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Planning your #Botany2022 schedule? If these #LagoLab talks on #tropical #botany, #phylogenomics, and #macroevolution are up your alley, don't forget to add them to your schedule! There are so many neat results we can't wait to share! #IamABotanist

Diego Paredes-Burneo gave us a great talk about phylogenetic relationships of Brachyotum and the role the Huancabamba depression might be playing on the diversification of the group! #botany2022 LSU Department of Biological Sciences S. Tucker Herbarium

Congrats to KU Paleobotany grad students, Kelly Pfeiler and Keana Tang, for being awarded the Cookson and Moseley awards for their outstanding talks at botany! Kelly Matsunaga and I couldn't be mote proud! 🌠 KU Natural History Museum KU Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

I am thrilled to announce the #NSFfunded Louisiana Graduate Network in Applied Evolution (LAGNiAppE ⚜️), a postbacc training program targeting scholars from underrepresented demographics that will link LSU researchers to institutions across the state. nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

📢Recruiting an U.S. National Science Foundation-funded PhD student to contribute to our E. Hemisphere #IronweedRevision project!!🌍🌻🧬🌱 #Plant #Taxonomy #Systematics #Phylogenomics #Compositae #Vernonieae Deadline 15 Dec | DM or email w/❓s #IAmABotanist @KewScience @KewAfrica @BRIT_org UTA Biology

Super exited to share that are starting the search for a cluster hire in Science @nybg. Up to 5 curators in an array of fields from systematics to genomics and data science or AI (as applied to biodiversity). Please RT nybg.org/about/work-wit…

I know it isn't cool to say you like your academic job, but I love LSU - I really like Baton Rouge, and Louisiana and my colleagues and friends here. It isn't perfect but there are people here trying to make things better every day: Come join us lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202-L…

A new important paper for curators and collection managers of #NaturalHistoryMuseums and #herbaria now out (featuring #LagoLab PhD student Janet Mansaray): “Shining Light on Labels in the Dark: Guidelines for Offensive Collections Materials” journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Happy #BlackInNHMs Week! My name is Laymon Ball and I’m a botanist 🌱and PhD candidate at LSU Department of Biological Sciences. Part of my research involves collecting genetic and morphological data from herbarium specimens of Neotropical Hillieae (#Rubiaceae) to understand macroevolutionary patterns.

Calling all Ornithology PhD students! Cleveland Museum of Natural History is looking for our next Curator of Ornithology by offering to support your last 1-2 years of study + a postdoc -> endowed curator position!! workforcenow.adp.com/mdf/recruitmen… #AcademicTwitter American Ornithological Society #phdpositions

I am super thrilled to see our paper published on the amazing anthers of Justicia (Acantaceae) in Annals of Botany with collaborators @A___Fisher, Erin Manzitto-Tripp, Mark Porter, and Lucinda McDade California Botanic Garden. preprint: academic.oup.com/aob/advance-ar…

Really proud to have my book 'Explaining Life Through Evolution' coming out with @MITpress this week. I wanted to write an evolution book that the general reader could pick up and understand but also one that could explain the subject to the uninitiated. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546256/…

Super stoked to continue to be a part of the #AppsPlantSci fam! Apps has helped me a great deal & it’s an awesome journal with a great mission to make methods accessible. It’s a great resource for anyone trying to learn new methods and especially those 1st students in labs

Please apply for the Society of Systematic Biologists Early Systematist Award! You will receive $1000 in support of conference attendance or research and 3 years membership in the Society of Systematic Biologists. Requirements in image (and on linked form). Apply here: lsu.formstack.com/forms/ssb_earl…

It's NSF GRFP season! Applications are due in October. Here is a link to a Google Sheet with essays from many successful applicants. #AcademicChatter docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Had a wonderful time presenting my undergraduate research at the 8th Annual Plant Science Symposium at UF Plant Science Council at UF and met an array of brilliant plant scientists that are fighting for our future!! (such a beautiful campus too)

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