Flippant attitudes towards plant identification jeopardize early career botanists.

Early career botanists are under threat due to a current misunderstanding of some of their scientific skills, inviting pervasive professional intrusion and leading to a denial of scientific credit. Measures need to be taken to curb this erosion of the discipline, including flagging bad practice, disclosing responsibilities, and upholding scientific credit.

How FAIR are plant sciences in the twenty-first century? The pressing need for reproducibility in plant ecology and evolution.

The need for open, reproducible science is of growing concern in the twenty-first century, with multiple initiatives like the widely supported FAIR principles advocating for data to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Plant ecological and evolutionary studies are not exempt from the need to ensure that the data upon which their findings are based are accessible and allow for replication in accordance with the FAIR principles. However, it is common that the collection and curation of herbarium specimens, a foundational aspect of studies involving plants, is neglected by authors.