NSF-funded one-year-long, full-time, paid, postbaccalaureate research mentoring program at Oklahoma State University is now accepting applications for 2023-2024! Participants will work one-on-one with a network of scientists to explore anthropogenic impacts in different systems.

🚨 Oklahoma has added an EMERGENCY clause to HB2177. This bill has already passed committee. This will ELIMINATE ALMOST ALL ADULT GENDER AFFIRMING CARE in the state of Oklahoma. By adding the emergency clause, this bill will go into FULL EFFECT as soon as the governor signs it.

Spending my birthday in Big Bend National Park has been an absolute blast! Definitely the best way to celebrate!

First up, David Kunkel! Kunkel is a PhD candidate Oklahoma State Univ. studying niche diversification & func. traits in milkweeds. He shares his #science via Twitter and presenting at conferences like Ecological Society and Botanical Society of America . You can follow David & see his work on Twitter David Kunkel 🏳️‍🌈

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Ready for #Botany2023!

If you are interested in hearing about niche differences and overlap in a widespread clade of Asclepias, come see my talk in the Ecology 2 session Monday at 2 pm! #Botany2023

Had such a great time at #Botany2023 and meeting so many new people! Looking forward to next year, but for now I need some rest. 😅

Looking for a way to support grad students - here is an opportunity. Current Botanical Society of America student rep and amazing botanical advocate Josh Felton was robbed on his way to grad school! Help him out: gofundme.com/f/help-josh-fe…

If you are interested in hearing about niche differences and overlap in a widespread clade of Asclepias and are at #ESA2023 come see my talk in the Eco-Evo processes session Monday at 2:45 pm!

My first #ESA2023 conference is in the books! Listened to so many great presentations and met so many wonderful people this week. I look forward to attending again in the future!

We are excited to announce that six new emerging and early career professionals will be joining our #BIOFAIRDataNetwork steering committee. Meet the new recruits: bcon.aibs.org/2023/10/27/eme… David Kunkel Cam Dr. Brooke Long-Fox Matthew

The Bachelot Lab is still looking for new graduate students to join the lab in Fall 2024. Come study tropical community ecology and global change biology with us!

Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium - Sign the Petition! chng.it/d9rYKrwt

If you are an advocate for biodiversity and species discovery, and believe that herbaria play a crucial role in this field, we urge you to sign this petition.

Plant Biology Ph.D. student David Kunkel received the 2024 Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology from the Botanical Society of America. This grant will support his research on how plants adapt to the environment. 👏 #CAScowboys @botanical_

New guidance from U.S. National Science Foundation BIO on Data Management and Sharing Plans specifically asks for a description of how specimens and the associated data will be permanently accessioned for projects involving collecting: iosblog.nsfbio.com/2024/06/10/upd…

Had a great time at #Botany2024! Got to meet up with old friends and make a bunch of new ones. Looking forward to next year!

Congratulations to David M. Kunkel, Oklahoma State University, for being the 2024 winner of the $10,000 Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology! To learn more about this award, visit: botany.org/home/awards/aw… #BSAawards #PlantJoy

Check out this paper on specimen mgmt plans from BCoN & USCCN. Community Action: Planning for Specimen Management in Funding Proposals academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…… Andy Bentley Bthiers John Bates Dr. Sinlan Poo (Sheila) 蒲歆嵐 🇹🇼🐸 Dr. Anna Monfils Libby Ellwood Greg Watkins-Colwell Kyria Boundy-Mills Dori Contreras