Maria Cortez Soltis Lab @UF: how to highlight TEK in Brazil, showcase collab btw communities+protected areas, promote conservation ethic. Recruit artists and publish a book. Super cool. #Botany2022 #scicomm #semprevivas

Need a break from the information rush? Come to the #Botany2022 Exhibit Hall and play Roll for Botany to draw an imaginary plant!

Paging neurodivergent academics and PhD students! My student is researching mentoring/support for neurodivergent academics and PGRs. Limited academic literature and wants to look at blogs and other pieces by neurodivergent academics/PGRs - can you recommend? #Neurodiversity

How do children’s drawings change across development? My new CogSci Society #CogSci2022 paper w/ Judy Fan Bria Long, PhD Justin Yang galaxy monkey introduces a new dataset with every part labeled from >2K drawings of 16 visual concepts produced by 4-8 y.o. children!

Kasey Khanh Phạm, a remarkable scientist and artist, can depict complex topics in engaging and inspirational ways. When artists are complimented on their talent, I notice they often humbly accept the complement while simultaneously downplaying their awesomeness. Soltis Lab @UF #Botany2022

Thoughtful and thorough study by Trinity Depatie on #Penstemon floral evolution! Incredible to see all this come from a single PhD student! Congrats!!! #Botany2022

I’m Daria and so exited for another #BlackBotanistsWeek! I am a horticulturist at MO Botanical Garden, overseeing our Plant Doctor Services, Gardening Help website, beehives and I give talks to local groups about plants! #BlackBotanists #BlackBotanistsRollCall 🌼🌿🍃🌺🌵🌳🌸

So proud of this book! 21 chapters authored by excellent groups in the USA, Chile, Mexico & Spain. Equal number of male and female corresponding authors. Colleagues are compassionate people that allowed me to complete this book after losing Mom.

Hi International students, I will be giving a talk next week about "Studying grad school outside your country: lessons learned and challenges". I will speak about my experience, but any comments or suggestions will be highly appreciated #phdlife #PhDstudent

A long promised work on origins of nodulation in angiosperms is out as a preprint! A data-intensive museum-based approach, the first of its kind, leads to a novel, nuanced model of the evolutionary origins of the nodule organ. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Combining science and art using microscopy and linocut printmaking. Arabidopsis leaf epidermis 3 days after germination. Magnification ?x (paper is 55x76 cm).

Thrilled to share our latest publication on JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social on the genetic architecture of natrual variation in floral meristem termination! A fun project combining QTL, histology, in situ hybridization, ~5000 flowers counted, collab w. Molly Edwards, PhD @anjiballerini! academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

Vitaly V. Ganusov Using this privilege to empower others and make room for more voices in the discussion is honorable. Privilege isn't an insult, it's a call to action. Have it better than others? Help uplift those less fortunate and be a force for good. Make the world a better place. You can.

Been meaning to post this for the longest time - an sketch of the species from Molly Edwards, PhD first first author paper! Below, the original thread with links to the paper and video explanation and my mini blurb (from IG) describing the image and paper:

🧵 Extremely excited to share our updated #Orchid Tree of Life poster, led by KewGardens and inc. over 40 coauthors! It showcases the latest relationships, origin timings of major groups, and key facts, inc. global #species richness and those under threat of #extinction 1/2