Hi everyone! I'm excited to announce that our lab at UW will soon be recruiting a postdoc to work on DNA methylation signatures in rare disease. This will be a mostly computational position. Please share and reach out if interested! millerlaboratory.com

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As part of my Univ. of California role, I'm conducting a (brief) recurring annual survey regarding my weather and climate-related public communication. We want to make sure we're reaching the broadest possible audience, so please consider participating!

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The third AoB Plants issue of 2026 is out @aobp.bsky.social You’ll find papers on heat stress, phylogeography of nonendemics, plant–fungus and plant-herbivore interactions, soil organic carbon accumulation, species identification apps, and more. Check it out here academic.oup.com/aobpla/issue...

NEW: Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law.

data visualization is my passion.

Texans, vote for Gina Hinojosa! She hangs out with Willie, she doesn't want to kill pregnant women and force feed Christian sharia law down your throats. It's time to push Greg right on out of the governor's mansion in Austin.

Technical Officer - Controlled environment, GRDC Root Phenotyping // University of Adelaide uniroles.com.au/display-job/... This GRDC project directly aims to provide pre-breeders with powerful new tools enhance root traits critical. #BotanyJobs

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Celebrate July 4 with a platypus. And 17.76% off. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/july4

"when we take our funding and policy focus off of funding basic research ... to primarily focus on those things that have the potential to be commercialisable quickly and easily, it is akin to deciding that a tree's roots no longer need to be watered because the fruit comes only from its branches"

400 masked cowardly Patriot Front bros walking through D.C. once, then fleeing ain’t shit, peeps. They are a tiny fetid drop in the American bucket. Remember Minneapolis at -20F. We are bigger, braver, and stronger. By a mile.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. Happy 250, America!

Physicist & chemist Marie Curie was the: + First woman to win a Nobel Prize + First person & only woman to win twice + Only person to ever win a Nobel Prize in 2 different sciences: Physics (1903) & Chemistry (1911) Marie Skłodowska Curie died #OTD in 1934. #WomenInSTEM

Here's the situation: The fairgoers have been expelled by force They have been told to shelter in nearby buildings, but all the buildings are locked because it is the Fourth of July People are clustering at the entrance points and blocking traffic for blocks The clouds are growing darker

Ok, here we go! #TourDeFrance2026 Stage 1 - appropriately, a 🇪🇸 team, Caja Rural, starting things off at the 19km team time trial in Barcelona.

Great journals are shaped by thoughtful editors. 🌿 Gudryan Baronio studies how plant reproduction is shaped by ecological interactions. Through his work, he helps advance accessible, high-quality plant science. 🌸🐝 Get to know him in our #MeetTheEditor feature.

I ride right past this spot several times a week. Not sure where he was planning to land - not much level ground there, and a f*load of trees.

new metaphor just dropped

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

$18bn reasons why we need a gas export tax… www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... Go to ourgas.com.au and write to your local MP and tell them to stop the great gas scam.

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)

This is going to go down as my biggest example of forgetting that people on Bluesky don't understand the concept of a "joke."

Anyway. I think the last pro tech gig I did was a tour where the riggers were rolling road cases over my truss-climbing safety ropes. So I left that tour. If you value your life, you just don’t work with unsafe people and you don’t give them a second chance to kill you.

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

💧 From Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Better water demand forecasts can reduce costly overbuilding while helping cities prepare water and wastewater systems for future change. (Mary Cadenasso) ▶️ ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #WaterManagement

In this moment let’s not forget the courage Commissioner Slaughter has showed. She’s upended her life and kept herself the center of this fight with the Court. She could have taken another job and backed away. Courage is needed and role models are valuable. Much credit.

A damning critique of the University of Nottingham’s plans to make staff in physics redundant, from both a Nobel Laureate and a former university president… who happen to be the same person. 🧪 (www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelis...)

Big news this week from The Rogers Lab. We will be moving to GW University in Washington DC, starting August 1st. We will be hiring postdocs and recruiting new students! Email me if interested or come find me at SMBE!

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What, and I mean this with all seriousness, the fuck.

theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

White House enhancements that Trump said he would pay for, like replacing a walkway and repairing masonry, have in fact cost taxpayers $689,232. The admin has slashed spending on many national parks and redirected money instead to D.C.-area improvements — "a quiet crisis unfolding."

Yes! In a paper I recently edited, I wrote this to the author. "You will see that reviewer 3 is an inordinate fan of Dr. ____. While I have no doubts that this work is excellent, I was unable to find the connection to your present paper and encourage you to be judicious in following their advice."

To the reviewer who asked us to cite *fourteen* of his unrelated papers and then when we declined, submitted a comment with *fifteen* irrelevant self-citations: Bro, I know you dabble in bibliometrics but for fuck's sake it just doesn't matter that much—find a kernel of self-respect.

Block that alt account. They were in their replies defending their use of “A.i.” disinformation. No.

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

I'm very excited and so grateful to receive an NSF CAREER award - we'll be testing ideas about how CAM evolves using C3+CAM intermediate species and teaching students how plant physiology and genomics can simultaneously inform our understanding of plant biodiversity. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... 1/2

Your feel good vid of the day.

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

The economics are clear: renewables are now the cheapest source of new electricity across most of the world. The bottleneck is no longer price; it’s outdated regulations and market rules. Bloomberg Philanthropies is committing $285 million to fix that ☀️ 💨 ♨️ 🌊 🌾 🌍 www.bloomberg.org/press/bloomb...

We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack. Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it. So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn't complicated. He’s weak. Finish him.

Job ad is not out yet, but we're going to be hiring an Asst Prof at Cal State Northridge who works on either birds or mammals (area of research is broadly defined). Track down @jbyoder.org, @mutualismecology.bsky.social, or me at #Evol2026 with questions!