Seemed like we need a paleobiology starter pack too (sorry if I missed one), so here's an attempt. Please let me know if I'm missing anyone already on here, or as they show up! All taxa and all time periods/scales welcome

Just posting this to #popgen
Here's a link to my notes on population & quantitative genetics:
github.com/cooplab/popg...
Hoping to extend it more after the winter holidays, as I'm just finishing up teaching the undergrad version of class.

We have an important announcement about #Botany2025: due to unforeseen site renovations at the planned location in Tucson, the conference will have a new location---but the same dates, July 26-30, 2025!

For more details, see mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

I'll be giving a free webinar Thurs, Dec 5, 7 p.m. Central time for the Minnesota Native Plant Society on the topics of #oak reproduction, #species, #hybrids, & #phylogeny / #treeOfLife, from my new book (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...).

Join us, and pls share!

us06web.zoom.us/j/6977108818...

Polyploid goldback & silverback #ferns occupy a wider, colder & wetter bioclimatic niche than diploid counterparts

By Keir Wefferling, Mariana Castro, Sílvia Castro, Helen Holmlund, João Loureiro, Carl Rothfels & Eric Schuettpelz

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #polyploidy

Finished! 10 bees illustrated that can be found in Brazil.
Who are they?
a) Bombus brasiliensis
b) Melipona mondury
c) Plebeia saiqui
d) Melipona marginata
e) Euglossa sp.
f) Melipona bicolor
g) Tetragonisca angustula
h) Trigona spinipes
i) Melipona rufiventris
j) Melipona quadrifasciata

Work with @draverbee.bsky.social, @nicrodemo.bsky.social, Ricardo Kriebel, Diana Jolles, and Steve Buchman. State-dependent diversification of poricidal flowers. Leveraging HiSSE fitted to phylos with 10K and 30K angiosperms. Read all about it here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1888 #herbarium specimen of Solanum carolinense. Bucknell's Manning Herbarium has many sheets from the 1800s, incl. the Mary A. Hakes Collection. Hakes (front left) was on the faculty of the Female Institute, U. at Lewisburg (later Bucknell U).
#womeninSTEM #botany #plantjoy #raybucknell

Fun times doing snow science yesterday with our lab & guest field assistant, @ryan-s-fuller.bsky.social! 🏔️❄️😊