Shelly Gaynor

♻️ Hybrid fertility and the rarity of homoploid hybrid speciation by Harry Sanders

Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp...

#PlantScience

Green graphic with white and yellow bold text reading "BSA Awards with a March 15, 2026 Deadline." Lists nine awards with leaf icons: Distinguished Fellow; $2,000 Emerging Leader Award; $2,000 Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award; $4,000 Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant - Paleobotanical Section; $2,500 Herman Becker Student Field Work Grant - Paleobotanical Section; $500 Undergraduate Student Research Awards; $1,000 Developing Nations Travel Awards; $500 Professional Members Travel Awards; $595 BSA Student and Postdoc Travel Awards. Includes the URL www.botany.org/home/awards.html, the Botanical Society of America logo, and a QR code.

BSA is set to give out over $150,000 in awards and grants this year — and many have deadlines that are THIS SUNDAY, March 15th!

Travel awards, research awards, and recognition for early-career, mid-career, and professional members.

Learn more: botany.org/home/awards.... #BSAawards #IamaBotanist

Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)

link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Such an awesome program supporting undergrad engagement at the annual Botany conference. And I’m so glad BSA figured out how to keep it alive. It’s not too late to apply for #Botany2026 in Tucson (1-5 Aug)!!

#plantpeopleFT

This is an amazing program that BSA is running this year with the help of generous donations from the community after NSF funding was terminated. If you have undergrads interested in botany, encourage them to apply! Signing up to be a mentor is also super rewarding!

I spot Tyler Radtke - a soltis lab alumni who was mentored by @makenziemabryphd.bsky.social

This is such a great opportunity. If you're an undergrad, make sure you apply.

Group photo of PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award recipients at the Botany 2025 conference. Text reads: PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award and Mentored Experience — Now Accepting Applications! Benefits include mentorship, complimentary conference registration, free travel and lodging, meals, a field trip, and a 3-year BSA student membership. Deadline March 15, 2026. Visit botany.org.

Hey Botanical Science Undergrads, the PLANTS Grant deadline is coming up!!

This award covers Botany 2026 travel, lodging, meals, mentorship, a conference field trip & a complimentary 3-year BSA membership.

Deadline: March 15, 2026
For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/...

Close up of small white flowers in grass. Two of the flowers have five petals, one has six. No pink striping visible.

Close up of single white flower with intense pink striping held up by two fingers. Three apparent petals are seen, although two look like possible fusions.

A ridiculous Claytonia virginica flower with strong pink striping and TEN! petals. What are you even doing?

Three small white flowers with lighter pink striping and obvious petal deformities in two of them. One has what appears to be four large petals and one tiny petals, and one looks like it only has two large round petals.

Once again visiting the Population of Misfit Claytonia!

Are they weirdos because of chromosomal shenanigans, or because they’re Louisiana plants exposed to toxins that would’ve killed lesser angiosperms?

Triploid Atlantic salmon are physiologically disadvantaged at larger body sizes - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Triploid Atlantic salmon are physiologically disadvantaged at larger body sizes

This is interesting, triploid salmon have larger cells and inferior physiology than diploids. Lower aerobic scope, lower CTmax, higher Pcrit...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GBE | Recombination and Retroprocessing in Broomrapes Reveal RNA-Mediated Gene Transfer Mechanism and a Generalizable Model for Mitochondrial Evolution in Heterotrophic Plants

@limingcai.bsky.social et al. examined mitogenomes of 45 Orobanchaceae species, identifying genetic alterations in genomic shuffling, RNA editing, and intracellular and horizontal gene transfer en route to a nonphotosynthetic lifestyle.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag025

#genome #evolution

Dear science friends,

Have any of you had any experience using a liquid nitrogen dry shipper to bring blood/tissue sample tubes back from international field work? If so, do you have any recommendations for a certain product? What was your experience with airlines/TSA/customs like?

Thanks!

a slide introducing GA, when the researchers found the GA mutant, they called them "foolish seedling". Then on the right corner I inserted Kagura from Gintama saying "お前ら　馬鹿ですか”

Successfully inserted anime in my plant bio lecture! 💅 Throwback to the good old time that I transcribed subtitles for many anime for two years at the end of my undergrad, now I'm telling a room of undergrads the plants and anime that I love. I love my job! #ib103 #anime #plantjoy

i love data, me too meme

Ploidy and neuron size impact nervous system development and function in Xenopus Liu et al. use triploid Xenopus as a model to characterize effects of neuron size on vertebrate nervous system development and function. They report association between neuron size, cell proliferation, brain activity, and tadpole swimming behavior.

Ploidy and neuron size impact nervous system development and function in Xenopus

Just a few days left to submit the ASN student research award (due March 13th)!!!! This is an AWESOME opportunity for students to get some grant writing experience!!! We LOVE reading your grants and giving feedback!!!!!!!!!!! Apply, Apply, Apply!!!!!!

www.amnat.org/announcement...

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of Biological Sciences.

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This beautiful salamander is a 17 year old triploid.

Such a cool paper.

These triploids may offer insights into hybrid vigor, chromosome dynamics, and long-term evolutionary processes. Understanding hybrid classes enhances our knowledge of speciation and adaptation.
Paper here: doi.org/10.1093/jher...
Corresponding author: www.researchgate.net...
#JHered
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Research on hybridization between salamanders Triturus cristatus and T. marmoratus in France reveals a rare but notable presence of triploid (CMM) hybrids, with frequencies up to 18% in some samples.
Photo: Rainer Theuer
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three peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' . Alt: three smiling peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' .

Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

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).

🏵 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

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

I feel like this is a great time to remind everyone that it's not even technically wrong to say that logistic regression is machine learning

it's the AI PRFB now 🙃

Salary to living wage plot with only 4 programs falling aprove the 1:1 line and paying a living wage.

Happy recruitment/interview season for PhD students! Recruiting students in ecology & evolutionary biology? Make sure your department's stipend is accurate in our database: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

Bukkuri Lab Lecturer/Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics City St George's University of London Recent CV & Google Scholar Profile

A bit late to this, but I'm delighted to announce that I've officially begun my permanent faculty position in the Department of Mathematics at City St George's, University of London!

sites.google.com/view/anuraag...