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🚨 Visiting Assistant Professor of Botany & Environmental Studies 🚨 Connecticut College (New London, CT, USA) 📅 2025-26 academic year 🧑‍🏫 3:2 teaching load ⚕️ benefits eligible 🪴 teaching resources incl. greenhouse, herbarium, arboretum ✉️ App review begins March 15th www.conncoll.edu/employment/f...

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🚨 Seed Job Alert 🚨 Plant Conservation Research Associate II - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance 🫘 Work in the Native Plant Gene Bank, focus on lab aspects of seed banking (e.g., processing seed, viability testing) 💸 $28.32-$31.32/hr. ⏳ 1 yr grant funded position us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

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Yesterday while biking into work through Piedmont Park I got to witness an adult tenderly lay their hand upon and then briefly kiss the trunk of a tree. Needless to say I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. There was a pure, affecting beauty to it.

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🚨 NEBS Grad Student Research Award apps due Feb. 1! 🚨 💸 $3k for 🏵️ botanical research on New England flora (plants, algae, & fungi), incl. 🥾 field, lab, & herbarium work 🚗 travel w/in & to the region 🪪 Don't need to be a member (but I promise you want to be!) www.rhodora.org/awards/gradu...

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I have been so excited for this paper!! Can’t wait to devour it @dustinwolkis.bsky.social 🫘 ⏳

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Interested in learning more about the 🌿🧑‍🔬 PLANTS Travel Awards for Underrepresented Undergrads? Check out the informational webinar THIS FRIDAY – January 24, 2024 2:30 - 3:30 pm EST. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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The North Carolina Botanical Garden is hiring a Natural Areas Steward, to assist with the stewardship of approximately 1,100 acres of conservation lands, including natural areas, preserves, and parks, and conservation easements. Applications close Feb. 7 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/295...

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Calling grad students researching rare & endangered plants native to the U.S.! Apps close soon for the 🌺 Catherine H. Beattie Graduate Fellowship in Plant Conservation 🌺 📆 due 1/31/25 💸research grant <=$4.5k, compensation for work at a botanical garden by the student saveplants.org/about-us/fel...

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Undergraduate students can now apply to our Summer Studentship scheme, supported by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and the Gatsby Foundation. For more information, head to our website: blackinplantscience.org/2025/01/17/b...

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COMMUNITY FEEDBACK REQUIRED We're going to run some workshops for early career researchers at a #plantscience meeting later this year. If you're an ECR, what topics would you like to see covered? What would be the most useful things to hear about for you? Reply here... 🧪 🌳 🌱 (please share)

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Get involved with the Botanical Society of America! Nominations for the Board (and 26 committee openings) are open through February 1, 2025. Board roles include President-Elect, Treasurer, Director-at-Large for Publications, and Student Representative. Learn more: mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

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#fieldwork tip- tape a magnet to your pencil. It’s gonna save you a lot of frustration. 15 yrs of frustration for me. Dunno why I never thought of it before. #fisheries

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I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!

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I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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⏰ 🌿 Reminder! The second edition of AoBP Awards for Emerging Voices in Botany is still open for submissions! 📚 Don’t miss this opportunity to share your work. More info 👉 https://buff.ly/40qvBQO 🗓️ Deadline: 31 March 2025 #PlantScience #EmergingVoices

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🚨 Seed Bank Jobs Alert 🚨 Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (Austin, TX, USA) seeks: Seed Bank Coordinator ($45k+) utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/... Seed Bank Technician ($40k+) 1 yr position w/ possibility of extension utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

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Professional societies for #PlantScience on Bluesky🌱 Professional societies facilitate networking, provide access to the latest research and professional development opportunities, organize conferences or workshops, and often shape policies that impact the scientific community. go.bsky.app/QxxL9Zo

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🌻 Out now our paper, "Pollen banking is a critical need for conserving plant diversity" in @natureplants.bsky.social 🌴 🌺 We argue that pollen banking is an essential tool in the plant conservation toolbox that urgently needs focused research attention and resources. 🌸

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Share with🌿 plant-y & plant curious undergrads 🌾, including seniors! 🌴 Apply to be a PLANTS Scholar and receive a travel award for BOTANY 2025 in Palm Springs, CA (Jul 26-30, 2025), including mentorship from peer and experienced mentors! botany.org/home/awards/... 📆 Apps open now thru March 1st

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🚨Job Alert 🚨 Director of Conservation - Native Plant Trust (Wayland, MA). Amazing opportunity to lead plant conservation work in New England, USA! I can personally attest to amazing colleagues and plants. 🌿 💸$85-105k 📆 Apps due Jan. 21 saveplants.org/forums/topic... #plantconservation #botanyjobs

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I love the humble beauty of what remains

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Check out www.letsbotanize.org and sign up for the inaugural Science Communication Internship Program for Spring 2025! Deadline is January 31st!

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Do you know any undergrads who are interested in science communication (or are voracious social media users😉) Let’s botanize is running an awesome scicomm internship this spring! A great way for students to combine their love for botany and communicating the awesomeness of plants!

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🚨New survey just dropped 🚨 🫘 Seed banking goals and practices in the United States, focused on banking native seed for conservation and restoration. 🏦 Banks of any size are welcome to participate ⏱️~10 min to complete Please share with seed bank professionals in your network!

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🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there! More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org #Botany2025

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New tenure-track job opportunity at NC State! The university is seeking a new Plant Evolutionary Biology professor who uses innovative approaches to understand molecular mechanisms underlying plant evolution and adaptation. Please find the application here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/212...

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🚨Job Opportunity: Seed Bank Technician 🚨 Mojave Desert Land Trust (Joshua Tree, CA) 📆 FT 40h/wk 🫘 collection, processing, & propagation of seed ⛺in the field 20-30 wks/yr, 1+ night of camping/week 💸 $19-20/h + benefits! 📨 Review of applications will begin immediately saveplants.org/forums/topic...

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Conifer and ginkgo like, “We used to run this place.”

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Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

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Speaking from experience, this is a great way for giving your germination data a new lease of life, and get involved in interesting large-scale research questions. It just requires a little extra work preparing your data, e.g., providing metadata on seed collection locations etc., but well worth it.

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I met with the Dumbarton Oaks Plant Humanities group in summer 2024 and found the ideas and dialogue extremely interesting. If you are excited about the connections between plants (or even biological world more broadly) and the humanities, check this program out. www.doaks.org/research/fel...

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Five @botsocamerica.bsky.social committees have student rep openings this year! Plus, apps are open for the 2025–2027 Board Student Rep position as my term ends this summer! Passionate about botany? Get involved! Reach out if you have any questions regarding the committees/application form!

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Adding milkweed seed to my timeline. Thanks for looking.

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Internships are posted! vtecostudies.org/about-us/emp... Share with your undergrad/postgrad networks! These four positions are meant to be 'starting points' for folks looking for thier first experience in #ecology. Field-based, interdisciplinary, & office-based positions available.

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Each year, we offer several #awards for undergraduate & graduate botanical #research, training and symposia. Applications are open for this winter, the deadline for submissions Feb 15, 2025! Learn more and apply here: www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/ #botany #grants 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾

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🚨 Faculty Position Available 🚨 Seed Biology & Technology, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University. 🫘 9-month FT tenure-track at Assistant or Associate Prof level 🫘 60% research & 40% extension 🫘 anticipated start: July 2025 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29313

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Dear #SeedEcology folks use this starter package to follow your #SeedEcologist peers.

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One of the best, image-rich, rare-plant survey articles in the last two years, featuring @naomibot.bsky.social Gift article so there should be no paywall. #botany #iamabotanist

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"Many people prefer to live in sprawl because it feels closer to nature. Yet the closer humans live to nature, the more damage they tend to do to it. Sprawl requires lots of land, encroaching on forests, wetlands and prairies." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... via @washingtonpost.com

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An excellent example demonstrating that invasive/nonnative/native/conservation status is context dependent and defines populations not species. phys.org/news/2024-12...

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