Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬

Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs

Just listened to this great piece on @scifri.bsky.social about the importance of collections. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/are... Consider making a donation at any level to support your local natural history collection. Support @utkherbarium.bsky.social here herbarium.utk.edu/give/

If you are planning for #Botany2027 and did or did not attend #Botany2026, fill out this form if you need childcare!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... please!! This year there was no childcare and the nursing room is more a custodian closet without a lock, AC, water/sink+light goes off very 5 mins

I can't make it to #Botany2026 this year, but I don't want to miss out on all the cool plant science being presented. I've made a starter pack to follow along from home (and to find more great botanists to follow year-round). Reply here to be added! go.bsky.app/HdDpDrW

Hey Botany! Come see my talk investigating whether polyploids have different patterns of flower evolution than diploids on Weds at 8:15am in San Xavier. Over 100 undergrads participated in this research! :) #PUIFTW #Botany2026 #PlantPeopleFTW

Symposium for Future Proofing Herbaria. Discussing specimen backlogs. Recommendation to prioritize, be creative, & build a collections club of volunteers to help. Also we found that #bryophytes & #lichens are over-represented & need our energy. doi.org/10.3897/nhcm... #botany2026

What was the term you used for the backlog WIS? @mlinkperez.bsky.social

Stop by the ABLS booth at #Botany2026 to pick up your preordered shirt. Missed the pre-order? Buy a t-shirt in-person at the booth for $22.50. Stop by early while supplies last!

I won’t be at #Botany2026 but for those interested in bryophyte phylogenetics or sex chromosomes check out Seyeon Kim’s talk at 9:30a Monday in Colloquia 1 - Beyond Phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.

Get your ABLS shirt in time for #Botany2026 and show up to the conference in something you really lichen. Don't moss around, the deadline is TODAY!

Job Opening! Apply to join the the @utkherbarium.bsky.social as our new Herbarium Collections Manager. #jobopportunity #jobopening #jobsearch #herbaria #plants @utknoxville.bsky.social Full Position Posting & Application Instructions: fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 SHC Student Awards! Mayra Alejandra Herrera Pacheco (MS student) working with Dr. Manuel Luján Anzola at the Universidad de Antioquia, for the project “Taxonomic revision and update of the genus Arawakia (Clusiaceae s.s.) for Colombia".

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Student Awards! Yun Ye Ho (PhD student) working with Elliot Gardner at Case Western Reserve Univ. for the project "Unearthing the species limits and phylogenetics of Bornean earth figs, Ficus subser. Geocarpicae (Moraceae)".

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Society of Herbarium Curators Student Awards! @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Graduate student Makoa de Almeida is working with Carrie Tribble at the University of Washington for the project "Vegetative Proliferations: Evolutionary Watershed or Dead End?".

Congratulations to the 2026 Society of Herbarium Curators (SHC) Student Awardees! @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Undergraduate student Fanya Yuan working with Dr. Carrie Tribble at the University of Washington for the project “Investigating the Optimal Herbarium Plant Tissue Storage Protocol".

Calling all curious middle schoolers! 🌿 Join us on a Flora Quest, a KidsU Summer Camp @utknoxville.bsky.social! Please help us spread the word! @utkherbarium.bsky.social @wildones-smokymts.bsky.social

My former grad student Eric Shershen just published the researcher from his second chapter! @utknoxville.bsky.social @utkherbarium.bsky.social Check it out at the link below!

If you want the Forest Service to be anything other than just a logging company get in those public comments, people

Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is no bird! The White Egret Orchid uses its "unique" shape to attract pollinators. 🐞 🦋 🐝

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data,” led by @emcassey.bsky.social, @erikarmoore11.bsky.social, Mafe Torres Jimenez & ‪@yannickwoudstra.bsky.social‬ Deadline 30 Nov 2025 botany.org/home/publica...