shaylasalzman.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Checkout the Rare Plant RaMP program, a 1-yr (Aug '25 to Jul '26) research experience for those who have completed a baccalaureate degree & are interested in gaining research & prof. dev. experience in botany, plant science, or conservation. Deadline: Mar 14, 2025 etap.nsf.gov/award/530/op...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Oh man, I don’t even know how to accept good news anymore. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 18 days ago • 68 comments

💼 Job alert!!! 🌺 Endowed Chair in Botany at the University of Hawaiʻi! Continuous recruitment until position is filled – application review begins March 17,2025. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

How are my plant friends quantifying floral color? I'm deep into investigating spectrophotometers and would LOVE recommendations or comments.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Please spread the word. We're looking at recruiting a structural biologist (any level) @KamounLab to study plant-pathogen protein complexes especially in the context of coevolution. Direct inquiries welcome. Please include a cover letter. medium.com/@kamounlab/2...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

submitted 25 days ago • 74 comments

Highlighting some of the brilliant women in my lab for the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience Piper Cole and Gwen Bode with me and a cycad cone in the middle

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

there are still 6 days left to apply to join my group at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt as a PhD Student in #Paleobiology! Are you interested in how the rock record shapes our undersanding of macroevolutionary dynamics of #plants in the #Mesozoic? @sgn.one www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Concerned about the devastating effect of the cut to NIH indirect costs (from >60% at many to 15% for all) on US biomedical research that takes effect tomorrow? Phone the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Chaired by Senator Bill Cassidy TOMORROW morning at 202-224-6770.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Rewatching Cosmos and feeling like it’s time we called in the wolf. What’s the bat signal to get @neildegrassetyson.com to the white house to convince Trump science is important?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

After the horrors of the past week, I had a major data loss today. Almost was the last straw, but then a buddy from over 6 years ago found the data on the old lab server and immediately sent it to me and reminded me that the friends we make along the way are the lights in dark times 🌅

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Toward a phylogenomic classification of #magnoliids New #AJB research by Andrew Helmstetter, Zacky Ezedin, Elton John de Lírio, Sylvia de Oliveira, Lars Chatrou, Roy Erkens, Isabel Larridon, @hsauquet.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantsciences #Angiosperms353 #phylogenomics

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

We're hiring an ecosystem ecologist (open rank) @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social It's a great place to work and live! Lots of opportunities for collaboration including with @kbslter.bsky.social KBS Long Term Agroecosystem Research careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Job Alert! 🚨 Come work with me at the University of Georgia! The Entomology Department is hiring for a Quantitative Insect Ecologist. Please share widely. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/406...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Salzman Lab at #SICB2025. We loved participating in the pollinator-plant interactions symposium! Excellent collection of talks! 🌿🪲

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a list of Speakers and Discussion leaders: Part 1: Kailen Mooney Consuelo de Moraes Po-An Lin Anurag Agrawal Markus Kronforst Meret Huber Ricardo Machado Kevin Kohl Denise Dearing Raul Medina Jia Huang David Stern Mar Sobral James Gibbs Sharlene Santana Fatimah Jackson Onja Razafindratsima

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

📢 Job Alert in #ChemicalEcology at @UCRiverside @UCRentomology Assistant Professor in Chemical Ecology and Behavior of Insects aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01976

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Know any promising students interested in plant-insect chemical ecology? The Whitaker lab at ETSU has two open master's positions for the 2025-2026 academic year! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Great field season in progress at Montgomery Botanical Center! Grad student Jade Stryker collecting her first cycad cone scent for a project on the evolution of cone signals ❤️🌿

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

🧪The 2025 Guarda Summer course is intended for master students and early PhD students in evolutionary biology. 14. - 21. June 2025 in the Swiss mountain village Guarda. Web page with all details: tb.ethz.ch/education/gu... Application is open now. Deadline is the 15. January 2025.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

New Science IRL ep is out! I got a sneak peek at the Kramer Lab's new columbine transformation protocol with @yangong.bsky.social 🌸🧬 Thank you @elenakramer.bsky.social for letting me come play in the lab again 🥹 #plantscience #scicomm youtu.be/6-NrYNdCTzM?...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Hi #ChemicalEcologists, Just created a starter package for networking people in our field 😆 Please let me know if people need to be added! go.bsky.app/KzwBnhN

submitted 98 days ago • 12 comments

@cdspecht.bsky.social lab reunion at the 74th Brazilian Botanical Congress! Eugenio Valderrama, Thiago André, and me. 🌿

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Please spread the word: only 82 days until the Plant-Herbivore Gordon Research Conference in Pomona, CA at a beautiful new venue! See the speaker line up, Power Hour Leaders, and conference structure of the GRC: www.grc.org/plant-herbiv... & for trainees, the GRS: www.grc.org/plant-herbiv...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

It was a botanical dream come true to make the promo video for the @uconn.bsky.social Botanical Conservatory! Learn about their collections, meet their scientists, & take a moment for some plant appreciation 🌱💚 Hope it entices you to visit someday! youtu.be/R7CX6g1ot-I?... #scicomm #botany

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

submitted 110 days ago • 40 comments

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

submitted 112 days ago • 12 comments

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

submitted 117 days ago • 86 comments

I'm excited to see "Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM Fields" out today — it's a comprehensive evidence review and policy report from a think tank event I joined last year My quick intro post: lab.jbyoder.org/2024/06/12/p... And the full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1mjFr...

submitted 270 days ago • 0 comments

Grad student Piper Cole presented her work on Magnolia signaling at the Brazilian National Botanical Congress last week. We are starting a comparative project with Brazilian M. ovata and Georgian magnolias.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

You’ve GOT to check out Arthur Domingos de Melo’s work on bat pollinated systems in the Brazilian Caatinga dry forest. This dude blew my mind. 💯 scholar.google.com/citations?us...

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Just got back from an incredible trip to Brasília for the 74th National Brazilian Botanical Congress!Here’s our group for the symposium on plant chemical signaling. Arthur Domingos de Melo (USFE), Gwen Bode (UGA), Thiago André (UnB), and me!

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Super excited to announce a cluster hire in plant biology at UNC's Biology Dept; THREE faculty searches, two in plant molecular biology writ broadly & one in Plant Evolutionary Biology 1/n please RT 🧪 Molecular - unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288... Evolutionary - unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288...

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment