Hey plant colleagues out there! 3 days to go to apply for the plant biotechnology professorship. Great colleagues @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social, amazing atmosphere @dompsfr.bsky.social, lovely city to settle. And great support by @cibss.bsky.social. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Know anyone who'd be interested in this #Sciencesky #MedSky? Please share! We're urgently seeking an Entomologist to support vector control strategies, including Wolbachia monitoring, in Central America. https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/proyectosinternacionales/jobs/6110260004?gh_src=ryb9gqft4us

xkcd comics published about statistics correlates with The number of concierges in Ohio (r=0.921)

The University of Queensland is hiring: Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor in Precision Agriculture #lecturer #associateprofessor #precisionagriculture #agriculture

Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

More exciting press for the 2026 BSA Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award winner, Dr. Nishanta "Nishi" Rajakaruna! www.coa.edu/news/coa-alu... Join us in August for our BSA awards blitz, where we will be celebrating all of our 2026 BSA award winners on social media!

Dems have dumped Swalwell and platner Republicans have nominated Ken Paxton

“puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth.” Is a better description of and defense of higher education than anyone has made around here.

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Jack Dorman, @williambakhache.bsky.social and I wrote a review of #DeepMutationalScanning ( #DMS ) applications in #virology, exploring the ways it’s been used to understand the rules of #virus #evolution and #immunity. We also explore new applications of the technology. Check it out!

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

🚧⚽️ Chicagoans, Daley Plaza is hosting a FIFA Watch Party tonight! Roads around Washington, Clark & Dearborn will close at 6pm. Plan your detours! 🚧⚽️

I heard two giant booms today a few minutes apart and instead of assuming the t was fireworks, wondered if @funnelfiasco.bsky.social lost power again.

I have officially started as Investigadora at the Instituto de Biología, UNAM. UNAM is a dream come true! Life is hectic! And I'm so excited for the immediate future, that will certainly involve liverworts, phylogenetics, and dogs! Follow my adventures here, ixchelgzlzr.github.io/es/

Federal agents tried to track David Streever to his home and hotel, and left him a warning notice that a critical email he sent the former head of ICE may have been illegal. Now he's suing. n.pr/4goBOVU

Great reporting on this perspective in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1. Risks of ultra-processed foods are likely caused by their differences in specific nutritional properties, not in being 'processed' 2. 'Ultra-processed' miscategorizes many healthy + sustainable plant-based products

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Fog is a big issue downtown Chicago this evening. The Hancock just before the entire lakefront got consumed with the puffy stuff.

Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

I have made it an annual tradition to document Mark Twain’s hatred of July 4th celebrations, but I saved something special for America 250. Twain was part of the centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876. He was part of what the dubbed the “Congress of Authors”…

I…worked on this story for a decade…and…he just…he blurted it out on teevee.

Here are well known socialists Greg Abbott and Rudy Giuliani asking their constituents to turn their thermostats up to 78 degrees during a heatwave: www.nyc.gov/html/om/html... www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

Assistant Professor for Sweetpotato Breeding and Genetics at NCSU: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231... #PlantScience

Retelling this story will make you the most interesting person at your July 4th bbq guaranteed!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...

Una pausa de hidratación

🧪🌾 Ready to establish your own research group in plant science? Explore @umeauniversitet.bsky.social's new Northern Star Fellows programme and consider UPSC as the home for your future research. 📅 Deadline: 1 October Questions? Contact @johanneshanson.bsky.social 🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

Algae is loving this news cycle. They’ve never been more relevant. Microzooplankton sitting at home changing the channel like, what about us? we even have cilia and pseudopods, this is bullshit.

I wish I shared your optimism.

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

My postdoc preprint is now online @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social. We established HYDRA, a shoot regeneration assay in Arabidopsis without exogenous hormones, and show that photosynthesis-derived carbon drives regeneration via RBR1 pathway–mediated cell cycle activation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌱 The CSHL Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science course has just kicked off! 14 students, 24 international lecturers, 3 weeks of intensive plant biology at Cold Spring Harbor. Thrilled to co-instruct alongside Aman Husbands & Sharon Kessler! 🌿 👉 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-PLAN

Oh the folly!

Read the latest issue of #G3journal, highlighting challenges in #Drosophila genetic mapping studies, where altered SNP density can skew recombination, complicating trait localization. 🪰 📷️ credit: Jay Hirsh and Morgan et al, 1925 🔗 buff.ly/JJCH6Sj

Watching episode of ER from 2001. Dr. Chen & Dr. Carter are trying to diagnose an unconscious preschooler. Carter: “Could be measles.” Chen: “Measles? Have you ever seen measles?” Carter: “No, have you?” Chen: “Of course not, nobody’s seen measles.” So far backwards in such a short time.

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

1/3 🚨New Perspective🚨 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) "When evolvability meets constraint: reflections on empirical fitness landscapes after Weinreich et al. (2006)" 20 years after a seminal study, I discuss the forces that both constrain evolution + make it possible academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Note from my notebook (2017). Still true.

Our light rail is breaking records! 🏆⚽️ House Republicans wanted to defund public transit funding entirely–I didn’t let them. Let’s keep building!

Today in "if this is true what must also be true", we looked at the absorption spectra of a phytotoxic molecule and the joules needed to generate singlet oxygen. Lo and behold the photon energy at max A is ~20% more than needed to generate high-energy singlet oxygen. Checks out. Trust but verify.

Phased, secondary siRNAs in plant reproduction Blake Meyers University of California, Davis @ucdavisplants.bsky.social More questions than anthers 🤣 #icar2026

New filing by SPLC suggests FBI opened its investigation based on a letter sent to Stephen Miller in Aug 2026 from Liberty Counsel, Moms for Liberty, TPUSA and other rw groups—complaining about their inclusion in the Hate Map. The incident report cribs from the rw activists letter repeatedly.

If you're a Barnes & Noble member, from now through Friday you can get 25% off preordering Serling: A Journey Into the Twilight Zone with TV's First Visionary with code PREORDER25. (An extra 10% off if you're a B&N Premum member) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/serling-al...

New, #OpenAccess work by Walia et al. on #Arabidopsis InsP-kinases IPK1 and ITPK1, reveals that specific InsP-kinases are partly involved in modulating #plant PSR by fine-tuning the coordination between CRL and CSN activities. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantScience

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!

A new preprint is OUT! 🚨 Thrilled to finally share our work on how decoy diversification underpins the regulation of an NLR-mediated autoimmunity. Check out the full story on @bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

The ISS has hosted 6 Italian astronauts since 2001 when Umberto Guidoni became one of the 1st Europeans to visit. But as far as "planting the flag", it was Samantha Cristoforetti who made it a proper destination for ESA's Italian astronauts with the launch of the 'ISSpresso machine'.