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Color tierrita. Maize Genetics 🧬 🌽. Don't let poets lie to you.
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Michael Landis
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The
@systbiol.bsky.social
Mentorship Program is back for 2026-2027! The program pairs off mentees with mentors based on shared interests in systematics and biodiversity research. Low effort, high reward! 12 virtual monthly meetings. More info:
www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
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Mentorship Program
Last updated May 14, 2025
https://www.systbio.org/mentorship-program.html
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Cole Donovan
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Ultimately, this is an all hands moment. Every action, no matter how small, helps push the defense of science and free expression forward. This is one of the most direct ways people can influence executive action, and it doesn’t have to be difficult.
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The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title
Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO <p class="docData;DOCY;v5;31090;BQiAAgAAEcIDAAAGxgMAAAMMbgAABR52AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
https://www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments
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Emily Bell
1 day ago
When you hard code that ‘how many rs in strawberry?’ answer ….
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Missouri Botanical Garden
1 day ago
From the Pacific Ocean to the Great Lakes, we're celebrating one of America’s most iconic highways: Route 66! 🚗 During its 100-year anniversary, we invite you to learn more about the native flora of Route 66 on our Discover + Share blog:
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Artologica aka Michele Banks
1 day ago
A big PI hosts artists in residence in their lab every year. That's awesome. The artist is "treated like any other lab member." Uh-huh. Salary and benefits? 🤐
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Gina Baucom
2 days ago
🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more.
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
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Science Magazine
2 days ago
The U.S. government has charged two scientists at NIH of criminally conspiring to smuggle biological samples into the country and lying about it. The researchers have pled not guilty.
https://scim.ag/4uRHH2k
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NIH scientists criminally charged for bringing monkeypox virus into US, although samples “inactivated”
Defendants face up to 5 years prison for alleged “smuggling” and “conspiracy”
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-scientists-criminally-charged-bringing-monkeypox-virus-us-although-samples?utm_campaign=Science%20Magazine&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=bluesky
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Really? Either this is a platitude, or a not so veiled request for socializing the costs and privatizing the benefits.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
4 days ago
First and last authors more likely to be men in leading science journals
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First and last authors more likely to be men in leading science journals
Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over…
https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fd41586-026-01495-8
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Sebastian S. Cocioba
4 days ago
Such important work inspiring students!!!
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BWJones
4 days ago
Budgeting hell... The whole NIH and NSF situation is enough to make even senior investigators want to go permanently collect driftwood on a beach for a living.
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Jeremy Berg
4 days ago
Bruno Perrin from France speaking out the rationalist movement in France with historical perspectives. Science is intrinsically international and there are many lessons from earlier battles against authoritarian governments.
@standupforscience.net
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Tom Flood
4 days ago
An advocacy group in Virginia is running this ad on buses. 🔥🔥
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Dr. Stephanie
4 days ago
Another one for the “so obvious I didn’t think it needed a study” files 🧪
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Poor supervision is pushing young researchers out of academia
A survey finds that academic supervisors can have a huge impact on their students’ mental health.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01693-4
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Genetics Society of America
4 days ago
🚨Calling on the GSA community! Science needs your voice. Join
@standupforscience.net
’s Emergency Science Meeting TODAY at 4:00 p.m. EDT to learn about proposals affecting U.S. research funding, what's at stake, and how scientists and advocates can take action. 🔗
buff.ly/WWYEuk9
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Paul Voosen
4 days ago
Breaking: NSF is no longer taking on research misconduct investigations itself. (Another
@science.org
exclusive from the indefatigable
@policyhound.bsky.social
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John Innes Centre
4 days ago
VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Whitewoods Group, investigating how plants pattern their internal leaf structure, primarily using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Deadline - 25 June 2026 Contract - 36 months, full-time
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Whitewoods Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Whitewoods Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Development Biology.
https://www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-whitewoods-group/
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Nemo Peeters
4 days ago
#Mais
#Corn
@inrae-toulouse.bsky.social
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
4 days ago
Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n
www.science.org/content/arti...
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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
https://www.science.org/content/article/white-house-seeks-tighten-political-oversight-grantmaking
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Botany One
4 days ago
Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics // University of Wyoming
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37995586...
The Department of Botany and the School of Computing invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor.
#BotanyJobs
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Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics - Wyoming, United States job with University of Wyoming | 37995586
Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics Join Our Campus Community! Thank you for your interest in joining the University of Wyoming. Our...
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37995586/asst-professor-plant-or-fungal-genomics/
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Angelina Gross
4 days ago
This is such a cool principle! I had never thought about it, but it makes so much sense.
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Ainsley S
4 days ago
you simply can't beat Japanese floral stink researchers for scientific illustration
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BWJones
4 days ago
Scientists who pick up and move in
@nature.com
by
@vivienm.bsky.social
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Scientists who decide to pick up and move - Nature Methods
Researchers often have to move — within their country or across the world. Packing up and moving an established lab is a logistic and emotional challenge.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-026-03087-w
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Development
5 days ago
Call for Papers Submit your latest plant and multicellular algae
#DevBio
research to our upcoming special issue – Plant and Algae Development
#DevSIPlantAlgae
Editors:
@stanfordstomata.bsky.social
& Susana Coelho Deadline: 2 November 2026
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Botanical Society of America
5 days ago
🌿 Applications are NOW OPEN for the ROOT & SHOOT RCN Fall SI-MI Mentoring Course! This free, online training helps plant scientists become more effective mentors by exploring how social identity, power, and culture shape mentoring relationships. Space is limited!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)
5 days ago
#PlantSciJobs
🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant
bit.ly/4a32ffK
17 June: Postdoc
bit.ly/4dT2LOC
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Gregg Gonsalves
5 days ago
Russell Vought at the Office of Management and Budget wants to destroy US science. It's time for Congress to step up. Biomedical research and innovation used to be a bipartisan issue--it must be again. Vought is a menace.
www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
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Congress Must Block New Rules on Federal Grants, Defend Public Health Urges | Defend Public Health
New regulations issued last week by the Office of Management and Budget regarding federal research grants amount to a declaration of war on impartial, evidence-based science, and Congress must act qui...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/press-release/congress-must-block-new-rules-federal-grants-defend-public-health-urges
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Andrew Hipp
5 days ago
Hey there! I'll be presenting an oak webinar on Thursday at 6pm central, focusing on the evolutionary history of oaks in the Americas. The webinar is free with registration; please join if you are interested, and share the link. Thanks!
www.huntington.org/event/livest...
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Jeremy Berg
7 days ago
Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading).
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
I hope this is helpful.
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https://jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.github.io/OMB%20comment%20template-5-30-26.docx
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Alex Wild
7 days ago
There's a persistent fantasy that maybe some other nice countries will start mass-hiring US scientists. That's not going to happen. A few high-profile, big name researchers will get poached, sure. But most countries, including some very nice ones, are underemploying their own scientists already.
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John Timmer
7 days ago
And my own take on some of the key points in what OMB/Vought is trying to do here: "If you wanted to cripple science research and were disappointed that Congress continued to fund it, this is the sort of document you would produce."
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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/the-office-of-management-and-budget-tries-again-to-cripple-us-science/
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Sjon Hartman
7 days ago
Dear
#plantscience
friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at
@uni-freiburg.de
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The
@dompsfr.bsky.social
community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us!
uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
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University of Freiburg
https://uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005002/
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Stand Up for Science!
9 days ago
🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x
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Science Magazine
7 days ago
The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding.
https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
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7 days ago
Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-need-to-do-next-ombs-proposed
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gavin jones
7 days ago
The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague!
jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.
https://jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/75951
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Jacquelyn Gill
8 days ago
If you are a member of a scientific or educational society, please contact them and ask them what they are doing to fight this. They should be releasing statements, calls to action, explainers, talking points, or drafting letters for their members to sign.
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Jacquelyn Gill
8 days ago
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Jacquelyn Gill
8 days ago
Overall, the OMB appears to be signaling that they don't want the public having access to federally funded science at all; under the proposed rules, "public relations costs" would not be allowable, which would limit scientists' ability to communicate our findings to the public. 13/n
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Chenxin Li, PhD
8 days ago
Write to your representatives. Talk to your scientific society about what it can do. There is a partisan effort to discredit, restrict, and dismantle the US scientific enterprise. We can't just shut up and take it.
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Vincent Zimmerman
8 days ago
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Green stones buried with Panama's ancient chiefs confirmed as Colombian emeralds
More than 1,000 years ago, Panama elites were buried together with translucent green stones long suspected to be emeralds. However, scientific analysis confirming the suspicion has never been conducte...
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Katie Mack
8 days ago
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
8 days ago
So no publication fees, no conferences, no international collab, and we can terminate or reject your grant anytime for any reason. This might have some impact on how science works, folks. And maybe just maybe not a positive one.
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Reese Richardson
9 days ago
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data.
@sholtodavid.bsky.social
@johanduchene.bsky.social
reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
https://reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/how-much-of-thermo-fishers-antibody-data-has-been-manipulated/
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Fernando Villanea
10 months ago
Our paper on the evolution of MUC19 in humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans is finally out today in Science! This has been a six-year effort by 13 authors to weave together 3 separate but related evolutionary stories around this one gene (more on thread 🧵).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection
We study the gene MUC19, for which some modern humans carry a Denisovan-like haplotype. MUC19 is a mucin, a glycoprotein that forms gels with various biological functions. We find diagnostic variants ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0882
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Chris Ashwood
9 days ago
Brendan Maclean presenting the status of the Skyline project, after almost 18 years of development.
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Oded Rechavi
9 days ago
Today we’re introducing an important new tool for grant writing -> QED’s “Implementation Agent”! Starting TODAY, the constructive comments
@qedscience.bsky.social
gives you will appear directly on your DOCX file. More info below, the waitlist is open:
lnkd.in/dqm7KMW6
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)
10 days ago
Mechanical forces & cell shape guide how plant stomata form🥬👄
@leoserra.bsky.social
& Euan Smithers from
@robinsonsci.bsky.social
's team uncover how the interplay between cell shape & mechanical stress influences the orientation of stomata
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/mechani...
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Peter Etchells
11 days ago
Was fun to be a small part in project led by Guodong Wang. My two favourite observations: (1) TDIF-PXY can contribute to tissue regeneration - we add TDIF to shooting media after seeing Guodong's groups data. (2) PXL1 binds CLE46. Good to see confirmed ligand-receptor pair.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
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A CLE–RLK–LBD signaling module promotes de novo shoot regeneration in plants
A group of CLAVATA3/ESR-RELATED (CLE) peptides redundantly promote de novo shoot regeneration, signaling through PXY/TDR-subfamily receptors to transcriptionally activate WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX 14,...
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70300
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