Holy sh*t. Wab Kinew's government just made using data to increase prices an unfair business practice. This is historic for Canada. *Proposed bill bans suppliers from charging higher prices to certain consumers based on personalized or algorithmically determined information. t.co/ZugFOj7983

This is called ‘surveillance pricing.’ It should be illegal. I have a bill to ban it.

Science is part of a healthy democracy. Join us at the Capitol in Lansing to Stand Up for Science! March 7 from 1-3pm. @standupforscience.bsky.social

Time to repost some #AcademicMemes

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Yikes.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

🧪 openRxiv is testing AI peer review to expedite feedback. However, reliance on LLMs risks a regression to the mean, where unique expert insights are replaced by algorithmic averages that prioritize syntax over significance. #AcademicSky

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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

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The irony of asking the "hivemind" in this one requires you to watch the show to be appreciated 😂

Sorry not sorry 😅 via Gar Week fan👍

Until you get the human on a rail bike

Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

📢🍄Mycology job alert🍄📢 The Department of Plant Biology at @michiganstateu.bsky.social has a job opening for a herbarium/fungarium director at the Assistant, Associate or Full professor level. Review of applications start on 3rd October 2025. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Michigan State University is looking for a Director of the MSU Herbarium. This is an open rank search. This 12-month position includes research, teaching, mentoring as well as administration of the Herbarium. #botany #plants #academicjobs plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

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It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Hey #Botany2025 folks -- Asia Hightower @puffballove.bsky.social will be talking about leaf shape G x E x Development in Capsella bursa-pastoris. Tuesday Jul 29 at 9:15 in Mesquite B!!

Welcome to the neighborhood.

No, we will NOT be delivering the expensive and sensitive piece of equipment to Central Receiving where it will then be manhandled a second time. We will let the bonded and insured professionals move it and then Inventory Control can walk the little barcode stick over to it.

Look, good for this researcher, but private equity is not going to replace the volume and scope of US federal agency funding.

Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to @davidlowry.bsky.social lab postdoc @lestanley.bsky.social, this year’s MSU Danny Schnell Plant Biology Outstanding Postdoctoral Award recipient! 🎉 Lauren has made exceptional contributions to MSU through research, mentorship, and outreach, and PRI is very proud of her!

Elle is a comedic genius.

Coming soon... January 2026

How NC voters on the Griffin List (or anyone worried about their future vote) can update their voter file Please share with everyone in NC you know triangleblogblog.com/2025/04/05/h...

Come check out our booth "Exploring Plant Cells" at the @msuscifest.bsky.social STEAM Expo Days today and tomorrow until 4pm! Dive into the microscopic world of plants using real microscopes and hands-on models and activities, presented by Jacob in the @rheelab.bsky.social at @msupri.bsky.social! 🔬🌿

The @msuscifest.bsky.social STEAM Expo is in full swing! The Howe lab is highlighting the evolutionary strategies plants use to defend themselves in their booth, "Botanical Battlegrounds: Adapt, Survive, and Thrive!"

Quick reminder that a Wired subscription is dirt cheap and they're doing really important work.

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

🌱🌱🌱Big botanical news🌱🌱🌱 Announcing 'Build A Plant' by the Onyenedum Lab at NYU, a video series all about plant anatomy! I had a plantastic time working on this 🥹 4 eps are out now, covering root, shoot, secondary growth, and leaf anatomy: youtube.com/@joyceonyene... 🧪 #scicomm #botany #plants

Motion to retain the genus name for #Phytophthora: Of the 265 people registered for the APS Workshop, 166 voted on the Motion over a 14-day post Workshop voting period. Of the 166 responders, 164 (98.8 %) voted for the motion and two (1.2 %) abstained. There were no votes against the motion.

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Hi BlueSkyers! I'm an evolutionary biologist, microbiologist, entomologist, lover of nature, and long-time researcher on symbiosis. I'm realizing that BlueSky is useful and generally non-toxic so here I am (having quit Facebook in Jan 2017, and Twitter in Oct 2022).

Michigan 🍒 plant scientists sequenced the sour cherry genome in 2023 to protect crops & save farmers money. Now, Food Innovation science, once funded by USAID, is being cut — explains Michigan scientist Madison Plunkert 🧪🏠 @madisonplunkert.bsky.social lansingstatejournal.com/story/opinio...

The crowd is swelling as Seattle stands up for science. @govbobferguson.bsky.social just stopped by. Fired NOAA researcher, censored mathematician, and climate scientists are showing why science is for everyone! #standupforscience2025

Going strong in Oregon! @standupforscifr.bsky.social #StandUpforScience2025

The turnout at a “Stand Up For Science” protest in front of the Michigan Capitol this afternoon.

Good turnout for the Stand Up for Science March in Woods Hole, MA. While a small town on Cape Code, Woods Hole hosts 6 premier science institutions that include @mblscience.bsky.social, @whoi.edu, @noaa.gov fisheries, @woodwellclimate.bsky.social, USGS, and @sea1971.bsky.social #standupforscience

@standupforscience.bsky.social in St. Louis!

Stand up for science! Atlanta is standing up! #standupforscience2025