Safe travels, plant enthusiasts! Already looking forward to Tucson next year. Bonus photo of a mycoheterotrophic health, Pterospora andromedea, in Mt San Jacinto State Park

If you saw my lightning talk and want to get involved with the Pretty Virus Project, here's the site with more information and a link to the sign-up survey:
sites.google.com/view/prettyv...

What a terrific few days at #botany2025! I saw so many fascinating talks, and am leaving Palm Springs excited to be part of this creative, dedicated scientific community.

In particular, thanks to @ca-naturalist.bsky.social
and the RevBayes team, and to @botsocamerica.bsky.social for organizing!

What a cool idea and check out all of these rad ECR scientists 💪

I’m also interested! I’m a postdoc in Duluth, MN and I study plant-virus interactions across scales (genes to intercontinental range expansions). I am also a big fan of natural history and collections research, if that’s of interest.

On my way to #BSA2025 and feeling pretty pumped to learn from colleagues and friends. This year, it feels like a form of resistance to pursue my work, and I look forward to celebrating other plant biologists as we keep on discovering.

Wednesday afternoon in the common gardens colloquium!

BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪

Scientists at Kew & QMUL ‪@qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍

Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

#PlantScience #SciNews

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#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:

Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

Yep totally! I think the researchers themselves summarized it super well when they said "For clarity, we have chosen to address both the Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation and its members in the third person, even though some of its members are coauthors of this study" which is * ideal *

Such a cool and important paper, both because the science is rad and because the treatment of people and data is just. Super neat 🧪

Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Harper Prize, @botanicallykarina.bsky.social! 🏆
Read our blog post with Karina here: buff.ly/4aEocNt 🍃

Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

The stretch of road connects NCAR, NOAA, NIST and the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Homes to people doing some of the most important research on Earth and its warming climate.

I commuted this exact stretch of road on a free bus for 3 years and this video hit me smack in the feels.

Does Shawna have an account on here? Or do you have the the four digit code to confirm?

This is an incredible, important collection. Please consider supporting if you can! #biodiversity #IndigenousScience #botany

I just called my rep and got through to a human for the first time in weeks. It was honestly nice, but now I wonder if momentum is dropping. So, let's goooo:

5calls.org

Our newest research in @nature.com

We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social

Checkout the Rare Plant RaMP program, a 1-yr (Aug '25 to Jul '26) research experience for those who have completed a baccalaureate degree & are interested in gaining research & prof. dev. experience in botany, plant science, or conservation.

Deadline: Mar 14, 2025

etap.nsf.gov/award/530/op...

Getting quality transcriptome assemblies from Herbarium samples is possible doi.org/10.1101/2025.... Work led by @atyszka.org. Another fun collaboration with @philcarella.bsky.social and @khongsamchia.bsky.social, who functionally validated an NLR immune receptor from a sample collected in 1956.

"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