"Talent and grit matter, but so do structure, transparency, and care." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4nCiPYg

As scientists and educators, we can help our students and their families wrestle with complex issues. I just send this message to my Genetics class, and the relevant link to the study jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I started writing (or at least officially publishing) about the prevalence of & ills associated with gatekeeping in academia in 2020 [ scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl/vol13/i... ]. I proposed an alternative of Groundskeeping. One day I need to share how much gatekeeping I've experienced in these efforts! 😭😂

RSVP to join the October 29th webinar and hear from the 2025 Arabidopsis Community Impact Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards @jadebleau.bsky.social sky.social @jfriesner.bsky.social sky.social @josedinneny.bsky.social eny.bsky.social

Really stoked for this weeks’ #Zeavolution with @penlindsay.bsky.social presenting her previous work “CLAVATA receptor networks shape maize development”, got some awesome developmental speakers this semester and it looks like we’re starting off strong this week, see everyone Wednesday!

#TansleyInsight: The evolution of RHO of plant (ROP) #proteins and their morphogenetic #functions Hugh Mulvey & Liam Dolan 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Tl;dr = No. www.science.org/content/blog...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Honored to be selected as a Sahyadri Outstanding Postdoc by @plantpostdocs.bsky.social !

MSU is great place to do plant science research. My lab will be a great place to develop new expertise in genomics and plant molecular biology. Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... Please email me if you have any questions.

Annnnd first lab meeting + first lab photo done! Here’s my baby lab with 1 undergrad, 1 masters student, 1 PhD student, 1 postdoc, and 1 PI! 😁👩🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬 #newPI

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

🌱📚Excited to share my journey and experiences in academia, the ups, downs, and everything in between! Hope it sparks good conversations! @plantaeofficial.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @plantpostdocs.bsky.social @plantgrads.bsky.social

Hua Yang from UM on ploidy and genome balance in maize in this morning's #Zeavolution. We still have a couple open slots this Fall. Reply or DM if you'd like to join!

The MSU Plant Resilience Institute is excited to launch an open rank tenure-track faculty search! We're seeking creative, collaborative researchers to join the PRI faculty to investigate plant responses to environmental challenges. 🌱 Apply now: careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista... #PlantSciJobs

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Oct 27 for life sciences (neuro) and Oct 28 for psychology (cog neuro). Not a lot of time but worth the effort. Best of luck to everyone.

My department is hiring! Join us! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

New polling finds an overwhelming majority (81%) of parents support mandates for vaccines against diseases like MMR and polio. That includes 82% of parents in Florida, 75% of Republicans, and 73% of MAGA Republicans. Anti-vaccine positions remain extremely unpopular. www.kff.org/quick-take/m...

🌱 Everyone deserves the chance to unlock their potential. Through Nurture Talent, the Danforth Center brings high-quality STEM education and training to inspire tomorrow’s innovators. 🔗 https://loom.ly/bWPcpPg #FutureForward #NurtureTalent

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available. virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

We are incredibly excited & proud: our first publication is out in eLIFE! "Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations" elifesciences.org/articles/106... This project was a team effort involving contributors from seven professional societies. #PlantSci

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!

A computer vision-based approach for high-throughput automated analysis of Arabidopsis seedling phenotypes (Zhongxiang Wan , Weiji Kong , Yan Tang , Feixiang Ma , Yusi Ji , Yang Peng , Ziqiang Zhu) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Spread the word 😃 Our department has an open position at the Assitant Professor level 🌱

Every few months the "good lab hands" thing comes up and it misses a key point: you can learn to have good hands. Training matters. Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill

What a lovely birthday surprise! A team who purchased my chromoproteins did an educational case study using them and published today!!! Cool work done by Ana Laura Torres Huerta and her team. iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today is a blisteringly hot day, and a good one to support farm workers with a donation. Water breaks and other protections save lives. #LaborDay

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

Telling it like it is 🔥 "Once again, we are seeing the federal government retaliate against our civil servants for whistleblowing—which is both illegal and a deep betrayal of the most dedicated among us." www.newsweek.com/fema-staff-l...

Deleting a 600kb region in a genome? Not that crazy of an idea anymore! Papikian et al show that plants have an incredible ability to compensate for large genomic deletions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Traveling soon? Stay protected during the COVID-19 surge by wearing a high-quality mask in crowded or indoor spaces like an N95, KN95 or KF94. Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...

More foundations should do this: "Funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding rescinded due to federal administrative actions" www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Worried about the status of NSF #grfp ? You need to need to make sure NSF gets the message directly! Even a brief note to NSF helps; see below and take 5 minutes. Share with your colleagues on and off social media.

My first FASEB and it’a an absolutely amazing experience. Plant development and plant devo scientists rock! 🌱🧪🔬👩🏻‍🔬#PDevSRC

Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑‍💻 #PDevSRC

@drdemetre.bsky.social has resigned as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. His letter is a must-read.

BREAKING: Attorneys for Susan Monarez, the ousted CDC director, say she was targeted for "protecting the public over serving a political agenda."

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.

One of my first live imaging of Arabidopsis gynoecium www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Your occasional reminder -- as arrivals on student visas decrease 28% -- that tuition from foreign students counts as an export, which means that every rejected student visa is going to contribute to the US trade deficit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Take a look at part of my work with @mc-caillaud.bsky.social at @rdplab.bsky.social about the role of actin cytoskeleton to maintain cytokinesis against cellular geometry 🌱🔬

Partial retention of ancient function increases genetic pleiotropy in grass evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.670905v1

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

📢🍄Job alert🍄📢 The Department of Plant Pathology of the University of Georgia is accepting applications for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Fungal Biology/Mycology. Anticipated start date of May 2026. Open until filled, so apply now! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Great opportunity! #PlantScience PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor. Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience "Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science" job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46... I know folks who should apply to this!

Busy day in the field today; got the pollinations done before temperatures forecast with today’s heat advisory got too bad. Thanks lab folks!

Imagine explaining to Bill Watterson while he was drawing this that "Calvinball" would one day appear in a United States Supreme Court dissent