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Hannah E. Marx, PhD
@hannahmarx.bsky.social
Asst Prof 🌿 Herbarium Director @Cornell | Botanists & bioinformatician | oceanic & alpine "sky" islands. She/her | hannahmarx.com
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Lunch today halfway around the world in Hangzhou and met a new asst professor who was very thankful for this resource. Please help out folks like them and other early career scientists with examples of job apps. Submit yours!
github.com/RILAB/statem...
GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants
Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...
September 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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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
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
jobs.colorado.edu
August 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.
May 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past." Nice highlight of our work synthesizing temporal, taxonomic, and spatial trends in botanical collections to facilitate new research avenues @emlombardi.bsky.social @softcorebotany.bsky.social
New research prepares way for future botanical research
To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in the future, a team of researchers is looking at collections of plants from a...
news.unm.edu
February 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Getting quality transcriptome assemblies from Herbarium samples is possible doi.org/10.1101/2025.... Work led by @atyszka.org. Another fun collaboration with @philcarella.bsky.social and @khongsamchia.bsky.social, who functionally validated an NLR immune receptor from a sample collected in 1956.
Herbaria provide a valuable resource for obtaining informative mRNA
While DNA has built the framework for molecular insights from museum collections, the utility of archival RNA remains largely unexplored. Likely a consequence of the known instability of RNA relative ...
doi.org
February 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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RNA from herbarium specimens is more stable than you think. Cool new study from @atyszka.org @evojfwalker.bsky.social and team. @khongsamchia.bsky.social and I were happy to contribute by functionally validating an NLR immune receptor last expressed in 1956 : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Undergrads interested in making and managing herbarium collections—apply for the Summer 2025 Atluri Biodiversity Collections Internship at the LH Bailey Herbarium! 🌻 Paid experience & includes field collecting around Ithaca 🥾
February 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Fun times discussing ways we can continue to leverage vast and sometimes hidden biodiversity held in herbarium collections with @emlombardi.bsky.social 🌿🦠
Check out this new #AJB Commentary by Elizabeth Lombardi & Hannah Marx!

#Herbaria as critical resources for studying plant-virus #biodiversity & #epidemiology

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology
January 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Hey botanists — the New England Botanical Society provides small grants for grad students, early career faculty, and general botanical research. We are not federally funded and we have money to support your work. Applications due Feb 1.
There's still time to apply for our awards, including the Les Mehrhoff Award! This award supports botanical endeavors of the sort that Les championed: field studies, herbarium, library, and archival research. You don't need to be a member to apply! Deadline is 2/1 www.rhodora.org/awards/mehrh...
January 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Bittersweet mood driving out of New Mexico. I’m going to miss my UNM Herbarium community so much, and also very excited to build a home base in Ithaca and work with new colleagues through the Bailey Herbarium. Plus I still get to continue great collaborations with @softcorebotany.bsky.social 🌱
I have a @hannahmarx.bsky.social sized hole in my herbarium heart! The UNM Herbarium is losing a great one. Cheers to one of the greatest curators I've ever had the privilege of working with, to all of the great work you will continue to do at Cornell & all the new ways we get to collaborate!
December 5, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio

go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
November 19, 2024 at 2:59 AM