Josh Felton
@botanyballer.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the Specht lab @Cornell
BSA student representative 2023-2025
Lover of bromeliads, genomics, reproductive biology and scicomm!
BSA student representative 2023-2025
Lover of bromeliads, genomics, reproductive biology and scicomm!
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Come one come all! Our new #BINHM exhibit is up at the #AMNH! @blackinnhms.bsky.social www.amnh.org/exhibitions/...
Black in Natural History Museums | AMNH
Black in Natural History Museums highlights 17 modern and historical Black scientists, artists, and curators.
www.amnh.org
September 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Come one come all! Our new #BINHM exhibit is up at the #AMNH! @blackinnhms.bsky.social www.amnh.org/exhibitions/...
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As we all eagerly (anxiously?) await NSF's release of the 2026 GRFP solicitation, please consider signing up as a mentor for BSA's GRFP workshop. We especially need more senior mentors (PIs, postdocs, and research scientists)!
Mentors needed for BSA’s GRFP Workshop! 🌱
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants.
Learn how you can help!
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants.
Learn how you can help!
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
September 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
As we all eagerly (anxiously?) await NSF's release of the 2026 GRFP solicitation, please consider signing up as a mentor for BSA's GRFP workshop. We especially need more senior mentors (PIs, postdocs, and research scientists)!
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The "Florédex" ✨, a pokémon-inspired vector collection of the greatest flower designs and their science is coming along nicely 🌷🧬
All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.
All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.
September 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The "Florédex" ✨, a pokémon-inspired vector collection of the greatest flower designs and their science is coming along nicely 🌷🧬
All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.
All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.
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I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!
August 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!
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This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
August 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Popping up early in the season #Wurmbea dioica subsp. alba can be found all around the southwest! This species has a complex variation in dioecy where populations here show both unisex flowers and bisexual flowers, this can be seen in the photos below of 3 variations
August 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Popping up early in the season #Wurmbea dioica subsp. alba can be found all around the southwest! This species has a complex variation in dioecy where populations here show both unisex flowers and bisexual flowers, this can be seen in the photos below of 3 variations
Thank you ben ❤️ it has been a blast working with you during my tenure as student rep! #botany2025
Huge shout-out to @botanyballer.bsky.social for his amazing service as a BSA student rep these past two years!
I’m really going to miss all the moments we shared working toward a better BSA experience for students.
You’ve made a lasting impact!
#Botany2025
I’m really going to miss all the moments we shared working toward a better BSA experience for students.
You’ve made a lasting impact!
#Botany2025
July 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Thank you ben ❤️ it has been a blast working with you during my tenure as student rep! #botany2025
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Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California!
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California!
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
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Sometimes (especially late in the conference) 5 minute talks just hit the spot! Thorough enjoying Germinating Ideas/Lightening Talks at #Botany2025 Got to see my senior undergrad Magdalyn Rowley-Lange crush her CAM talk ...and we got to see dogs hunting invasive plants!
July 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Sometimes (especially late in the conference) 5 minute talks just hit the spot! Thorough enjoying Germinating Ideas/Lightening Talks at #Botany2025 Got to see my senior undergrad Magdalyn Rowley-Lange crush her CAM talk ...and we got to see dogs hunting invasive plants!
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#UpAllNightWednesday at #Botany2025 will be at Street Bar!!! The first gay bar in Palm Springs 🏳️🌈 Be ready for karaoke!! 🎤 🕺 💃🏽 ✨
July 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#UpAllNightWednesday at #Botany2025 will be at Street Bar!!! The first gay bar in Palm Springs 🏳️🌈 Be ready for karaoke!! 🎤 🕺 💃🏽 ✨
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Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!
July 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!
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What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab
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What happens when a CAM species and a C3 species hybridize? Find out today in Comparative Genomics I at 10:15 (right after the coffee break)! #botany2025 #whambamcam #camgenda
July 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
What happens when a CAM species and a C3 species hybridize? Find out today in Comparative Genomics I at 10:15 (right after the coffee break)! #botany2025 #whambamcam #camgenda
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I can’t believe I battled @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social on the dance floor at the #PlantBio2025 annual party 🤣
a group of people are sitting on the floor watching a couple of people dance
ALT: a group of people are sitting on the floor watching a couple of people dance
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July 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I can’t believe I battled @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social on the dance floor at the #PlantBio2025 annual party 🤣
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My heart is full, my cup overflowing. Wonderful dinner out with my @coloradocollege.bsky.social Jabailylab alumni, from the classes of '19, '20, '22, '25, '26. Our currently ill '28 was greatly missed. I am so proud of these people (a second family!) and grateful to be together at #Botany2025
July 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
My heart is full, my cup overflowing. Wonderful dinner out with my @coloradocollege.bsky.social Jabailylab alumni, from the classes of '19, '20, '22, '25, '26. Our currently ill '28 was greatly missed. I am so proud of these people (a second family!) and grateful to be together at #Botany2025
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I'll be presenting my talk "Get Low: Evolutionary Transitions to Non-flying Mammal Pollination in Protea) at 4pm today Tuesday in Mesquite B at #Botany2025!
Come learn about Protea in South Africa and what else changes when they species have different primary pollinators!
Come learn about Protea in South Africa and what else changes when they species have different primary pollinators!
July 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'll be presenting my talk "Get Low: Evolutionary Transitions to Non-flying Mammal Pollination in Protea) at 4pm today Tuesday in Mesquite B at #Botany2025!
Come learn about Protea in South Africa and what else changes when they species have different primary pollinators!
Come learn about Protea in South Africa and what else changes when they species have different primary pollinators!
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A few moments from the poster session at #Botany2025!
July 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A few moments from the poster session at #Botany2025!
Thanks everybody who came to the student mixer last night! The vibes were magnificent and it was great to meet new folks! #botany2025
July 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Thanks everybody who came to the student mixer last night! The vibes were magnificent and it was great to meet new folks! #botany2025
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Wanna hear about eastern Penstemon funkyness? Stop by poster #102 at 6:15!
July 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wanna hear about eastern Penstemon funkyness? Stop by poster #102 at 6:15!
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Come see me at the poster session tonight (P16) for two separate applications of @inaturalist.bsky.social in Monarda… showcasing iNat’s help for understanding organismal biology at both super broad (thousands of observations) and super targeted (single observation) scales 🙂 #Botany2025
July 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Come see me at the poster session tonight (P16) for two separate applications of @inaturalist.bsky.social in Monarda… showcasing iNat’s help for understanding organismal biology at both super broad (thousands of observations) and super targeted (single observation) scales 🙂 #Botany2025
Thanks all that came through the BIPOC mixer this morning at #botany2025 !!
Just a sliver of the diversity here at the conference #biodiversity
Just a sliver of the diversity here at the conference #biodiversity
July 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Thanks all that came through the BIPOC mixer this morning at #botany2025 !!
Just a sliver of the diversity here at the conference #biodiversity
Just a sliver of the diversity here at the conference #biodiversity
Careers in botany going strong at #botany2025 !!
July 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Careers in botany going strong at #botany2025 !!
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Hey #botany2025 make sure to check out the Disabled in Botany symposium this afternoon (1:30, Catalina)!!
July 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hey #botany2025 make sure to check out the Disabled in Botany symposium this afternoon (1:30, Catalina)!!