@lepidodendron
(Palaeo)Botanist at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt. Cycads, early Angiosperms, all sorts of leaves. Supporter of plant paleoart. Also food, beer, music, boardgames. Neurodivergent. He/Him. Opinions are my own. mariocoiro.blog
I wonder, how do you guys manage to get academic collaborators to contribute to things? It seems like I am always helping others but rarely getting help when I need it...
#JobAlert #PhD π±
We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers.
We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition.
Interested? Please get in touch for more information!
π¨ PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology π±
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob
A new lobed leaf with affinities with the Austrobaileyales from the Early Cretaceous of China. Good to see our predictions based on Mesodescolea from the Early Cretaceous of Argentina coming true! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
πΏ 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!
A statue of a Carnotaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur, stands in front of the building of the Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio in Trelew, Argentina
First day in one of my favourite places!
Loving the reconstruction of Sagaria, an underappreciated angiosperm from the Early Cretaceous of Campania, Italy!
Because of Valentine's Day we had today a Flower Flocking #paleostream, covering different kinds of fossil angiosperms!
Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!
Join a summer workshop on phylogenetic comparative methods for biomechanists at UC Riverside from June 21-27. Apply by March 15, 2026. For more info and details, visit: https://www.wmrc.edu/owens-valley-station/ #workshop
A stunning work on the anatomy of the apical meristem in Medullosans, showing fascinating similarities with extant cycads!
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Screaming flower character, blushing smiling flower character left to right
Academic Societies when a young woman dares to be slightly outspoken (left) the same Societies when a misogynistic controversial geriatric is openly affiliated with a high-profile peadophile sex trafficker (right)
It drives me crazy that US journalists and commentators say stuff like "he was a white supremacist but his name was non-European: GarcΓa". GarcΓa is a Spanish name, brought to the Americas by Spain, a country in Europe. A fact the supremacist knows and embraces.
Learnt racism preventing learning
πΏ Open seminar at IBB!
π 16 Feb | 12 h
π€ Francesco Dal Grande β From Heritage to Innovation: Research at the Botanical Garden of Padua
π€ Garima Singh β Treasure hunting in nature for metabolic gems
Open to all, no registration needed.
www.ibb.csic.es/en/2026/02/d...
π’ Postdoc opening in avian biogeography & macroecology (Olomouc, CZ)
VladimΓr RemeΕ‘ (excellent scientist and mentor) is hiring a postdoc to study bird diversity across biomes, linking species pools, traits, climate & history using big data, fieldwork, and modelling.
π pracuj.upol.cz/nc/zprava/cl...
This is truly baffling. A seed does not become an angiosperm fruit only because there are some vague lines on it. It is the equivalent of having a full diapsid skull and saying you found Permian dinosaurs...
The biggest privilege afforded to men in positions of power is that of being dumb.
There are people willing to accept the excuse that a world-class researcher neglected to do a 10-minute Google search on a sponsor, in the 2010s, as part of the process for accepting research funding.
They wrote their emails thinking they were never going to be caught.
They write their excuses because they are sorry they got caught.
Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.
Uppsala in late autumn
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. Weβre searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
It's been a while so I'm re-sharing this list by @ezequielvera.bsky.social!
#paleobotany #botany
go.bsky.app/B7Y3ja7
Hello from Stuttgart! Never been to the SMNS before but it's a lovely museum with amazing collections. Right now they have a temporary exhibit on Triassic life, featuring Mirasaura. @stephanspiekman.bsky.social showed me round.. Amazing fossils!
New paper showing clustering of the many traits across reproductive strategies of angiosperms. Lots of interesting discussions that gave raise to this piece. But only possible thanks to the hard work of Andrew Helmstetter, Sylvain GlΓ©min, and Jos KΓ€fer.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Job opportunity!
Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology
Fixed term
Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
#PlantSci #PlantSciJobs
A mini display focusing on Archaefructus
Big fan of how the palaeo-flora was displayed
β»οΈπ: Anatomical insights into the vascular layout of the barley rachis: implications for transport and spikelet connection
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
#PlantScience
Photo from our summer lab lunch! 12 people sitting at brightly painted picnic tables with yellow umbrellas outside Cali n' Titos.
I'm hiring postdoc in my lab to work on temporal dynamics of sorghum root microbiome assembly! This position is funded by the Moore Foundation through UGA, and would be perfect for someone finishing up their PhD this spring. Details here: chunglab.franklinresearch.uga.edu/join-lab
This is an incredibly useful read! How Iβm learning to navigate academia as someone with ADHD www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Writers in Residence scheme with Botanic Gardens of Sydney - $15000 for 3 months for Australian writers. Sydney, Mount Tomah or Mount Annan.
A brown stripey Apatosaurus walks through a glade of lush tree ferns, cycads, and conifers. Small theropods run past in the foreground.
An Apatosaurus meanders through a lush glade in the ancient Morrison.
#sciart #paleoart
The USA can withdraw from @ipbes.net but, IPBES Chair @davidobura.bsky.social observes, βunfortunately, we cannot withdraw from the fact that more than 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.β ππ