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𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘢 (Bartramiaceae), with lots of asexual propagules. Lampang, Thailand

Check out our cool big paper on #Saxifraga, distinguishing biome shift from biogeographic shift in the Arctic-alpine system. Changing biome is easier than moving long-distance and Arctic-alpine transitions are mostly Plio-Pleistocene. nature.com/articles/s4146…

sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke University admins for making this horrible mistake!!! The Chronicle

I've never been more embarrassed to be a double alum of Duke University than today. To close Duke herbarium and disperse its 800K specimens is appalling. As a current herbarium director who started at Duke, the message is clear: Duke is no longer a global leader in biodiversity research

Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium chng.it/tX6R5JgD via Change.org

Add your support for the Duke University herbarium by signing this petition! change.org/p/urge-duke-un…

Signatories expressed their concern about losing a significant store of information for those researching biodiversity and climate change and setting a dangerous precedent for future herbaria closures: dukechronicle.com/article/2024/0…

Closing Duke's Herbarium: A fear of long-term climate commitment? dukechronicle.com/article/2024/0…

RIDGE, a tool tailored to detect gene flow barriers across species pairs | Molecular Ecology Resources onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

To all those gathering around the world in celebration of Vaisakhi, Navratri, Songkran, and the incoming New Year this week, Jill and I wish you warmth, community, and joy. Happy Bengali, Khmer, Lao, Myanmarese, Nepali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Thai, and Vishu New Year!

Please join us on the 30th of April at 5 pm CET for the next IOS seminar. Gideon Bradburd and L. Lacey Knowles will gives us their thoughts on spatial pattern of speciation. Zoom link on website soon: speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/seminar-series/

Behold the might of #herbaria in #biodiversity research! 🌵🌸🌿🌼🌳🌷🌴🪷🌾🍄 (*cough* "Duke's #herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution" doi.org/10.1093/biosci… *cough*)

New Sphagnum paper! In this work we used over 380 RAD-seq samples to generate a comprehensive phylogeny of Sphagnum subgenus Acutifolia, and investigated patterns of genetic structure among circumboreal species of the S. capillifolium complex.

Breaking news! With a whopping 160 billion base pairs, the #genome of the fork fern #Tmesipteris oblanceolata shatters previous size record in eukaryotes. And yet again, this ground-breaking record belongs to a plant! 🧬🧪🌿Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Jessica Budke PhD 🥼🌱🔬 Matt Johnson, PhD @mossman2000 MossinAnnie mossworld - annette Dr. Amelia Merced Rafael Medina | @bryomedina.bsky.social I finally made one x.com/Bryophyter/sta…

Duke University Herbarium at IBC2024. Sad that it is due to the closure of the herbarium and not because of its use to study plants and nature.

Thanks to all my col. who participated in this great adventure full of field work!!! Check it out! Just when #Shagnum2024 ends!

Harvard vs Duke: A study in contrasting views on biodiversity research

Interested in target capture sequencing? @madiraibullock and I are happy to announce a new service at TTU. Send us DNA, get reads enriched for your probes. Angiosperms353, GoFLAG, Compositae1061 & more! Funds go to grad student stipends and tuition! mossmatters.com/blog/TargetCap…

Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/fer…