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Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿
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#NewPI Colby College (PUI🔋) | Postdoc @uga_plantbio | PhD @uconneeb | Evolutionary Ecologist & Botanist. I ❤️ plants #PlantJoy, my cats #BayesCats, & women's bball #EveryoneWatchesWomensSports. she/her
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cavenderg9.bsky.social
My first time in the Atlantic Forest—Parque das Neblinas—in Brazil before heading to #COP30. I saw these incredible Tangará birds (wire-tailed manakins) in the midst of their mating dance. Apparently the male birds cooperate in a hierarchy of sorts to attract the female. Enjoy!
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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martinebotany.bsky.social
Do you look at this and see at least 10 plant species? Then you are ready for #Plantsgiving 2025!

How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.

#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
Plate with food.
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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carlyziter.bsky.social
Proud of @emmasbacon.bsky.social who defended yesterday (co-advised @paqlab.bsky.social). 6 months of fieldwork, countless doors knocked on, 28000+ trees IDd, & an incredible MSc thesis on Montréal’s urban forest! While playing in an orchestra & publishing 3 side projects 🤩. Someone hire her ASAP! 😉
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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berondam.bsky.social
When Trees Testify
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
January 20, 2026
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
#FallOfFreedom #ARRoundUp
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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shellygaynor.bsky.social
Annual Mabel with a Lego PacBio Sequencer. This time the Vega, but we also have the Revio and Sequel Lego edition.
Mabel and the Vega Mabel and the Revio Mabel and the Sequel
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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alainpaquette.bsky.social
📢 latest IDENT paper, in @journalofecology.bsky.social !
@paqlab.bsky.social @meganedeziel.bsky.social @ritasousasilva.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social @ebsearle.bsky.social
journalofecology.bsky.social Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · Oct 22
🍃 Functional traits best predict tree growth when age and leaf habit are considered–growth relationships shift over time and between deciduous and evergreen species🌿

@meganedeziel.bsky.social
@alainpaquette.bsky.social

Read more:https://buff.ly/2d9ppq9
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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mikegrillo.bsky.social
I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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ryanamartin.bsky.social
Really excited to see this paper out in the world. It's an ambitious final chapter from past PhD student Aaron Yilmaz. We ask how eco-evolutionary dynamics play out in the context of urban evolution using a reciprocal transplant experiment. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Are there ecological consequences of urban adaptation? A test of eco-evolutionary dynamics in a terrestrial isopod (Oniscus asellus) | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
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November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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richardsever.bsky.social
"It may be uncomfortable to conclude that a widely used study design has been producing spurious results. But the evidence is in, and telling uncomfortable truths is a part of doing science."

Problems with twin studies.

theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
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November 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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seanmichaletz.bsky.social
#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
University of British Columbia, Botany
Job #AJO31140, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES), Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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sebastianschreiber.bsky.social
Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
Poster announcing the workshop.
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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davidlowry.bsky.social
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...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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apragsdale.bsky.social
Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.

Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Early Career Scientist Awards 2026
Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🔥 RESEARCH 🔥

Shrub resprouting depends on pre-disturbance condition, with aridity, soil fertility & fire history as secondary drivers. Repeated disturbance reduces resprouting, & adult plants are more resilient under low water conditions - Zomer et al.

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#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.Location of the study area (boxed region in inset map) in the Iberian Peninsula, showing the gradient of historical aridity (lower aridity index values are indicative of less aridity); location of field populations (left map) of Anthyllis cytisoides (n=6, brown circles) and Globularia alypum (n=10, teal triangles); and location of common garden seed provenances (right map) of A. cytisoides (n=4) in Low aridity (blue circles) and High aridity (red circles) areas. Borders in the inset map are countries, and in main maps are provinces.
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Climate and hybridization shape #stomatal trait evolution in #Populus

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Zavala-Paez et al.

@WileyPlantSci @michellezavala.bsky.social @jillahamilton.bsky.social
Sampling and common garden design.
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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jchrispires.bsky.social
We are looking for a new colleague and department head for #Horticulture and Landscape #Architecture at #Colorado State #University! #highered #academicsky #agsky #Agriculture. Apply by December 31! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/169...
Professor & Head, Dept of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Colorado State University invites applications and nominations for the position of Professor and Head of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA) in the College of Agricultural ...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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mirismith.bsky.social Miri Smith @mirismith.bsky.social · 5d
Loved these at a botanical garden in Maine over the summer!
A huge troll sculpture made of wood peers between the trees at a pair of dorky white tourists standing in front of it. The troll is several stories high and has a long face, a shingled belly and shoulders, and spiky hair. One of its hands rests on the ground, one is wrapped around a living tree. It looks kind of surprised but curious to see us. A huge troll sculpture sits on the floor of a clearing surrounded by trees. There’s nothing to give a sense of scale but its head and torso are at least twice as high as a person, iirc. Its arms and legs reach wide — kind of like an excited toddler — and it has a smile on its broad, youthful face. The surrounding trees create dappled shade.
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Plants are a big part of your favorite sci-fi and fantasy franchises. Plant biologist Molly Edwards aka @science-irl.bsky.social was on the See Jurassic Right Back To School series chatting her own plant-obsessed origins, and so much more: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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plantteaching.bsky.social
I found time to listen to this today, it was a lot of fun.
Molly & I are kindred spirits in our love for plants, I was grinning and nodding as she shared her passion for the green kingdom 💚
I finally learned the "origin story" of the @science-irl.bsky.social YouTube channel too! Give it a listen!
stevenraymorris.bsky.social Steven Ray Morris @stevenraymorris.bsky.social · 12d
Plants are a big part of your favorite sci-fi and fantasy franchises. Plant biologist Molly Edwards aka @science-irl.bsky.social was on the See Jurassic Right Back To School series chatting her own plant-obsessed origins, and so much more: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
November 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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ferrisjabr.bsky.social
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors

That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
An overview shot of a portion of the collection: a long window box with wooden frames filled with glass models of plants carefully arranged and labeled on white backgrounds, as though part of a 3D herbarium. From this distance, they are indistinguishable from real plants. Glass model of maple leaves, featuring blended molten glass that mimics the red hues of autumn foliage A glass model of a Columbine (Aquilegia) with parsley-like leaves and pendulous, faintly red and yellow flowers that look like swans huddled together, necks touching and wings flared out. Glass model of a Potentilla with almost ferny foliage and simple, open-faced yellow flowers with fuzzy centers.
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🌿 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌿

Wild relatives of quinoa maintain pollen viability, seed number, and grain yield under heat stress, with pollen viability potentially being a key trait to improve heat tolerance of cultivated quinoa - Xu et al.

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#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 6 (shortened, full legend in paper): Variability of in vitro pollen germination at different temperatures in cultivated quinoa and its wild relatives. Pollen grains from plants of representative accessions (see Supplementary Table S1) were incubated in germination media at temperatures varying from 22 °C to 40 °C at 2 °C intervals. (A) The relationship between in vitro pollen germination rate and temperature, fitted using general additive models (see Methods). The maximum germination rate and corresponding optimum temperature as determined by the models are shown. (B, C) Pollen tube growth during incubation at (B) 34 °C and (C) 38 °C. For C. hircinum Argentina, measurements were taken at 8, 16, and 24 h; for the other accessions, measurements were taken at 4, 8, and 12 h. Data are means (±SE), n=3. The results of two-way ANOVA to determine the effects of group (accession), incubation time, and their interactions (Int.) are shown: ***P<0.001; *P<0.05.
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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flanknits.bsky.social
Amazing northern lights in South Minneapolis
Pink streaks light the sky Green glow framed by trees
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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danielbolnick.bsky.social
Congratulations on a PhD to Dr. Swapna Subramanian!!
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM