Congratulations to @myadarsan.bsky.social (and the other winners!) for winning the best grad student talk award at CERF! So well deserved! Thanks for another amazing meeting @cerfscience.bsky.social can’t wait until 2027!

Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2??? Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!! You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!! #CERF2025

Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2??? Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!! You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!! #CERF2025

Fun Trails and Sails event this week showcasing new work centered on how estuary and shellfish health are intertwined and the need for people to foster both. We always get engaged attendees from the local community and make great new connections! 1/5 trailsandsails.org

But if contaminants are in the water, shellfish may ingest those as well, with negative effects on the shellfish and harvestability. @bowenlab.bsky.social and @myadarsan.bsky.social are using new approaches to better identify sources and types of contaminants which may help mediate inputs. 3/5

it’s hot out i wasn’t mentally prepared for the 50f -> 85f yet

Putting Science Engagement into Practice with Dr. Matthew Costa | COMPASS www.compassscicomm.org/putting-scie...

Tomorrow! May 7. Learn all about careers outside of academia—from tribal consultants to private sector work and beyond. Register at: lternet.edu/events/91881/

Check out today’s YouTube release, Why Do LTERs Matter to Natural Areas Practitioners? Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social. Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET. Link in profile.

chopped all my baby spartinas roots off… fingers crossed the root induction media does its job!!!! 🧪🧫🌱

Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated undergrads interested in a full year, paid postbac research position in microbiome sciences? Have them join our zoom Q&A session on Friday, April 11, 11:30am-12:30pm PST. More info here: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

This is absolute insanity. We must do everything we can to protect our international students right now.

All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.

hope to see many of you there!!!

Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday? We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️ MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL! Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard! SEE YOU THERE! www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

not a drill first hypothetical “sterile” baby spartina alterniflora popped up today 🌱🌱🌱🥹🥹🥹🧫🧫🧫

Flood it. Bombard it. Wreck it.

Proud to be part of this awesome team! Thanks to @balachaudhary.bsky.social and @khadlily.bsky.social, unstoppable forces in EcoEvo 💜💜 @wocineeb.bsky.social has done a lot for me and other POC in EcoEvo so please help us protect groups like this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As a former REU student, this sucks. The REU program was my first taste in R1 research while attending a liberal arts college. We need REUs.

AND THERE IS A SINGLE BABY YALL I AM A PLANT MOM!!!

If you are the parent, close relative, mentor, or part of the village of a Black, Latine, or Native college student, then PLEASE check on, pour into, and affirm them. Trust me when I tell you they are STRUGGLING right now. You don't have to attended the school to remind them "I'm here."

Go Mya go!!! 💛

#BlackHistoryMonth Plant Scientist Spotlight - Meet Mya Darsan!🌱 👉 See the full list of incredible plant scientists featured at https://buff.ly/41fCJQn #plantscience

It's Black History Month and I'm excited to bring another edition of "28 Days, 28 Black Botanists" - now posted as a blog on Plantae! Thanks to @aspbofficial.bsky.social for continuing to support this fun tradition of mine! 💪🏾👨🏾‍🔬🌻🌱 plantae.org/2025-black-h...

#JustIn on Plantae: 2025 Black History Month Plant Scientists Spotlight. Kevin Cox Jr., PhD @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social continues his annual series bringing visibility to exceptional scientists and their work. https://buff.ly/41fCJQn #plantscience

Capital Region, New Yorkers!

Starting the week off with some (much needed!) good news - my FIRST first-author manuscript has been published in #conservationgenetics 🌎✨🧪 Using DNA barcoding, I found that ~10% of swordfish sold in New England (USA) fish markets was actually shark, including the endangered shortfin mako 🦈

TOMORROW (WED): Rallies are being held across the country to protest the funding cuts to science and the illegal firing of federal workers. Please join if you can. We need to show that many people oppose these destructive attacks on science and healthcare. Details: labor4highered.org

it was spartina planting day 🙊🌾🦠

Scientists fear that Trump’s DEI crackdown will reshape who can participate in science for years to come, drain creativity, limit the scope of projects, and lead to worse research. “It is common sense that to have the best science, we need the broadest, most inclusive environment."

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says the National Science Foundation has given money to thousands of "Woke DEI" studies. Researchers say that's misrepresenting science and disparaging important research.

I am done being sad about anti-DEI measures & am solidly back in the succeeding-by-spite mode. It got me through undergrad, & grad school, & my postdoc & my first asst prof position. Want me to jump through hoops for funding? Fine. I'll jump over the hoops & teach the next gen how to do it too.

Precisely.

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

Y'all see how the Eagles just beat the Chiefs ass. Very cutsey. Very demure. VERY DEI.

MUSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTAAAAAAAARRRRRRRDDDDDDDDD

This information is all out there, but it's good to have it in one place. The TL;DR is that the Trump administration's goal is nothing less than the destruction of American science, and they may well get it. 🧪 🧵

If you can, I strongly recommend that you consider “holding space” 💖 I held space tonight for the neuro grad students & postdocs. I ordered pizza/soda and we talked. I didn’t have any answers. They didn’t expect me to. They just wanted to be heard & to feel that they’re not alone in their worries.

If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is **congressionally mandated** to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread

The Rare Plant RaMP offers a 1-year, fully funded research experience in rare plant science at 4 U.S. botanic gardens! Open to post-baccalaureates, with mentorship, networking, & science communication training. Apply by March 14, 2025! Details: atlantabg.org/conservation...

me a nonwhite woman 🧍🏽‍♀️🧍🏽‍♀️🧍🏽‍♀️

Some very specific words not included on this list. Can you guess which? Also, as a microbiologist “community” and “community diversity” is kind of an important concept.

today a student told me all reggaeton in spanish sounds the same and that GNX was a bad album.

oops i forgot to tell y’all but it’s a ✨🌱plant growth chamber🌱✨

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 PAID INTERNSHIPS! California State University (CSU) students interested in marine, ocean, and coastal STEM are invited to apply for the 2025 CSU COAST Summer Internship Program. 20 internships available Head to bit.ly/COASTInterns2025 to apply by 2/26/25!

guess what i’m building 👀👀👀