Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Group photo of PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award recipients at the Botany 2025 conference. Text reads: PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award and Mentored Experience — Now Accepting Applications! Benefits include mentorship, complimentary conference registration, free travel and lodging, meals, a field trip, and a 3-year BSA student membership. Deadline March 15, 2026. Visit botany.org.
Hey Botanical Science Undergrads, the PLANTS Grant deadline is coming up!!
This award covers Botany 2026 travel, lodging, meals, mentorship, a conference field trip & a complimentary 3-year BSA membership.
Deadline: March 15, 2026
For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/...
Square graphic featuring a close-up pink and purple flower background. The Botanical Society of America logo appears at the top. Centered text reads “BSA Impact Award” and “Deadline May 1, 2026.” A description states that the award honors a BSA member, group, or institution for impactful work that builds a more inclusive and engaged community in botanical research and education, including efforts that influence practices and policies or expand access to knowledge and resources through research, teaching, or outreach. A link to www.botany.org/home/awards.html appears at the bottom.
Nominations are open for the BSA Impact Award!
This award honors a BSA member, group, or institution whose work expands access, strengthens community, and improves practices in botanical research and education.
Nomination Deadline: May 1, 2026
Learn more, here: botany.org/home/awards/...
Square graphic with a light beige background featuring a faint world map. At the top, large orange script text reads “BSA Travel Awards.” Below, in orange text: “Deadline March 15th,” followed by bullet points listing Developing Nations, Professional, and Students and PostDoc. Beneath that, “Deadline April 1st” lists Sectional Travel Awards. A small airplane graphic with a dotted flight path appears on the left. A QR code is shown in the lower left corner. The Botany 2026 logo (August 1–5, Tucson, Arizona) and the Botanical Society of America logo appear at the bottom.
Presenting at #Botany2026 in Tucson? Apply for a BSA Travel Award!
March 15 Deadline: Developing Nations, Professional, and Students & PostDocs Travel Awards
April 1 Deadline: Sectional Student Travel Awards
Applicants must be current BSA members.
Learn more & apply: botany.org/home/awards....
“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions."
Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape.
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Pacific Conservation Biology is seeking Associate Editors!
Applications from Pacific Island researchers are greatly encouraged 🇫🇯 🇵🇬 🇳🇿 🇵🇼 🇳🇨 🇼🇸
@pacificconsbio.bsky.social publishes conservation research focussed on our region, and is affiliated with SCBO.
Apply here - connectsci.au/pc/pages/edi...
A problematic stance from someone like @holdenthorp.bsky.social who has the position & privilege that comes with being Editor-in-Chief of Science Journals.
Yes, scientists need to continue to do science.
But science leaders can't leave the risk that comes with speaking up to others. 🧵1/8
"Plumage and Passage" by artist Ernesto Maranje, which prominently showcases the great blue heron and the roseate spoonbill. The mural ironically celebrates South Florida biodiversity.
Giant dredging equipment is positioned in the Intracoastal Waterway near the port.
Underwater camera footage captures the dredge damage to the reef.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning the largest permitted coral reef destruction in U.S. history. Port Everglades expansion would wipe out millions of corals, including the few remaining staghorn corals in Florida. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Proposals due March 2 for the Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach! This program awards up to $1,000 USD for a variety of evolution education and outreach projects, workshops, and events. Apply now! shorturl.at/I8HqO
Learn about science policy from experts in D.C.! Apply for AGU sponsorship to AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) Workshop, happening 12-15 April 2026. Apply by 22 February
Want to gain firsthand insight into the science policy process, network, and engage with fellow students interested in science policy?
Apply for @aguscipolicy.bsky.social sponsorship to the CASE Workshop!
Apps close 22 February at 11:59 pm PST! buff.ly/9FmkyCZ
Flyer for virtual pollinator steward certification workshops for spring 2026 for agricultural landowners, managers, producers, and affiliated professionals in Illinois and Ohio.
Do you work in agriculture and want to learn about pollinators? Join us this spring for the Pollinator Steward Certification workshop! We'll have great presentations and a chance to network with other Illinoisans in ag. Go register at www.pollinator.org/wingspan/ats... to secure your spot! 🐝 🌻
Someone made an actually-organized version of this!!
Green Botanical Society of America graphic titled “BSA Awards with February Deadlines!” A list of awards appears in white text with leaf icons beside each item. • Corresponding Member Awards — Deadline Feb. 2, 2026 • $10,000 Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology — Deadline Feb. 2, 2026 • $10,000 Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology — Deadline Feb. 2, 2026 • $1,500 Graduate Student Research Awards: J.S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award and AJ Harris Graduate Student Research Award — Deadline Feb. 16, 2026 • Public Policy Award — Deadline Feb. 20, 2026 At the bottom is the URL “www.botany.org/home/awards.html,” the Botanical Society of America logo, and a large green leaf image. A QR code appears in the lower right corner.
Several BSA award deadlines are coming up fast in February, including $10,000 dissertation awards, grad student research awards, and public policy awards.
Our new BSA Member Toolkit video shows you how to apply, step by step:
youtu.be/vRZdmrb-cFs?...
Apply today!
www.botany.org/home/awards.html 🌱
You can't reform this shit. This is a death threat.
Make a real impact on the future of the Botanical Society of America—join the BSA Board!
Current BSA members can learn more and submit a nomination at mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
Deadline is February 1, 2026
The IWRS is hiring! Help us build the infrastructure for invertebrate welfare research—from husbandry databases to educational resources. 🐛📖
Remote Research Scientist position, $55-60K. We will begin reviewing applications on March 15.
Learn more and apply here:
When I see you “playing around with” ChatGPT “for fun” this is what I see you contributing to btw. It’s not cute, it’s not fun, it’s damaging. Just because you don’t personally see it doesn’t mean there’s no cost.
❗Decline in botanical education threatens response to climate action and food security
www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
Research reveals what inspires people to study plant biology, a subject essential for addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, and food security.
#PlantScience 🧵1/2
Anywho, the main truth I know is that there's ALWAYS something that can be done. Always. You just have to find the things you can do.
It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.
Applications for 2026 Botany Travel Awards to support the resident study of collections in the United States National Herbarium are due on 15 February. This year, awards will
be for six weeks, with a stipend of $6,000! For more information, please visit: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...
My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises
Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact
ASHS Awards
ASHS Award Nominations due Feb 4th - nominate your outstanding colleagues for recognition of their accomplishments!
https://ashs.org/page/AwardsNominations
#horticulture #plantscience
Graphic announcing open committees for the Botanical Society of America. Left side lists open committees, including Committee on Committees, Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Early Career Professional Development, Education, Election, Financial Advisory, Information Technology, International Affairs, Investment, Public Policy, Publications, and Graduate Student Research Award. Asterisks indicate committees with student openings. Right side reads “Join a BSA Committee,” with a deadline of February 1, 2026, the website www.botany.org, BSA logos, botanical illustrations, and a QR code.
Get more involved with BSA!
We’re accepting applications for BSA committees, with openings across many focus areas—including opportunities for students and early career members.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
botany.org/home/governa...
Some Board positions are open too!
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
Graphic announcing a call for nominations to join the Botanical Society of America Board. Text reads “Join the BSA Board” and explains that Board members help guide the Society’s direction, support the community, and advance botanical science together. A QR code links to more information. The nomination deadline is February 1, 2026. At the bottom is a group photo of the current BSA Board members, labeled “Our current Board,” with the BSA logo.
🌱We’re now accepting nominations for the BSA Board.
Board members help guide the Society’s direction, support our community, and advance botanical science together.
Nomination deadline: February 1, 2026
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
Committee openings are also available:
botany.org/home/governa...
The Clifton Institute is hiring a Grassland Steward to manage remnant grasslands in the Virginia Piedmont
🌾 knowledge of flora
🗣️ charismatic people-person
🎓 related bach. pref'd
⌛ 12 mo. position, ext. possible
📅 target start: feb. 17
📍 Warrenton, VA
💸 $55k/yr
cliftoninstitute.org/about-us/emp...
Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.
