Apply for the 2025-2027 BSA Early Career Advisory Board  

The Botanical Society of America's Publications Team welcomes graduate students and postdocs to apply for our next Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB)!

This group of early-career botanists engages with and advises the editors of the American Journal of Botany, Applications in Plant Sciences, and the Plant Science Bulletin in a number of ways, including recommending timely topics for review papers and special issues; sharing questions and advice on peer-review and manuscript preparation; and advising on broad issues of importance to early-career researchers and the publications team. Service on the advisory board can also be a stepping-stone to joining the editorial board as an Associate Editor.

Advisory Board members are featured on the Botanical Society of America website and receive free membership in the society, opportunities to participate in editorial board meetings, and will gain experience and insight into how the scientific publishing process works.

Members of the ECAB are expected to attend an initial orientation meeting and additional quarterly (approximately every three months) hour-long Zoom meetings. Preparation for each meeting may take a few hours, and includes doing some independent research and thinking through the discussion topics ahead of time to ensure that members are well-informed and ready to offer recommendations addressing agenda items and related topics that may arise.

Interested postdoc and senior graduate students, please click here, sign in with your BSA member ID and password, and click on "2025-2027 BSA Early Career Advisory Board" to fill out this form by December 6, 2024. You do not have to be a current BSA member to apply: if you do not already have a Botany member ID and password you can click here to create them. If you need assistance logging in, please contact Amelia Neely at aneely@botany.org.

We encourage Faculty to share this opportunity with their labs and departments!