I am co-hiring a postdoc w/ Buanafina Lab. Projects related to herbicide resistance diagnostics and functional characterization of cell wall-related genes. PD here: bit.ly/4sH29kk **Do reach out w/ Qs!** Apply by April 30. Start ASAP! @pennstateuniv.bsky.social

More seriously, be wary of trillion-dimensional spaces. As long as they are the same model, the teacher model teaches the student model to prefer owls simply by transmitting sequences of numbers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yesterday, Senators asked NIH director Jay Bhattacharya how Trump can justify a 40% cut to NIH's budget. He declined to say. www.science.org/content/arti... by @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social

Some day I’ll figure out how to work this into a talk

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

We sent our most annoying guy to negotiate and couldn’t come to a deal. And that’s the other side’s fault, by the way,

LMAOOO I thought this was a joke at first but it’s real.

Every story reporting a scientific result should do what Carl does here, pointing out the source of underlying funding and whether it has been cut by the Trump regime.

Prof. Aono tracked a specific species — Yamazakura (Prunus jamasakura) — in a specific place: Arashiyama, Kyoto. We've contacted his university, local organizations, and weather services, but unfortunately none can continue the series. We’re looking for someone who can help us continue it!

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “High-quality surrounding landscapes mitigate avian extirpations from forest remnants.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/bHrj50YGHM3 For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/jPBV50YGHLX.

The United States National Herbarium is seeking a Lead Collections Manager! For complete requirements and application procedures, please visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications and all supporting documentation must be received online by 1 May 2026.

Corallorhiza striata is the first example of a pseudocopulatory #orchid in North America & an instance of “double deception” in fully mycoheterotrophic plants New #AJB research by John Freudenstein & Craig Barrett doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #fungi #pollination

We are devastated to announce that our colleague and friend Professor Philippa Borrill died over the Easter weekend following a rare immune system disorder (HLH). She was a fantastic scientist, collaborator and mentor, and a close friend to many: www.jic.ac.uk/news/profess...

Useful synthesis effort led by Anderson Bueno focused on differences between true islands and forest “islands” in a terrestrial mosaic. Matrix matters! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

The Big Bend region is one of the remotest areas in the lower 48 and is also a biodiversity hotspot. No locals want a border wall here, and it's also one of the least frequented sections of the border. The Trump admin still wants to militarize it and build a wall that would sever communities. 🌎

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

so trump is doing a "Mission Accomplished" speech on April fools?

Monthly median Received to Accepted time (days) at Nature Genetics

You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common? HERBARIA. UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!

Led by @adrianahumanes.bsky.social , points out the importance of collaboration and long term funding to advance critical knowledge for corals. #coral

New online! Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change

Thousands in Harrisburg, PA; so many groups are tabling, a student led group is selling brownies to fundraise for the unhoused. People from the stage are shouting out groups and telling people how to get more involved with them. This is the point.

What does a changing forest sound like? 🌳🎼 Check out work by @pablolopezbust.bsky.social Data sonification of 30 years of seed dispersal patterns from a #ForestGEO dry forest in #CostaRica Supported by Botany in Action Phipps grant and NSF! 🍃 Listen here: www.pablolopez-bustamante.com/forestition

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... new paper on the evolution of desiccation tolerance in land plants. it was a fun project with two of my fav young scientists @bryophyter.bsky.social @youngeukaryote.bsky.social

are there any more things like this

RFK Jr: "The advantage of glyphosate is unlike the other poisons, it doesn't harm organic tissue, but it goes after plants, not animal tissue. Your stomach microbiome is plants. And so, you know, there's, you know, it may contribute to the celiac disease and all these gluten allergies."

Meet Jermaine Thomas, in case any forgot www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-m...

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

i think it's smart that the Wikipedia page for Chips and Dip opens with a "Rationale" section. a lot of people are flabbergasted to find out about this concept and need some grounding before they get into the history

“Leave a Future” is the University of Minnesota’s first new tagline in 20 years. People aren’t quite sure what it means, or what to think of it.

Excited to share my first preprint from my PhD w/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social. We show that cell type-specific regulatory dominance promotes robustness and evolutionary innovation through interallelic transcriptional hubs, potentially expanding the mutational paths available to diploids. (1/18)

There's a two day delay before apportionment documents are made public. When it's posted, I'll be looking to see if there are any footnotes that will further slow down NIH's access to its funds. OMB has been known to use these footnotes to enact silent funding freezes — see our story below.

BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night. That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.

🌸🌼Join us to learn about the newly published “Random and non-random variation in flower colour along an urban-rural gradient in the introduced mustard Hesperis matronalis” in @annbot.bsky.social by Katherine Maunder @katiemaunder.bsky.social and co-authors. 🧵 (1/9) 👉 doi.org/qtm4 #AoBpapers

Just in: UCAR has filed a lawsuit against NSF, the Commerce Dept, NOAA, and OMB to prevent the dismantling of NCAR, alleging "violations of the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act."

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Colossal are experimenting on elephants to make a GM fudge of creatures whose native biome vanished 11 millennia ago. For a measurable climate effect you'd need 1000s of them, across millions of hectares. Is this realistic, viable? If it's not, how is current work ethical? bsky.app/profile/tori...

“If you’re not controversial, you’re not pushing hard enough, right?” … Or, you know, it could be because the whole enterprise is dumb and scientists and conservationists are endlessly frustrated that these kinds of funds aren’t going to help actual species that are still around and threatened

It's fairly transparent how hollow Colossal’s pitch is that they don’t care what people call their fake animals. Their whole pitch relies on people accepting that they're legitimate dire wolves etc. No one is investing in a grey wolf with a dye job. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Lamm said of his critics “Sometimes people don’t make the cut and they’re JV and they don’t make the varsity team and they’re going to be a little frustrated by that” That's not what you say to bring conservation biologists to your cause, it's what you say when someone makes fun of your cybertruck

We're at hit piece #6 in the smear campaign against me, this time calling into question my credibility to speak out against de-extinction 🤣. If Colossal & their supporters had anything valid to rebut my expert commentary with, they wouldn't resort to these tactics www.baltictimes.com/from_lab_to_...

SMH

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage