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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · Aug 23

I ♥️ MN State Fair

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Aug 23

Truly some inspired seed art

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · Aug 21

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · Aug 11

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution

jobs.colorado.edu

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Aug 10

YOU GOT THIS!!! 💪🏻

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Oregon State University Botany and Plant Pathology @osubpp.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!

We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is hiring a Directory of the Herbarium

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Mike Moore @gypsumbotany.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs

jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Assistant Professor of Biology

The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...

jobs.oberlin.edu

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congratulations Trinity!!! 🎉

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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · Jan 24

Love making maps

Here are some samples from Penstemon newberryi x davidsonii hybrid zone at Virginia Lakes trail in the Sierras

Color = flower color!

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yesss can’t wait to read this!!! 🌸😍

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 4

The unique morphological basis & repeated evolutionary origins of personate flowers in #Penstemon

New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon

Personate flowered Penstemon hirsutus (top) and a closely related species with open flowers, P. smallii (bottom).

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Aidan Short @aidanwshort.bsky.social · Aug 3

Just want to shoutout a new study from the Wessinger Lab by my colleague @trinitydepatie.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... She investigated the repeated evolution of personate flowers within Penstemon by examining patterns of introgression, topological discordance, and

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Aug 3

I still have my damp muffin and coffee pot ramen stickers!!

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Aug 2

I think the Schenk Lab really killed it this year 💅🌿🌸 #Botany2025 @johnjschenk.bsky.social @elliebecklund.bsky.social @ca-haus.bsky.social

Pictured from left to right: Ellie, Campbell, Paige, Kate, Johan, John.

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Aug 2

So proud of @ca-haus.bsky.social who presented a poster at his first Botany!! #Botany2025 He’ll be applying for grad school in the Fall—drop him a message if you are recruiting new Masters students interested in flowering plant research! 🌸🌿

Two happy scientists smiling in front of a research poster.

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Jul 31

Update: new plan is RetroRoom for karaoke! #botany2025 #UpAllNightWednesday

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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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hmmm that is what online suggests… there’s also Tryst Bar and Lounge next door to Streetbar that looks like it has pinball and billiards!

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

Yasss! ✨

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

Thank you Ben!!! Missing you, hopefully next year!! 🤞🏻🌿

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

Really loved @wile-phylote.bsky.social’s way of making complex trees so accessible!! 🌿 Great talk!

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

Thank you!!!!! 🤩

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

Thank you!!! ✨

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Paige Fabre, PhD @paigethebotanist.bsky.social · Jul 27

😍😍😍

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Blue Beehive Studio @bluebeehivestudio.bsky.social · Jul 27

While it didn't work out to be a vendor in California for #Botany2025 this week, I'm excited to be there virtually through social media! This week only - the entire shop is 10-25% off. I'll be adding more pieces over the next several days, too. BlueBeehiveStudio.Etsy.com

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · Jul 27

Packed room for the @soltislab.bsky.social #Botany2025 workshop.

If you cannot make it, all the resources can be found here: github.com/soltislab/Bo...

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