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The #ChoctawNation has long been a strong supporter of higher education and the pursuit of advanced degrees. In 2025 alone, the Nation awarded more than $13 million in educational support - a substantial investment in Native students and their futures.

Hi, all - trying to help a student find dissertation writing fellowships applicable to eco/evo, plant biology, plant microbiome. US-based. Would appreciate any leads. TIA! 🌱

Preprint!!!! This is the result of an ongoing collaboration between us and the genomics core to make genetics cheap and easy. A synergy between library prep and analytical approaches. This one hinges on recognizing 1. that DNA molecules are shaped by evolution and 2. we have friends everywhere.

Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢

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Join the University of Kansas - Center for Genomics on May 8th for the 5th Annual🧬KUCG Research Symposium🧬 📍Lawrence, KS 📅Friday, May 8th, 2026 🕘8am - 6pm CT 🧪Abstracts due March 15th

✨Scholarship Opportunity for MSW at KU✨ Students are eligible for $7000 per academic year for those admitted to our 2-year Traditional MSW program on the Lawrence campus.

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 Authors: Asher Hudson, Maggie Wagner, and Peter Balint-Kurti Maize Hybrids Exhibit Reduction in an Elicitor-Triggered Defense Response Compared to Their Inbred Parents | #MPMI apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Art meets science in the latest project from Wenting Zhu.

#Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Chief Gary Batton's statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s final State of the State address. Tribal sovereignty is the law. Period.

tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/foo... The Oklahoma Choctaw Tribe are making fresh produce affordable for all people using SNAP at their 2 tribal grocery stores built in identified “food deserts.” The Double Up Oklahoma program is funded through a U.S. Department of Ag grant by Hunger Free OK.

Grad student in lab just had their GRFP returned without review. But their proposal is not on ag/crops/health. What gives?? 😡

Anyone dealt with challenging an "Ineligible" determination on a GRFP proposal? A student's proposed was DQ'ed stating: "Applicants must select research in eligible STEM or STEM education fields." However, Ecology is clearly listed in the solicitation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Any wisdom?

A great start to the semester with @jychoi.bsky.social's presentation "No end in sight, mysteries of the telomeric variation in plants"! @kubiology.bsky.social

This week...

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Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.

This new #OpenAccess commentary by Hu et al. examines the many roles of signaling peptides in #plant #growth, #development and #environmental adaptation, and explores their potential application in #crop breeding strategies. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantScience

New Year Greetings from the PlantPostdocs team to our fam🍀 This new year, join the club or refer us to your colleagues 🌱 To know more about what we do, scan the QR code or log onto plantpostdocs.com

A space for connection, support, and growth for plant science postdocs. Join the www.plantpostdocs.com community! 🌾🧪

As a member of the Leadership Team, I’m proud to share what makes the #PlantPostdoc Slack special. 🌿 It’s a vibrant community for postdocs in plant-related fields. A safe space to review materials, share opportunities, and support each other as we navigate our paths in academia and industry.

Nittak Hullo Chito Na Yukpa (Merry Christmas) and Happy Holidays to all! May 2026 bring more laughter, community, and peace. 🎄 🎁 ❄️ 🕯

Officially #PhDone! Graduation weekend was a success.

As a member of the Leadership Team, I’m proud to share what makes the #PlantPostdoc Slack special. 🌿 It’s a vibrant community for postdocs in plant-related fields. A safe space to review materials, share opportunities, and support each other as we navigate our paths in academia and industry.

Shameless plug for my #beadwork if you are looking to support small businesses this holiday season! shawishmarket.com/vendor/beads...

Okay, which #WorldCup2026 group/match-up are you excited to see? I'm eyeing group K, Colombia vs Portugal 👀

Happy #NativeNovember! This year feels especially meaningful as I’m graduating with my #PhD. Indigenous people are still here: thriving, dreaming, and making those dreams a reality. This month, we honor resilience, heritage, and determination. #IndigenousinSTEM

It’s that time of year! 🌟 If you (or someone you know) is applying to MS/PhD programs, check out our Gateways to Graduate School resource page. We cover everything from writing personal statements to crafting strong proposals. 🪴🌾🧪 #GradSchool #PhD #MSprogram #GradSchoolApps #GatewaystoGradSchool

We’ve been gradually updating the Gateways to Graduate School website as we enter the peak of the application season. As undergraduates prepare to apply for MS and PhD programs, do you have any tips, tricks, or advice you’d like to share with them? #GradSchool #PhDAdmissions #graduateschool

Join us Dec 8 for "Catching the Scent." Discover how Ralstonia bacteria transition from soil to plant xylem and the surprising role of a newly identified sensor-regulator protein. FREE for members. Only $49 for nonmembers. https://bit.ly/3WqLF2p #plantpathology #plantscience

Today, I officially started my new position at @ The University of Kansas as a KU Center for Genomics Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology. I'm excited to be joining the lab of Dr. Maggie Wagner 🌱 🌽 #PlantSci #PlantScience

I did it! Officially a #PhD! Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation "Dissecting Plant-Microbe Interactions: PAMP Recognition and Immune Evasion in Solanaceous Hosts" Special thanks to my advisor Dr. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, my committee, mentors/mentees, friends, & family who were there.

This is a really unfortunate time to have the keys falling off of my keyboard 😂 I guess that's how you know it's time to graduate.

The NSF-GRFP Solicitation (finally) went live today! Unfortunately, second-year PhD students are unable to apply. This decision will have direct impacts on graduate students who choose rotational PhD programs. 🧪🌱 www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Gram-positive bacterial MAMP sensed by a plant cysteine rich receptor kinase. I've been waiting for this preprint to drop. Nice story! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Friends and Family - If you're interested in attending my dissertation seminar via Zoom (Oct 8th), please comment below and I will send you the information!

New profile pic, thanks to the Boilermaker Station photo booth at #Purdue!

Not a lot of time to bead lately, but look at these customs I made for a Purdue fan! shawishmarket.com/Collegiate-E... #beadwork #choctaw ##brickstitich #IndigenousArt

Applications for the 2026 Pivot to Plants Fellows Program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are now open. Location: St. Louis, MO Application Deadline: October 15, 2025 Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026 Estimated Stipend: $37,275 Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 Tomato Roots Exhibit Development-Specific Responses to Bacterial-Derived Peptides 🔗: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Authors: R Leuschen-Kohl, R Roberts, @danimstevens.bsky.social, N Zhang, S Buchanan, B Pilkey, @gittacoaker.bsky.social , and A Iyer-Pascuzzi.

It's that time of year again! If you or someone you know is thinking about applying to MS/PhD programs, I recommend checking out this website, structured from our fall-semester-only class AGR 490: Gateways to Graduate School! #GradSchool #PhD #GradSchoolAdmissions #GatewaystoGradSchool

Excited (and a little bit nervous!) to be speaking tomorrow for the #ASPB #PlantBiologyGlobal Fostering Inclusion in Plant Biology session! I'll be speaking on my experience as an Indigenous student at Purdue and the support systems (@Purdue, in the community, among peers) I've had during my PhD.

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships. This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria. Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Excited to share the latest microPublication from my mentee Morgan Murff (incoming PhD@UGA!) looking at root responses to bacterial MAMPs in pepper roots. Contrary to previous findings, Morgan showed that roots of some pepper varieties do respond to csp22(Rsol). 🌱 #plantpath #plantdisease #plantbio

And just like that, my time at #2025ISMPMI is over. I had such a great time catching up with fellow friends and researchers from across the globe! Here's to the next two years of scientific discovery before we meet again. Tschüss und bis bald!

You designed binders for your favourite protein and wish there was a way to experimentally screen them within 24h w/ only a set of pipettes and a plate reader? Check out our Cell-Free 2-Hybrid approach (CF2H) Full post: tinyurl.com/48cz5nb6 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Songyuan Zhang - what can we learn from natural variation that can inform receptor engineering? Combined observed sequence variation with AlphaFold3 prediction to model and engineer the pattern recognition receptor FLS2, and then the pathogen peptide agonist flg22. #2025ISMPMI

Fantastic work from @danimstevens.bsky.social!