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Amy McP
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Director of Publications for the Botanical Society of America. Managing Editor of AJB. Enthusiastic supporter of science and the arts. She/her.
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I'm hiring a full time fixed-term 1yr lab tech to assist with field and greenhouse projects related to floral evolution and plant reproductive ecology. Please share! Ideal start date early 2026.

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November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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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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[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.

All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.

Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!

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November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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seedystudies.bsky.social
📣 Are you passionate about plants and storytelling? The Atlanta Botanical Garden is seeking a Conservation Communications Technician.

📱 requires experience creating social media content for an org
📆 Jan./Feb. 2026 start
⌛ part-time, temp
💸 $22/hr

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Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc - Conservation Communications Technician
Are you passionate about plants and storytelling? The Atlanta Botanical Garden is seeking a creative Conservation Communications Technician to support the Southeastern Center for Conservation in bring...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The Natural History Museum Denmark is seeking a new Head of Conservation Unit! The conservation team here works on a wide array of incredible specimens, and are hard at work preparing for the new museum opening in spring 2027! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Talentech - Head of Conservation Unit at the Natural History Museum Denmark // Leder af Konserveringsenheden ved Statens Naturhistoriske Museum
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November 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Consider this your sign from the universe, your future self, and your unfinished Google Doc. We want your cool ideas, your weird ideas, or your ‘is-this-crazy-or-brilliant’ ideas!

Just over two weeks left to submit a proposal for this special issue. Reach out if you have any questions ☺️
botsocamerica.bsky.social Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 15d
CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿 DEADLINE NOV 30

Submit your proposal for the #AppsPlantSci special issue: “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data”

More info at: 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 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Great opportunity for Early Career Researchers - Utrecht PhD Summer School 2026!

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EPS Summer School | Universiteit Utrecht
We would like to invite you to join the PhD Summer School that has an attractive program with many expert speakers in the field of environmental signaling in plants. In addition to the invited speaker...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist
We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)
www.uni-regensburg.de
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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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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Selection of flower color phenotype by contrasting #pollinator visual perception in a hybrid zone between two #Calceolaria species

New #AJB research by Alicia Sérsic, Marco Antonetti & Andrea Cocucci

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #pollination #evolution
Schematic of the methodology for the phenotypic analyses. Reflection: collection of reflectance spectra from three flower parts in 175 individuals. Pollinator perception: measuring predictor variables, values of reflectance spectra based on the stimulation of their photoreceptors. PC1 of the PCA of the stimulation data for all photoreceptors across the three flower parts according to each visual model. Brightness distance (BD) and color distances (CD) between flower parts. Pollination: phenotypic selection analyses combining different fitness variables, pollen grains deposited on the stigma or pollen tubes in the style attributed to pollination by either birds or bees, and predictor variables PC1, BD, and CD for each pollinator.
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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🔥🌳🌴Check out this exhaustive overview of how #traits may mediate the impact of #fire on (tropical) #forests and vice versa, led by PhD student David Pacuk! An important start to better understand fire resilience of fire-unadapted forests!🔥🌳🌴
botsocamerica.bsky.social Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Oct 14
🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests
By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Collage showing the bark of Anadenanthera colubrina: on the left, intact bark before fire; on the right, bark surface after exposure to fire, showing charring and structural changes.
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches

With an outstanding cover photo by @markooiecol.bsky.social

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SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches: American Journal of Botany: Vol 112, No 10
Click on the title to browse this issue
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October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Adaptive plant traits under anthropogenic burning regimes: A
database for UK heath and mire plant species

@kimsimp.bsky.social et al. in @botsocamerica.bsky.social

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Adaptive plant traits under anthropogenic burning regimes: A database for UK heath and mire plant species
Premise Humans have used fire to manage landscapes for millennia, but this use of fire is declining in many ecosystems. Understanding how plants respond to these changes is key to predicting ecosyst...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#Fire avoidance & long-term population decline in the endangered Florida ground #lichen #Cladonia perforata within a pyrogenic habitat

New #AJB research by @sterlingherron.bsky.social, Katherine Charton, Sarah Haller Crate, Stacy Smith, et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
Cladonia perforata fragment in Florida rosemary scrub. (Credit: Scott G. Ward.)
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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ASPB has a Managing Editor position open to support Plant Cell and Plant Physiology!
www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit...
Application deadline November 17, 2025.
Note that candidates must reside in one of these regions:
Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Colorado, Florida,
Pennsylvania.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona. Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona. Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument. A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Alicia Gómez-Fernández! 🏵

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of herbaceous #crops through trait-based #ecology

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #ecology
Graphic announcing new AJB Synthesis article by Alicia Gomez-Fernandez. A conceptual model for understanding crop trait evolution that integrates Grime's CSR theory and the global spectrum of plant form and function.
October 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I'll be reviewing applications for this in a few days, so there's still time to get touch if you're interested.
samyeaman.bsky.social Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · Aug 20
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Had a great time returning to the legendary Take-Up Podcast to talk Hot Fuzz (the best film of all time)! #filmsky
Hot Fuzz (with Alex McPherson)
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October 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source

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Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Hey #Botany2026 we're actively looking for potential speakers at ALL experience levels for our proposed colloquium: Side-quest! – Level up your science!. If you have an interesting story, project, or idea to share that qualifies as a “Side-quest” we want to know about it!

More info below⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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DEADLINE ALERT! Symposia & Colloquia proposals for #Botany2026 are due this Thursday, Oct. 16th!

Don’t wait—submit your proposal today and help grow the ideas that will take root in Tucson next year!🌵

To learn more about proposal guidelines, or how to submit a proposal, visit: botanyconference.org
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October 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Changes in plant flammability-related traits to fire regime characteristics & biomass conditions in the #Cerrado

By Vagner Zanzarini, Davi Rossatto & Alessandra Fidelis

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
A photograph of the Cerrado landscape, showing the open savanna formation and its rich herbaceous layer with different species of grasses, forbs, and small shrubs.
October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests
By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Collage showing the bark of Anadenanthera colubrina: on the left, intact bark before fire; on the right, bark surface after exposure to fire, showing charring and structural changes.
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Modifications in fire frequency impact belowground plant components in old-growth grasslands, posing risks to their resilience

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... @leveg.bsky.social
Campos Rupestres landscape with open-field vegetation. On the right, two images show belowground organs: above, samples of belowground bud-bearing organs; below, samples of fine roots.
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM