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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Aug 11

Diuris porrifolia - the small eared donkey orchid

🧪🌱#orchids

Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Aug 7

I was so excited when I saw this one! Pterostylis recurva - the jug greenhood. Only just processing photos now… a year later 🤣

🧪🌱 #orchids

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Jul 24

Found this slug having a good munch on this puffball mushroom yesterday.

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A big black slug has eaten its way inside a puffball mushroom.

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Jul 24

So true!

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Adam Frew @frewecologist.bsky.social · Jul 17

The database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Australia is out!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

You can access data summaries via the website www.ausamf.com

We have data from 610 sites with data from another 500 locations to be added by the end of the year!

Thanks to all collaborators

AusAMF: The Database of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities in Australia

Motivation Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are central to plant nutrient acquisition, soil carbon dynamics, and ecosystem resilience. Yet, their biogeography remains incompletely characterised, pa...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Jul 4

Spent a few days camping before coming back to the office to run ridiculously long run-time analyses. Camping was better. Enjoy this Platanthera orbiculata orchid.

🧪 #orchids

A multiflowered orchid. The flowers are green and white.

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Jun 20

I always underestimate how long it takes to submit a manuscript. I mean, why would anyone think it takes 2.5 hrs to upload some files?
Anyway, let’s celebrate that small win with this orchid pic!

Phalaenopsis violacea frm. Magenta. A bright magenta flower with yellow tips at the petals and sepals.

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Jun 5

Just some pretty Cypripedium montanum (mountain lady’s slipper) to brighten your day.

🧪🌱 #orchids

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Apr 27

Orchids are safe & sound in their new home.
Next mission = fill this greenhouse cell with orchids 🤣
#orchids

Four large plastic tubs sit on metal racks. The tubs contain small pots of orchids. There are lots of extra metal racks in the image.

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Apr 26

These are all Platanthera but four different species. I’ve had Spiranthes do well before but otherwise most of my lab orchids have been Australian natives.

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Apr 26

Packing up 130 native orchid plants so they can travel to their new home at UNBC.

#orchids

Pots of emerging orchids being placed in plastic tubs

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Eddie Lee @spintheory.bsky.social · Apr 18

Just heard @erc.europa.eu will increase funding for grantees relocating to #Europe. Researchers based in the US or elsewhere in the world, can apply for €1 million beyond the usual max amount to set up a lab or #research team, if scientifically justified. Now to be €2 million.

🧪 #grants #academic

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Apr 17

Excited to say that I will now be a Senior Editor for the Journal of Biogeography (JBI).

Love getting back to the roots of phylogeny & phylogeography

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Apr 14

Really proud of the team I am working with at the moment. We attended an ‘ideas lab’ & pulled together a solid set of ideas into something that could help the future of biodiversity in BC. We did it all in the crazy timeframe of two weeks.

No matter the outcome, the effort from the team was huge.

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Apr 14

What a massive two weeks. Big grant development & application & final exams. Enjoy this orchid while catching a breath.
Dendrobium ‘Frosty Dawn’
#orchids

A white flower with a yellow-orange centre.

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Mar 31

In Vancouver for a few days, hanging out with a bunch of genomics folk. Good to see some old friends and some new ones.

View from a hotel toward Granville Island. Lots of buildings and roads, with a cloudy sky.

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Mar 25

NEW: Apply for COMPASS Pathfinders Program!
www.compassscicomm.org/compass-path...

Eligibility:
* You work in conservation in North America (incl. Caribbean)
* Your work is directly informed by science &/or Indigenous knowledge (incl. research, policy, comms, partnerships)

Deadline April 7. 🧪🌎🦤

COMPASS Pathfinders: Conservation Leaders | COMPASS

www.compassscicomm.org

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Mar 20

If you reach out to Jamie Gorrell at UNBC he will be able to tell you more about the field work opportunities. Alternatively you could apply for one of the field jobs with the marmot recovery foundation. They advertise every year.

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Mar 19

@csee-scee.bsky.social @marmotrecovery.bsky.social
@nature.org

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Mar 19

Please share 🧪
We seek 2 postdocs to work on Vancouver Island marmots in the following areas :
1 - demographic models.
2 - conservation genomics.
Positions based at UNBC, working with MRF. Full details here

marmots.org/recovery-eff...

#conservation #jobs

Recovery Efforts – The Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Foundation

marmots.org

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Mar 18

“These data, although scanty…”

My new goal - use scanty in a published paper 😆

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Mar 6

I would have hoped this was illegal… it’s kind of a contract put in place at a certain time under certain rules at that time. 😞

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · Mar 5

10 days left to submit an abstract. Slots for oral presentations heavily dependent on date of submission, so get on with it!
event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pag...

2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

Fourwaves - 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

event.fourwaves.com

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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Mar 5

Ok, no more reading for a while. The past two weeks have been nuts - 25 assignments, 30 scholarship applications & 6 undergrad theses. Officially on grading strike for the rest of the week.

Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · Mar 3

@univcan.ca