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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · Jul 16
🚀🍊 Blast off! 🍊🚀

Excited to share that next month Zach and I will be joining the Department of Biology at the University of Central Florida!

Because of our love for midcentury modern design, we will only acknowledge the Citronaut as the official mascot. 😉

@emberts.bsky.social @ucf.bsky.social
Two people standing next to each other in front of sunflowers
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gbifmorpho.bsky.social
New paper in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:

Herbariograph: a deep‐learning tool to classify specimen images

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70447
Herbariograph: a deep‐learning tool to classify specimen images
Herbarium specimens are the physical evidence of plant diversity world-wide and a rich source of research data. With c. 402 M items, distributed in 3.9 k registered herbaria, in 182 countries, it is...
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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ljrissler.bsky.social
NSF is open again!

A few comments:

*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.

*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.

*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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journalsysevo.bsky.social
Just re-upping our call for papers for our special issue on #genome #evolution! Deadline January 31, 2026, learn more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Journal of Systematics and Evolution Call for Papers Genome Evolution
Submission deadline: Saturday, 31 January 2026
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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maxjtelford.bsky.social
My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.

Available as book, on kindle and as audio.

I would be really grateful for reposts.

www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
Cover of book titled The Tree of Life: solving science's greatest puzzle.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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elvisbranchini.bsky.social
Just published in @newphyt.bsky.social : my first paper in co-authorship with @virajalim.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social.
This meta-analysis of Arabidopsis growth rates was quite a lot of work, but it's finally out:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Screenshot of a New Phytologist scientific article by Viraj Alimchandani, Elvis Branchini and Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska titled "A multiscale growth atlas of Arabidopsis: linking cell dynamics to organ development". The image includes a summary with the main findings of the paper.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
Sarah holds up an eel facts advent calendar in front of blooming flowers on her sidewalk. It says eel facts an advent calendar. It has 24 boxes with orange and yellow zigzags and yellow circles in the middle with numbers one through 24 in the middle of the boxes there are six eels depicted on this calendar, one green Moray, two splendid garden eels, one blue and yellow ribbon eel, and one American eel and one European.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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seemasheth.bsky.social
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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hadley.nz
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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benrlee.com
Just over one week left to apply to work as a PhD student with me in one of the most beautiful ecosystems in the US!
benrlee.com Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · Oct 3
🚨 Please repost widely!🚨

I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions
An ad for a PhD position to start fall 2026 working with me at ETSU. For more info, please email at LeeBR1@etsu.edu. A close-up picture of dimpled trout lilies active in early spring, still largely surrounded by the previous year's senesced tree leaves. A beautiful vista of the Blue Ridge Mountains from on top of Carver's Gap on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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ijpsjournal.bsky.social
JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales

@astragaler.bsky.social‬, @wile-phylote.bsky.social‬, @tribblelab.bsky.social

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

#PlantScience
IJPS cover in yellow with a cartoon phylogeny of the asparagales and liliales and the title of the primer
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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jevbio.bsky.social
How to use and interpret the #adaptationinertia framework of #phylogenetic comparative methods based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to study adaptation:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Pienaar et al. 2025
Phylogenetic comparative methods for studying adaptation: the adaptation-inertia framework
Abstract. Phylogenetic comparative methods are a major tool for evaluating macroevolutionary hypotheses. Methods based on the mean-reverting stochastic Orn
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿 DEADLINE APPROACHING

Submit your proposal by Nov 30 to the #AppsPlantSci special issue: “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data”

botany.org/home/publica...

@yannickwoudstra.bsky.social @erikarmoore11.bsky.social @emcassey.bsky.social #genomics
The text at the top reads: “APPS Special Issue Call for Papers: Beyond phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data”. The image beneath the title: On the left side of the image is a large circle divided in two halves: the left side of the circle comprises four images of flowers/herbarium specimens and the right side of the circle contains the text “Target Capture.” Five dotted line arrows point from the large circle to five smaller circles on the right. Smaller circles (clockwise from top): (1) “Off Target”, (2) “Biodiversity assessments”, (3) “Population genomics”, (4) “Evo-Devo”, (5) “Species identification”. The text beneath the image reads: “Proposal deadline November 30, 2025”. The Applications in Plant Sciences logo is in the bottom left corner, and a QR code is in the bottom right corner. Image credit: Yannick Woudstra.
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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kheyduk.bsky.social
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newphyt.bsky.social New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 9d
On the cover of our #LatestIssue: Photo of a Joshua #tree (Yucca jaegeriana) at dawn in the Mojave #Desert. Image courtesy of Karolina Heyduk.

📖 See Heyduk et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
On the cover of New Phytologist volume 248, issue 5: Photo of a Joshua tree (Yucca jaegeriana) at dawn in the Mojave Desert.
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
Associate Professor & Director of NCBG Herbarium
This is a research, teaching, and public service position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving jointly as Herbarium Director at the North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG) and as...
unc.peopleadmin.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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josephtumber.bsky.social
New Assistant Professor Posting:
@dartmouthears.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and/or Geobiology
apply.interfolio.com/176517

🧪🌎
screenshot of job ad from link on post
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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martinebotany.bsky.social
A bit of early November fall color from the front yard.

Viburnum lentago, Quercus montana, Cornus ‘Stellar Pink’ and Rhus aromatica.

#iamabotanist
Viburnum lentago, nannyberry Chestnut oak Stellar Pink dogwood Fragrant sumac
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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michaelraissig.bsky.social
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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lost-in-botany.bsky.social
Don’t be RUSHing to any conclusions to quickly, this ain’t no Restionaceae but instead #Jacksonia restioides! A common leafless species that forms a tangled mass of stems that do at first glance look kinda like a rush, and what is even better is those large show flowers!
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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uarkherbarium.bsky.social
@chukwumaemma.bsky.social Research explores an approach to clarify the phylo relationship & evol history of Alectra. Using seqdata with morph, habitat & climate traits, it aims to reveal diversification, adaptation & future ranges w/implications for conservation & understanding parasitic plant evol.
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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uarkherbarium.bsky.social
@phylojennatics.bsky.social research focuses on macro and micro forces that can influence species abundance in Silene. She is using herbarium specimen data to build a genus phylogeny. Jenna successfully extracted DNA from a specimen from 1892!
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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josephwb.bsky.social
My (most ever?) convoluted #pumpkin. Deets in the alt-text.
So, it's an alien abduction scenario, but... weird? There's a flying saucer, but in the pilot section we see a... worm? Huh. And rather than abducting a human (or a cow), the alien worm is abducting... a book from the library? Oh! It's a "bookworm", I guess? Yeesh. You see, things are _far_ more interesting and satisfying when they need explainin'. Zoom in on the book, which is "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits (sometimes shortened to Worms)" (1881) by Charles Darwin. Why would an alien worm want a book on earthworms written by a 19th century naturalist?!? No one (the pumpkin author included) knows, only that it _seemed_ funny at the time :/
November 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM