i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off." 'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.' We hope neither carries you off today.

Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...

In the September 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Heterodichogamy in Ascarina lucida (Chloranthaceae) @theobrominated.bsky.social et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance @evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

In the September 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social From the Archives: Essential Readings in Plant Mating System Evolution: Three Classic Contributions from Lloyd and Schoen @flwrecoevo.bsky.social, Carol Goodwillie www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Anyone from the University of Montreal here? Please DM. Please RT.

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social From the Archives: Multiple ways to escape stick-world: 3 papers that paved the way to integrate the fossil record into a synthetic understanding of the origin and evolution of leaves in the euphyllophyte clade Mihai Tomescu www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

1. Flood the forms: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 2. Katrina Declaration: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina... 3. Impeach the Quack: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... 4. Quack-O-Gram: act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/... 5. Rally: act.standupforscience.net/events/virtu...

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Heterodichogamy in Ascarina lucida (Chloranthaceae) @theobrominated.bsky.social et al #PlantScience www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

Is the Most Effective Pollinator Principle a zombie idea? How do plants adapted to one pollinator shift to another without traversing an adaptive valley? How should we measure fitness in pollinator selection studies? We explore these questions and more in a new review doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Concentration camp brought back into service as concentration camp.

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

@ijpsjournal.bsky.social is not a society journal (we're 150 years old and pre-date most North American scientific societies), but we are published by the non-profit @chicagojournals.bsky.social, have no page charges, and have OA for as little as $400 USD. #PlantScience

9 out of 10 moms think that you should consider @ijpsjournal.bsky.social as an outlet for your work. #PlantScience

Excited to talk about our work on the relationship between bud depth in the soil and bulb size this morning (8:45, Mojave) at #Botany2025! 🪻😍🧅 If you can’t make it, check out the paper for all the info! Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Excited to showcase my new Open Educational Resource for intro college level Botany. It's a hybrid textbook, lab manual, and workbook. Published and ready for anyone to implement! I'll be showcasing it in the Educational section of #Botany2025 today and handing out copies & stickers!

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 AN EXPLORATION OF FACTORS DRIVING PATTERNS OF HYBRIDIZATION IN TRIODANIS Keegan McConnell, Alyssa Zhan, Jolie Linhart, Kurt M. Neubig, @flwrecoevo.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

AOP and OA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social From the Archives: Essential Readings in Plant Mating System Evolution: Three Classic Contributions from Lloyd and Schoen @flwrecoevo.bsky.social, Carol Goodwillie www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

Alexandria Declaration coming out from courageous NSF staff. www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s... I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

Lo logramos. Gracias a los participantes que hicieron todo posible y a NSF y al SSB por el apoyo ! #evol2025

Been quiet lately for a good reason (vacation), but hopping onto to say: 🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds. Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal... Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

This. Is. Already. How. It. Works.

I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.

Hmmm… so masks work and so do mask mandates in schools. “We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year.

Our latest, led by @jameswclark.bsky.social of @milnerevolution.bsky.social shows that the notorious mismatch between molecular and palaeontological estimates for the timing of origin of angiosperms is a consequence of equivocal interpretation of their fossil record @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

We're suing the Trump administration over its politically-motivated termination of research grants that has already harmed scientists and our communities. Political ideology shouldn't dictate public health.

State Rep @jamestalarico.bsky.social gives a master class in Republican hypocrisy 🔥 The Texas House passed the Ten Commandments bill in an 82-46 vote… on the Sabbath, breaking the Fourth Commandment in the process.

Kilauea is going absolutely crazy right now with episode 23 of the eruption. USGS live stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release ! Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Finally a budget that gives huge tax breaks to billionaires and cracks down on those greedy nonprofits

I commented. You should too!

2. "bm" and "mk" from Grundler, Rabosky & Zapata (2022, 1 citation!). These two software packages are BLAZING FAST methods that identify shifts in rates in BM and Mk models on a tree. They're super easy to use. github.com/blueraleigh/bm github.com/blueraleigh/mk academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

This wasn't just an assignment for me; writing this little perspective gave me the opportunity to reflect on my own journey and to appreciate these foundational papers by Lloyd & Schoen once again. It was a joy to write this with my brilliant mentor and friend, Carol Goodwillie.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. And already, Frodo, our time is beginning to look black."

Today is a day for action, scientist friends. Don't just go back to whatever paper you're editing or experiment you're running. Talking points: bsky.app/profile/davi... Other advice: ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2025/05/tale...

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

🧵 NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night. Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.” She’s a constituent. Not a threat. Fascism again.

Exactly 200 years ago today a sperm whale washed up on the Yorkshire Coast. It ended up at Burton Constable Hall Nr Hull, where it can still be seen. Herman Melville saw the dissection report and that’s how it ended up being mentioned in #MobyDick #MelvilleMonday.

A new 🌎 synthesis by Li. et al. shows that plant diversity and carbon storage are positively linked, but the relationship is often weak—stronger in grasslands and shaped by climate factors onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....