Are you ready? 🚀 The 2024 #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call is open!

Two modalities:
🇪🇺 European Fellowships
🌍 Global Fellowships

🟣Deadline: 11 September
💸€417M

Check our Guide for Applicants to apply now: europa.eu/!8TwbVX

Wake up, honey: new phylogeny of flowering plants just dropped!

Over 9K species, 58% of genera, and all 416 families inferred using Angiosperms353! Out now in Nature - congrats to the Kew Science team and SO MANY collaborators!

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Super excited about our new paper entitled ‘Convergence in carnivorous pitcher plants reveals a mechanism for composite trait evolution’ just out in Science Magazine and featured on the cover!

Einstein slept nearly 10 hours a day. He valued the significance of quality sleep for maintaining his well-being. His sleep routine, though, was out of the ordinary.
He regularly indulged in brief daytime naps, occasionally more than once a day. These quick naps, lasting just a…

Proud supervisor 🥰
Congrats to Ajaree Thonglim for defending her PhD Universiteit Leiden Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Special thanks to Jansen Lab Salma Balazadeh Erik Smets
and Frank Sterck and Peter van Welzen

Had alot of fun writing this anatomy- physiology crossover with a great team🌳🫧
brill.com/view/journals/… Read about the potential roles of the cells surrounding the plant water transport system during drought, in the context of physiology & observations made by Sherwin Carlquist!

!JOB ALERT! 4-YEAR postdoc in my lab in plant mutualism comparative genomics & phylogenomics

Come work with us to unravel the genomic consequences of mutualism breakdown in one of the most charismatic systems: epiphytic ant/plant symbioses (Hydnophytinae, Rubiaceae)

Please RT!

Next generation taxonomy. Wonderful

📢 Job announcement: fully funded postdoc position! Are you looking to do exciting research in beautiful South Africa? We are looking for a motivated postdoc with skills in plant ecology and physiology to work on improving our knowledge of the evolutionary ecophysiology of shrubs

The tension is gripping, and Prof Tim Brodribb FAA loves it. He studies the tug-of-war between forces as plants draw water up from the soil. His team use cameras mounted on leaves to observe the process in realtime. It's as thrilling as it is vital. University of Tasmania

Just published by Oxford University Press, the new essential book for island biogeographers “Island Biogeography. Geo-environmental dynamics, ecology, evolution, human impact and conservation”. Check out
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Very proud to announce the first global robust Tree of Life of the mustard family based on nearly all 450 genera and > 1000 genes:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…
#Brassicaceae
📢🔜 A following up study based on ca 2000 species is ongoing. Another 1000 species will be added later🙌

universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2023/0…

Urban Greening: Planting more trees could reduce heat deaths by 40%

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📽️ Via World Economic Forum

CML is looking for a full professor of Environmental Biology! Open call, almost any topic will fit! Come do cool (societally relevant) research with us: the team is great!

candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/3691…

📢 Looking for a xylem modeling postdoc position at Colorado State University?

We are looking for someone with expertise in computational modeling (fluid dynamics, porous media) or more lab/field-focused.

More info: [email protected]

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/126147

We had a nice outreach event during the Leiden Kennisstad evening meeting. Our Leiden Biodiversity network is going strong 🙌
Naturalis Biodiversity Center Universiteit Leiden LeidenBiology Biodiversity Research Leiden University (CML) Hogeschool Leiden LeidenKennisstad Gemeente Leiden Hortus Leiden

Our Leiden Biodiversity network is going strong 🙏 Let’s develop Leiden into a biodiversity hotspot and come up with nature-inclusive solutions 🐝🌸🍄🦋

Hortus Leiden LeidenBiology LeidenKennisstad Gemeente Leiden Leiden Science Naturalis Biodiversity Center Universiteit Leiden Hogeschool Leiden Biodiversity Research Leiden University (CML)

Do you want to join us? We are looking a new research group leader Tropical Botany Naturalis Biodiversity Center

naturalis.nl/en/about-us/gr…

a vibrant bottom-up meeting on #Biodiversity bringing together the scientists of Naturalis Biodiversity Center LeidenBiology Hortus Leiden and CML. Biodiversity, its impact on human health and human impact on Biodiversity @