A truly collaborative effort with Laura Gunn (Cornell Plant Biology) and Alistair McCormick (University of Edinburgh). Huge shoutout to Tanner Robison @tarobison.bsky.social, Yuwei Mao, Zhen Guo Oh, and Warren Ang who carried this work on their shoulders. 🙌
Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A truly collaborative effort with Laura Gunn (Cornell Plant Biology) and Alistair McCormick (University of Edinburgh). Huge shoutout to Tanner Robison @tarobison.bsky.social, Yuwei Mao, Zhen Guo Oh, and Warren Ang who carried this work on their shoulders. 🙌
WE GOT FERNS, folks.
I hope you like ferns. If you don’t, just listen and you will like ferns. 🌿🌿🌿
Dr. Li is hilarious and charming and you will love him. And ferns.
In conclusion: ferns.
www.alieward.com/ologies/pter...
Promotional graphic for the Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Text reads: 'Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Supporting early-career scientists with high-risk, high-reward research projects that bridge fundamental science with real-world solutions. BTI – Powered by the Jane Silverthorne Innovation Fund. Now Accepting Applications.' On the right side, there is a circular photo of a woman with long blonde hair and glasses, wearing a black top. The design includes green and white waves with a leaf and circuit logo.
Now accepting applications for the Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at BTI! 🌿 Supporting bold scientists tackling plant science frontiers with cross-disciplinary approaches. Full funding for high-risk, high-reward research. Apply by Jan 15, 2026! 🧬 spf.btiscience.org
Join us for the 4th annual NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year! @johninnescentre.bsky.social
Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium!
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
The NMNH Department of Botany is looking for a Museum Specialist. Please spread the word!
Botany is already happening in the Denver airport #botany2025
Shameless self-promotion continues...🙃 You might find this #fern book in your local bookstores! mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
I guess you have to read the book now to learn why ferns are just better (hornworts are pretty awesome too to be honest)
New on This Green Earth: “Survival of Nature’s Fittest May Go to Ferns.” BTI’s @fernway.bsky.social & Jacob Suissa explore their new book Ferns: Lessons in Survival. 400 million years of resilience—what ferns can teach us today.
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#PlantScience #ferns
Text reads "About The Authors". There is an illustration of a fern across the top.
There is a headshot of Fay-Wei holding a fern on the left and then an illustration of a fern on the bottom. Text reads "Fay-Wei Li grew up in Taiwan, a subtropical fern paradise and studies for his PhD at Duke University where he and his advisor, Kathleen Pryer, named a new fern genus Gaga after Lady Gaga. In 2017, Fay-Wei joined the Boyce Thompson Institute as a faculty member. His research has been featured in NY Times, the Economist, and Rolling Stone.
Text reads "Jacob S. Suissa is a classically trained botanist and fern biologist who earned his PhD in Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research focuses on the evolution of form and function in ferns. Jacob also co-founded the educational non-profit Lets Botanize, which is dedicated to inspiring curiosity and passion for plants. There is al illustration of a fern and headshot of Jacob.
Text reads "Learn more at go.btiscience.org/ferns.
Meet the authors behind Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth's Most Adaptable Plants! BTI's @fernway.bsky.social and Jacob S. Suissa explore the ancient, resilient world of ferns — plants that have thrived for over 400 million years.
Learn more go.btiscience.org/ferns.
#FernsBook #PlantScience
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Travel 400M years in a flip. FERNS explores the evolution, survival, and modern ties of Earth’s most adaptable plants. By @fernway.bsky.social & Jacob Suissa, illustrated by Laura Silburn. Out May 6: go.btiscience.org/ferns #FernsBook #PlantScience
My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
NSF has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into STEM.
Not anymore. scim.ag/3RUtgZg
Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
apprendre plus sur les anthocérotes et leur importance potentielle ? #photosynthese www.pourlascience.fr/sd/biologie-... @fernway.bsky.social @tarobison.bsky.social
"I want parents who have children to know that opportunities for your kids, if they aspire to be scientists or engineers, are being stripped away right in front of you," the NSF employee told Axios.
www.axios.com/2025/03/10/a...
NSF fact sheet
The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.
Totally agree. He is perfect.
Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
As many of you know, ~170 Program Officers at #NSF were fired on Tuesday, including a number that worked in Divisions important to the EEB community (e.g., DEB and GEO/OPP).
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It’s mostly the stupidity that kills them/us
A tiny plant with a powerful secret! The Li Lab discovered that hornworts have a unique CO₂ booster that could supercharge photosynthesis and boost crop yields by up to 50%! Could this be the future of agriculture? Find out more: ambrook.com/research/stu...
@fernway.bsky.social
#PlantScience
Firings happening right now at the NSF.
1/6 Super excited to share with you our work on Marchantia intra-specific diversity and pan-genomics, just out @naturegenet.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Everything on the discoveries in the thread by @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social
I want to emphasize 5 additional points:
Some good news: just got an email attempting to reschedule an NSF panel that was cancelled last week.
