🌻 gray-headed coneflower 🌿 Ratibida pinnata #nativeplants #ecoregion71

One year ago today 🌿 Gaillardia pulchella, our Indian Blanket, blooming at Picture Canyon #nativeplants

Local grassland restoration affects insect communities doi.org/10.1111/een.... Local scale grassland in coastal Santa Barbara, CA affects insects communities resulting in less hyper dominance of herbivorous pests like thrips, and higher abundance and possible refuge for native bumblebees

HAPPY PRIDE from California Native Plants and the Luong Lab!!! 🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 This 2026 Flag from our lab features 152 california native plants! Did you know California is a Biodiversity hotspot with over 6000 native plants? How many plants can you name or spot? 🧐 #CaliforniaNativePlants

A heartfelt thank you to federal scientists of the USA. The authors of this piece reflect on the massive losses that occurred in 2025 — 10,109 PhDs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and health — either voluntarily or involuntarily. 17% of the workforce gone in a single year!

🚨New paper alert 🚨 In a 13-year experiment in longleaf pine savannas, we tested when passive recovery works, and how active interventions can help it along. 🧵 Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations to recent lab alum Aidan Edwards, whose undergraduate research was just published: Prescribed fire and canopy thinning reverse effects of mesophication in fire-suppressed oak savannas www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is the peer review process broken? Yes. Do I also LOVE reviewing papers because it exposes me to the newest findings, up-and-coming junior scientists who I need to follow, and gets me to ACTUALLY read a paper top-to-bottom? Also yes.

Excited to share our new article in Times Higher Education, written collaboratively with our RISE GenZ researchers, for their instructors. Read it here: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/dear-...

A new paper led by PRI grad student Asia Hightower introduces a powerful computational tool to examine the shape of any leaf across biological, ecological, evolutionary, and developmental scales. #PlantScience #Morphometrics #ComputationalBiology Read the full publication: doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

Monday Win: reviews are back on my third PhD chapter and they were overall positive! 🥳

New work from the lab: Miles @milesroberts.bsky.social tried out machine learning to estimate sweep times to fixation and (spoilers) it didn't really help www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... As always, we'd appreciate any feedback!

🍃In a 5-year grassland experiment with >2,000 leaf trait measurements, authors show that fast-growing species destabilize productivity and that trait differences drive species asynchrony in ways that change with species richness 👉️ buff.ly/TTcrmjw

OK y'all asking for advice: When i was a little grad student I always had 1 project in development, 1 project being written up, and 1 project in review. Now as a postdoc and finishing up my PhD stuff I have about 3x that many projects in all those stages. How do you stay on top of it all?

Starting off this week strong with a paper acceptance 👍 Stay tuned for some neat findings about natural recolonization of understory savanna species!

This is the reality that trans academics live in. You think the job market is bad for YOU? Imagine what it's like for someone who can't safely work in over half of the country. If you live in one of these red states, your department is missing out on amazing scientists. Science is political.

Hot tip: When reviewing a paper, please try to be specific about what changes are needed to clarify something, or rectify a problem. Signed, someone who is about to hire a psychic to try and read the mind of reviewer #3 whose signature catchphrase is simply "Needs more detail". 😩

I'm doing interviews with students with ADHD and after the interview I told them that I had ADHD and the student was like "I've never seen an ADHD adult be so successful...I guess I really can become a doctor" 🥹🥹🥹 Tell your students about your struggles, I promise it has an impact.

Universities you work for love to be like: 💖 ✨ YOU ARE INVITED ✨ 💖 🪩 🕺 to give us money 💃🏼 🪩

A student with ADHD forgets to book a testing center appt. and loses their accommodation. A student's anxiety keeps them from sharing accommodations with profs. If using accommodations requires skills make inherently harder by their disability, is the system working? tinyurl.com/yymn8cne

🎓 Science instructors — we’d love your help with a research study. If you identify as having depression and teach a large undergraduate science course (50+ students), we’re looking for participants. Interested? Learn more and sign up here lnkd.in/gSa4TeZx Please share with your networks!

They are clearly trying to whip up a moral panic about disability accommodations but this article doesn't include any data on accommodations.

OK y'all--has everyone just given up on providing critical peer reviews? The last two papers I've reviewed I've listed several points of feedback and the other reviewer has just said "no notes looks good 👍" Like, if we're not going to be good reviewers why bother doing it?

My advisor is pretty freakin neat y'all! If you teach, or are wondering what the data say about creating inclusive spaces in higher education, the research coming out of the Brownell lab is a great place to go!

it's the AI PRFB now 🙃

These are the curves for new and competitive renewal grants. The number of new awards is increasing slightly, but only slightly. 17 out of 25 institutes and centers with funding authority have now made awards. 3/4

These are the curves for non-competitive renewal grants. The curve for fiscal year 2026 is still lagging behind, in part because of the government shutdown and in part because of what appears to be a somewhat lower rate of grant issuance. 2/4

⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱 #Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com

Excited to see continued coverage of our recent article on how American kestrels can improve food safety and reduce crop damage on cherry farms: insideclimatenews.org/news/2201202...

So excited about this incredible fellowship program designed to empower students interested in tackling issues like climate change, wildfires, and more. Open to all majors, because all perspectives and skillsets are important to engage with these challenges!

Opinion | Gaming the System? Extended Time on Tests Is Often a Waste of Time Extra time on a well-designed college exam rarely benefits anyone. https://bit.ly/49RKoHP #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Extra time on exams has become the default accommodation in higher ed—but evidence suggests it often doesn’t help anyone: not students “gaming the system,” and more concerningly, often not students with disabilities either. Read our opinion piece here: url-shortener.me/8R70

Submitted my very first DBER research paper today!!! So excited for y'all to see the final product (these may be my prettiest figures yet!)

I'm excited to share memes that my students made this year in my undergraduate #Evolution class #popgen #consgen #evolbiol . "When a batesian mimicry species comes to the party: hello fellow harmful species" "I found on all-encompassing way to define species"

Take-home lesson we ALL need to learn: Resistance works and capitulation doesn't!

"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg

It’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities and I am currently on a hellish and agonising journey across London to get home. So much of the world is exclusionary & harmful for so many of us. If *you* can create communities, spaces, interactions which can reduce that harm, please do ❤️

PRI is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong computational and data science skills to join a project focused on identifying causal environmental drivers of crop resilience and yield. 🧬 Learn more and apply: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience

What is actually more concerning as someone who does research in this field is that NOBODY is talking about the effectiveness of extra testing time for students with disabilities (not here to argue over whether students are *actually* disabled because TBH doesn't really matter to me)

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Our timely study set in western India, which utilizes #indigenous traditional literature dating back to 750yrs, provides 1 such line of evidence. Contradicting t popular notion of a forested-past, historical nature descriptions revealed a major% of plants typical of savannas. 5/n

🌟New Pub🌟! Out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social Ecology meets Mythology: Medieval stories and songs uncover India’s ecological past. Link to paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (click "MR" for Marathi abstract). @dhmsu.bsky.social @msunatsci.bsky.social 1/n

Have you seen the ecosystems here? Have you noticed the plants and wildlife and the microbial communities that call Earth home? The intricate and complicated web of life that has been knitted over billions of years, evolved for these specific planetary conditions? I wouldn't leave that for anything

White House hits road block in effort to get top colleges to sign deal as 6 of 9 reject the compact by today's deadline

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Check out our new preprint on monkeyflower salt spray adaptation, with coauthors @pcdurant.bsky.social, Katherine Egeler, and @davidlowry.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Never accuse someone of being lazy when you've observed their mistakes and not their effort. That’s not constructive. It’s unkind, ableist, and biased. Signed, an author with ADHD whose three typo-eque errors got a whole manuscript deemed “careless.”

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...