As you plan end of the year donations, please consider the Caleb Scholar's program. It is the only program that I know of that provides Alaska Native students how to use their education to support their community after graduation, mentored & run solely by Inupiaq www.calebscholars.org/donation/

Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!

Please help, folks. That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away. The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.

Arkadipta Bakshi is recruiting PhD students for his new lab at Wake Forest. Arko is great to work with - check out his lab website for more info! www.arkadiptabakshilab.com

Drawing your attention to an effort to convince NSF to re-open this year's GRFP competition to second year PhD students. Please consider signing or sharing the petition asking NSF to broaden the application eligibility to what it has been previously. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to boost opportunities for domestic scientists by making it prohibitively expensive for universities to hire international faculty and staff. https://scim.ag/3Klmxai

It seems shameful to just let these sit in my phone. Baby moose, meet Lola!

David Brooks, a conservative columnist speaks about the amount of people who have died directly as a result of cuts to USAID by Doge. Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts. It’s only been four months.

www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024... I saw him jogging on Duke campus around 545am this morning and thought I’d lost my mind - apparently he’s a student here! WTF Dook!?

Big 10 finally strategizing. The thought: a mutual defense compact statenews.com/article/2025... #academicsky

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@davidpakman.bsky.social One copy left at the Durham, NC Barnes & Noble - looking forward to this read!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a new set of vectors for inducible gene expression in plants? I’ve noticed the ones I’ve been using can be a bit leaky. Thanks! #PlantScience

Keep posting

Are we winning yet?

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university. www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

Agreed. The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to resist.

If we don’t march by the millions we’re not going to have a country.

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Hear perspectives on the best path forward for our community amid the turbulence due to policy decisions enacted by the Trump administration. A listening session will be held on March 18, 2025, at 1 pm EST.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

The pressure to publish in high-impact journals is often at the expense of other scholarly activities https://go.nature.com/3XihhIf

My department is hiring! Looking for an Assistant Professor of Biology (Botanist/Plant Ecologist) in the Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences at West Texas A&M University. If you have any questions feel free to DM me. tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WTAMU_...

#standupforscience2025 Great turnout and great signs in Raleigh, NC

#standupforscience2025 Raleigh, NC

'Yale University announced a reduction in spending on faculty pay rises, staff hiring and campus construction. It joined Stanford University, Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have all enacted hiring freezes in recent weeks.'

greetings from berlin... 👋 @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @nabroderick.bsky.social @deniswirtz.bsky.social @contaminatedsci.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social @mcsymbiont.bsky.social @spribille.bsky.social @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social and many more...

Let’s hope the rest of the US doesn’t end up like Alaska with McMahon running Education: www.npr.org/2025/03/04/g...

WTF?

The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has removed the phrase “Alaska Native” from its website. The award-winning University of Alaska program is now referred to simply as its acronym, ANSEP.

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

I need everyone to understand that this only happened because hundreds of faculty came together and took a career risk to combat illegal and immoral practices among UVA Health leadership. This is what faculty governance looks like—the courage to confront an administration full of yes men and say NO.

I don’t know why this is hard for folks to understand. The layoffs aren’t just about probationary employees. They are going beyond that. It won’t stop. It’s all about making agencies non-functional.

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.

For the foreseeable future I think our lab meetings will include a discussion of what is going on science policy-wise in the US. I don’t have many answers, but will share what I know and my plans. Being honest and transparent in difficult situations can be empowering.

To US colleagues who have lost or are in imminent danger of losing their jobs: please DM whether we can accommodate your research.

Very proud and happy to have contributed to this amazing story led by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com 🧪

📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Great to be able to comment with Jeff Dangl on a couple of important papers published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very happy to share the final version of our work on the evolution of broad host virulence in Pseudomonas out now @cellhostmicrobe It’s just in time for the holidays 🎄🦠 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Please take a look and circulate this PhD training opportunity with Rainer Waadt @unimuenster.bsky.social

Who would have thought that the Predator’s blood would be a useful tool for investigating plant signaling?

🚨 PhD Opportunity Alert! 🚨 I'm thrilled to announce my new project, Watchers on the Wall, exploring how plant cells sense and respond to stress through their walls. 🌱 A 5-year fully funded PhD position is open—please share with potential candidates! 👇 (1/7)

We're hiring two new Assistant Teaching Professors at UW Biology in Seattle. Apply to join us! Applications will be considered beginning Dec 15.

Happy Friday everyone! Here are some cool Arabidopsis mini trees🌴 Arabidopsis arenosa hypocotyls can undergo extensive secondary growth and the rosettes that develop on top make them look like palm trees 🤯I wonder if this can be engineered in thaliana..

My department, Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of Minnesota is looking for a new head and colleague in any area of Plant and/or Microbial Biology. Job ad: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365... So please spread the word to anyone who might be interested. Thank you 😁

Why are these plants so excited? The first person to correctly guess the stimulus setting off the calcium burst in these biosensor plants is eligible to receive a card in the post with a plant doodle of questionable quality. #plantscience #calcium #biosensors #climatechange

Optogenetic manipulation of calcium transients in guard cells - very cool!

Calcium signaling network in plant defense #PlantScience www.cell.com/trends/plant...