Lizzie Lombardi
@emlombardi.bsky.social
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NSF PRFB postdoc studying viruses in native sunflowers. Pro-democracy, pro-diversity. She/her.
New
#OER
for biology teachers! We use *real data* from the RMBL phenology project to teach about changing plant phenology in warming mountain environments, R programming, and science writing. Please use and improve!
qubeshub.org/publications...
@rmblscience.bsky.social
@jkleinkopf.bsky.social
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Carl Zimmer
16 days ago
Here's my latest contribution to the "Lost Science" series at the New York Times: Jay Falk, a scientist who studies why some female hummingbirds look just like males. Gift link:
nyti.ms/4qF7Qje
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What a terrific few days at
#botany2025
! I saw so many fascinating talks, and am leaving Palm Springs excited to be part of this creative, dedicated scientific community. In particular, thanks to
@ca-naturalist.bsky.social
and the RevBayes team, and to
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
for organizing!
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On my way to
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and feeling pretty pumped to learn from colleagues and friends. This year, it feels like a form of resistance to pursue my work, and I look forward to celebrating other plant biologists as we keep on discovering.
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Kew Gardens
5 months ago
BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪 Scientists at Kew & QMUL @qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍 Read the story👉
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
#PlantScience
#SciNews
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Jedi M
5 months ago
🧪
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky
5 months ago
#PedSky
#MedSky
#EpiSky
#addictionsci
#policysky
#polisky
🧪🛟
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David Ho
5 months ago
Climate.gov
, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.
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Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired
Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa
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Daniel Bolnick
6 months ago
Thread with an email being sent to
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
@systbiol.bsky.social
members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
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Such a cool and important paper, both because the science is rad and because the treatment of people and data is just. Super neat 🧪
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Journal of Ecology
7 months ago
Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Harper Prize,
@botanicallykarina.bsky.social
! 🏆 Read our blog post with Karina here:
buff.ly/4aEocNt
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James Fallows
7 months ago
Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
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Lisa Fazio
7 months ago
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Sarah Hörst
9 months ago
The stretch of road connects NCAR, NOAA, NIST and the University of Colorado-Boulder. Homes to people doing some of the most important research on Earth and its warming climate. I commuted this exact stretch of road on a free bus for 3 years and this video hit me smack in the feels.
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This is an incredible, important collection. Please consider supporting if you can!
#biodiversity
#IndigenousScience
#botany
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I just called my rep and got through to a human for the first time in weeks. It was honestly nice, but now I wonder if momentum is dropping. So, let's goooo:
5calls.org
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
https://5calls.org/
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Toby Kiers
9 months ago
Our newest research in
@nature.com
We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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@sasaspacal.bsky.social
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Botanical Society of America
9 months ago
Checkout the Rare Plant RaMP program, a 1-yr (Aug '25 to Jul '26) research experience for those who have completed a baccalaureate degree & are interested in gaining research & prof. dev. experience in botany, plant science, or conservation. Deadline: Mar 14, 2025
etap.nsf.gov/award/530/op...
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https://etap.nsf.gov/award/530/opportunity/6107
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Joe Walker
9 months ago
Getting quality transcriptome assemblies from Herbarium samples is possible
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
. Work led by
@atyszka.org
. Another fun collaboration with
@philcarella.bsky.social
and
@khongsamchia.bsky.social
, who functionally validated an NLR immune receptor from a sample collected in 1956.
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Herbaria provide a valuable resource for obtaining informative mRNA
While DNA has built the framework for molecular insights from museum collections, the utility of archival RNA remains largely unexplored. Likely a consequence of the known instability of RNA relative ...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.12.637878
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Hannah E. Marx, PhD
9 months ago
"To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past." Nice highlight of our work synthesizing temporal, taxonomic, and spatial trends in botanical collections to facilitate new research avenues
@emlombardi.bsky.social
@softcorebotany.bsky.social
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New research prepares way for future botanical research
To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in the future, a team of researchers is looking at collections of plants from a...
https://news.unm.edu/news/new-research-prepares-way-for-future-botanical-research
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Here we go. This is and will continue to hurt science, scientists and the public.
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*shocking*
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Relatable
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Daniel Bolnick
9 months ago
I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
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Darby Saxbe
9 months ago
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Karen K. Ho
10 months ago
also, as a former economics reporter, seeing
census.gov
go down is alarming as it gets
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The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
https://census.gov
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Botanical Society of America
10 months ago
Check out this new
#AJB
Commentary by Elizabeth Lombardi & Hannah Marx!
#Herbaria
as critical resources for studying plant-virus
#biodiversity
&
#epidemiology
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany
#plantscience
#ecology
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Julia Van Etten
10 months ago
To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
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This has been a rough week and there is a lot on the line. As I wait to hear what will become of my funding (any news
#NSF
?), I have found clarity and confidence in what I do. Some things won't go back into the bottle, no matter how hard they try. Also, let's celebrate the good things. New paper 🚨
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Kevin Bird
10 months ago
To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
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jamelle
10 months ago
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
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Prosanta Chakrabarty
10 months ago
People at the NSF aren’t allowed to advocate for their budget or really push back on this freeze. But y’all should know this pause/freeze/delay/cancellation will hurt basic science research throughout the United States including nearly every university. We should all be deeply concerned.
#savetheNSF
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Save the Museum of the Earth from Imminent Closure - Sign the Petition!
chng.it/LNLBfCschs
via @Change
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