The strike and protests in the Twin Cities yesterday were incredible. Today, the force terrorizing the city executed someone in the street. They are not making our city safer. I'm tired of the lies. I’m tired of the fear. I’m tired.

There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.

We have a PhD studentship available for a student who wants to engineer immune responses by tinkering with the connectivity between cells. Based at JIC, collaboration with the Ezer lab, deadline 19th Jan, UK students only. Get in touch for more info! #PlantSciJobs www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@letterboxd.social - how can we get Listers: a glimpse into extreme birdwatching on the app??? 🎥 🦅 📖

New from the team: A century of breeding has preserved genetic variation, accumulated favorable alleles, and shaped the Rht genes portfolio in North American spring wheat shorturl.at/LYYvr Part of my favorite figure showing how different breeding programs use various reduced height genes.

This is a great time to check-in with your international post-docs, students, and staff. This picture of our wheat plants has nothing to do with the post, but I felt like I needed some cheering up.

This is a great time to check-in with your international post-docs, students, and staff. This picture of our wheat plants has nothing to do with the post, but I felt like I needed some cheering up.

Join us on Bluesky and find out more about the www.wheatinitiative.org

The resistosome story continues... Another beautiful structure - this time from a (modified) wheat NLR 🌾

I'm very proud of this USDA funded work led by @harsimargill.bsky.social to analyze tons of spring wheat uniform nursery data painstakingly digitized by the Blueskyless Sarah Blecha. Lots more in the pipeline but this marks my official introduction as part of #wheat world. 🍞🌾👋 shorturl.at/v2nmk

Bacterial Leaf Streak Meeting 2025 is over! Thank you so much to the organizers, attendees, presenters, staff, and volunteers who made it a success!

USDA scientists terminated from Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

"I’m feeling betrayed, gutted, lost, anxious, and furious." Our story for @science.org—on the ongoing mass firing of federal employees and reactions in the scientific community. www.science.org/content/arti...

Here is a gift link to the article... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u... 3/3

In US, MN ranks #1 in oats; #3 in spring wheat; #9 in barley. $380M in #wheat exports alone. Scientists are needed to support farmers producing these crops! What's the future of #agriculture if we dismantle #AgriculturalScience research? #PlantScience #USDA-ARS #AttackOnScience #PlantPathology

Tough day for small grains research in the Twin Cities. Myself and four scientist colleagues have all been let go from the USDA because we haven't completed our 3 year probationary period - effectively gutting the Cereal Disease Lab. Taking a few days to be sad before I think about what comes next.

US Undergraduates! You still have until next Friday to apply to the Plant Health Fellows internship program in New Haven, CT. Learn about plant health research and careers for 9 weeks, includes $5,000 stipend and apartment housing: www.southernct.edu/plant-health...

It's not always as simple as "one TALE, one S-gene" - very cool work from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social and the team showing a single TALE targets 3 distinct cotton genes (2 SWEETs and a pectin lyase) to maximize virulence.

Do you have regulatory experience but don't want to be a Fed? Connecticut needs a new State Plant Regulatory official! BS,MS, PhD applicants welcome from any area of plant health. Looking for someone who can lead a team, understand regulations, and help stakeholders. Great stability and benefits!

For enslaved men & women in America’s south, birds meant forced labor. But they also meant food, opportunity, and even freedom. The Library of Congress’s Slave Narratives Collection has amazing stories not just about Black suffering and resilience, but also relationships w/ nature. (1/7)🗃️🧵

If you know anyone interested in nanotech and plant health, please share this postdoc opening! Spans phytobiomes, chemistry, and field crop management: isme-microbes.org/jobs/postdoc...

🟦 Hello Bluesky World 🟦 Finishing up my first week as a USDA scientist just in time for a potential shutdown 😅 I'm a wheat and oat geneticist 🌾 🧬🧪 still on the UMN campus. Looking forward to exploring these polyploid genomes and connecting with the wheat/oat communities