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Haley A Branch
@stressedbranch.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Yale 🌱 studying why plants be stressing so much 🌵evo-ecophysiology 🏳️‍🌈 she/her #DisabledInSTEM 💻 https://haleyabranch.weebly.com/

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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · Sep 3
Thank you @octoqueenphd.bsky.social for the opportunity to ramble about #evolution, #plants, #Disability

I hadn't realized HOW much plants have impacted my day-to-day and shaped my view of the world.

Take a listen and keep your eyes out for more "Unwell to Begin With" - a FANTASTIC podcast name.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 1d
🌿 Applications are open for the Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Awards (GSRAs), including the J. S. Karling and AJ Harris awards.

BSA supports graduate student research in botanical science with these $1,500 awards.

Deadline: February 16, 2026.

Apply now: botany.org/home/awards/...
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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · 1d
So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏

#IAmABotanist 🌱
botsocamerica.bsky.social Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 1d
🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Haley Branch! 🏵

The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

#botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution
Graphic announcing new AJB Synthesis article by Haley Branch. Methodological illustration for asking whether X affects plants. “Question” provides an example of a question that both ecologists and evolutionary biologists ask, with categories of traits often of interest. “Experiment” shows trait examples and comparisons (populations, environmental, across time). Types of traits are where evolutionary biologists could expand their breadth. “Outcome” describes lasting effects of whether X affects traits to the point that it is passed on and contributes to future generations or it leads to extinction. “Outcomes” is where ecophysiologists could expand their work. Images courtesy of Dr. Stefanie Sultmanis (vein density), Dr. Beatrice Harrison Day (root section), and Dr. Vanessa Tonet (leaf cavitation).

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 1d
🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Haley Branch! 🏵

The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

#botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution
Graphic announcing new AJB Synthesis article by Haley Branch. Methodological illustration for asking whether X affects plants. “Question” provides an example of a question that both ecologists and evolutionary biologists ask, with categories of traits often of interest. “Experiment” shows trait examples and comparisons (populations, environmental, across time). Types of traits are where evolutionary biologists could expand their breadth. “Outcome” describes lasting effects of whether X affects traits to the point that it is passed on and contributes to future generations or it leads to extinction. “Outcomes” is where ecophysiologists could expand their work. Images courtesy of Dr. Stefanie Sultmanis (vein density), Dr. Beatrice Harrison Day (root section), and Dr. Vanessa Tonet (leaf cavitation).

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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · 2d
me trying to figure out how to split myself in two so that I can move and still be at #Botany2026 😭 why is it right at a pretty standard academic moving time?!

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 4d
Nominations are open for the 2026 BSA Young Botanist Awards! 🌿

Recognize an outstanding graduating senior in botanical science and introduce them to the global BSA community.

Deadline: April 1, 2026.

For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/...

#BSAStudentAwards
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 4d
The effect of #drought stress on the limits & costs of plasticity in floral longevity in response to #pollinator decline

New #AJB research by Caelen McCabe & Christina Caruso

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #Lobelia
A close-up photo of a Lobelia siphilitica flower, showing petals and pollen tube. Black scale line = ~ 0.8 mm.

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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · 5d
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 5d
BOTANY 2026 abstract submission is open!!! @botsocamerica.bsky.social
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Alt: kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain and dancing with extreme excitement.
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Jacquet-chris @jacquet-chris.bsky.social · 6d
What can we learn from the first GWAS on bryophyte immunity? Have these plants evolved immune mechanisms similar to or different from those of angiosperms? (Spoiler: both!)
Our latest paper is out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123 #Marchantia #Colletotrichum #EVOteam #LRSV
Marchantia polymorpha lines displaying various level of resistance after inoculation with Colletotrichum nymphaeae

Reposted by Smith, Jesse R. Lasky, Haley A. Branch

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Dana Shaw @shawlab.bsky.social · 8d
My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠

Full job description is linked below.

Come join us on the Palouse!

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Joshua S. Weitz, Silvia Secchi , and 4 more

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 8d
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up

Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Neil Pederson, Jonas Trepel , and 2 more

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 26d
🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org
Please share!

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 26d
Rangewide responses of #Mimulus cardinalis to an extreme heat event

New #AJB research by Lucas Albano, Robin Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Christopher Muir & Seema Nayan Sheth

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #climatechange
Map of western United States showing the six focal populations of Mimulus cardinalis used in this study. Populations were sourced from the leading edge (N1 and N2), range center (C1 and C2), and trailing edge (S1 and S2) of the range of M. cardinalis and are set on a backdrop of grey-scale extreme maximum temperature across a 30-year period from 1981

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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · Nov 26
New #mimulus preprint! We found grandparental environments exhibit strong effects on the fitness of their grand-offspring and whether this was positive or negative depended on the historical environment, showing TGP is locally adaptive

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Transgenerational plasticity affects fitness and mediates local adaptation
Transgenerational plasticity (TGP) could be as decisive of a factor in phenotypic outcomes as allelic variation and within-generation plasticity. While TGP is often associated with priming offspring t...
www.biorxiv.org

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Nov 26
Transgenerational plasticity affects fitness and mediates local adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.23.690023v1

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Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social · Nov 3
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Reposted by Jesse M. Shapiro, Jesse R. Lasky, Chhaya M. Werner , and 2 more

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Rachel Germain @gerlame.bsky.social · Nov 3
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

Please share far and wide 🚀

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca

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Greg Copenhaver @copenhaverlab.bsky.social · Oct 6
The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · Sep 17
Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
career5.successfactors.eu

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · Sep 3
If you're interested in the crossing points between crip theory, anti-eugenics, environment, global health and global ethics, check out @octoqueenphd.bsky.social 's new podcast #UnwellToBeginWith. It was a blast to be the first guest, & a fantastic episode with @stressedbranch.bsky.social is now up

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Mollie Holmberg @octoqueenphd.bsky.social · Sep 2
Had the pleasure earlier this summer of speaking with the absolutely brilliant @stressedbranch.bsky.social about countering ableism & eugenics in evolutionary biology, how her ballet training informs her science & what plants teach us about crip life

unwell-to-begin-with.podbean.com/e/episode-2-...
Episode 2: "Life is built on a rickety stool" with Dr. Haley Branch | Unwell to Begin With
“When people think about evolutionary biology, they think of ‘survival of the fittest.’ It is the first thing that comes to people's minds, and it is a gross misconception of evolution, and it's consi...
unwell-to-begin-with.podbean.com

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 28
I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · Aug 27
Sadly... the trend might be over? 👀 😉

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 27
Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Simon Roux, Elena Litchman , and 2 more

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Julian Catchen @jcatchen.bsky.social · Aug 26
Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

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Graydon Gillies @graydongillies.bsky.social · Aug 12
If you’re at ESA @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social 2025 in Baltimore, come check out my talk about population dynamics and the geographic range limits of a coastal dune plant! Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8:45am in Hilton 5!

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Simon Roux, Orlando Schwery , and 1 more

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · Aug 11
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

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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · Jul 29
@jillmlove.bsky.social gave an awesome talk about plasticity in leaf lobing in #Mimulus
A white person with dark hair pulled back and round glasses stands at a podium in front of a conclusion slide of a presentation. The main points highlight “directional selection favored novel negative plasticity, canalization may be disadvantageous, and experimental approach reveals hidden adaptive potential”

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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · Jul 29
Last is Caroline Brose sharing research on willow and experiences as a disabled field researcher
A white woman with red hair tied half up, half down stands at a podium. The slides heading slide to the side reads “what processes affect creation and maintenance of species diversity in these complicated groups?”