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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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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Selection of flower color phenotype by contrasting #pollinator visual perception in a hybrid zone between two #Calceolaria species

New #AJB research by Alicia Sérsic, Marco Antonetti & Andrea Cocucci

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #pollination #evolution
Schematic of the methodology for the phenotypic analyses. Reflection: collection of reflectance spectra from three flower parts in 175 individuals. Pollinator perception: measuring predictor variables, values of reflectance spectra based on the stimulation of their photoreceptors. PC1 of the PCA of the stimulation data for all photoreceptors across the three flower parts according to each visual model. Brightness distance (BD) and color distances (CD) between flower parts. Pollination: phenotypic selection analyses combining different fitness variables, pollen grains deposited on the stigma or pollen tubes in the style attributed to pollination by either birds or bees, and predictor variables PC1, BD, and CD for each pollinator.
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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🔥🌳🌴Check out this exhaustive overview of how #traits may mediate the impact of #fire on (tropical) #forests and vice versa, led by PhD student David Pacuk! An important start to better understand fire resilience of fire-unadapted forests!🔥🌳🌴
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🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests
By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Collage showing the bark of Anadenanthera colubrina: on the left, intact bark before fire; on the right, bark surface after exposure to fire, showing charring and structural changes.
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches

With an outstanding cover photo by @markooiecol.bsky.social

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SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches: American Journal of Botany: Vol 112, No 10
Click on the title to browse this issue
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October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Adaptive plant traits under anthropogenic burning regimes: A
database for UK heath and mire plant species

@kimsimp.bsky.social et al. in @botsocamerica.bsky.social

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Adaptive plant traits under anthropogenic burning regimes: A database for UK heath and mire plant species
Premise Humans have used fire to manage landscapes for millennia, but this use of fire is declining in many ecosystems. Understanding how plants respond to these changes is key to predicting ecosyst...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#Fire avoidance & long-term population decline in the endangered Florida ground #lichen #Cladonia perforata within a pyrogenic habitat

New #AJB research by @sterlingherron.bsky.social, Katherine Charton, Sarah Haller Crate, Stacy Smith, et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
Cladonia perforata fragment in Florida rosemary scrub. (Credit: Scott G. Ward.)
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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plantteaching.bsky.social
ASPB has a Managing Editor position open to support Plant Cell and Plant Physiology!
www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit...
Application deadline November 17, 2025.
Note that candidates must reside in one of these regions:
Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Colorado, Florida,
Pennsylvania.
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Alt: a cartoon dog wearing headphones and a bow tie who is juggling back and forth between two computers
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October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona. Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona. Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument. A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Alicia Gómez-Fernández! 🏵

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of herbaceous #crops through trait-based #ecology

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #ecology
Graphic announcing new AJB Synthesis article by Alicia Gomez-Fernandez. A conceptual model for understanding crop trait evolution that integrates Grime's CSR theory and the global spectrum of plant form and function.
October 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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samyeaman.bsky.social
I'll be reviewing applications for this in a few days, so there's still time to get touch if you're interested.
samyeaman.bsky.social Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · Aug 20
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Had a great time returning to the legendary Take-Up Podcast to talk Hot Fuzz (the best film of all time)! #filmsky
Hot Fuzz (with Alex McPherson)
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October 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Hey #Botany2026 we're actively looking for potential speakers at ALL experience levels for our proposed colloquium: Side-quest! – Level up your science!. If you have an interesting story, project, or idea to share that qualifies as a “Side-quest” we want to know about it!

More info below⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
DEADLINE ALERT! Symposia & Colloquia proposals for #Botany2026 are due this Thursday, Oct. 16th!

Don’t wait—submit your proposal today and help grow the ideas that will take root in Tucson next year!🌵

To learn more about proposal guidelines, or how to submit a proposal, visit: botanyconference.org
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October 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Changes in plant flammability-related traits to fire regime characteristics & biomass conditions in the #Cerrado

By Vagner Zanzarini, Davi Rossatto & Alessandra Fidelis

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
A photograph of the Cerrado landscape, showing the open savanna formation and its rich herbaceous layer with different species of grasses, forbs, and small shrubs.
October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests
By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Collage showing the bark of Anadenanthera colubrina: on the left, intact bark before fire; on the right, bark surface after exposure to fire, showing charring and structural changes.
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Modifications in fire frequency impact belowground plant components in old-growth grasslands, posing risks to their resilience

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... @leveg.bsky.social
Campos Rupestres landscape with open-field vegetation. On the right, two images show belowground organs: above, samples of belowground bud-bearing organs; below, samples of fine roots.
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

A functional trait perspective on restored temperate #grassland responses to changing winter insulation & managed disturbance by fire

By Katherine Charton et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany
Effects of management type and timing and winter snow manipulations on snow and litter insulation during winter and predicted associations with plant functional trait syndromes.
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply!

tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology
Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Hey Botany friends, any PI at a grad-degree-granting institution want to help us out with a "applying to grad school" panel on Oct 9th at 4:30 est? 🙏 Come share your wisdom!
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Come work with us! My lab is looking for PhD student(s) to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies in Colorado. Reviewing applications now - apply by Nov 1 at the latest

You could spend your summers here!
Blue Lake in the Indian Peaks Wilderness near Ward, Colorado. A jagged peak towers over a serene alpine lake
October 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs
October 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

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Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.
October 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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hannamakowski.bsky.social
Last paper from my PhD work is out! This one was a lot of fun.

Learned a lot about the benefits and limitations of machine learning in image analysis.
botsocamerica.bsky.social Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Sep 8
Trait specialization facilitates autonomous selfing ability in a mixed-mating plant

New #AJB research by @hannamakowski.bsky.social, Keric Lamb, Austin Kim, Emily Scott & Laura Galloway

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

#boyany #plantscience #evolution #pollen @uvabio.bsky.social
Cross-section of a Campanula americana style showing pollen-collecting hairs at different stages of retraction. These hairs, a form of secondary pollen presentation, initially hold pollen along the style and gradually retract to release it. Three pollen grains remain visible on one of the hairs.
September 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM