#taxonomistappreciationday Here are some of the species (images) I've helped describe and the higher-level revisions/descriptions I've published with many co-authors. Hug a taxonomist this week. Actually talking about this slide for a Curatorial Methods class @lsu today.

The #LagoLab crew is in Bogota, ready for the #PhylogenomicsInTheAndes workshop! Elanor Fuller Janet Mansaray and Kathe are ready for it! (Me? I’ll get there!)

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...and do jazz hands! ;p 💖 @BryTheBotanist

The taxonomy of #Centropogon subgenus Centropogon is non-monophyletic but the #biogeography is pretty clearly structured, with many dispersals into the Northern Andes and Central America from the Central Andes. Go Janet Mansaray! #botany2023 #LagoLab

Twinning two days in a row!!! What are the odds? ...actually pretty good... ;p LOVE #Botany2023 @BryTheBotanist

Luis Y. Santiago-Rosario, Ph.D. Janet Mansaray will be there (and the whole LAGNiAppE postbacc crew).

The U.S. National Science Foundation #PRFB workshop for Broadening Participation 2022 cohort in #2023NDiSTEM was a great success! Thanks to the POs for developing essential workshop to improve our career prospects!

Now is Janet Mansaray from LSU Department of Biological Sciences talking about offensive language on natural history collection! Very cool and eye opening research #2023NDiSTEM SACNAS

First time at #SACNAS #2023NDiSTEM Conference & it’s been a great experience! Winning an award for best oral research presentation in the STEM Education & Learning section has made it even more special 🥳😃

To round out our 3-weeks of #LagoLab talks, ⁦Laymon Ball⁩ rocked her ⁦LSU BioGrads⁩ last week and ⁦Janet Mansaray⁩ gave an excellent presentation of her dissertation work at the ⁦⁦LSU Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School⁩ conference today! They did so well 💕.

Congrats to the 21 scientists selected for our 2024 Graduate Research Grants! Katherin Arango-Gómez LSU (Advisor: Laura Lagomarsino) for Phylogenetics and biogeography of a clade of Neotropical blueberries. #Botany2024

One more #WomenInSTEM and #QueerInSTEM doctor, hooded yesterday! #IAmABotanist Thanks to my advisor Lucas Silva and everyone, past and present, in the SPA_research Lab for making my degree an incredible adventure.

Big ups to Johanne Storgan - BSA director of conferences - involved with 25 botany conferences!! She has kept conferences running smooth like butter. We’ll miss her as she transitions into retirement💯💯 #botany2024 #johannekeepsthesauceflowing

Hey #Botany2024- don’t sleep on Laymon Ball’s talk tomorrow Wednesday at 2pm in the Phylogenomics: Evolutionary Relationships session in Gallery Overlook D. It’s a beautiful, synthetic talk in her dissertation research on Hillieae (Rubiaceae) evolution! #LagoLab

Not only is Laymon Ball doing a great job moderating the Phylogenomics section (Gallery Overlook D) at #Botany24 but she gave an EXCELLENT talk about her dissertation work linking pollination syndromes to biogeographic patterns in Hillieae (Rubiaceae) #LagoLab #proudlabmate

It’s an honor to be a PLANTS peer mentor again this year at #Botany24! I was a PLANTS mentee back in 2016 and watching how the program has grown/helped so many of us is truly inspiring. Shoutout to my amazing PLANTS Pod @DavidWickell and Rose! Botanical Society of America

#Botany2024 has been an uplifting experience. I am very grateful to have been a PLANTS mentor along with af mentoring Amaya in her first conference! Looking forward to next year!

Can we get some hype in the chat for @hartung_eli for his service the past two years as a BSA student representative 🔊🔊🔊🔊 I’ll miss working with him, but the bird must fly the nest! #botany2024 #PoaceaePoppa Benjamin Ajayi and I have big shoes to fill!

My first grad student submitted her dissertation today! It's mainly her accomplishment, but I'm going to pop a bottle of bubbly and celebrate tonight myself 🍾. Congrats almost-Dr. Janet Mansaray!