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Ale Vasco
@avascog.bsky.social
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#Botanist, ♥️#ferns🌿, mountains🇨🇴, Natural History collections🍃, ☀️, dance, teaching and learning about #plants and life 🍀
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sse-evolution.bsky.social
Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF!

Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!

Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.

We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
SSE, SSB, and ASN logos. Text: Tri-societies Week of Action for NSF. Science under siege: Over 1000 NSF grants have been terminated by political appointees- threatening the foundation of American innovation and education, and more cuts loom; entire research programs are being erased without explanation. What’s at stake? STEM education for K-12 students, jobs and infrastructure in rural communities, support for veterans in research and education, cybersecurity and national defense innovation, global leadership in science and technology. Join the week of action: Contact Congress: Switchboard: (202) 224-3121, tell them to protect NSF. Share your story: Post on social media #WithoutNSF #SupportNSF #SaveNSF, engage local media; use our media tool to reach out to local reporters and newspapers; engage others: communicate the importance of NSF to colleagues, friends, and family.
May 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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iochromaland.bsky.social
Our department is searching for a new greenhouse manager: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Share with your botanical friends on the job market!
Greenhouse Manager
jobs.colorado.edu
April 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
avascog.bsky.social
Can you help us spread the word about this position at BRIT? Director of the Press position: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
Director of BRIT Press
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www.paycomonline.net
April 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct #pteridophytes

By @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al in #AppsPlantSci

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Pteridophyte Collections Consortium logo. On the left side, "Pteridophyte Collections Consortium" is on a green background. On the right side, there are two columns of 0's and 1's, with an image of a fern fiddlehead composed of 0's and 1's on top.
March 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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realhopejahren.bsky.social
I just found out that my first book 📗, LAB GIRL 🌱🌿🌳, was challenged by a parent and subsequently removed from the shelves of the library at Walworth High School in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

So I decided to write a 🧵 on book 📚 #censorship 🚫 in American 🇺🇸 schools 🚸

1/n
February 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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dralgaegirl.bsky.social
Try to only publish in society journals!
natstephen.bsky.social Nat Stephen @natstephen.bsky.social · Feb 8
There is some chaos again in academic publishing, so a quick reminder that some societies manage their own journals in house & offer OA options, discounts, read & publish deals etc. Any "profits" go back into the Society to support charitable activities incl. education & funding #AcademicSky
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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barkerms.bsky.social
Join us on Wednesday, February 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have @cherrityg.bsky.social on apomixis and polyploidy in Malus and Christoph Rosche on herbarium specimens and invasive Centaurea! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
A flyer announcing the next polyploidy webinar on February 5, 2025, at 11 AM PST. Links to sign up for the zoom at barkerlab.net/polyweb. Featuring Charity Goeckeritz from the HudsonAlpha Institute on Genomics of triploid apples narrow the search for the genetic basis of apomixis in Malus, and Christoph Rosche from the University of Halle on Herbarium specimens reveal a cryptic invasion of polyploid Centuarea stoebe in Europe.
February 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
avascog.bsky.social
Yes!
kathleenmkay.bsky.social Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · Jan 28
Please consider non-profit society journals when you choose a journal for submitting your work AND for reviewing/editing.
duckswabber.bsky.social Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · Jan 27
Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
February 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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amcuervo.bsky.social
Grateful to WOS for the 2024 grant powering a dream project with undergrad Carolina Martinez 🐦⛰️🧬 From fieldwork in South America's least-explored mountains to sample analysis and ms writing, watching her mature into a scientist is such a reward. Latin American faculty: applications open! #Mentoring
wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · Jan 24
Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grant applications are due February 1! These grants provide up to $3,000 in funding for #ornithology research projects carried out by mentor-undergrad collaborations. https://wilsonsociety.org/awards/jed-burtt-mentoring-grants/
graphic with bird photo, WOS logo, and text "Research and Mentoring Grant Applications Now Open!"
January 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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fervorforferns.bsky.social
can't think of a better way to start my bluesky account than a shout-out to the 2025 Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes cohort. So honored to have been part of this enthusiastic community of fern lovers. Thanks to all teachers, classmates, and OTS, and to the ferns and streams of Costa Rica #buenhelechos
January 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
avascog.bsky.social
Happy to receive Vol 50 of the Fiddlehead Forum, the bulletin of the American Fern Society www.amerfernsoc.org. This vol has articles about German explorer Hoffmann, #FernsofColombia, and more! My first volume as and Editor and the 50th year of the bulletin! #Ferns #Botany #Science 🧪
December 30, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there!

More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org

#Botany2025
Graphic promoting Botany 2025 in Palm Springs, CA, taking place July 25-31, 2025. The tagline reads "Botany Without Barriers" against a bright blue sky with tall palm trees. Logos of supporting societies are displayed along the bottom, including the Botanical Society of America, American Fern Society, ASPT, Society of Herbarium Curators, IAPT, and ABLS.
December 20, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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ijpsjournal.bsky.social
In the January 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social:

IJPS Celebrates Its 150th Birthday

Christina M. Caruso

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#PlantScience
IJPS sesquicentennial logo featuring a gingko leaf
December 20, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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torreybotanical.bsky.social
Each year, we offer several #awards for undergraduate & graduate botanical #research, training and symposia. Applications are open for this winter, the deadline for submissions Feb 15, 2025! Learn more and apply here:

www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/

#botany #grants 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾
December 12, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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ferncurator.bsky.social
We're now accepting applications for 2025 Botany Travel Awards to support the resident study of collections in the United States National Herbarium! For more information, please visit: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...
Opportunities
naturalhistory.si.edu
November 14, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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ucdflowerpower.bsky.social
Plant biologists! We need you!
We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science.
Please check here and shared widely:
forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3...
#PlantSci
a man holding a large green leaf with the words i just love a good leaf below him
ALT: a man holding a large green leaf with the words i just love a good leaf below him
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November 19, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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sandyheth.bsky.social
Rafael @rafadscruz.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new paper about fern fiddlehead evolution @currentbiology.bsky.social

Read the paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks @palaeojules.bsky.social for the wonderful reconstructions!
Identification of a tetrahedral apical cell preserved within a fossilized fern fiddlehead
The gradual unfurling of fronds from tightly coiled tips, termed fiddleheads or croziers, is one of the most recognizable features of the fern lineage…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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rafadscruz.bsky.social
Sorry guys, I needed to purge the old Botany Feed to remove some nsfw posts that were getting too frequent. I tried to correct the old one, but in the meantime, after some modifications, I deleted it by accident.

However, this is the patched version that should work well.

bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 6, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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mmlopezu.bsky.social
Please share widely! We have two open postdoctoral positions in my lab: lopezuribelab.com/join-the-lab/ Some details below👇👇👇
Join the lab
MANUAL OF MUTUAL EXPECTATIONS Are you interested in joining the lab? Please read this document that details the role and expectations for the PI and all members of the lab.    GRADUATE ST…
lopezuribelab.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:05 PM
avascog.bsky.social
Tropical #Ferns and #Lycophytes field course in Costa Rica. With Eddie Watkins, Robbin Moran, and me (@avascog). Please share 💚🌿. Link to apply: tropicalstudies.org/course/tropi...
Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes
Program Overview Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes is a special course of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OET). It is the fourth time this course has been offered. This course will provide a...
tropicalstudies.org
August 12, 2024 at 1:37 AM
avascog.bsky.social
Grad students @brit from different parts of the world, wrote in their language(s) the word for my fav group of plants 🌿🍀💚
December 2, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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dendromecon27.bsky.social
Come work with us (Hall Cushman and myself) at U Nevada, Reno! We are seeking a PhD student and post-doc to work on Whitebark pine in California. We are interested in its recruitment dynamics and interactions with fire and fuels treatments. We have 3 years of solid funding!
October 18, 2023 at 7:25 PM