WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

Please repost! 🌿 Postdoctoral position available in the Yadav Lab at UMass Amherst! 🌿 Apply by September 25, 2026. See the advertisement below. drive.google.com/file/d/1W9QU... We are seeking a #postdoc to investigate the genetic, and biomechanical principles underlying the leaf morphogenesis.

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary: Trends in Plant Science www.cell.com/trends/plant... This was a fun project with @morpholosophist.bsky.social to write a modeling glossary for my NSF CAREER grant together with students in my course.

The balcony solar revolution is coming to the United States, but not everyone has been able to benefit. The nearly 35% of Americans who rent could stand to gain the most from solar, but there is a potential barrier in the way: Their landlords.

Summer summer summertime… Rogers Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social is hopping! We have several summer students that are supported by our NSF FACES program, NIH MARC, @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social STAR, and UC Davis LEADS together with volunteers all mentored by our amazing PhD and DVM/PhD candidates. 🤩

What do we mean when we say NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory will scan the sky? This visualization shows what a typical week of the 10-year survey looks like. The survey runs via a smart algorithm called a scheduler that dynamically determines where Rubin points next. 🔭🧪

How Antarctica got it's ice sheets -- this week on the @science.org podcast w/ @meagancantwell.bsky.social and Thomas Gernon listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Sad news today, as I heard that my PhD advisor Jim Hamrick passed away. Jim was a passionate naturalist and was instrumental in early efforts to document and understand genetic diversity in plant species -- using allonyms to quantify diversity for hundreds of different species.

Native people have been left out of the story of America's founding. But without us, you don't know what really happened. I sat down with @the1a.org to talk about my new podcast FIRST AMERICA. Listen here: the1a.org/segments/the...

Ever wondered what makes some alleles dominant (A) and others recessive (a) ? In our new paper, we explored how a series of recently discovered "dominance modifiers", genetic elements that have long remained elusive, achieve their regulatory function. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

A University of Hawaiʻi report says that building more solar farms with battery storage is the most cost-effective way to power Oʻahu, rather than building new power plants. The electricity company doesn’t agree. Lol.

Very satisfying. youtu.be/R2G8Xy6hiyg?...

Looks like someone zonked out over this morning’s breakfast last night

My talk is this afternoon at 4:20PM! I'll be discussing our ongoing efforts to infer demographic histories in maize using the ancestral recombination graph.

1/11 🤩Sooooo happy to see this work on a new new group #algae. Looks like #centrohelids - predatory ancient eukaryotic lineage sometimes harbor vertically-inherited plastids from #dictyochophytes. Amazing work, @annewalraven.bsky.social, glad to be on board! More below:

So punk rock.😂 #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

It's as official as it can be: The Yoder Lab has been very lucky to receive NSF funding to develop our TARDIS method of modeling plants' flowering activity in varying environments. Watch for grad (MSci) opportunities in Fall 2027, and a postdoc position sooner than that 🌿 buff.ly/OHpbfB0

Often, when you pull hard on something, it breaks. But when it comes to the spindle, the fiber that organizes chromosomes during cell division, pulling only makes it stronger. www.quantamagazine.org/what-breaks-...

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Just caught the first episode of “Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness” and it’s made me realize how much I missed the Drunken History genre, the Barack Obama cold opening was also an unexpected delight

As ticks increase in number, Pfizer and Valneva plan to seek regulatory approval for a vaccine to protect against Lyme disease. A previous vaccine for Lyme became available in the late 1990s but was pulled after only three years due to a lack of interest. www.npr.org/2026/06/27/n...

This is making NSF guidance in line with the proposed changes from OMB on grantmaking., e.g., "Disallows publication costs consistent with proposed revisions to 2 CFR 20" Comment by Aug 24.

Moss spore capsules today at Dry Gulch 🌿 #nativeplants

this legitimately made me tear up. a tremendous public servant!

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

After reading @blekhernia.bsky.social's great blog post on lab AI usage policy (blekhman.substack.com/p/you-need-t...), we made one in lab meeting. Feedback welcome! rilab.ucdavis.edu/ai_expectati...

A large heat dome will smother the eastern half of the US. Feels like temps will peak between 100-115 degrees across a huge expanse of area. Both the size and longevity of the event will be impressive - 1/2 the nation and a full week of summer swelter! But the intensity will not be unprecedented.

I'll be looking to hire a lab tech (up to 4 yrs) - ideal candidate will have basic molecular lab experience (DNA/RNA) and will be excited about plant photosynthesis! Keep an eye out for the ad in the next few weeks! 2/2

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

Ten months ago I had never written an op-ed. I believed the work spoke for itself. It doesn't. When the government calls a lifesaving technology unsafe and scientists stay silent, the silence becomes the story. A new @jhu.edu profile on why I stopped staying quiet: hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/24/j...

I’m happy to share our review on the evolution of root systems in land plants @currentbiology.bsky.social @rootdevelopment.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Peyote is a sacred medicine Native peoples fought 100+ years to protect. In 1918, the Native American Church incorporated to defend religious freedom—even before many had U.S. citizenship. "Peyote Politics" uncovers this history. Full interview: www.kosu.org/peyote-polit...

Friends, this bot account has been feigning interest in my flower posts here for a few days. It doesn’t recall I answered its questions before. It wastes our time while burning oil and water to do so. That’s incompatible with the bees it claims to support. 🐝 I’m blocking it now. Use your judgment. 🧐

Excited to share our first lab preprint! We enabled fast wide-field FLIM with low noise and high dynamic range. We built compact resonant modules for EO-FLIM that fit into your hand and developed methods to capture multi-exponential phasor plots at up to 500 Hz. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

@abeba.blacksky.app @willie-agnew.bsky.social among others made a good and very thorough article digging into the concrete (and increasing) connections and pathways for computer vision research to predominantly power surveillance tech: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Senate for the first time approved a war powers resolution Tuesday seeking to block U.S. military action against Iran, as lawmakers warily watch President Trump's efforts to resolve a conflict that the administration launched on its own and now needs Congress to fund. https://to.pbs.org/4g3r5QI

HCR™ HiFi Probes now support short target detection in manual workflows. Built with next-generation probe design, they deliver stronger on-target signal and background-suppressed performance for targets like microRNAs and siRNAs. Learn more: [email protected]

Our paper on the origin and evolution of phloem, a big part of my PhD work, is out in Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

We are in an uncomfortable era where it is getting a little too hard to tell if something belongs in the The Onion or not...

One of the most badass biologists to have ever lived. Unstoppable.

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more during #InsectWeek: https://scim.ag/4mM2aS9

"Keep politics out of science" But politics keeps women out of science. There's a shift in hostility you experience from the PhD onwards, and it intensifies the higher you go. A workshop and role models for girls won't solve it, just shifts the blame & cause on the victims rather than perpetrators.

making sure my cat learns to appreciate the finer things in life, like corn

U.K. Weighs Social Media Ban Of Everyone Except Old Men Who Grow Big Vegetables https://theonion.com/u-k-weighs-social-media-ban-of-everyone-except-old-men-who-grow-big-vegetables/

Excited to share that our work on single-nucleus RNA-seq of the shoot apical meristem — the shoot stem cell niche — has found a home. #Plantascience #scRNAseq #stemcells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...