Stacey D. Smith
@iochromaland.bsky.social
Yep, that same Iochromaland. Talking about how great Solanaceae are and wishing to never again hear any lineage called basal.
Pinned
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
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Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
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Mesquite 4.02 update released! It fixes a few bugs and adds Codon Alignment and various other improvements. Also, much faster with genomics files with 1000s of loci. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio
@bembidion.bsky.social
@bembidion.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Mesquite 4.02 update released! It fixes a few bugs and adds Codon Alignment and various other improvements. Also, much faster with genomics files with 1000s of loci. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio
@bembidion.bsky.social
@bembidion.bsky.social
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I just got a call from my rheumatologist. Because of the changes to Medicaid, which no longer reimburses telemedicine appointments, I can either pay out of pocket or drive two hours away every three months, which is not possible for me most of the year due to my work schedule.
October 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I just got a call from my rheumatologist. Because of the changes to Medicaid, which no longer reimburses telemedicine appointments, I can either pay out of pocket or drive two hours away every three months, which is not possible for me most of the year due to my work schedule.
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New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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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
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.
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Now seeking associate editors for 2026! AEs receive free membership in SSE and free registration to the annual Evolution meeting. Indicate your interest in this short form by September 30: forms.gle/JwAmeM4YV9Fv...
September 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Now seeking associate editors for 2026! AEs receive free membership in SSE and free registration to the annual Evolution meeting. Indicate your interest in this short form by September 30: forms.gle/JwAmeM4YV9Fv...
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I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings
Updating my comparative public admin seminar class—which was decimated by AI last year—to maybe be a little more LLM-proof by adding a 20–30 minute start-of-class writing & discussion activity. Will it work? Who knows! Full details and PDF here: governancef25.classes.andrewheiss.com/assignment/c...
September 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings
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We have just cross the $10,000 mark. Let's keep pushing to make that $15K goal! Thanks everyone for standing up for the botanical sciences! #ADayforBSA
We’re nearly 60% of the way to our $15,000 Endowment goal!
Every gift powers science, lifts up students, and drives BSA forward. Join the movement—make your impact today and help us reach the finish line!
🌿 Give now: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
#BSAendowment #IamaBotanist
Every gift powers science, lifts up students, and drives BSA forward. Join the movement—make your impact today and help us reach the finish line!
🌿 Give now: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
#BSAendowment #IamaBotanist
August 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
We have just cross the $10,000 mark. Let's keep pushing to make that $15K goal! Thanks everyone for standing up for the botanical sciences! #ADayforBSA
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🌿 'A Day for BSA' (day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025) is this Wednesday!
Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of advancing botanical science, and then help us reach our campaign goal of $15,000 raised for the BSA Endowment with a gift of any amount.
Give today!
crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
#ADayforBSA
Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of advancing botanical science, and then help us reach our campaign goal of $15,000 raised for the BSA Endowment with a gift of any amount.
Give today!
crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
#ADayforBSA
August 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🌿 'A Day for BSA' (day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025) is this Wednesday!
Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of advancing botanical science, and then help us reach our campaign goal of $15,000 raised for the BSA Endowment with a gift of any amount.
Give today!
crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
#ADayforBSA
Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of advancing botanical science, and then help us reach our campaign goal of $15,000 raised for the BSA Endowment with a gift of any amount.
Give today!
crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
#ADayforBSA
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The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!
We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
August 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!
We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
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
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
Oh we were the lucky ones to work with @ixchelgr.bsky.social!! And now we are more confident than ever that the nightshade berries are OLD, not like Eocene old, but Cretaceous Dinos-ruled old. Makes sense though, there are over 2K (some times delicious) species in the berry clade!
August 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Oh we were the lucky ones to work with @ixchelgr.bsky.social!! And now we are more confident than ever that the nightshade berries are OLD, not like Eocene old, but Cretaceous Dinos-ruled old. Makes sense though, there are over 2K (some times delicious) species in the berry clade!
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The #AppsPlantSci special issue "Advances in analyzing and engineering plant metabolic diversity" is online!
Thanks to editors @kiratiedge.bsky.social, Gaurav Moghe, @iochromaland.bsky.social & Federico Roda
Check out the intro: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantMetabolism
Thanks to editors @kiratiedge.bsky.social, Gaurav Moghe, @iochromaland.bsky.social & Federico Roda
Check out the intro: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantMetabolism
August 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The #AppsPlantSci special issue "Advances in analyzing and engineering plant metabolic diversity" is online!
Thanks to editors @kiratiedge.bsky.social, Gaurav Moghe, @iochromaland.bsky.social & Federico Roda
Check out the intro: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantMetabolism
Thanks to editors @kiratiedge.bsky.social, Gaurav Moghe, @iochromaland.bsky.social & Federico Roda
Check out the intro: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantMetabolism
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A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025
Reach out!
www.martinezgomezlab.com
Reach out!
www.martinezgomezlab.com
Martinez-Gomez Lab
Plant Evo-Devo
www.martinezgomezlab.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025
Reach out!
www.martinezgomezlab.com
Reach out!
www.martinezgomezlab.com
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🧪 UPDATE: All 63 House appropriators will meet **this Thursday** about science funding levels.
They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B).
If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...
They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B).
If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...
🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out.
✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget.
❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget.
8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget.
❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget.
8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
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Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
July 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🧪 UPDATE: All 63 House appropriators will meet **this Thursday** about science funding levels.
They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B).
If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...
They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B).
If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...
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I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
July 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
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We identified a novel location for acylsugars, on the fruit surface, widely distributed across the Physalis genus. Paves the way for understanding the cell types and regulation responsible to fruit-surface localized acylsugars in collab with @iochromaland.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Novel production of structurally diverse and sticky defense metabolites on wild tomatillo fruits
Plants have evolved a structurally diverse chemical repertoire to mediate various environmental interactions. Yet, little is known about the chemical complexity and metabolic pathways across many plan...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We identified a novel location for acylsugars, on the fruit surface, widely distributed across the Physalis genus. Paves the way for understanding the cell types and regulation responsible to fruit-surface localized acylsugars in collab with @iochromaland.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.
sites.google.com/site/danielb...
sites.google.com/site/danielb...
Sloan Lab
Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...
sites.google.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.
sites.google.com/site/danielb...
sites.google.com/site/danielb...
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🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
July 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
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North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist!
🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...
#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...
#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
a close up of a carnivorous plant with a bee inside of it
Alt: a close up of a venus fly trap closing around an insect
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July 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist!
🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...
#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...
#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
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Four review requests in my inbox this morning. The one I accepted? Society journal.
Our Societies consistently reinvest in our communities in ways the glossies never will. And that makes me invest in them.
Our Societies consistently reinvest in our communities in ways the glossies never will. And that makes me invest in them.
July 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Four review requests in my inbox this morning. The one I accepted? Society journal.
Our Societies consistently reinvest in our communities in ways the glossies never will. And that makes me invest in them.
Our Societies consistently reinvest in our communities in ways the glossies never will. And that makes me invest in them.
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Crockett: How is it that you can explain that we still are running up the credit card and we have nothing to show for it except for the fact that we won't have food on the tables and we won’t have health care.
July 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Crockett: How is it that you can explain that we still are running up the credit card and we have nothing to show for it except for the fact that we won't have food on the tables and we won’t have health care.
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So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...