I'm excited to share the announcement for an open position at BRIT (see below); come work with our team! Applications are due October 31st, with a desired (flexible) start date of January 5, 2026.
Cheers, Tiana ---
Research Botanist
The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (FWBG) seeks a highly motivated Research Botanist with a primary focus on plant systematics and complementary interests in floristics, ecology, and/or conservation. Research incorporating a combination of scientific collections, field work, and genomics is preferred. The successful candidate will maintain an active research program as measured by scientific
In case you were unable to attend yesterday, there was an update from Symbiota on their monthly Support Hub. Here is the link to the recording: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umsrA9wtc8Q__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!_wy1w0IRv3koXFrpt6MSswKGB1oMldE7pDvzGxbmokFS_TUni1vu9YIXdHqZk7t7QZqjfxVOuxmlGA0nlZu2IMaNJmg$ [youtube[.]com]
TL;DW*:
* Arizona State security operations team brought in consultants to identify the issue: a sophisticated month-long attack using a breached password took advantage of exploits in Symbiota to attempt a ransomware attack on ASU systems (the ultimate target was not our specimens). * There is no data loss or data corruption from the Symbiota portals. The portals will be rolled back to the nightly backup from the first day
