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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. Iโm tired of the fear. Iโm tired.
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
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.
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Christine Faulkner
about 1 month ago
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...
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Engineering plant immune responses (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Engineering plant immune responses (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/engineering-plant-immune-responses-plant-biodesign-jic-project/?p192161
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- how can we get Listers: a glimpse into extreme birdwatching on the app??? ๐ฅ ๐ฆ ๐
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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.
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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.
4 months ago
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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.
4 months ago
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Wheat Initiative
5 months ago
Join us on Bluesky and find out more about the
www.wheatinitiative.org
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The resistosome story continues... Another beautiful structure - this time from a (modified) wheat NLR ๐พ
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5 months ago
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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. ๐๐พ๐
shorturl.at/v2nmk
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Genetic gains from 60 years of spring wheat breeding in the Northern Plains of the United States
A significant positive genetic gain of 0.61% per annum was observed for grain yield in hard red spring wheat released in the Northern US region over the past six decades. Sustained yield improvement...
https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/csc2.70106
6 months ago
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UMN Plant Pathology
10 months ago
Bacterial Leaf Streak Meeting 2025 is over! Thank you so much to the organizers, attendees, presenters, staff, and volunteers who made it a success!
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Sophien Kamoun
11 months ago
USDA scientists terminated from Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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Experts foresee negative ripple effects in termination of USDA scientists in St. Paul lab
A team at the U.S Department of Agricultureโs Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul got notice last week that some of their jobs were getting cut. Experts warn that cutting jobs in this area will harm resear...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/02/21/usda-scientists-terminated-from-cereal-disease-lab-in-st-paul
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Katie Langin
11 months ago
"Iโm feeling betrayed, gutted, lost, anxious, and furious." Our story for
@science.org
โon the ongoing mass firing of federal employees and reactions in the scientific community.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies
White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits
https://www.science.org/content/article/mass-firings-decimate-u-s-science-agencies
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Jeremy Berg
11 months ago
Here is a gift link to the article...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders (Gift Article)
A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/us/politics/fda-cdc-health-department-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x04.Ymmd.b2DInssYxPpr&smid=url-share
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Isako Di Tomassi
11 months ago
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
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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.
12 months ago
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Lindsay Triplett
12 months ago
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...
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Plant Health Fellows | Southern Connecticut State University
https://www.southernct.edu/plant-health-fellows
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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.
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about 1 year ago
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Lindsay Triplett
about 1 year ago
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!
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Robert Francis
almost 2 years ago
For enslaved men & women in Americaโs south, birds meant forced labor. But they also meant food, opportunity, and even freedom. The Library of Congressโs Slave Narratives Collection has amazing stories not just about Black suffering and resilience, but also relationships w/ nature. (1/7)๐๏ธ๐งต
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Birds and Slavery
Enslaved men and women in Americaโs South developed their own ornithology. To them, birds meant forced labor. But they also meant food, opportunity, and sometimes even freedom.
https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/birds-and-slavery
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Lindsay Triplett
about 2 years ago
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...
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๐ฆ Hello Bluesky World ๐ฆ Finishing up my first week as a USDA scientist just in time for a potential shutdown ๐ I'm a wheat and oat geneticist ๐พ ๐งฌ๐งช still on the UMN campus. Looking forward to exploring these polyploid genomes and connecting with the wheat/oat communities
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