Assistant Professor at Oregon State University Botany and Plant Pathology starting Sept 2026. systematics, speciation, hybridization in flowering plants. Natural history via community science. Birder, Arkansan, he/him
Patrick McKenzie
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I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful!
Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Let's go!!!!!!!!!!!
Short but awesome trip to Mexico with a great team. Also, success: finding Monarda pringlei! It’s one of two red Monarda species (the other being the Appalachian species M didyma) and it is confined just to a tiny area in the mountains above Monterrey
outdoors time today. The birds are moving, the bugs are out, the plants are flowering, and the kids are tired
So cool to see our work highlighted here! Thanks @botany.one ! And, re: the question “were you one of the observers in our dataset,” besides in the paper supplement, there’s a full list of them here: github.com/pmckenz1/mon...
We had fun partnering with the Oregon Stater magazine to share a little bit about Mycology at OSU!! Each fall our Mycology class has a fantastic time collecting and identifying fungi on our field trips 🍄 🍄 🍄
Thrilled that our new review article on animal hybridization is now up on EcoEvoRxiv! 🎉 Working on this review with @mollyschumer.bsky.social was a blast, and it was such a wonderful opportunity to catch up on all the amazing work in animal hybridization over the last few years!
Super excited to have been part of the project using participatory science to study flower color variation, led by @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social!
Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended
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When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake.
#Botany #PlantScience
The United States National Herbarium is seeking a Lead Collections Manager! For complete requirements and application procedures, please visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications and all supporting documentation must be received online by 1 May 2026.
When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake.
<p>The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a major bureau of the Smithsonian Institution that is responsible for the acquisition, curation, and preservation of collections of objects and specimens of natural history within the specialization of botany for this position.</p>
McKenzie et al. applied a novel pipeline to automate floral color phenotyping from community science photographs, supporting anecdotal evidence that Monarda fistulosa is deeper purple in western vs. eastern North America.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Eric Schuettpelz
How Thousands of Phone Snapshots Solved a Flower Colour Mystery
www.botany.one/how-thousand...
Nearly 10,000 People Helped Confirm a Botanical Hunch. Were You One of Them?
#Botany #PlantScience
Excited to share that I will be joining Florida State University as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2027!
I’m thrilled to build my lab at FSU in the Ecology & Evolution Division within the Department of Biological Science — stay tuned!
A huge thank you to my village for all the support!
Nearly 10,000 People Helped Confirm a Botanical Hunch. Were You One of Them?
Excited to share this new pre-print from the fantastic @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social! Kelsie put together a thoughtful and thorough review on hybridization in animal evolution: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v.... She tracks notable shifts in perspectives on the study of hybridization through time.
