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Dr. Emily Sessa 🌿🔬

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Herbarium Director @NYBG | Plant systematics & evolution | @AmerFernSoc Past-President | @Botanical_ Board member | she/her | Tweets mine

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It’s publication day! If you ordered a copy, I hope you love it and find it useful!

#Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts of Eastern North America by @ebsessa is the definitive guide to the ferns and lycophytes of eastern North America. Now available in North America (April 16 UK), grab your copy: hubs.ly/Q02lQGHV0



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An efficient and effective RNA extraction protocol for #ferns🌿 New in #AppsPlantSci by @ja_pelosi, Davenport, Barbazuk, @ebsessa & Kuo bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… @WileyPlantSci #RNAextraction #botany #PlantJoy #iamabotanist

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Be part of the BSA Virtual Symposium on Climate Change November 14-15, 2024! 12 contributed papers will be included, so make sure to submit an abstract before the deadline of September 15, 2024! For more information, visit: climatesymposium.botany.org/plant-resilien… #BSAevents #IamaBotanist

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All tangled up: Unraveling #phylogenetics & reticulate evolution in the vining #ferns, Lygodium (Schizaeales) New #AJB research by @ja_pelosi, Bethany Zumwalde, @westo_fernnerd@ebsessa, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany #polyploidy @wileyplantsci @wileyplantsci

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#NYBGScience @NYBG is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow and PhD student to investigate the evolution and development of sporangia in #ferns for a new @NSF grant! For more information, email bambrose@nybg.org Application info for the postdoc is here: nybg.org/about/work-wit…


This @NASA #fern work at the University of Maine was carried out in the lab of collaborator @JacquelynGill! 🌿

Northern Woodlands magazine featured @ebsessa's NASA project about ferns and mass extinction, with a focus on the work of University of Maine postdoc Lauren Azevedo-Schmidt. Check out the latest on these fascinating, age-old plants: brnw.ch/21wM7Io



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Assistant Curator Pteridophytes and Conservation Ecologist position, at the Field Museum! fieldmuseum.org/about/careers


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We left the same August 28th from Atocha to Galicia, we were 17 people from 10 different nationalities: Spain, Taiwan, USA, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Colombia, Bolivia, Australia and Romania.

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#Polyploidy and environmental stress response: a comparative study of fern gametophytes Blake-Mahmud et al. @ebsessa 📖 ow.ly/gsNs50SIZry

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I am seeing a lot of news in the press (at least in Spain) saying that botanists "have decided to get rid of all offensive names on plants". As always some media do not contrast and misinform, this is what has happened. 👇🏻


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🌱Special Issue Call for Papers🌱 #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Branching out: Resolving plant evolution through phylogenetic networks” led by editors @solislemuslab & George Tiley botany.org/home/publicati… @wileyplantsci #iamabotanist #plantevolution #phylogenetics

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🌿🎨From the new #PlantSciBull's #SciArt special issue 🎨🌿 The SciArt exhibition Wunderkammer: Boundaryless Plants showed imagery of artifacts collected during decades of floristic & plant community research on remote islands of Alaska. By Sandra Talbot issuu.com/botanicalsocie…

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Tune into NYBG's new "Plant People" podcast, connecting the dots between nature & humanity via lively conversations w/ plant scientists/curators, gardeners, naturalists, & other experts 🌿 more info here --> brnw.ch/21wK0mQ #NYBGscience

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Our FIRST EPISODE of Plant People is now live, and we’re diving straight into over 130 years of historic Garden collections. 📚🎧 Get to know Rhonda Evans, Director of our LuEsther T. Mertz Library, and Dr. Emily Sessa, Director of our Steere Herbarium: brnw.ch/21wJXeC


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Ears up! 🔊 We’re dropping a new series that dives into the many ways plants and people are inextricably linked. Grab your headphones for Plant People—a new podcast from NYBG & @prx hosted by NYBG President Jennifer Bernstein. 🎧🤳 Listen and subscribe: brnw.ch/21wJJMi


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Reminder!🌻Special Issue Call for Papers #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for "Quantifying plant & fungal dispersal: New methods from multiple disciplines," led by @noellebeckman Sally Chambers @Irene_Cobo & @ll_sullivan Deadline: June 24 botany.org/home/publicati… #iamabotanist

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Special Issue Call for Papers🌿DEADLINE EXTENDED! #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for a special issue: "Advances in analyzing & engineering plant metabolic diversity" Deadline April 22 botany.org/home/publicati… @wileyplantsci @KiratiEdge @MogheGaurav @iochromaland #iamabotanist

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Did you know that NYBG's Steere Herbarium has one of the best collections of #algae in the world? In fact, our 130,896 specimens of algae include more than 10,000 species, and weigh as much as 1.5 bull African Elephants! #NYBGscience

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I am very excited to tell you that we have just released our latest work in which we give a new name to a Parablechnum in Costa Rica and Panama! Meet Parablechnum talamancanum S.Molino & R.C.Moran. Do you wanna hear the story? 👇🏻🧵 doi.org/10.3417/2024876

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The puzzling ecology of African Marantaceae #forests A new #AJB Review by Robin Pouteau, Juliette Picard, Charles Doumenge, Terry Brncic, Jean-François Gillet, @MaximeRejou et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany #rainforests @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol @UmrAmap

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