Haley A Branch

Promotional graphic for the Botanical Society of America Graduate Student Research Awards. A collage of smiling graduate students doing field and lab work appears on the left. On the right, text reads: “BSA Graduate Student Research Awards. Applications Now Open! $1,500 Research Awards. Deadline: February 16, 2026.” A QR code and the URL botany.org/home/awards.html appear at the bottom.

🌿 Applications are open for the Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Awards (GSRAs), including the J. S. Karling and AJ Harris awards.

BSA supports graduate student research in botanical science with these $1,500 awards.

Deadline: February 16, 2026.

Apply now: botany.org/home/awards/...

So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏

#IAmABotanist 🌱

me trying to figure out how to split myself in two so that I can move and still be at #Botany2026 😭 why is it right at a pretty standard academic moving time?!

A close-up photo of a Lobelia siphilitica flower, showing petals and pollen tube. Black scale line = ~ 0.8 mm.

The effect of #drought stress on the limits & costs of plasticity in floral longevity in response to #pollinator decline

New #AJB research by Caelen McCabe & Christina Caruso

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #Lobelia

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Nominations are open for the 2026 BSA Young Botanist Awards! 🌿

Recognize an outstanding graduating senior in botanical science and introduce them to the global BSA community.

Deadline: April 1, 2026.

For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/...

#BSAStudentAwards

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BOTANY 2026 abstract submission is open!!! @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Marchantia polymorpha lines displaying various level of resistance after inoculation with Colletotrichum nymphaeae

What can we learn from the first GWAS on bryophyte immunity? Have these plants evolved immune mechanisms similar to or different from those of angiosperms? (Spoiler: both!)
Our latest paper is out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123 #Marchantia #Colletotrichum #EVOteam #LRSV

Reposting again because according to Reddit threads, another round of RWR emails went out today.

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My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠

Full job description is linked below.

Come join us on the Palouse!

🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org
Please share!

Map of western United States showing the six focal populations of Mimulus cardinalis used in this study. Populations were sourced from the leading edge (N1 and N2), range center (C1 and C2), and trailing edge (S1 and S2) of the range of M. cardinalis and are set on a backdrop of grey-scale extreme maximum temperature across a 30-year period from 1981

Rangewide responses of #Mimulus cardinalis to an extreme heat event

New #AJB research by Lucas Albano, Robin Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Christopher Muir & Seema Nayan Sheth

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #climatechange

Transgenerational plasticity affects fitness and mediates local adaptation Transgenerational plasticity (TGP) could be as decisive of a factor in phenotypic outcomes as allelic variation and within-generation plasticity. While TGP is often associated with priming offspring t...

New #mimulus preprint! We found grandparental environments exhibit strong effects on the fitness of their grand-offspring and whether this was positive or negative depended on the historical environment, showing TGP is locally adaptive

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Transgenerational plasticity affects fitness and mediates local adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.23.690023v1

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

Please share far and wide 🚀

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The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

If you're interested in the crossing points between crip theory, anti-eugenics, environment, global health and global ethics, check out @octoqueenphd.bsky.social 's new podcast #UnwellToBeginWith. It was a blast to be the first guest, & a fantastic episode with @stressedbranch.bsky.social is now up

Thank you @octoqueenphd.bsky.social for the opportunity to ramble about #evolution, #plants, #Disability

I hadn't realized HOW much plants have impacted my day-to-day and shaped my view of the world.

Take a listen and keep your eyes out for more "Unwell to Begin With" - a FANTASTIC podcast name.

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

Sadly... the trend might be over? 👀 😉

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

If you’re at ESA @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social 2025 in Baltimore, come check out my talk about population dynamics and the geographic range limits of a coastal dune plant! Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8:45am in Hilton 5!

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

A white person with dark hair pulled back and round glasses stands at a podium in front of a conclusion slide of a presentation. The main points highlight “directional selection favored novel negative plasticity, canalization may be disadvantageous, and experimental approach reveals hidden adaptive potential”

@jillmlove.bsky.social gave an awesome talk about plasticity in leaf lobing in #Mimulus

A slide for Where do we go from here? Including talk about axiological assumptions, provide context for who the founders were, increase field site transparency, and advocate for inclusion. Haley is presenting sitting to the side.

Haley Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social gave a foundational historic overview of how disability affects our science today and her work on @uslter.bsky.social facility accessibility.

#botany2025

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Last is Caroline Brose sharing research on willow and experiences as a disabled field researcher