🎥 Recordings from MorphoBank Connects are now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@morphobank

GWIS empowers women in science 🌍👩‍🔬
Why join?
✅ Fellowships & grants (no fees)
✅ Network of 1,000+ scientists
✅ Leadership & mentorship opportunities

Open to anyone with a degree (affiliate memberships too!).

👉 Become a member today & help shape the future of science.
🔗 www.gwis.org/page/members...

GWIS is looking for leadership roles on its committees. Please reach out to me if you are interested!

📢 Big news: This month MorphoBank surpassed 2,000 project publications!

It's been a long journey. Thank you all for taking it with us!

#biology #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #treeoflife #systematics #cladistics #paleontology #morphobank

🚀 On Sept 29, NASA’s SciX launches 🎉 Expanding beyond astrophysics into Earth, environmental & space sciences 🌍✨.

Proud to be a SciX Ambassador helping share this next step for open science.

🔗 scixplorer.org

#SciX #NASA #OpenScience #Geology #Astrobiology

🏆 Nominations are open for the GWIS Honorary Membership Awards recognizing research excellence, science education, early career, and science communication. 👉 www.gwis.org/page/honorar...

In this installment of the hashtag #ECRAsks series, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social
spoke to @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social about equity, diversity and how scientific research intersects with politics.

Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/07...

🦖🐌 🌿 🐝 MorphoBank Connects 2025 – Full Schedule is LIVE!

Day 1 – Sept 18
👩‍🏫 Presentations
⭐ Keynote
💙 Volunteer Recognition

Day 2 – Sept 19
🧑‍💻 Live MorphoBank Workshop
💬 Project Support Office Hours

📘 Program: phoenixbioinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...

GWIS is looking to fill 3 more leadership roles: Editor ✍️, Parliamentarian ⚖️, AAAS Rep 🔬

🌟 Our first GWIS National Council Meeting of 2025–2026 is this Sunday! Excited to kick off the year with our leaders and welcome new voices into open roles: Editor ✍️, Parliamentarian ⚖️, AAAS Rep 🔬. 💫

#GWIS #Leadership #WomenInSTEM

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Advancing FAIR Data Management through AI-Assisted Curation of Morphological Data Matrices https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663621v1

SSB newsletter highlighting #SSB2026 (January 9-11; Baton Rouge) is out!

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Congratulations to our 2025 Honorary Membership Awardees! This is the highest honor that GWIS bestows, and it recognizes outstanding women scientists.

Nominations are welcome and are not limited to GWIS members, so if you know an amazing woman, go to our website today!

Join us Sept. 18 & 19 for the first ever MorphoBank Connects virtual conference! Connect with other researchers, discover new work, and meet the MorphoBank team. 🧪

READ MORE: bit.ly/MorphoConnec...
REGISTER: bit.ly/morphobankconnect

#evolutionarybiology #paleontology #phylogenetics

🌐 Join us for MorphoBank Connects 2025!
September 18–19 | Free Virtual Conference

✨ Keynote by Dr. Maureen O’Leary
✨ Talks on morphology, FAIR data, and open science
✨ Hands-on workshops & curation office hours

👉 Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thank you @sortee.bsky.social and @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about open science, DEI, and the current challenges facing researchers. Honored to be part of this important conversation.

Abstracts for MorphoBank Connects due this Thursday! It's a free, virtual conference - reach out if you have any questions.

Back from a week on the Kootenai River collecting data for nutrient research. Land use & river management are shifting N & P availability with big impacts on ecosystem function.
#Fieldwork #AquaticEcology #WaterQuality

Today we are celebrating the first anniversary of our amazing MorphoBank volunteers! 🎉 Together, they have added hundreds of phylogenetic matrices, engaged in curation sessions, & continued learning through seminars. Here’s to growing our #CitizenScience community & powering research together!

New Data Note in @historicalbiology.bsky.social featuring a curated morphological matrix of 52 lucinid + 58 shell characters + notes. Supports phylogenetics & host–symbiont systems. 📂 Data: @morphobank.bsky.social Project P4896 dx.doi.org/10.7934/P4896
🔗 Article: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Call for Abstracts: MorphoBank Connects 2025!

🗓 Submission Deadline: July 24, 2025
📨 Acceptance: August 7, 2025
⏰ 15 min Talk + 5 min Q&A
✍️ Abstract (≤250 words, no refs/images)
🔗 Submit: phoenixbioinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BACLFg
❓ [email protected]

Thanks so much for featuring Stewartia floridana @historicalbiology.bsky.social! 🎉 This bivalve holds a special place in my heart - it was the focus of my M.S. thesis. From its first appearance in the Late Pliocene to its survival today along the southeastern U.S. coast. 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

I’m delighted to serve as Historical Biology’s new Data Editor. As we transition to an Open and FAIR data sharing policy, please feel free to reach out with any questions about your submissions!

Grateful to @advancejournal.bsky.social for the chance to reflect on the lessons from 3 years of building faculty programs and policies that foster equity & inclusion in academia. 🔗 www.advancejournal.org/posts
Thank you to all who were part of the journey. #HigherEd #ADVANCE #WomenInSTEM