The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

New and improved and open access! With @gehan @susanmeerdink from @danforthcenter.bsky.social Please check out the tools and all plasmids are available on @addgene.bsky.social thank you @darpa.mil for funding! doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool

Color changing flowers 🧬🎨- attempt #2 Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..

Once the AI gets a hold of this we will become its avatar in real life! Welcome to the realiverse.

🧟🐜 Zombie Ant Research🚨 I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint! This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A PLETHORA transcription factor shapes cucumber shoot architecture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677013v1

Did you even pass your dissertation proposal if someone didn’t suggest collecting $100k worth of data???? (This is my official announcement: I passed my dissertation proposal).

Scientists:

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Molecular genetic characterization of CASEIN KINASE 1-LIKE 12 in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676859v1

Some new tools for monocots, and the plasmids are available at Addgene! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Happy Equinox friends and cousins. Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows.

Something we have been working on. Built off the work of the unforgettable Dr. Joanne Chory. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I thought the matrix was going to be more interesting than this: gizmodo.com/this-35000-c...

Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

It’s that time of year again!

Now hiring: Are you a technician? Do you enjoy the lab? Plants 🌱? DNA 🧬? Microscopes 🔬? We are looking for you! We are looking for a Biological Technical Assistant for the new molecular botany lab at @rwth.bsky.social Aachen. Please apply! www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de/cms/biologie...

Has anyone seen these criminal biologists? I didn’t even like plants back then, but knew that Barbara was the bomb.

**SAVE THE DATE** JXB turns 𝟕𝟓 in 2025. Come and celebrate with us in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 17-19th Sept 🎉 🥳🍾 Featuring fantastic speakers, a program for early/mid career researchers, a conference dinner, posters, networking, workshops... More info soon...🌱 🌾 🌳 @sebiology.bsky.social 🧪 #plantscience

"Kennedy's 'cures' involve reversing some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in history: pasteurization, vaccines, and the scientific method of determining truth."

Yesterday the incredible Toby Kellogg received the Danforth Award for Plant Science. I got to learn a lot about science, discovery, and the power of “I don’t know.” Great remarks from the equally remarkable Becky Bart and Bethany Zolman

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I saw this somewhere in Montreal... love it.

His YouTube /tiktok videos are the best

I can't find African Scientists and researchers easily on here. As the second largest continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants our perspectives matter. I'm creating a starterpack to find folks, follow them and amplify them. If you are an African Scientist let me know below so I can add you. Thanks.

Sounds legit.

Yes, I didn’t know about this

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Got dusty microarrays lying around? Send them my way—I’ll do you a favor and recycle them for free 😏

Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities. For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship). Good luck! Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Me too.

Now is the time to archive the gov data and webpages that you depend on for your research. They may not be there in the future. #AcademicSky

🚨 Research Assistant #job available at The University of Queensland! Provide technical research support to Christine Beveridge, Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos, and Mark Cooper's groups through DNA/RNA/metabolite/hormone work on Arabidopsis and soghum🌱🧬 More info and apply: bit.ly/UQ-RA

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Not that anyone in particular needs it, but here's a guide to good science communication. It's not all obvious! https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/how-to-be-kind-on-social-media-a-guide-for-scientists/ 🧪

Now @UNM #MentoringInstitute Sylvia Hurtado/@UCLA: "Transformative research & practice: Promoting Individual & Organizational Learning for Equity & Inclusion." How do we change institutions? How do we ensure that meaningful interventions aren't siloed in status quo environments?

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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