please distribute widely!
aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01856

Just sending this around again, less than a week left for abstract submissions to IBC2024! We would love to have some palaeotalks too! #fossilfriday

Up next is #Ginkgoites #patagonica, a species from the #Eocene of Argentina. This species had leaves with 2-8 narrow round-tiped lobes and is the youngest #Ginkgoales species from the southern hemisphere. #paleobotany #Ginkgo #paleoart #SciComm #plants

#Ginkgoites #waarensis is a Cenomanian species from the Chatham Islands of New Zealand. During the #Cretaceous, these islands were connected to Antarctica and would have experienced months of darkness during the winter. #paleobotany #paleoart #Ginkgo #SciComm #paleontology

Sticking to the southern hemisphere, here's #Ginkgoites #villardeseoanii, an interesting species from the latest #Cretaceous of Argentina. It's one of the more recently described Ginkgoites species and has lobes with characteristics flat and notched tips. #paleoart #paleobotany

Today's species is #Ginkgoites #myrioneurus; it hails from the Early #Cretaceous Muling Formation of China and is distinct in having many narrow round-tiped lobes with high vein density. It has also been associated with #Ginkgo-like long and short shoots. #paleobotany #paleoart

Today's species is one of the most unique I've come across: #Ginkgoites #houlinhensis (initially ascribed to #Ginkgo) was an East Asian #desert, or arid environment adapted #plant which has #xerophytic adaptations such as sunken stomata and hairs on the leaf surface. #paleobotany

I'm not sure how long I'll keep this up for, but I want to do a series highlighting each species of Ginkgoales I restored. First up is #Ginkgoites #pluripartita. This was a very widespread species, found across the northern hemisphere in Early Cretaceous rocks. 1/2 #FossilFriday #ginkgo #paleobotany

Paleopeople and ecopeople, have a look at our symposium and come talk with us about ecology from an evolutionary perspective 🌱!

The deadline for abstract submission for #IBC2024 in #Madrid is coming up, November 30! If you haven't decided what symposium to submit your talk to, have a look at ours: ibcmadrid2024.com/index.php?se... We will be discussing ecology and evolution and would love + #paleo perspectives!🌱

Before seeds evolved plants had to invent 'males' and 'females' (heterospory). But how did they do it? Intrigued? I have a great PhD opporunity as part of the MIBTP DTP at Birmingham to study this using homosporous ferns.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Starts Oct 2024!
#PlantScience
#PhDposition

A photo of a beach scene. On grey sand lies various debris, there is dead seaweed toward the back of the image, bits of driftwood and rocks lying around, and a large white scallop shell. Lots of other little shells and polished rocks lie around as well, and a bit of coral. Scattered all over the scene are bits of jewelery, all earrings, made of slices of blue geodes and shark teeth. The effect of the image is that all of these items and debris washed ashore and are now visible.

For #FossilFriday, enjoy a fishy PalaeoPoem “Fossil Fish & Fossil Fish Addressed” by Scottish geologist and poet Robert Dick. Fin-tastic guest art by Athena! 🐠🐟🧪