Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The FLC gene helps determine #FloweringTime variation in #Arabidopsis. Analysis of FLC mutants across 62 natural #genetic backgrounds by @plantevolution.bsky.social shows how #PanGenetics analysis of hub genes can reveal the extent of their broader genetic network @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZkZNvV

This little methods paper to help with read counting allele-specific expression in interspecies hybrids by Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez has escaped biorxiv limbo to find a happy home in @micropub7n.bsky.social doi.org/10.17912/mic...

Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Without seeds, we have no food. Without seeds, we have no future. Botanists at Vavilov's seed vault chose to starve to death rather than eat the seeds they were protecting. www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

ATTENTION If you are someone (or know someone) who is enrolled in an NIH-funded clinical trial that has been disrupted by grant uncertainties or terminations, please DM me. THANK YOU!

I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics: go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack

Come to Purdue this summer to get experience in Plant Data Science!!

A lot of rich people don't want to admit that a big part of the United States' success in innovation is thanks to government funding & research, and maybe not purely because of their genius-level IQs & unique business acumen.

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 UBC’s EOAS & IRES seek an Assistant Professor of Teaching (tenure track) in Environmental Science. 🌱💡 📍 Vancouver | 💰 $130K–$140K | 📅 Apply by: March 16, 2025 Full details & how to apply: 👉 https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29706 #AcademicJobs #EnvironmentalScience

Rest in Power Roberta Flack

Rest In Peace Roberta Flack

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...

*Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology* at the University Of Cologne, Germany It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer

Associate prof position at Stockholm U in plant molecular physiology, including phytoplankton www.su.se/department-o...

He's talking about people like Joe.

He's talking about people like Gregg:

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.

"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

New preprint characterizing diverse hybrid dysfunction phenotypes (sperm, gonads, copulatory structures) despite no detectable pre-zygotic isolation, work led by students Maia Dall'Acqua and Amanda Peak (now with @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social ) #celegans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

I recently developed & taught a 1-credit graduate course titled Computer Programming for Biologists. The students produced some fantastic projects! For the course & for you, I developed tutorials in the Julia programming language. I share these here: darreni.github.io/JuliaProgram... #julialang

No job ad yet, but I'll be hiring a postdoc at Purdue in population genetics/quantitative genetics/genomics in plants. DM if you have relevant experience and are potentially interested.

A useful tool and a great thing to do... 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me. DM me, email [email protected], Signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOU

IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...

📢 Sign up for #EESWildModels! 🌏🔍 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' is a new EMBO | EMBL Symposium bringing together lab- and field-focused researchers from ecology, genomics, quantitative cell and molecular biology. 👉🏼 Submit your abstract by 14 Jan! 🧪 Follow @events.embl.org to stay updated!

Wild frontiers of model organisms www.embl.org/about/info/c... Excited about this brand new EMBO | EMBL Symposium on understanding the biology, ecology and evolution of non-model organisms, ranging from microbes to plants and animals 📅 8 – 11 April 2025 📜 Submit your abstract by 14 January!

Postdoc (2.5 years) in population genetics of the Paleolithic in my group. Please apply before January 15. It is an interdisciplinary project with Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and a new postdoc in his group covering archaeology. Apply through: tinyurl.com/4jt4dru4

Large protein language models can learn complex epistatic interactions, but how much does that help with predicting variant effects? In this NeurIPS article, we show that classical independent-sites phylogenetic models can outperform pLMs on this task. 1/7 openreview.net/forum?id=H7m...

I am recruiting graduate students this year to join my lab in Tucson! If you are interested in studying the evolution of plant diversity, polypoidy, and chromosomal evolution, please reach out about opportunities in my lab! Details about applying to EEB and our new CAMBIUM NRT in the thread below! 🧪

The ECOGEN team @lipme-inrae.bsky.social is searching for 3! PostDocs to join us in the PATHOCOM ERCSyg project in Toulouse, investigating the impact of host and microbial genetics on plant pathogen-pathogen interactions. The links to apply are below. Deadline 29th of Nov!!

check out our new preprint led by Charles Zhou and supervised by Mengjie Chen and me doi.org/10.1101/2024... where we present scPrediXcan which integrates deep learning and single cell expression data into a powerful cell type specific TWAS framework

Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity We hope to get one to our department #biogeography A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪 #biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity Please re-🦋 www.su.se/english/news...

We are hiring a TT faculty at CU Boulder at the assistant or associate level at the interface of ecology and remote sensing: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Apps due Nov 15

Re-upping this as folks join the new platform: Our department is hiring!!! If you've got some quantitative and/or mammals experience, come join our wonderful department @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social! Deadline for applications is Dec 2! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06725

I put together a starter pack of people studying plant evolution! I have no doubt missed some folks that should be included, so please reply or message me to be added! #PlantEvolution #Botany go.bsky.app/6FPMYnJ

My department is hiring an assistant professor in plant/tree physiology/ecophysiology. Details here www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...

Hi all! I'm excited to announce a tenure track faculty position in conservation genomics in EEB at UCLA! We're looking for candidates who use genomic tools to study evolutionary processes related to conservation. Note, the actual application deadline is Nov 29. recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09875

We are looking for a research assistant to join the EDGE lab (edge-ecology.com) here in Gothenburg 🇸🇪 for the next 2 years. A great team and lots of exciting research to be a part of! 🌱🌍🌡️❄️ Please apply or share 🙏 #ecology #job

It’s not too late. If you live in: California Colorado Connecticut D.C. Hawaii Idaho Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Montana Nevada New Hampshire Rhode Island Utah Vermont Washington Wisconsin Wyoming YOU can register AND vote on #ElectionDay

Two new chapters from my free online book in human genetics out this weekend! These complete Part 3 of the book, on human population structure and history: 3.3: Human prehistory [separate thread] 3.4: Ancient DNA: a genetic time capsule [this thread] web.stanford.edu/group/pritch...

Give your students info on how to register to vote! I mentioned it in my class and a student came up afterwards and asked about absentee voting in their home state. 💪🎉