Disappointing

Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District. And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

Federal workers—including furloughed workers—are entitled to backpay after the shutdown ends. That is the LAW. Trump and his administration of crooks saying anything otherwise are LYING to try and scare and intimidate federal workers.

Gorgeous

Night blooming cactus on my evening walk in Tucson tonight!

(1/10) I am excited to share this signature review from our lab published @jxbotany.bsky.social Congratulations to @ohazel.bsky.social and @jessicaa-orr.bsky.social (first published paper for Jessica!) Nuclear positioning and cell division site specification in plants doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

#OverlyHonestMethods 🤣 with Steph Martinez

Our work on mapping the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation is now published in @jxbotany.bsky.social We show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. → academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Burros on campus! #UCRiverside

I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.

Final, edited version of the paper now available www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"the results show that most Americans are not buying the White House’s arguments for the compact’s measures, said [Baker]...The compact has been presented as a tool to promote [affordability and merit]...but it’s really about censoring institutions and faculty." www.chronicle.com/article/amer...

Grateful for UC Faculty Association leaders. UCLA's Faculty Association and our UC-wide council pushed the Regents for transparency. When push came to shove, they sued over it. This is a matter of public interest. Californians deserve to know about Trump's attempt to ransom the UC. Thank you CUCFA!

Pumpkin and squash

Thimble cactus (Mammilaria gracilis) that I've been over-wintering for years... blooming for the first time. #FlowerReport

Letter from American Association of University Professors to University of California office of the President

Good morning! 🪶

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

Apparently fining trucks for breaking the law is “a slippery slope” according to our City Council representative Chuck Condor, amazing. www.nbclosangeles.com/video/news/l...

Amazing day hearing Prof Qi Mu from Uni of Delaware talk about phenotypic plasticity at UCR - a highly relevant trait for crop improvement 🌽

This paper is cool, showing that an RNA binding protein is essential for meiotic cytokinesis by binding (and stabilizing) a bunch of cytosketal mRNAs. check it out! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40902107/ 🧪

I’ve decided to live in the moss world, everything is crystalline light and clean, untroubled by anything larger. Still working on how to shrink down to dew drop level, once that detail is overcome I’m there. It’ll be so easy to ‘touch moss’ every day when I live beneath the towering green fronds. 🌿

Jensen, @peiferlabunc.bsky.social et al. @unclineberger.bsky.social reveal that the intrinsically disordered region of Canoe is critical for its role in linking cell–cell adherens junctions to the #cytoskeleton. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Development #Adhesion #Drosophila

From our UCR Botanic Garden April 2024, some liverwort probably 🌱, happy to get an ID

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Come join our collaborative research environment with state-of-the-art facilities in NYC! Application review starts Oct 22. biochem.weill.cornell.edu/join-our-fac...

I love Frederic Bonnet's compound eye image that got first place 😍

Grateful to see one my #superresolution #pollen images won 2nd place at the 2025 @bioimagingna.bsky.social image contest! www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/image-contes... #microscopy #confocal #botany #plantscience #allergies #bioimaging

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (From @alaskapublic.org)

Try this link, from archive.ph: archive.ph/sscA3

Very excited that my final postdoctoral work is now online in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Using 16 (!) cryo-EM structures, we uncovered how the three proteins coronin, cofilin and AIP1 work together to rapidly disassemble actin filaments.

Mods are asleep post brassicas

-80 freezer at -20

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Literally in tears. People outside of healthcare have no idea how devastating this is. Like, I had a subscription as part of my job as an infection control nurse. I feel sick.

UPDATE‼️The Hill reports at least 4,100 employees fired today as Russell Vought and Trump devastate our government agencies and slash the federal workforce. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

I keep going back and looking at this picture. It seems, no matter what topic I'm working with, I really like bright, saturated colors.

Oh and did I mention that the mutant has interesting misoriented divisions? Movie by Stephanie Martinez! 🌱

Severing is critical for the reorganization of microtubules, movie by Stephanie Martinez!

A time projection of the microtubules in the katanin mutant by Stephanie Martinez 🥳

Oh I don't know, if you're like us and make content like this then its quite possible NEPA shutting down a concentration camp in FL is the sexiest thing you've seen all year. I guess NEPA does delay fascism.