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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 19d

Come one come all! Our new #BINHM exhibit is up at the #AMNH! @blackinnhms.bsky.social www.amnh.org/exhibitions/...

Black in Natural History Museums | AMNH

Black in Natural History Museums highlights 17 modern and historical Black scientists, artists, and curators.

www.amnh.org

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 23d

As we all eagerly (anxiously?) await NSF's release of the 2026 GRFP solicitation, please consider signing up as a mentor for BSA's GRFP workshop. We especially need more senior mentors (PIs, postdocs, and research scientists)!

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 26d

Mentors needed for BSA’s GRFP Workshop! 🌱

The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants.

Learn how you can help!
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · Sep 6

The "Florédex" ✨, a pokémon-inspired vector collection of the greatest flower designs and their science is coming along nicely 🌷🧬

All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 12

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 11

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · Aug 5

Popping up early in the season #Wurmbea dioica subsp. alba can be found all around the southwest! This species has a complex variation in dioecy where populations here show both unisex flowers and bisexual flowers, this can be seen in the photos below of 3 variations

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thank you ben ❤️ it has been a blast working with you during my tenure as student rep! #botany2025

Benjamin Ajayi @ajayibenmi.bsky.social · Jul 31

Huge shout-out to @botanyballer.bsky.social for his amazing service as a BSA student rep these past two years!

I’m really going to miss all the moments we shared working toward a better BSA experience for students.

You’ve made a lasting impact!

#Botany2025

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Oluwatobi (Tobi) Oso @oso-tee.bsky.social · Jul 29

Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California!
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!

@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · Jul 30

Sometimes (especially late in the conference) 5 minute talks just hit the spot! Thorough enjoying Germinating Ideas/Lightening Talks at #Botany2025 Got to see my senior undergrad Magdalyn Rowley-Lange crush her CAM talk ...and we got to see dogs hunting invasive plants!

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Jul 30

#UpAllNightWednesday at #Botany2025 will be at Street Bar!!! The first gay bar in Palm Springs 🏳️‍🌈 Be ready for karaoke!! 🎤 🕺 💃🏽 ✨

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · Jul 30

What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab

Laymon receives the award from Dave Tank.

Charlotte gives the her statement after the award is announced.

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Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · Jul 30

What happens when a CAM species and a C3 species hybridize? Find out today in Comparative Genomics I at 10:15 (right after the coffee break)! #botany2025 #whambamcam #camgenda

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 30

I can’t believe I battled @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social on the dance floor at the #PlantBio2025 annual party 🤣

a group of people are sitting on the floor watching a couple of people dance

ALT: a group of people are sitting on the floor watching a couple of people dance

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · Jul 30

My heart is full, my cup overflowing. Wonderful dinner out with my @coloradocollege.bsky.social Jabailylab alumni, from the classes of '19, '20, '22, '25, '26. Our currently ill '28 was greatly missed. I am so proud of these people (a second family!) and grateful to be together at #Botany2025

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Dr. Nora Mitchell @noraflora10.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'll be presenting my talk "Get Low: Evolutionary Transitions to Non-flying Mammal Pollination in Protea) at 4pm today Tuesday in Mesquite B at #Botany2025!

Come learn about Protea in South Africa and what else changes when they species have different primary pollinators!

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Dr. Nora Mitchell @noraflora10.bsky.social · Jul 29

A few moments from the poster session at #Botany2025!

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks everybody who came to the student mixer last night! The vibes were magnificent and it was great to meet new folks! #botany2025

So many student botanists outside on the patio at Oscar’s

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · Jul 28

Wanna hear about eastern Penstemon funkyness? Stop by poster #102 at 6:15!

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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · Jul 28

Come see me at the poster session tonight (P16) for two separate applications of @inaturalist.bsky.social in Monarda… showcasing iNat’s help for understanding organismal biology at both super broad (thousands of observations) and super targeted (single observation) scales 🙂 #Botany2025

Title of my poster: iNaturalist-facilitate natural history in Monarda

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thanks all that came through the BIPOC mixer this morning at #botany2025 !!

Just a sliver of the diversity here at the conference #biodiversity

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · Jul 28

Careers in botany going strong at #botany2025 !!

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hey #botany2025 make sure to check out the Disabled in Botany symposium this afternoon (1:30, Catalina)!!

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