I will not buy a very fancy leather journal with overpriced refills... I will continue to work my way through the notebooks my kid accumulated before they buzzed off to college, leaving me with 500 notebooks each with six pages of random doodles involving song lyrics and book quotes.

On the one hand, we don't want state workers and elected officials getting doxxed and murdered, so this bill seems so clearly good... BUT... This great 🧵 brings up all the important "on the other hand" considerations brought up by the behavior of corrupt jerks like Paul Vallas and Bruce Rauner.

Happy "drop ship gloves to your college student" day to those who celebrate.

I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it. Threading several of these pieces below.

Is there really ever a time where 'utilized' is a better word than 'used'? (I mean, obviously if you're a writer getting paid by the letter)

Also re-posting my thread on pierogi making. 🥟 Looks like I'm not consistent with the oven temp for roasting the filling...oops.

Working on my unfinished recipe cartoon from the workshop with @sarahbecan.bsky.social Cartoon is solid but has flow problems

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

“I think the most important lesson from Chicago right now is that anyone can do this and everyone should do this. The distributed nature of the movement is key.” organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...

We took a moment to highlight in the Tribune that something deeper is happening than just people lining up and gathering whistles. We are outpacing them. We are breaking their image of authoritarian invincibility. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/o...

1. Postdoc in plant-fungal interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 2. Postdoc in molecular plant-microbe interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 3. Research technician: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici... (Pls share!)

❄️ !!!

Check out the Modeling agricultural systems under global change (BG3.22) session at the EGU General Assembly 2026 happening in Vienna from 3–8 May 2026. Submit your abstract by 15 January 2026. More details at: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio... #PlantScience #EGU26

Halloween may be over but bat ears never go out of style

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

Come out to the Resurrection High School Holiday Craft Fair on Sat 11/8 from 10am - 4pm and shop at the "Crafts for a Cure" table! Earrings, bracelets, necklaces, purse charms, keychains, & more - all proceeds to American Cancer Society! We're booth H66 www.reshs.org/events/holid...

This #DeepLearning model integrates #morphological and #molecular data for species identification in the #Fabaceae, illustrating the value of deep learning for species identification and barcode evaluation in #plant #systematics. 🖥️ doi.org/10.1111/jse.... @wileyecology.bsky.social #PlantScience

Extra 💜 for the verb "ingest"

Don't stop whistling, Chicago bsky.app/profile/peop...

🧪 Integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses identify MYB genes regulating key metabolites and agronomic traits in upland cotton Gossypium hirsutum www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience

TIL that tomorrow is the last day to vote for a new the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. There are fixed set of names to choose from, alas. www.boldpastbrightfuture.org/naming-commi...

These piroshki from #Kapusta were so good—need to work on my pan-frying game though…

New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

An important read if you're from Chicago, because this is the lens some people in the rest of the country are seeing us through right now

OTD in 1880, Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants. D believed that plants are active agents in the world: “A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.” 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

Judge Ellis is my hero

Going through my spouse's bird photos for our family calendar... 2025 really was ass.

Cool #preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social at @frimllab.bsky.social addressing how #auxin induces #autophagy. Glad we can contribute... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited to share that Department of Biomedical Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social is hiring for open rank tenure-track faculty in #Biomedical #DataScience! 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/177042 Apps starting to be reviewed Dec 5 and ongoing after! 🧪🧬🖥️🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM

#PlantSciJobs!!

🪲 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🪲 Non-host resistance is the most common, durable, and efficient outcome of plant defences against biotic stresses. This review highlights its role in plant–insect interactions- Pinheiro et al. 📝 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Plant defense is a chemical language! ⚗️ The latest Review Highlight takes on the review by Kumari et al. that unpacks the Metabolome Revolution in plant immunity. Read @ https://bit.ly/3L6EQ3q and the full review @ https://bit.ly/3JIlWQ6 ##Metabolomics #PlantDefense #PlantPathology

"Postdoctoral fellow Plant Molecular Biology/Biotechnology at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=osena_11-5-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Very happy to see our work out examining guard cell transcriptomes over the course of a slowly developing drought. Thanks to @bradylabs.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social for the inspiration, way back in Davis in 2013! The data are available in bar.utoronto.ca/eplant & doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Equipping the next generation of plant taxonomists: Insights and recommendations #plantscience

First elote… yummmm… 🌽🌽🌽

Sign up for food scrap dropoff instead!! www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...

Still working on Midwest Maize and starting the @chicagobirder.bsky.social Flock Club book too.

oops, wrong link press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb...

Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧 #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

SlWRI5A/SlHY5-SlFatM regulates fatty acid contents during #mycorrhizal #symbiosis Liqun He, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JMGPAY... @hannahraethomas.bsky.social #PlantScience

Phosphorus is essential for global food production, yet its supply is limited. PRI researchers have now uncovered a signaling pathway that explains how plants delay flowering when phosphorus runs low, opening doors to nutrient-efficient crops. @hatem-rouached.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social

In case you missed it: last week, we released two new episodes of our podcast, Absolute Units! Learn about tracing queer rural history in our archives with @timjerrome.bsky.social. And/or explore the history of Halloween with @folklorepod.bsky.social. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

🥬 Supported by a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, researcher Jamie Pike is connecting Earlham Institute's expertise, pipelines, and software tools with Tozer Seeds cutting-edge R&D environment to inform and develop #crop breeding. 🧬 buff.ly/sBG62Bi #agriscience #genomics #plantbreeding

Connecting detailed photosynthetic kinetics to crop growth and yield: a coupled modelling framework by Yufeng He, Yu Wang, Douglas Friedel, Meagan Lang, and Megan L Matthews doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

Guardians of arid lands: deep-rooted defense against desertification and climate change #plantscience

Signaling molecule H2S enhances #plant tolerance to #environmental stress. The challenge is how to release H2S in #agricultural production. Chen et al. reveal an efficient solution-and a novel way of improving drought resistance! doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileyeco.bsky.social #PlantSci

Integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses reveal the mechanisms for red #fruit coloration in #peach cv. ‘Zhongyoupan 9’ under artificial #darkness 🍑https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2025.06.011 #horticulture #plantsci