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They are the same. Plant Taxonomy is nested under Botany, so is Plant Molecular Genetics, so is Plant Evolution, so is Plant Ecology, etc.
Botany is the study of plants.

Fig. 5 (shortened, full legend in paper): Shifts in means, skewness, selection, and ‘limitation’. We interpret our data as consistent with selection favoring specific epidermal cell sizes (A–C) rather than height-related developmental conditions ‘limiting’ cell size (D). (A–C) Three examples of natural selection scenarios, with each box representing a tree growing taller. Each panel shows one tree through time as it grows taller, with stacked histograms giving treetop trait distributions at successively greater heights. Black lines mark trait values favored by selection at each height. The white region shows developmentally possible values; the gray region represents values plants cannot produce due to developmental limitations, regardless of any selective advantage.

🌳📐 RESEARCH 📐🌳

Epidermal cell size distributions in leaves of Bursera simaruba and Eucalyptus camaldulensis trees remain largely constant with height growth suggesting there are no height-imposed developmental limitations – Alemán-Sancheschúlz et al.

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Devani Jolman in a Bucknell sweatshirt

Excited to launch the new lab website, including the announcement that Devani Jolman will be joining us as the new Burpee Postdoc!

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Shared and Divergent Processes Linked to Monocot Diversity Across the Mediterranean Climate Regions Aim The five Mediterranean regions of the globe are plant biodiversity hotspots, and there has not been a comparative analytical framework examining correlates of diversity across these regions. Of .....

Monocots. 🌴
Geophytes. 🪻
Mediterranean biome. 🔥
Phylogenetic diversity. 🤓
Check. It. Out. 🥳

(This project took 5+ years for various reasons. Science takes time sometimes and that’s ok!)

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Manatees in the clear water of a springfed stream in Florida.

The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.

An example setup for herbarium tours. This is a general setup, as we have 8 groups coming today. I've prepared for discussions of taxonomy, floristics, history, and of course the basic: What is an herbarium?

Herbaria encourage questions in these areas and many more.

@mortonarboretum.bsky.social

Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for the first webinar in our 2026 series: "Taxonomy: What is it good for?"

Free to all! Join us to hear @sandyknapp.bsky.social's "Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)"

Pls register & share:

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Fig. 1 Venn diagram of major strategies used to cope with heat stress with examples of species expected to specialize in heat tolerance/acclimation (yellow circles), heat avoidance through drought-deciduousness (green circles), and heat avoidance through homeothermic leaf cooling (blue circles).

#TansleyReview: High-temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land #plants

@bposch.bsky.social et al.
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Mol Plant: The plant ontology of cell types (2025) The advent of single-cell genomic technologies has revolutionized plant cell biology by revealing cellular heterogeneity in plant tissues and organs with unprecedented resolution. Methods like single-cell transcriptomics, epigenomics, and multi-omics integration have deepend insights into molecular mechanisms governing plant development, function, and evolutionary adaptations (Xu and Jackson, 2025). Notably, these approaches have facilitated comprehensive cell atlases mapping gene expression, chromatin accessibility, and regulatory networks across species (Wang et al., 2025; Guo et al., 2025), identifying marker genes, differentiation trajectories, and spatiotemporal regulatory in processes like root development, and seed germination (Zhang et al., 2021; Yao et al., 2024). However, proliferating single-cell studies face a major bottleneck from inconsistent cell type annotations, which impede data integration and crossspecies comparison. A unified, phylogenetically informed atlas of plant cellular diversity is essential for elucidating molecular developmental and evolutionary principles (Sebé-Pedrós et al., 2025).

New Publication: The plant ontology of cell types (2025)
https://www.tsl.ac.uk/publications/161543

Happy New Year to all our peer-reviewers, contributors, and readers! As we welcome the New Year, a heartfelt thanks for your amazing and vital support, your trust, and your commitment. I am excited about the ideas, collaborations, covers, and breakthroughs that 2026 will bring.
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The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

Cartoon of paleogeographic, biogeographic, and phylogenetic history of an island plant radiation, and plots of hypothesized relationships between regional features and biogeographic rates.

New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua 🌱🏝️🌋

w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor in Integrative Environmental and Organismal Health Position Title: Assistant Professor in Integrative Environmental and Organismal Health Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: The Department of Ecology, Evo...

My department (EEOB at Iowa State) is hiring! See isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

New paper: The role of fire on Earth
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Fire affects all major components of the Earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, anthroposphere, & biosphere. Fire is an intrinsic factor on our planet.

🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire

Taiz and Zeiger

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A screenshot of a National Review article by George Leef. The title is “Let’s Hire Professors Purely on Merit”. The first paragraph reads: the diversity media that has swept over American education for the last 50 years or so has had a align effect on the quality of professors. Many of those hired to fill quotas for certain groups are, to be blunt, not especially qualified. Moreover, such hiring violates the law against discrimination. What should we do?” It’s the usual thing about white men not being able to get jobs because women and minorities are given preference. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.

Send a Comment Opposing Steep Federal Cuts to Water Quality A new rule leaves 80% of wetlands and vast numbers of rivers unprotected by the Clean Water Act.

ACTION ALERT: The administration is proposing changes to the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule, which would be devastating to clean air water, wildlife and habitat, and streams and rivers across the U.S.

Plant Meme Monday!

Happy Monday, plant lovers! 🌿 Here’s a little plant humor to start your week. Tag a friend who’s as obsessed with plants as you are! 😂

#AdventuresinBotany #PlantMemes #MondayMotivation #PlantHumor

Four Larrea tridentata recently removed from their pots and planted in soil near each other in a common garden arrangement in a concrete raised bed.

Common garden installed! Diploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid Larrea tridentata planted out at Harvey Mudd College with collaborator Jessica Guo! Fun science will ensue!

A shrub covered in green foliage grows next to a dead, withered shrub in a parched desert landscape under a scorching sun.

Abstract submission and registration for the #47NPS Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life, are open!

2–5 June 2026

Travel grant, selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026

Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026

Full details at www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

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Check out the Photo Contest Award Winners! 📸🎉

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute was founded with the purpose of increasing and sharing knowledge about the past, present and future of tropical ecosystems and their relevance to human welf...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Marine Scientist Position – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), full-time, permanent Marine Scientist position based in Panama. Application review begins February 15, 2026 (open until filled). Early-career researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. www.stri.si.edu

🧪📣 McGill University is recruiting exceptional researchers through the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program. #McGillResearch #ImpactPlus #AcademicCareers #ResearchLeadership

Recruiting a postdoc through Dartmouth's Society of Fellows Program co-mentored with Michael Cox with specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions

Apply by January 4th!
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Fig. 1 A framework for plant hydraulic and photosynthetic responses to rainfall pulses, indicative of a hierarchy where larger rainfall pulses are required to elicit more prolonged responses across (a) soil moisture, (b) leaf water potential, (c) gross primary productivity (GPP), and (d) biomass growth.

#TansleyInsight | The pulse of global vegetation: do individual rainfall events create a lasting imprint on photosynthesis?

Andrew F. Feldman 👇

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ER (yellow) and chloroplast (turquoise) localised proteins transiently expressed in Nicotiana tabacum leaves. [Image taken by Graham Burkart (Brandizzi lab).]

📝 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 📝

🔬 Plant cell biology: subcellular dynamics and mechanisms of plant cell organization and adaptation 🔬

🔎 Guest editors Brandizzi, Nimchuk, Muday & Stepanova dive into this special issue 🔎

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Camille S. Delavaux

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social!

Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇

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