Ash Hamilton

Aspiring evolutionary biologist and budding botanist | PhD candidate in the Hoban Lab | disabled and queer in STEM | she/they

[MortonArboretum @MortonArboretum]

Exciting times at the Arboretum’s first-ever Graduate Student and Postdoc Research Symposium! This week, we celebrated the next generation of tree science leaders as they shared amazing talks on fungi, roots, and the evolution and conservation of oaks, including the endangered arroyo oak (Quercus brandegeei). Pictured from left to right: Ryo Nakahata, Nicholas Medina, Kelsey Patrick, Ash Hamilton, and Rebekah Mohn. #TreeScience #ResearchSymposium #Conservation #STEM #MortonArboretum

[Ashlee N. Ford Versypt @FordVersyptLab]

Dear friends who write NSF GRFP rec letters, this year rec letters are due BEFORE the applications, so about 10 days earlier than normal on Oct. 11. Please don't let NSF's deadline change on rec letters screw over the applicants in your lives.

[Ash Hamilton @botanic_ash]

@BeingCharisBlog @DisabledStem Incredible!
I asked my pain doctor about a wheelchair recently (bc of intense and disabling foot pain which has persisted for + become more debilitating over 4+ years) and he said “before we start treating you like you’re disabled, we should try a wildly invasive spinal surgery”

[Ash Hamilton @botanic_ash]

Officially a PhD candidate!! Thanks to everyone who helped me get here!

[Sean Hoban @seanmhoban]

Nailed it! Congratulations @botanic_ash and the team efforts of the #HobanLab
And many collaborators!

[Ash Hamilton @botanic_ash]

@seanmhoban @austinkoontz11 !! The tidyverse revolution is here Austin, join us

[Sean Hoban @seanmhoban]

For those attending #Evol2024, check out Mikaely Evans, #Hobanlab represent, poster Poster Board N16 (on the 27th) based on @NSF REU project. With @botanic_ash, and Emily Schumacher and others in Hoban lab who helped a lot!

[Ash Hamilton @botanic_ash]

Phenotypic plasticity is! so! cool!

[Joey Santore @JoeySantore]

This is insane. A species of Asteraceae (Heterosperma pinnatum) changes what kind of seeds it produces according to local growing conditions. If conditions are lousy, seeds with wind-dispersal structures are produced so the next generation can get the hell out of there.

[Sean Hoban @seanmhoban]

Today #HobanLab reads classic paper "Predicting the Deleterious Effects of Mutation Load in Fragmented Populations". https://t.co/tLkxgyqTm7

[Sean Hoban @seanmhoban]

Recently finished your undergraduate degree? Looking for a job to prepare you with skills & knowledge for a career in plant research & conservation? Apply to one year traineeship (40K salary) at botanic gardens including @MortonArboretum! Please RT https://t.co/tqWgXFDRDv

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

Some of the Orobanchaceae I've illustrated in pen and ink over the years.

[Sean Hoban @seanmhoban]

Nice to have a #HobanLab lunch! We celebrated the work of Mikaely, our @NSF REU and Morton Arboretum research fellow, mentored by @koticneutralDNA, @botanic_ash. A fun time! Wishing Mikaely well during her study abroad! Good lab vibes.

[Sebastian Schornack @dromius]

Amazing interactive poster on the evolution of land plants @watertoland
follow the link and click in it! 🖱️
https://t.co/UVL36zcW5p

[Sean Hoban @seanmhoban]

The #HobanLab is recruiting an @NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates fellow for summer 2024! To work with me and @botanic_ash! On the endangered oak, Quercus brandegeei. Other exciting tree research also! https://t.co/0KGkON7FDY @MortonArboretum

[Sean Hoban @seanmhoban]

The #HobanLab is hiring a full time Program Manager/ advanced Research Assistant. We produce excellent science & have conservation impact. Supportive, collaborative team, emphasizing growth, development. Work life balance, great salary, amazing workplace, mission & values. Pls RT

[MortonArboretum @MortonArboretum]

See how Arboretum scientists determined the age of @lincolnparkzoo’s historic bur oak tree, which was dying and removed in spring 2023. #OAKtober #mortonarboretum #lincolnparkzoo

[Ash Hamilton @botanic_ash]

@JasonSelwyn !!!!!

[Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer @tricyclemayor]

A year ago I graduated from my PhD.

It took me five years to complete & I wrote many parts of my thesis whilst in hospital.

Disabled academics like myself often work on crip time. This doesn't make our contributions any less. And academia is a better place for us being in it.

[Dr. Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland]

A little backstory and synopsis on this fun pollination paper with @the_kunsze @botanic_ash & @carriewessi https://t.co/jPjZOpTwvj
https://t.co/AT1iiDGAgG

[Ash Hamilton @botanic_ash]

Thrilled for this to finally be out!!! Such a cool project!

[Agnes Dellinger @the_kunsze]

Paper alert! Almost two years after #Botany 2021, where we conceived the idea, our study on the #altitudinal distribution of insect- and vertebrate-pollinated plants in the Americas is out @ASNAmNat @iochromaland @carriewessi @botanic_ash https://t.co/MARGN4ncGm #pollination