Awesome postdoc opportunity!

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment. #iamabotanist Details (+ application portal) here: lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Dr. Erika Moore-Pollard is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Connecticut whose research focuses on photosynthetic metabolism and functional trait tradeoffs in Bromeliaceae. @erikarmoore11.bsky.social

Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

#AppsPlantSci is planning a special issue highlighting innovative uses of target-enrichment sequence data, and we're seeking proposals! More info here: botany.org/home/publica... Deadline 30 Nov 2025‪‬ @emcassey.bsky.social @erikarmoore11.bsky.social @yannickwoudstra.bsky.social #genomics

In 2020, O Gaggiotti, J Goudet and I showed that Qst-Fst comparison was uncalibrated with high population structure. During her PhD with us, Isa do O developed LogAV: a method that accounts for any population structure while testing for local adaptation : journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Our department is adopting a 2-semester core course for entering grad students, 1 semester of grad evolution, 1 semester of ecology. I'd love to see what other depts are doing with equivalent EEB grad core courses, so if you teach one & are willing to share a syllabus & reading list please LMK

New paper by @drgentian.bsky.social in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data: The collector practices that shape spatial, temporal, and taxonomic bias in herbaria 🇺🇸 #CiteTheDOI: ✅ https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70297

Analyses of a new genomes for garden asparagus and a Mediterranean basin congener reveal independent origins of dioecy and XY sex chromosomes. The work led by Phil Bentz @pbentz.bsky.social finds no overlap in the two Y-linked sex-determination genes - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... .

Two independent origins of XY sex chromosomes in Asparagus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674532v1

Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.

So excited to be co-leading this special issue! Cannot wait to see all the innovative ways target enrichment sequencing is being used! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions ☺️

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data,” led by @emcassey.bsky.social, @erikarmoore11.bsky.social, Mafe Torres Jimenez & ‪@yannickwoudstra.bsky.social‬ Deadline 30 Nov 2025 botany.org/home/publica...

UCLA Health ended an NDM-1 Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak by tracing it to an ICU sink biofilm via whole-genome sequencing, then eliminating it with targeted disinfection, plumbing changes, and staff education—showcasing the power of diverse IPC measures. #AMR www.newswise.com/articles/the...

Hundreds of thousands of people in Southeastern Pennsylvania who rely on public transit had to adjust to deep cuts in SEPTA’s service this week. We rode along with one Northeast Philly rider who’s adjusting to a new reality. 📹 by Jenna Miller / Staff (1/2)

New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards. We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kennedy is unfit—period. He’s the one who should be fired. His dangerous illegalities require Congressional intervention. Bipartisan investigation is a first step—aiming for full accountability.

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

New Zealand had some of the most restrictive laws when it came to genetically engineered food crops. This move once again demonstrates how the NZ Government makes Science-based decisions. Take note, European Union! #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #PlantScience #Agroculture #Sustainability #PlantBreeding

RFK Jr. likes to wax nostalgic about how “healthy” America was in the 1960’s. He bases this on one datapoint, the prevalence of obesity. But let’s dip our toes into reality. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now

I'm going to start pitching all my courses as "artisanally crafted by real humans", I am so sick of both fellow faculty and higher-ups pushing this shit on us when that's not what students come to college for!

CAM! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌿✨ Plant Fizz Friday! ✨🌿 We want to show off amazing things plant ecophysiologists are doing.... that means you! Twice a month, we want to showcase something from our community (lab setup, fieldwork, publication, etc). To participate, send 1 - 3 images, and a description to [email protected]

At least ten cities in states whose Republican governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, DC, had higher rates of violent crime or homicide than DC last year, according to a CNN review of FBI data. https://cnn.it/4mZjjHQ

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Our "Joshua tree is CAM" paper is finally out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Data collection started back in 2021, when we saw weird results in some RNAseq that made me stop and wonder if Joshua trees, long thought to be C3, were actually...CAM!

We're all coming at this from a different place, but here is my syllabus policy on AI for General Chemistry

We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Science friends, life is difficult now, but please still try to peer review papers if you can. I'm the editor handling a paper that just had it's 43rd person decline to review. We may have to reject it because no one is willing to review it, which sucks for the authors.

more of this, Dems. letsgo

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

welp. I guess we're just gonna watch the rest of the world blow right past us on scientific advances while this dipshit tells us to exercise the cancer away.

Sweet new paper alert! Great study design to explore "fertile islands" in an arid system: Nurse plant shading is more important than soil fertility for dryland plant recruitment and diversity - Ferrenberg - Journal of Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Between this and the strangling of solar/wind development, the U.S. federal government is basically trying to kill the most substantive, transformational technological advances of my lifetime

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Teaching this fall? Here is a handy webpage that will help you generate a list of the days your course(s) meet: wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Congrats to the section award winners. Thanks @li-corenv.bsky.social for sponsoring. Best LI-COR Oral Presentation: Daniel Mok, Michigan State University "CAM photosynthesis in the carnivorous plant genus Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae)" . . . #bsaecophys #botany2025

Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ

The BSA awarded more than $140,000 in awards (research, travel, hardship) to its membership this year!! @botsocamerica.bsky.social 💚💚

. #Botany2025 My institution (JIC in Norwich, UK) is hiring for a tenure-track Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences - see more here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... Let me know if you have questions!

Y’all, big news, I found out where they’re keeping them all

The Dowell Lab is headed to #Botany2025, come check out some of our amazing talks to see what we’ve been up to!

🚀🍊 Blast off! 🍊🚀 Excited to share that next month Zach and I will be joining the Department of Biology at the University of Central Florida! Because of our love for midcentury modern design, we will only acknowledge the Citronaut as the official mascot. 😉 @emberts.bsky.social @ucf.bsky.social

Less than a week to go until #Botany2025 - as you work on your schedules, check out some of the lab's talks!!

We're hiring an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor and Director for our amazing, newly renovated herbarium! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/170...