Our winter sale of cuttings will begin on our website Really Good Plants (reallygoodplants.com) on December 12 at 6:00 PM PST. We are pleased to offer 594 cultivars this year, with scions for mulberry, fig, apricot, peach, plum, nectarine, apple, pear, persimmon, pomegranate, and many others.

Looking forward to working with our collaborators on EPiC! 🌱🚀👩🏼‍🔬

We made it to the beach! Next stop, conference 🧬🧫🧪🥼

Our @cirmnews.bsky.social SPARK scholars are heading for La Jolla - everyone is excited to present their research posters #stemcells #genetherapy #biotech 😊

What are freshly hatched salmon called? Alevins! Cassidy Cooper photographed these tiny fish in their early life stage. 🐟📷 #SciComm #Salmon #Alevins #Fish #FishFacts #Photography #WildlifePhotography #AquaticBiology #NatureEducation #Nature

It's #NationalIceCreamDay! Discover how science shapes the smooth, creamy texture of ice cream in this infographic: www.compoundchem.com/2015/07/14/i... #ChemSky 🧪

What's Earth made of? The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social journeys to the centre of Earth to look at the elements and minerals that make up our planet's different layers: cen.acs.org/physical-che... #ChemSky 🧪

TLDR: The eradication of screwworm from the US was super important for US livestock. A tiny US facility in Panama drops sterile screwworms from planes to prevent the spread of fertile screwworms Why maintain a barrier zone in Panama? Mexico border - BIG! Panama isthmus - SMALL!

Congratulations to the new members elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences including in evolution and ecology: Anurag Agrawal (@anurag-asclepias.bsky.social), Graham Coop (@gcbias.bsky.social), and Jennifer Martiny, among others! www.amacad.org/new-members-...

For decades, @ucdavis.bsky.social stood tall among the world's giants in agricultural research. That progress is now at risk amid threats to federal research funding (via @reuters.com) www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

#CalExit 🫡

Taking time to enjoy spring flowers… thinking about my grandma 🩷 who lived thru political violence, left loved ones at ~40 yrs old for the US w/ 7 kids (#8 born here), lost her only son in a motorcycle crash, etc… she was a gardener and in dark times always said “apples will grow again” 🍎🌸

Increased prices from tariffs will hurt the people who can least afford it the most. If you can, donate (or donate more) to local food banks like this one. yolofoodbank.org

Here we go…

Otters at @ucdavis.bsky.social yesterday

Yum - plant-based bagel sandwich - haven’t had one of these in a while ☺️ Prepping for a New Harvest workshop on food safety for tomorrow. #cultivatedmeat #altprotein #iCAMP

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Timeline cleanse with spring flowers 🌸 With all the stressful news and busyness, I hope colleagues can get out and enjoy the sun today 🌞

Erika Cheung spoke with Nature about working at Theranos and how blowing the whistle on the company and Elizabeth Holmes changed her career. “I’m still in shock how much this derailed my life.” 🧪

Listen this IS in fact how it’s done. Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum. Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.

“Organizations representing tens of thousands of scientists are speaking out to ask Congress to reverse extreme & damaging cuts to federal research funding & agency staff. Scientists across the USA are united in support for federally funded scientific research.” www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

I really feel for the early career researchers impacted by what’s happening in the US. It’s hard enough for them to complete a PhD and build a career. This has long term implications for research capacity globally. #AcademicSky #research

Within the span of 90 minutes on Tuesday morning, two airplanes, at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport and at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, were forced to abort landings to avoid collisions, federal aviation officials said.

Through the GMP (clean room) facility in our building at UC Davis Health, which is dependent on NIH indirect costs for electricity, water, cleaning and maintenance, we are able to manufacture the cellular product for the CURE trial to treat #Spinabifida in the womb. www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n...

In the GMP (clean room) facility in our building at UC Davis Health, which is dependent on NIH indirect costs for electricity, water, cleaning & all maintenance, we are able to engineer peoples immune systems to seek out and kill cancerous cells (CAR-T technology) www.title21.com/uc-davis-pio...

The flu epidemic in CA is killing more people than Covid. Wear a mask and stay out of crowded areas. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

From @brianbilston.bsky.social, send me a slow news day... 🙏

@ucmerced.bsky.social achieves R1 classification, bringing all UC campuses to the highest tier among research universities 🙌👏💙💛 bit.ly/410Uq4O

Tuesday Feb 11, 2025 is the 10th annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science. 👩‍🔬 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 🎢 🍎 🥽

Anyone else’s university sending messages like this? I don’t use it. I’m just curious if this is widespread in academia. #academicsky

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

The first domino has fallen. Please never forget when and why this happened. One person can slam the brakes on progress, and that's not supposed to be able to happen.

Thinking back on all this I better understand the pain I feel to see science under devastating attack here. It’s not just about my livelihood or my university. It’s about my identity. And it’s about a pursuit that I see as standing along with art, literature, and music as among our highest callings.

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

Indirect costs = the costs of keeping a university running. Heating and lighting it, the library, the IT department, HR, cleaning etc. The actual costs are perhaps 50-100% of the direct costs of research. This is a pillow on the face of academic research in USA.

Decimating the NSF would be an act of violence against USA competitiveness in science, technology and innovation. Have any of these people seen Shanghai lately? arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

People who pursue public service do so because they want to serve the public. Offering them “buyouts” and telling them they can now go into the private sector means you don’t understand the meaning of public service.

I want to be clear: the private sector, as it presently exists, *cannot* quickly spin up to fill any void left by substantial dismantling of #NOAA. Full stop. If that were to happen, people would die in extreme weather events who would not have otherwise, & economy would suffer.

WOW. NSF's page about climate and their decades long tracking of global temperatures is gone. I had hyperlinked to it for a piece I'm writing for @theconversation.com and now... POOF. VANISHED... replaced with a generic page about NSF topics, none of which is CLIMATE. new.nsf.gov/focus-areas/...

It’s probably a good idea to download and print your social security statement right now. You can also order a new card here. www.ssa.gov

It’s important rn to take care of yourself & do your routines everyday. Eat healthy, sleep, exercise. Keep doing things with friends & family. Keep a list of things to do but you don’t have to do everything today. Just tick something off daily. Being proactive will keep the existential dread at bay.

I should have been more clear in my last post. Read this doc if you submit to NSF!! It has a list of terms they will search for and then ??? I don’t know- reject it? Put you on a list? It’s a batshit document that names names and disregards important science.

UC Davis and Univ Colorado Boulder doing well at the closing awards session at NASA HRP IWS - two UCD students bringing home augmentation grants to Prof. Steve Robinson’s Center for Spaceflight Research. Also, a UC Berkeley undergraduate placed first in the poster session 😊🚀🏆

Yesterday, our Future Foods for Space team took a photo after our NASA HRP IWS session on training programs. We’ve been learning a lot and having fun with this techno-optimistic crowd 🚀

Having a great time at the NASA HRP IWS meeting in Galveston! Interesting sessions at every time point - this afternoon I’m hearing more from colleagues at our UC Davis Center for Spaceflight Research

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Public zoom talk on California Jewelflowers by Julian Maloof and Jenny Gremer www.tuleyome.org/nature-and-y...