Thais Vasconcelos

The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

Please help spread the word -- our UM-EEB museums is hiring a digital artist/graphic designer to work with our communications team and create scientific illustrations for publications. Come work with us! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

I wrote up my "it's like finding your hat preference" analogy for MCMC: brianomeara.info/posts/mcmc/ -- it helps students understand burnin, hot and cold chains, RJMCMC, etc. #Teaching #Bayes 🧢 👑 👒 🎩 🪖 🎓

hello bluesky! what are your favorite examples of how phylogenetics has impacted plant taxonomy? I’m looking for a paper that is not too dense and is easy to understand at the undergraduate level

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

A novel & broadly applicable analytical framework to evaluate & correct herborization-associated measurement biases in plant trait research New in #AppsPlantSci by Yacov Kilsztajn, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social, et al doi.org/10.1002/aps3... #botany #Myrtaceae #herbarium #PlantScience

In case you missed it, Joe Miller's @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social @gbif.org lecture on data integration, extended specimens, and building community around collections is posted on the ASPT YouTube channel... check it out! I found it super-exciting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rea...

Congratulations to our 2026 Huxley Award recipient, Matheus Januario Lopes de Sousa, for the educational resource: “evolved: an open-source R package designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate instruction in evolutionary biology”! Read more: shorturl.at/1ZdFE@mjanua...

Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Check out this new pre-print that covers a survey-based study of Plant Awareness Disparity! This work was led by undergraduate researcher Ari Hoffman, who was supervised by my postdoc advisor @TNCVasconcelos and me: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

ASPT is launching a free 5-part webinar series, “Taxonomy: What is it good for?” on the real-world impacts of systematics. Join us Feb 6 for @sandyknapp.bsky.social's “Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae).” Register and share! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

When @omearabrian.bsky.social saw the manuscript, he described it as: ‘What if this figure could be an entire paper?’ I choose to interpret that as high praise. Now accepted at AmNat: The geometry of macroevolution (with Dan Rabosky). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

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

Andrew Hipp of The Morton Arboretum will deliver the ASPT Incoming Presidents' Talk at #Botany2025! 🌿 To learn more about his career, publications, and public and educational outreach, visit: www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html

Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years. Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria from openly available specimen images New in #AppsPlantSci by @tvasconcelos.bsky.social & @jboyko.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @r-foundation.bsky.social @gbif.org #botany #biodiversity #iamabotanist

Excited to start this new phase for our MICH herbarium and to work on implementing our 2025-2030 strategic plan! 😄🌿🌾🍁🌎

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

The botanists are inviting YOU to Plantsgiving 🌱 On Thurs we'll be documenting the plant species in our Thanksgiving meals, and we'd love it if you do, too! Follow along & join in using #Plantsgiving 🌱 THANKYOU @martinebotany.bsky.social for starting this wonderful tradition! #plantscience #botany

Agnes Dellinger: Unlocking Flowers’ Secrets https://botany.fyi/mp5z38 @caordonezparra.bsky.social interviews Dr. Agnes Dellinger to learn more about how she became interested in the interaction between plants and pollinators. #Botany #PlantScience

I wrote this about finding the optimal discrete character model structure. I hope this will be useful for empiricists. The main point is that relying only on the package default models is bad and can have nasty consequences or parameter estimates and ASR. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm building a Starter Pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists. It's hard to gather usernames using the search tool. Please add your name to this thread if you want to be added!

Herbaria and herbarium peeps starter pack! Not exhaustive; tell me who else to add. go.bsky.app/J3orEaP