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Harpo Faust
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Botanist. Collections Manager at the University of New Mexico Herbarium. #collectionsareessential
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Statement from the WNBPA after their meeting with the WNBA today, which lasted a couple hours and featured a record turnout of more than 40 players.
WNBPA STATEMENT REGARDING CBA MEETING IN INDIANAPOLIS   INDIANAPOLIS, IN, Thursday, July 17, 2025 –– Earlier today, the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (“WNBPA”) and the Women’s National Basketball Association (“WNBA”) met in person to discuss their ongoing negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (“CBA”). Alongside  WNBPA staff and our CBA Advisory Team, more than 40 Players, including All-Stars, Executive Committee members, and Player Representatives, attended the meeting. This marked the largest in-person player turnout in Union history during CBA negotiations.   The WNBA’s response to our proposals fails to address the priorities we’ve voiced from the day we opted out: a transformational CBA that delivers our rightful share of the business that we’ve built, improves working conditions, and ensures the success we create lifts both today’s players and the generations that follow.   We’ve told the League and teams exactly why their proposal falls so short. This business is booming – media rights, ratings, revenue, team valuations, expansion fees, attendance, and ticket sales – are all up in historic fashion. But short-changing the working women  who make this business possible stalls growth. The only thing more unsustainable than the current system is pretending it can go on forever.     It’s not complicated.    We are committed to the fight. We are committed to returning to the negotiating table. And we will not stop until we achieve the transformational CBA this moment demands.    ###
July 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
softcorebotany.bsky.social
Still coming off an alpine high from our trip last week in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness documenting alpine flora apart of Western N. America Alpine Plant Surveys. Highlights included this alpine poppy not documented in New Mexico for over a century! 🌱 @jkleinkopf.bsky.social @hannahmarx.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
softcorebotany.bsky.social
Please Share Widely! Funds needed urgently to support temporary infrastructure of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. 🌱
June 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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mauiwong.bsky.social
Please don't stop talking about Palestine.
mondoweiss.net Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Jun 13
First, Israel cut Gaza’s last internet cable—blacking out 2.3 million people.

Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat.

As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.
June 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Check out this new #AJB essay by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social, @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social!

#Citizenscience records are fuelling exciting discoveries of new plant species

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #iNaturalist #herbarium
A world map showing the locations of new plant species discovered through iNaturalist. Each species is represented by a photograph and text explaining the family and year of description.
May 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
The new issue of #AppsPlantSci is online!

Highlights include the PteridoPortal, a publicly accessible collection of #pteridophyte records; an R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria; and more

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany #DeepLearning #paleobotany #iNaturalist
The cover of the March-April issue of Applications in Plant Sciences. The image shows a curated set of 28 digitized herbarium specimens of the genus Acer, retrieved from the digital collection of the University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH) using the mvh pipeline.
April 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
🌿 Join iDigBio on May 6 at 1 PM ET for a webinar on how advocacy helped save the Duke Herbarium—and what we can learn moving forward.

BSA was proud to support the petition to save the herbarium—and now, we hope you'll help amplify this important event.

Event Info: www.idigbio.org/content/spec...
April 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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tropicalbotany.bsky.social
The LSU herbarium is featured in the most recent Country Roads. Check out the article here!

countryroadsmagazine.com/lsu-herbarium/
The Flower Files
Inside the Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium, the largest collection of plants and fungi specimens in Louisiana
countryroadsmagazine.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
softcorebotany.bsky.social
Got to host an amazing seminar by Ben Legler, a forever mentor to me, on moonworts which was everything and more!
March 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
This #InternationalWomensDay, watch our fascinating talk from Gem Toes-Crichton on her visual research exploring pioneering women in botany.

She features Elizabeth Blackwell, Anna Atkins, and the 1994 winner of our Jill Smythies prize, Rosemary Wise.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watc...

#IWD2025
Interstices | The Hidden Histories of Women in Botany
“Individual contributions are all too often forgotten, overshadowed, or never acknowledged; lost in the gaps among objects.” - Professor Stephen A. Harris, Druce Curator of Oxford University Herbaria. (Adapted from the foreword to Gem Toes-Crichton’s book.)” In this talk, Gem Toes-Crichton shares h
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March 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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richardcalis.bsky.social
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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March 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Hello botany enthusiasts! With March Madness right around the corner that means it's time for… Herb-Madness!
32 plant genera are set to compete in the 2025 Herb Madness Championship.
We have an exciting lineup for this year’s Herb Madness, but we can’t do it without YOUR HELP.

#herbmadness2025
March 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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ca-naturalist.bsky.social
🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨

For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger.

#IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany
Arnold Clifford, Navajo Botanist, holds up a pressed herbarium specimen of an undescribed species of thistle found in Carrizo mountain. The roof of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium caving in, leaving herbarium cabinets inside vulnerable to snow and rain.
March 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
softcorebotany.bsky.social
Urgent support needed for a leaking roof of the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium! Digital Donations can be made through Venmo to @ShawnaB3- with the note "Carrizo Mountain Herbarium Urgent Support"
March 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist. By @jamesdoubek.bsky.social
Meet the 'wooly devil,' a new plant species discovered in Big Bend National Park
The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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phytokeys.pensoft.net
For the first time in nearly 50 years, a new plant genus and species has been discovered in a U.S. national park.

🔗 @pensoft.net blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2025/02/19/t...

🔗 Research paper: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

@calacademy.bsky.social @ca-naturalist.bsky.social
The woolly devil: a landmark U.S. plant discovery
Belonging to the sunflower family, the tiny plant was found in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
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February 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🌿 new plant species found in national park.

We can’t sell off our natural parks if for no other reason than that they hold undiscovered species like this new one. Plus all the other reasons we can’t sell our shared natural heritage.
'Devil'-like flower with 'horns' found in Texas is new species: Its location is secret
In a rugged stretch of desert in one of the nation's most remote national parks, a volunteer's eyes were caught by a colorful sight sprouting up from the beige and brown of the Chihuahuan Desert—"devi...
phys.org
February 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past." Nice highlight of our work synthesizing temporal, taxonomic, and spatial trends in botanical collections to facilitate new research avenues @emlombardi.bsky.social @softcorebotany.bsky.social
New research prepares way for future botanical research
To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in the future, a team of researchers is looking at collections of plants from a...
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February 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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lukeknox.me
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
February 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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jamellebouie.net
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
darbysaxbe.bsky.social Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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ca-naturalist.bsky.social
A bright spot in a dark week. The International Compositae Alliance (TICA) has just put out the newest volume of the bi-annual publication Capitulum 3(2) and this issue has STYLE. 😎🌼

OA, here: www.compositae.org/capitulum_03...

#botany #plantscience #ecology #biodiversity #evolution #asteraceae
Journal cover for Capitulum, head of a Boneset with long, lilac style branches. a screen shot from the new issue with an SEM image of a style apex with sweeping papillate hairs.
January 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
softcorebotany.bsky.social
Awesome work by my favorites! @emlombardi.bsky.social @hannahmarx.bsky.social

Check it out!
botsocamerica.bsky.social Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jan 30
Check out this new #AJB Commentary by Elizabeth Lombardi & Hannah Marx!

#Herbaria as critical resources for studying plant-virus #biodiversity & #epidemiology

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology
An herbarium specimen with visible mottling due to infection by Turnip mosaic virus. Uses of herbarium specimens for virus research appear with icons.
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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kristenobacter.bsky.social
UMass has a new webpage to track federal actions as a community resource
www.umass.edu/news/federal...
Federal Actions | UMass Amherst
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January 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
softcorebotany.bsky.social
Found a larvae on my Selaginella specimen, was collected in the Sandias last year. Not finding much on larvae on Selaginella in North America- currently talking any thoughts and input.
January 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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prosanta.bsky.social
Very proud of this paper led by @lsu.bsky.social students where we examine what ‘Unexplored’ means in a natural history context - we recommend ‘biodiversity blindspots’ instead for places that lack digitized public data

Paper here peerj.com/articles/185...

Video abstract youtu.be/QZ8wUrgJEao
What ‘unexplored’ means: Mapping regions with digitized natural history records
YouTube video by PeerJ
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January 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM