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jessamine finch
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Seed ecologist and seed banker 🫘 🌱 | she/her 🏳️‍🌈 | ATL street peach 🚲 | ecology section program director @botsocamerica.bsky.social | views my own
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MA needs to pass strong data privacy protections.

The MA Senate did in September. It's the House's turn.

#mapoli

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Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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NEW: My research has found that 17 of the 200 highest-ranked U.S. colleges have removed references to gender identity, gender expression, and/or sexual orientation from their nondiscrimination policies. See the full list here: medium.com/prismnpen/to...
Top U.S. Universities Are Quietly Removing LGBTQ+ Discrimination Protections
From the Ivy League to elite state schools, this list might surprise you
medium.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The Clifton Institute is hiring a Grassland Steward to manage remnant grasslands in the Virginia Piedmont
🌾 knowledge of flora
🗣️ charismatic people-person
🎓 related bach. pref'd
⌛ 12 mo. position, ext. possible
📅 target start: feb. 17
📍 Warrenton, VA
💸 $55k/yr
cliftoninstitute.org/about-us/emp...
Employment Opportunities – The Clifton Institute
cliftoninstitute.org
January 7, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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⏳ There’s still time to submit!

The call for papers for the Special Issue
Seedling Traits and Climate Change remains open until February 1, 2026 🗓

We look forward to your research on how early plant life stages respond to a changing climate 🌱

👉 botany.fyi/htj54e
January 7, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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✨ PhD opportunity studying drought and heatwave effects on threatened plants ✨🔥

Funded by an ARC DECRA awarded to the amazing Dr Ilaíne Matos and co-supervised by Dr Sami Rifai and me!

Limited by the character limit here, so please see the attached flyer for all the details - please share widely!
January 6, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions at 30 yrs old, 1943:

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December 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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New Job opportunity at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology! Come work a dream job in beautiful Athens!
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
Assistant Professor: Insect Ecologist
The Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track position (9-months) in insect ecology, to be based on the Athens campus at the Assistant Professor ran...
www.ugajobsearch.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Do I know any journalists interested in covering a story about a highway and the last population of a frog? Please message me
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.

Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
December 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Trump comes for the oysters. NOAA slashes existing grant in half for @umces.bsky.social Horn Point hatchery responsible for astounding success of world largest oyster restoration here in Chesapeake Bay. Another assault on science, reason & environment.
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Trump cuts to Eastern Shore oyster hatchery could endanger Chesapeake Bay progress
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently slashed support for an Eastern Shore lab that has helped to seed an oyster resurgence in the bay.
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December 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
National Tropical Botanical Garden is accepting applications for a Floristic Botanist 🌿

🌺 conduct systematic & floristic studies on Micronesian plants
📖 publish written Flora of Micronesia
🎓 ph.d. in related field
⌛ FT 2y, possibility of ext.
💸 $70k
⏰ Open til filled

saveplants.org/forums/topic...
Job Opportunity: Floristic Botanist | National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawai‘i & Micronesian - Center for Plant Conservation
The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is now accepting applications for a Full Time Floristic Botanist. The successful candidate has the opportunity to conduct systematic and floristic studies...
saveplants.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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59 left now. Much like many of you, I *also* can't wait to stop posting about this. The end is near! Help me get there! Order a 2026 Love Notes from Nature Calendar!

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Love Notes from Nature Calendars are how we're funding the 2026 Native Plant Project in Philly! We're planning to distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds in the city & doing a bar-level promo campaign w/local artists.

We have 72 calendars left. Reposts v helpful!

Get one at SquidFacts.Net
December 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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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.

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December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Applications for TBS #grants are currently open - we have grants for undergrads and grad students alike to fund #research and costs associated with training, workshops and symposia! Applications are due by Jan 15 - apply here: www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/

🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾 #botany
December 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Free to attend online! 🧑‍💻 #SOTWPF
Registration is NOW OPEN for our State of the World's Plants and Fungi Symposium, 29 June - 1 July 2026! 🌍 The theme will be 'Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation' & will follow the release of the next State of the World's Report 🌱🍄
Learn more & register here 👉 https://ow.ly/CuNg50XFOH1
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Has your EEB/Biology department updated its minimum PhD pay for 2025-2026? Let us know here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
careers.msu.edu
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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DHS used a wide variety of weapons against people in Elgin yesterday, not only tear gas. Some wild photos in this writeup from @domguan.bsky.social:
ICE Tear Gasses Residential Area During Multi-Hour Elgin Apprehension
About 30 to 40 federal agents, about half marked as ICE agents, deployed at least six tear gas canisters, pepper balls, and foam rounds at over 200 protesters in a residential neighborhood on Maple…
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December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The UC Davis Ecology and Evolution in Working Landscapes REU provides undergrads with research experience in ecology and evolution in natural and managed landscapes. Apply now through Feb 15 via etap.nsf.gov

Contact me or @clhom.bsky.social for questions!
Ecology, Evolution, and Working Landscapes
ecoevoreu.ucdavis.edu
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Check out our online store! Items feature our logo and include shirts manufactured sustainably with organic materials. ❄ Modest proceeds support our mission to increase scientific knowledge and appreciation of the flora of New England ❄ rhodora.org/whats-new/
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December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Are you an #undergrad interested in #phenology, #trees, #herbarium & #livingCollections? Join our @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Herbarium / Systematics Lab as a summer NSF REU participant for a great project with my staff & me!

Apply today: mortonarb.org/science/oppo...

Message w/ Qs, & pls share!
Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program | REU | The Morton Arboretum
Learn more about Center for Tree Science research experiences for undergraduates at The Morton Arboretum.
mortonarb.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Looking for SciComm experience? 👀🌿

Check out this Spring 2026 internship from Let’s Botanize — great opportunity for undergrad students in botany! $1,500 stipend or course credit.

Apply via: letsbotanize@gmail.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM