Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too!
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President-Elect, Botanical Society of America. Prof + Herbarium Director at Bucknell. #FirstGen college. Sexual systems evolution, conservation, taxonomy. "Plants are Cool, Too!": https://tinyurl.com/mr3nv85w #iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW #SICB2026
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Incorporating Sex-Diverse and Gender-Inclusive Perspectives in Higher Education Biology Courses. Really glad to finally see this in print. And proud to have played a small role in writing it.

#sex #gender #STEMeducation

@sicbjournals.bsky.social #SICB2025

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First page of the journal article from the December 2024 issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology, which arrived in my mailbox yesterday.
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Please share! Psyched to bring in a new member of the team. Starting salary $62K.

#postdoc #sciencejobs #plantpeopleFTW
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Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

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Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.
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Good visit to the Penn State #Herbarium with @botanicalbecks.bsky.social. Checking out Penstemon and dropping some gift specimens. Thanks to Sarah Chamberlain for hosting. #iamabotanist
Two botanists, one sign for PAC Herbarium
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Really looking forward to this event celebrating a century of the Chrysler #Herbarium at Rutgers, where I have been asked to reflect on botany/collections at RU in the 1990s-- the ancient period during which I did my BS and MS. #iamabotanist

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100-Year Jubilee: October 24-25, 2025 – The Chrysler Herbarium and Mycological Collection
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albertabats.bsky.social
🦇The fungus behind white-nose syndrome continues to spread across Alberta. Our latest detection, near Fort McKay, marks the northernmost detection yet. Thank you to our partners at the Wood Buffalo Wildlife Research Institute for collecting this sample. See maps at www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/white_nose_s...
A map of the spread of Pd (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) that causes white-nose syndrome in bats, across Canada from the CWHC https://www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/white_nose_syndrome_reports_and_maps.php
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esajournals.bsky.social
Check out the #OpenAccess (and just-the-right-length) study in our journal "Ecosphere"! doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
heathergaya.bsky.social
Seeing your own research in the news is a crazy experience! We found that lethal control is not an effective strategy and coyotes are probably just the new normal. Amazing how an article can turn a lengthy study into a sound bite 😅

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Coyote populations rebound faster than can be removed, UGA study says
Coyotes in the Atlanta metro? Removing them permanently may not be possible.
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With my childhood idol, in September 2014, after introducing her talk at Bucknell. One of the highlights of my life.

RIP Dr. Goodall. Unparalleled, indefatigable, irreplaceable.
with Dr. Jane Goodall at Bucknell University, 2014
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Awesome postdoc opportunity!
martinebotany.bsky.social
Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5
Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.
martinebotany.bsky.social
Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5
Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.
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adarowski.bsky.social
Bob Boyd was born 106 years ago today. We really should talk more about Bob Boyd. He’s one of those guys who got caught in the middle of integration, but just raked everywhere he went (and we have 7500+ at bats to prove it).
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Bob Boyd was born 105 years ago today. A quick glance at his Baseball Reference page shows an interesting career. First, there’s 2 All-Star seasons in the Negro Lgs. But then he doesn’t play 100 games until age 37 in 1957. Overall, we see 11 seasons & a little over 2,000 AB. There’s more…
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Solidago capulinensis, our Capulin Goldenrod, blooming Sunday on Capulin Volcano #nativeplants
Bright yellow goldenrod flowers
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📢 Happening this Friday! Join us for the #Botany360 Graduate Research Fellowship Writing Panel on Oct 3, 2025 at 1 pm ET.

Hear from reviewers & grad students on writing strong NSF GRFP applications + fellowship tips. Free & open to students!

Register:
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Flyer for the Graduate Research Fellowship Writing Panel hosted by the Botanical Society of America’s Early Career Professional Development Committee. Event date: Friday, October 3, 2025, at 1:00 pm ET. The flyer background is green ferns. At the top are large white letters with the event title. Photos of five panelists are displayed in circles: Dr. Sally Chambers (Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University), Dr. T. Michael Anderson (Professor, Wake Forest University), Julianna Harden (PhD Student, Cornell University), Cynthia Webster (PhD Student, University of Connecticut), and Savanna Brown (PhD Student, University of Connecticut). A text box describes the session: a one-hour panel on writing strong research and personal statements for fellowships like the NSF GRFP, with perspectives from reviewers and graduate students, strategies for effective applications, and broadly useful guidance for fellowship or grant proposals. A large QR code with the label “Students register here!” appears on the right. At the bottom are logos for NSF GRFP, the Botanical Society of America, and partner organizations.
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And definitely check out @andrewlhipp.bsky.social's outstanding essay (and address from #Botany2025), Fostering a natural history community. Soon to appear in Systematic Botany. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Fascinating essay by @martinebotany.bsky.social on spiny solanums (tomato et al. relatives) as an example of all the important natural history research left to be done. Great observations on pollination and symbiosis... A very inspiring Sunday morning read!

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The inherent values of observation and description: A case study in the spiny solanums of Australia
Click on the article title to read more.
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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
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Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.
Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.
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Researchers have for the first time confirmed that a blue jay and a green jay have mated in the wild to produce a rare hybrid with mixed features.

This hybrid may have resulted from the two jay species expanding to new areas, partly due to climate change, researchers say in a recent study.
Grue jay or Bleen jay? Researchers confirm hybrid between blue and green jays
Researchers have for the first time confirmed that a blue jay and a green jay have mated in the wild to produce a rare hybrid with mixed features. Spotted by a birder named Donna in her backyard in…
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martinebotany.bsky.social
@richardconniff.bsky.social I open by citing The Species Seekers. And
@dghaskell.bsky.social
I close (nearly) by citing The Forest Unseen.
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IMO paying close attention to species and simply describing what they do is a worthwhile endeavor unto itself.

Guessing I am not alone.

#iamabotanist #iamanaturalist #PUI #biodiversity

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The inherent values of observation and description: A case study in the spiny solanums of Australia
Click on the article title to read more.
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Meet our August #BSASpotlight, Sarita Munoz-Gomez!

Sarita is a graduate student at Clemson University investigating sex determination in Baccharis species using genomic and developmental approaches.

🌱 Learn more about Sarita on her BSA Spotlight page: botany.org/home/careers...

#IamaBotanist
A graduate student, Sarita Munoz-Gomez, wearing a black mask and black shirt, works carefully with green potted plants inside a greenhouse. She is using test tubes held in a bright blue rack while handling plant stems and flowers. Text on the graphic highlights her research on sex determination in Baccharis species at Clemson University, her previous work on floral pigmentation in Mimulus pictus, and her passion for science communication, illustration, and making plant biology accessible. The image includes the BSA Spotlight Series logo and website link (www.botany.org).