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Amy McP
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Director of Publications for the Botanical Society of America. Managing Editor of AJB. Enthusiastic supporter of science and the arts. She/her.
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🌼🎨 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color" 🎨🌼

Flowers occupy color-space extremes: an anthocyanin-derived theoretical floral color-space approach

By Jacob Watts, Nicolás Medina, Carrie Kiel, Manuel Luján, @iochromaland & Erin Manzitto-Tripp
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Photo of Ruellia devosiana.
January 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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#OpenAccess in #AJB #SocietyJournal
botsocamerica.bsky.social Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 1d
Rangewide responses of #Mimulus cardinalis to an extreme heat event

New #AJB research by Lucas Albano, Robin Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Christopher Muir & Seema Nayan Sheth

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #climatechange
Map of western United States showing the six focal populations of Mimulus cardinalis used in this study. Populations were sourced from the leading edge (N1 and N2), range center (C1 and C2), and trailing edge (S1 and S2) of the range of M. cardinalis and are set on a backdrop of grey-scale extreme maximum temperature across a 30-year period from 1981
January 15, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Great to see the students & faculty of Delta State University recognized for their article in the most recent #PlantScienceBulletin! The team tested manmade chemicals on weedy plants in the Mississippi Delta.

www.deltanews.tv/news/delta-s...

See their article at issuu.com/botanicalsoc...
Delta State University students and faculty featured in national botany journal
CLEVELAND, MS - The Plant Science Bulletin, published by the Botanical Society of America, had a special article in a recent publication. The article was on weeds in the Mississippi
www.deltanews.tv
January 14, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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PhD position open in my team @uuplants.bsky.social !
Join us to investigate how sorghum roots interact with recently discovered Suberin-Inducing Microbes! More details: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Please share!
January 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday, with this beautiful but not very huggable #tree photographed in the Aswan Botanical Garden a few years ago 🌳
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiba_s...
#botany
Photo of a green tree trunk with numerous big spines. A sign on the tree gives the name in Arabic, Latin ("Chorisia speciosa") and English ("floss silk tree"), the family (Malvaceae/Bombaceae") and the origin ("Brazil, No. Argentina"). Note that the latin name is now Ceiba speciosa instead of Chorisia speciosa.
January 13, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Looking for a new 📕 to read about plants??
I highly recommend the brilliant book ‘Ferns, Lessons in survival from Earth’s most adaptable plants’
Written by @fernway.bsky.social and Jacob Suissa with amazing illustrations by Laura Silburn
🌿 #FernFriday 🌿
Book front cover with illustrations of fern leaves and the title: Ferns, lessons in survival from Earth’s most adaptable plants Written by: Fat-Wei Li and Jacob S. Suissa Illustrated by Laura Silburn
January 9, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Last day at #SICB2026 - if you weren’t able to make it to the conference, items will be restocked on the Etsy store mid-January!
Image of 5 different types of enameled fish earrings on a green table
January 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!
July 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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What can we do as scientists? One thing: mentor the habits of seeing and thinking scientifically, and cultivate interest in the world. From @botsocamerica.bsky.social Plant Science Bulletin, a clip of high-school students' responses to @plantingscience.bsky.social mentorship:
January 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Killer poster design by a great student (who also made the hellfire junco art that is going around) with a cool project. Stop by and see @botanicalbecks.bsky.social at today’s (Tues) 3:30 poster session! Poster 40. #SICB2026 #SICBplants
Poster describing research on a rare wildflower of the central Appalachian Mountains.
January 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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This webinar by @stephenbheard.bsky.social looks fabulous!!! Aimed at professors mentoring ECR writers (rather than the writer's themselves)!

If you're not a member of @csee-scee.bsky.social, join now for only $65 CAD (less for students). You do not need to be Canadian: csee-scee.ca/signup/
January 6, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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🚨 Job Alert! TT Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks! Looking for a candidate with a focus on coastal ecology. Come be my colleague! Please share.

careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...
January 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Get more involved with BSA!

We’re accepting applications for BSA committees, with openings across many focus areas—including opportunities for students and early career members.

Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
botany.org/home/governa...

Some Board positions are open too!
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
Graphic announcing open committees for the Botanical Society of America. Left side lists open committees, including Committee on Committees, Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Early Career Professional Development, Education, Election, Financial Advisory, Information Technology, International Affairs, Investment, Public Policy, Publications, and Graduate Student Research Award. Asterisks indicate committees with student openings. Right side reads “Join a BSA Committee,” with a deadline of February 1, 2026, the website www.botany.org, BSA logos, botanical illustrations, and a QR code.
January 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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🌱We’re now accepting nominations for the BSA Board.

Board members help guide the Society’s direction, support our community, and advance botanical science together.

Nomination deadline: February 1, 2026
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

Committee openings are also available:
botany.org/home/governa...
Graphic announcing a call for nominations to join the Botanical Society of America Board. Text reads “Join the BSA Board” and explains that Board members help guide the Society’s direction, support the community, and advance botanical science together. A QR code links to more information. The nomination deadline is February 1, 2026. At the bottom is a group photo of the current BSA Board members, labeled “Our current Board,” with the BSA logo.
January 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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I'm stoked to talk about this (and some other cool things these plants do) Tuesday at 10:45 in the Sex Across Origins complementary session in B113 at #SICB2026.

#PlantsAreCoolToo #SICBplants #PUI #SICBPUI
phytokeys.pensoft.net PhytoKeys @phytokeys.pensoft.net · 12d
🐜 Observations of #ants collecting nectar from the newly described 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘮 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 at its type locality in Australia’s Tanami Desert suggest a plant-animal #coadaptation resulting in defense against #herbivory.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

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January 5, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Want to be the coolest baker with a liverwort tea towel? Look no further! In a few days you can get your own at #SICB2026!

👩‍🍳 Dry your hands with a cotton/linen tea towel knowing you purchased it from a small business!

👉 Can't make it SICB? Natural history pieces will return mid-January on Etsy!
tea towel with a liverwort pattern, shown with two wooden spoons and two limes, with a wooden butcher block countertop in the background.
January 3, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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I'm resharing in English the very sad news of the passing of French botanist Francis Hallé, specialist of tropical #forests and #tree architecture. You can find more about his life and career (and see some of his amazing drawings) here: www.foretprimaire-francishalle.org/en/who-is-fr...
January 2, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Good movie recommendations for the New Year!
January 2, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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🌿 Support graduate student research through a donation to BSA’s Graduate Student Research Awards (GSRA). Your gift helps students turn exploration into botanical discovery, build confidence through recognition, and launch their careers with community support.

💚 Donate: crm.botany.org/makeadonation
Graphic promoting donations to the Botanical Society of America’s Graduate Student Research Awards (GSRA) Fund. The image features three rows of photos of diverse graduate student researchers in field and lab settings. Text reads: “Support Graduate Student Research. Give to the Graduate Student Research Award Fund.” Below the photos, three statements read: “Help students turn exploration into botanical discovery,” “gain confidence as their ideas are recognized and supported,” and “and launch their careers with community support.” The graphic includes a call to action: “Make a year-end donation today,” with a donation link and QR code.
December 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The new issue of #AppsPlantSci is online!

Highlights include a segmentation pipeline for #herbarium specimens, #ComputerVision species ID of #lichens & #bryophytes & a protocol to create 3D reconstructions of #PlantAnatomy

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany #MachineLearning
The November-December cover of Applications in Plant Sciences. The cover image shows a field photograph of Riccia inflexa, a thalloid liverwort commonly found in biocrusts in Australian drylands. Photo credit: M. Fagg.
December 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Check out the new issue of the Plant Science Bulletin, featuring a special article by BSA Executive Director, Heather Cacanindin, with a behind-the-scenes peek at Botany conferences!

PDF: botany.org/userdata/Iss...
Flipbook: issuu.com/botanicalsoc...

#botany #plantscience #iamabotanist #Botany2026
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Know a Stranger Things fan who also loves plants? We got you! Check out the BSA's newest drop! Proceeds support the BSA (and, by extension, us!). Make sure you check out the back, too!
botsocamerica.bsky.social Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Dec 12
We 💚 the Stranger Plants—and now they’re on #BSAswag!

The shirts feature bold illustrations by BSA’s own Catrina Adams, with a list of each species by common & scientific name on the back.

BSA members (exp. 2026+) get 10% off—email aneely@botany.org for code.

www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-wi...
Promotional graphic on a red background featuring two black-and-white raglan shirts from the Botanical Society of America’s “Stranger Plants” collection. One shirt shows a large illustrated plant scene; the other displays a grid of illustrated unusual plants. White text reads “We love the Stranger Plants BSA SWAG!” Below, descriptive text explains that the shirts highlight strange plants, with common and scientific names listed on the back in a concert-style format. A QR code labeled “Scan to Shop” appears at the lower right, along with BSA logos and text promoting additional BSA apparel.
December 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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JOB ALERT - Join us as a lecturer/senior lecturer in plant-microbe interactions in the School of Biological Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland. Applications close 31st January 🌱🧪
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Plant-Microbe Interactions - School of Biological Sciences
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the leading science faculty in New Zealand and one of...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Friends, I hardly ever get to post this…

Bryophyte faculty job!!!

botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...
UBC
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December 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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We are hiring at California Botanic Garden! The Restoration Intern will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects involving out-planting, seed collection, plant propagation and monitoring. This is a full time temp position (6 months) that can be extended. Please share! lnkd.in/gaNuNGxA
intern measuring plant restoration site plants in the nursery.
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM