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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Alma Laney @amadvirologist.bsky.social · Aug 18

My department is hiring a herbarium manager: www.schooljobs.com/careers/uvu/...

It's a great place to work with a close knit botany group 🙂

Herbarium Manager - Biology

The Department of Biology invites applications for a full-time Herbarium Manager position to begin as soon as September 2025. We seek an exceptional candidate with expertise in plant systematics, taxo...

www.schooljobs.com

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Aug 18

Closing date is rapidly approaching (21 August)!

Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Aug 7

The NMNH Department of Botany is looking for a Museum Specialist. Please spread the word!

Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09

Job Opening: Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Aug 7

The NMNH Department of Botany is looking for a Museum Specialist. Please spread the word!

Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09

Job Opening: Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Mar 24

Working on ferns? The @afs1893.bsky.social has research award opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students. More information at www.amerfernsoc.org/society-awards. Deadline extended to this Friday (28 March).

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Mar 17

It's not only St. Patrick's Day, but also Nathalie Nagalingum's birthday...rather fitting given her interest in the most shamrocky of ferns. We miss you Nat.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 11

The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct #pteridophytes

By @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al in #AppsPlantSci

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Mar 7

Deadline (15 March) approaching! Are you a student working on ferns? Check out the @afs1893.bsky.social awards: www.amerfernsoc.org/society-awards

Awards — American Fern Society

www.amerfernsoc.org

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Norm Wickett @reactionnorm.bsky.social · Feb 26

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...

University Assistant postdoctoral

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · Feb 21

We’re hiring again! Our new Leader Systematic Botany role at Botanic Gardens of Sydney is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team of 15 scientists working on systematics, phylogenomics, and macroevolution of the Australian flora.
iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/leader-s...

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Feb 24

Kalettes are a regular part of our winter rotation, but this is our first time having PURPLE kalettes. Lovely!

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Feb 21

Some new cheilanthoid genera for #FernFriday!

A phylogenetically informed generic reclassification of the hemionitid ferns (Pteridaceae: Cheilanthoideae)

The roughly 500 species of cheilanthoid ferns exhibit a diversity of morphological adaptations to xeric environments. However, most of these traits have evolved independently multiple times, impeding...

doi.org

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Feb 20

The American Fern Society @afs1893.bsky.social is now accepting applications for the Nathalie S. Nagalingum Graduate Student Research Award & the James D. Caponetti Undergraduate Student Research Award! For more information, visit: www.amerfernsoc.org/society-awards

Awards — American Fern Society

www.amerfernsoc.org

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Jan 14

So happy for Jan and all the #PAEMST recipients! Well deserved!

President Biden Honors More Than 300 Americans with Nation’s Highest Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers and Mentors | OSTP | The White House

Today, President Biden announced 336 teachers and mentors from around the nation as recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) and the Presidenti...

www.whitehouse.gov

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Jan 12

Very excited to have giant pandas back in the neighborhood!

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Jan 3

Travel awards (up to $5,000) are available to support the study of collections in the United States National Herbarium. Applications are due on 15 January: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Nov 29

A chilly 8 miles along Difficult Run for #outandbackfriday

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Nov 25

NMNH parking lot Ginkgo, still holding on.

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Nov 18

Interested in target capture sequencing?

@madiraibullock.bsky.social and I are happy to announce a new service at TTU. Send us DNA, get reads enriched for your probes. Angiosperms353, GoFLAG, Compositae1061 & more!

Funds go to grad student stipends and tuition!

mossmatters.com/blog/TargetC...

Flyer for Target Capture DNA Sequencing at Texas Tech by the TTU Center for Biotechnology and Genomics. We provide targeted DNA sequencing for $30/sample for Angiosperms353, GoFLAG408, and other probe sets. Funds from our service go to fund a graduate student who is running the samples. We can use as little as 100 ng of DNA in 30 uL and provide at least 1 million reads per sample from a NovaSeq6000 SP 2x250 Illumina sequencing.

For more information and the full text of this flyer, visit mossmatters.com/blog/TargetCaptureService.html

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Nov 19

Ouch

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Nov 19

So very pleased to see the #botany community thriving here. Is this #SkyScience or #AcademicSky?

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Nov 14

It’s a great variety, I think. Ours in DC come from PA!

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Nov 14

We're now accepting applications for 2025 Botany Travel Awards to support the resident study of collections in the United States National Herbarium! For more information, please visit: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

Opportunities

naturalhistory.si.edu

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 22

Polyploid goldback & silverback #ferns occupy a wider, colder & wetter bioclimatic niche than diploid counterparts

By Keir Wefferling, Mariana Castro, Sílvia Castro, Helen Holmlund, João Loureiro, Carl Rothfels & Eric Schuettpelz

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #polyploidy

Photo of a silverback fern (Pentagramma pallida, Pteridaceae) growing amongst basaltic boulders at Table Mountain, Tuolumne County, California, USA.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · Feb 28

This whole thing is gutting.

Faculty allege decision to close Duke Herbarium motivated by departmental competition, ‘limited resources’

Herbarium faculty members say that administrators ultimately decided that the department’s limited funds would be better spent in support of more productive initiatives, namely the Duke University Phy...

www.dukechronicle.com

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