Amy McP

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🎉 BSA is now on LinkedIn!

Our page will feature conference updates, research highlights, Society news, and much more. We'd love for you to join us — follow our page, jump into conversations in the comments, and share our resources with your botanical science community.

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BiPS Summer Studentship Host Labs 2026 – Black in Plant Science Project title: Hybridisation in Papua New GuineaProject Supervisor: Catherine KidnerHost Lab: Biodiversity Genomics and Analytics, RBGEInstitution: Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh

Applications are open for a @blackinplantsci.bsky.social Summer Studentship to work with @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social on building and testing #engineered #DNA recorders for plant cell lineage tracing in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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#enbio

It's official!!!! #Botany2026 here we come!

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant - Kamoun Lab Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors

📣 VACANCY: Postdoc/Research Assistant in the Kamoun group @kamounlab.bsky.social

Join the team to work on the biology and applications of plant immune receptors 🌱

Applications will be reviewed from 16 March 2026 onwards

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#PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

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!

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Associate Professor of Plant Science Associate Professor of Plant Science Salary: Grade 9 (£61,759 - £73,708 p.a, depending on experience)This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for elements of the job to be undertak...

Very excited to announce that we are hiring for three faculty positions at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social: A/Prof Plant Science, A/Prof Animal Biology and Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management. Please do get in touch to chat. Links below:

Conceptual diagram of touch-sensitive stigma movements in Mazus miquelii. Higher temperatures accelerate both temporary closure and reopening. whereas permanent (irreversible) closure tracks pollination progress: greater pollen deposition and faster pollen-tube growth accelerate permanent closure, while pollen-tube position is positively associated with the time to permanent closure. Pollen source shows no detectable effect.

Linking environmental & pollination-related factors to touch-sensitive stigma closure dynamics in #Mazus miquelii

New #AJB research by Xiao-Fang Jin, Tian Luo, Chun-Feng Yang & Zhong-Ming Ye

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#botany #plantscience #Mazaceae #pollen #pollination

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!

My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.

We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.

#Postdoc #EcoEvo

Pls RT!

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/...

Species and gene trees showing expected sequence divergence under ingroup versus ghost lineage introgression models.

From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci special issue "Branching out: Resolving #PlantEvolution through #Phylogenetic Networks"

Introducing ghostbuster: a new tool to detect cryptic ghost lineage introgression in genomic datasets (by Forsythe et al)

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Postdoctoral Researcher - Evolutionary Genomics and Population Genetics Position Title: Postdoctoral Researcher - Evolutionary Genomics and Population Genetics Appointment Type: Post Doc/Trainee Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: We are seeking a Pos...

Corrinne Grover and I are hiring a postdoc to work on population and comparative genomics in multiple crop species. Applications will be accepted through March 17th and details can be found here: isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
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🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA
- Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴
Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads.
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I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate.
Please RT, many thanks
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#PlantScience conference!

If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award.

Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026.

Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior

Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland.

Best consideration date: 3/14

Job Ad:
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Department:
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Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

We're trialling something new this year at the BSBI - an activity designed to support absolute beginner botanists with identifying *and* recording their first ever 100 plants in 2026 🌿

If you know anyone that might like to take part then please spread the word:

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text says "hold me like marchantia holds water", the pic is a lecture slide show marchantia archegoniophore holding water

text says "my love for you is as abundant as rubisco", with a protein structure of rubisco

text says "my love for you is liek apical meristems.. it keeps on growing", pic shows shoot and root apical meristem

text says "call me a xylem cell, because i would die for you"

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions.
Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

Best picks from our #moss archive:

Auxin fluctuation & PIN polarization in leaf cell reprogramming
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Hormonal Diterpenoids Distinct to Gibberellins Regulate Protonema Differentiation
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Glutamate-Induced Electrical & Calcium Signals doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

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

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#botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution

Duckweeds (Lemna minor sensu lato) cover the surface of the upper region of Mill Pond in Durham, NH, together with closely related species (Wolffia sp. and Spirodela polyrhiza). Duckweeds in this region exhibited weak local adaptation to biotic (microbiome) and abiotic (water) features of their environment combined.

Observing weak adaptation of #duckweeds to their local microbiome depends on local pondwater

New #AJB research by Ava Rose & Aba O'Brien (@annamob.bsky.social)

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#botany #plantscience #ecology

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🌿 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/...

Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund | Georgia Botanical SocietyMarie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund – Georgia Botanical Society Projects eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, the following:

Small funding opportunity ($3k) for field botany research in Georgia, USA! Spread the word 📣

Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund 🌿
📆 Application due: March 30, 2026

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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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Exciting new undergraduate research opportunities here at Carnegie Museum in Botany! Applications due March 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

Check out this cool paper in #AJB! #OpenAccess #SocietyJournal

A figure from Carta et al. (2020) illustrates how n = 7 has been inferred and why this now seems problematic. [Carta, A., G. Bedini, and L. Peruzzi. 2020. A deep dive into the ancestral chromosome number and genome size of flowering plants. New Phytologist 228: 1097–1106.]

Why six and seven are implausible ancestral #angiosperm #chromosome numbers

New #AJB research by Susanne Renner

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kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain and dancing . Alt: kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain and dancing with extreme excitement.

BOTANY 2026 abstract submission is open!!! @botsocamerica.bsky.social