Registration for the 68th Maize Genetics Meeting from February 26 to March 1, 2026 in Cologne, Germany is now open! #MGM2026 www.mgcmeeting.com

had a blast visiting @aribidopsis.bsky.social and Coralie at UBC! So nice to connect with other early career researchers in plant science 🌱

had an amazing time at IFMB in Wuhan. Met with old colleagues, made lots of new connections and won the best presentation award! Science is at its best when we can foster international cooperation!

Can your conference print its logo in edible ink on the yogurt at dinner?

it was awesome to share my work at #zeavolution! a fun mix of maize biologists attend, which led to a lot of interesting questions and perspectives.

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy! Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster. Competence matters.

Do not miss it! 1st Place 2025 Small World in Motion Competition "Self-pollination in a flower of thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)" Credit Jay McClellan 🧪 #Science #SciComm #Nature #Photography 1- www.nikonsmallworld.com 2- www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

looking forward to presenting at #zeavolution this Wednesday on Zoom!

Some very nice #PlantScience papers in this #Preprint list! I 👀 one by @aribidopsis.bsky.social on root hair development. Here's the direct link to the plant development section: thenode.biologists.com/august-in-pr...

A meme for #phylogenetics people.

Honored to be selected as a Sahyadri Outstanding Postdoc by @plantpostdocs.bsky.social !

"We learn to see what flows beneath, we learn the prehistory of the visible. We learn to dig deep and lay bare." - Paul Klee never cease to be amazed how many parallels in thought there are between science and art !

Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑‍💻 #PDevSRC

The Weisberg Lab at Oregon State University is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in molecular microbiology to study mobile genetic element host range and transmission in microbial communities. Please see the full job description here: files-dev.cqls.oregonstate.edu/Weisberg_Lab...

delighted to share work from my postdoc @cshlnews.bsky.social - here, we use TurboID in maize meristems to be able to resolve CLV receptor interactions, unlocking its potential to resolve in vivo receptor interactions important for meristem signaling.

Come join me at Oregon State! We’re hiring a new assistant professor in population and disease dynamics of cereal pathogens. Our department is dynamic and fun, our building is newly renovated, and Oregon is wonderful! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/171...

While Sagan is my fav way to end my astro course, I think Becker's choice for parting words is impeccable: "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." (Le Guin, quoted by Becker p289)

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025 Reach out! www.martinezgomezlab.com

Come join us in Corvallis! Great colleagues, a wonderful location for plant science of all types, with the added benefit of the beautiful surroundings of Oregon!

Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025! We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting! Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...

maize shoot apical meristems are the cutest! 😍 plasma membrane labeled with PIP2A-CFP

There is still time. Call these Reps, and continue to raise hell. You can find their numbers at 5calls.org.

House Minority Leader Jeffries has been speaking for nearly five hours, which buys us more time to put some last-minute pressure on Republicans. Call your GOP representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or plan a visit to your local congressional office: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

So: In 2017, Congress made this happen: NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still: 💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets. 📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.

Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you: 🧪 #scicomm

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

I’m so angry & heart broken. My NSF CAREER grant was stolen today; dream project supporting science teachers/students as climate justice action researchers, tackling urban heat. Truly transformative, the culmination of my life’s work, we won’t stop, not in this climate crisis. Gonna fight like hell!

🚨Students are protesting today at Oregon State University after 13 International students had their visas revoked by the Dept. of Homeland Security. More info on visa revocations at Oregon universities here: www.opb.org/article/2025... 📹 shared w/ me by an OSU student

Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

To my #StandUpForScience & #NIH #NSF #IES friends - the #Humanities needs our support. It's easy to get stuck in our divisional silos but if you didn't know, the DOGE is planning to basically eliminate the #NEH (via RIF of 80% staff & cancelling ALL existing grants) 💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...

This hasn't gotten much attention—but new National Science Foundation grants have dropped by almost half since Trump took office, an analysis by @davidimiller.bsky.social shows. www.science.org/content/arti... (Story by @policyhound.bsky.social)

Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday. Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice. To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/

TODAY! @standupforscience.bsky.social is taking place in DC & across the U.S. to help protect the American scientific enterprise & defend science as a public good that drives social, political, & economic progress. Find your local site: buff.ly/3EWhSZM #scienceforall #advocacy 1/2🧵

really excited to share my new website, drpenelopelindsay.net ! :) Designed by my talented friend Eve Soleil, and featuring gorgeous shots of the corn field by Nora Long! Will be updating periodically with my research and film / music work

If you are a Cornell Alum, you can vote in the upcoming Alumni Trustee Election. This vote is important - two of the candidates are right-wing attorneys who will work to enact their political agenda on the university's administration. See alt text for more info. vote.yeselections.com/cornell/

Talk about flower power! Professor Zach Lippman and his team used CRISPR to uncover which fragments of non-coding DNA dictate how and when plants flower. Their work could help plant breeders produce more desirable crops that flower in the right place and right time. www.cshl.edu/crispr-manip...

This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪 Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️

Tough day for small grains research in the Twin Cities. Myself and four scientist colleagues have all been let go from the USDA because we haven't completed our 3 year probationary period - effectively gutting the Cereal Disease Lab. Taking a few days to be sad before I think about what comes next.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience, we honor the groundbreaking contributions of women in a field long dominated by men. No Two Plants, written and directed by women, offers a glimpse into the curiosity that fueled Barbara McClintock’s revolutionary discoveries. @penlindsay.bsky.social

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

Darby makes this point but I just want to reinforce it: These words are entirely legitimate to discuss science, accurately and correctly. This attack on "DEI" (🙄) is not only an attempt to resegregate science but also an attack on expertise, itself. Resisting it is a defense of science

Okay, this is pretty great. I didn’t realize how much friction it was to look up each phone number until this app had them ready to go, one after another. Plus it tells you how many other people used the app to call about the issue (14,700 on the federal funding freeze alone!)

Still frozen out. We’re getting word that people getting Universities to reach out to NSF over this & broader freeze may put pressure on them & help resolve this. If folks could start contacting their uni admin with complaints to forward to NSF (hopefully you know who to contact) it’d help a lot

Boy, it’s a good thing science isn’t political

JOB ALERT: Join us @irbv.bsky.social , the Univeristy of Montreal to develop your research program related to quantitative genetics where #plants are the object of study or an integral part of the studied system. www.nature.com/naturecareer...