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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too!
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President-Elect, Botanical Society of America.
Prof + Herbarium Director at Bucknell.
#FirstGen college.
Sexual systems evolution, conservation, taxonomy.
"Plants are Cool, Too!": https://tinyurl.com/mr3nv85w

#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW #SICB2026
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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · Jan 23
Incorporating Sex-Diverse and Gender-Inclusive Perspectives in Higher Education Biology Courses. Really glad to finally see this in print. And proud to have played a small role in writing it.

#sex #gender #STEMeducation

@sicbjournals.bsky.social #SICB2025

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First page of the journal article from the December 2024 issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology, which arrived in my mailbox yesterday.
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milanchytry.bsky.social
Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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berondam.bsky.social
From @katieholten.bsky.social, "The Language of Trees"

"Trees invite us into the entangled lives, loves & freedom struggles of those who came before us & those who will come after us. I learned things about trees & people that made me laugh, cry & gasp in wonder. I wish everyone could read it."
Picture of book When Trees Testify with text that reads: "When Trees Testify is a profound journey into the heart of America. Trees invite us into the entangled lives, loves, and freedom struggles of those who came before us and those who will come after us. I learned things about trees and people that made me laugh, cry, and gasp in wonder. I wish everyone could read it." -Katie Holten, bestselling author of The Language of Trees When Trees Testify Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical O Legacy BERONDA L. MONTGOMERY
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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chemodiversity.bsky.social
#Chemodiversity is an important driver for plant–arthropod interactions 🌿 🪲 🐝. For more info check out this very impressive work by RU members Lina Ojeda-Prieto, @robinheinennl.bsky.social binheinennl.bsky.social and Wolfgang W. Weisser together with Eliecer L. Moreno doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Intraspecific plant chemodiversity at plot level has contrasting effects on arthropod functional groups
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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therevelator.org
Far too many pioneering female scientists have been written out of the history books, including groundbreaking (but complicated) Mary Elizabeth Barber, South Africa’s first female botanist. https://therevelator.org/barber-botanist-feminist/
Rediscovering the Legacy of Mary Elizabeth Barber, South Africa’s First Female Botanist • The Revelator
One species she discovered, a critically endangered plant, eluded researchers for decades but has been rediscovered — as has Barber herself.
therevelator.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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nebotanical.bsky.social
What a fantastic presentation by Dr. Chris Martine! Like the plants he studies @martinebotany.bsky.social 's talk can't be limited to a singular category- science, art, human dimensions, education, and even pop culture- this talk has it all! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkJ_...
Photo credit: C. Martine
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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hoehna.bsky.social
PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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annbot.bsky.social
🌸Check the newly published article ‘Contrasting effects of pollinators on the pollination success of floral morphs of a distylous bowl-shaped flower’ in @annbot.bsky.social by @j-valverde.bsky.social 🧵(1/10)

👉 doi.org/qc2r

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#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #AoBpapers
Contrasting effects of pollinators on the pollination success of floral morphs of a distylous bowl-shaped flower
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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labschneeberger.bsky.social
🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics!

Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.

More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
Career – Schneeberger Lab
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November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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NUTZ.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Lobeliads are a plant lineage that evolved on the Hawaiian Islands, likely from a single ancestor. An analysis of nuclear and plastid genomes tells a complex tale of island hopping and ecological divergence. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cyanea hamatiflora from Maui can grow to 8 meters tall. Wild populations are limited to around 250 plants. CREDIT: Ken Wood
May 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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sse-evolution.bsky.social
The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...
@asn-amnat.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Undergraduate Community at Evolution Program. Applications due January 20, 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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tribblelab.bsky.social
Congratulations @astragaler.bsky.social, with @wile-phylote.bsky.social and I, on putting together a great history of plant systematics, using Liliales and Asparagales as an example of how changes in evolutionary theory and data has shaped modern day understandings of the plant tree of life.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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stevenraymorris.bsky.social
Do you love plants? Let @science-irl.bsky.social’s Molly Edwards share the difference between a plant biologist and a botanist, the evolution of plants and paleobotany, AND SO MUCH MORE on the latest See Jurassic Right Back To School series.

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November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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entsocamerica.bsky.social
Keynote speakers on the opening day of Entomology 2025 emphasized the importance of communication and collaboration in advancing both science and the public understanding of how science affects their lives and society at large. #EntSoc25
From the Lab to the Legislature and Living Room: Science Needs Storytellers
Keynote speakers on the opening day of Entomology 2025 emphasized the importance of communication and collaboration in advancing both science and the public understanding of how science affects their…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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rianor.bsky.social
I returned to a meadow that I don't often visit, and the nightshade was still flowering! #WildflowerHour
Black Nightshade flowers and fruits
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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rogerhorton.bsky.social
Dozens of plants of Small #Nightshade, #Solanum triflorum, flowering still in a scarified area on Icklingham Plains #Suffolk west of the field where it normally grows. Flowers tinged mauve. 💜 #WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
martinebotany.bsky.social
So pleased to visit Cambridge as the guest speaker for the 1189th meeting of the New England Botanical Society. Kept thinking the ghost of Asa Gray was in the back of the room, but it was probably just my imagination.

#iamabotanist
Talking about Aussie solanums, illustrations on blackboard representing three sexual systems: cosexuality, andromonoecy, functional dioecy
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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patrickmckenzie.bsky.social
micro-break from paternity leave to catch @martinebotany.bsky.social talk for NEBS. Awesome examples of the value of natural history for generating new questions
Chris Martine presenting in front of a PowerPoint and chalk board
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
martinebotany.bsky.social
I do like me some herbaria.

#herbarium #iamabotanist
With Harvard U Herbaria sign With all of the Australian Solanum specimens
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿 DEADLINE APPROACHING

Submit your proposal by Nov 30 to the #AppsPlantSci special issue: “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data”

botany.org/home/publica...

@yannickwoudstra.bsky.social @erikarmoore11.bsky.social @emcassey.bsky.social #genomics
The text at the top reads: “APPS Special Issue Call for Papers: Beyond phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data”. The image beneath the title: On the left side of the image is a large circle divided in two halves: the left side of the circle comprises four images of flowers/herbarium specimens and the right side of the circle contains the text “Target Capture.” Five dotted line arrows point from the large circle to five smaller circles on the right. Smaller circles (clockwise from top): (1) “Off Target”, (2) “Biodiversity assessments”, (3) “Population genomics”, (4) “Evo-Devo”, (5) “Species identification”. The text beneath the image reads: “Proposal deadline November 30, 2025”. The Applications in Plant Sciences logo is in the bottom left corner, and a QR code is in the bottom right corner. Image credit: Yannick Woudstra.
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
So far, we’ve celebrated some amazing milestones, including:

📸 Digitising over 5.5 million herbarium and fungarium specimens
🌍 Launching our Data Portal, making Kew’s collections just a click away
💾 Bringing Kew’s collections together into one central platform

But there is still more to come...
Four Kew herbarium specimen sheets laid side by side, each featuring dried plant cuttings, handwritten specimen information, barcodes, and colour charts.
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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uarkherbarium.bsky.social
Thursday’s dinner will showcase UArk Herbarium/Prairie Pedagogy Pop-up Exhibition. It will highlight the UArk Herbarium support for educational and artistic work happening in the Oak Knoll Prairie. Artworks by Caite Ramos, Ellie Johnson, Mikki Young, Peter Brown, Mia Dixon, Kaylee Hutto and more!
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
martinebotany.bsky.social
Today! And not at the usual time of 7.

#iamabotanist #scicomm #solanum
nebotanical.bsky.social New England Botanical Society @nebotanical.bsky.social · 10d
Friday 11/7 at 5:30, join NEBS to hear a talk by Dr. Chris Martine! Dr. Martine is a David Burpee Professor of Plant Genetics and Research and Director of the Manning Herbarium at Bucknell University AND President-Elect of the Botanical Society of America. For details and to register: rhodora.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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seedystudies.bsky.social
It makes me SO PROUD that the entire Native Plant Trust herbarium collection is now available on CNH. This would not have happened without the amazing work of my former colleagues Fitz Dettmer and Kate Wellspring. Together we can unlock the power of small herbaria! 🌿

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CNH Portal Native Plant Trust (Formerly New England Wild Flower Society) herbarium
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November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM