Duke University presents its second annual Climate & Fungi Symposium on May 29, 2026 - Registration is FREE! Sign up to attend in person by May 5th and virtually by May 22nd. mgm.duke.edu/seminars-and... Don't miss our outstanding speakers and trainee talks! 🍄

It's only downhill from here.

Fearing repercussions from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, University of North Texas administrators shut down a school gallery art exhibition that criticized ICE. Now, UNT art students are choosing to show their work ... anywhere but on campus. And Dallas-area galleries are stepping up to help.

Now accepting applications for our 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards support students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs to conduct #ecology and #evolution research. Deadline is June 30, 2026: bit.ly/4umYKZd #science

📢Great opportunity for LAC students & researchers to join us in Salt Lake for #ESA2026!🌎 @esalatamcarib.bsky.social is offering 2 registration awards for the 2026 @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Annual Meeting (covers early-bird fees). 🗓 Deadline: May 15, 2026 👉Apply here: forms.gle/6sCHJ4x7mhxR...

1. In a draconian new policy, Texas Tech is banning writing about LGBTQ+ topics. The ban is the first don't say gay or trans policy to apply to students themselves. It applies to any thesis/dissertation moving forward. They are using AI to scan everything. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure

We lost a gem of a person! Always willing to help everyone in the community. Rest in peace Adriana!

Thank you for making my birthday a special one! @azajmahmud.bsky.social @pujaroy.bsky.social

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Three different friends pointed out I look sad at three separate occasions. This was my face.

When the graduate school celebrates graduate student appreciation week, my (and i think other grad students will agree) instant reaction is- "I will highly appreciate if you could increase my TA stipend cause I can barely make it."

American science is shrinking. 
A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV

“NSF Plant Biology Act.” H.R. 7949 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... This bill would expand NSF funding for plant and microbial biology grants with $150 million authorized each year from FY2026 through 2031. Reach out to your representatives. www.house.gov/representati...

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

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Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

The Iceberg Theory, visualized:

Asha Bhosle, the Indian singer whose astonishing range and longevity made her one of the most recorded voices in modern Indian music and the soundtrack for generations of Bollywood films, died on Sunday at 92.

Hi! I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section. (Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!) badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com

Bodies of Earth

Laufey gathering together a group of fellow pop culture apex predator biracial Asians for her new music video “Madwoman” is of-the-moment genius — an act of pride and provocation, and perhaps, an acknowledgment of boundary-crossing privilege. Eager to see the end result.

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

Massive increase in the censorship regime at TTU: www.texastribune.org/2026/04/10/t...

Are there any climate scientists and plant ecologists that work on the effect of ENSO cycles on plant communities? I am writing an article interviewing researchers working on this. Please reach out via DMs or comment on this post if you are interested. 😁

Optimality explains shifts in photosynthetic temperature optima Gan et al. @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The struggle is real...👇😉 #Dogs #BlueSkyDogs #DogsOfBlueSky #Doglovers

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

Just a few days left to apply for these positions!

Apply before April 23rd to join us as Associate Professor at Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Happy Tenth Birthday to the LI-6800! We got you a present. www.licor.com/products/pho...

"please consider options for students to participate remotely like we did in the early pandemic because we don't know if secret police are operating on campus and students may be scared to come in" is a hell of an email to have land in your inbox

People mostly share their achievements but let me share some recent failures of 2026. 1. TTU's Doctoral Dissertation completion fellowship -rejected 2. The Open Notebook's fellowship - rejected (understandable cause only 3 people get it every year) 3. AAAS Mass media fellowship - rejected

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Would love to be a part of this meeting in the future!

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

the arbuscules of AMF

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz #clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

Kitten named Francis

Filed himself again

Whenever a Ph.D. candidate in our lab defends their dissertation, I bake and decorate a cake to celebrate. This is from earlier today, my rendition of a Principal Component Analysis of #seaweed functional #traits. Congratulations, Bea! 🎉🐡🦑🌊

"We value our researchers' well-being."

The Wayne Harrison Memorial Scholarship supports the academic and professional growth of students through funding research, management, or education projects related to wildland fire science. Applications are due April 15, and scholarships are awarded by May 31. https://ow.ly/wwBS50YsubN

what if i just drop this bee dataset and let it go into the world without a publication because who even gives a fuck, it stresses me out too much

Vincent Price with cats.

Post prairie burn pics. I spread some wildflower and native grass seeds in some of our burned areas and put up our tree swallow/bluebird boxes. A little DeKay's brown snake came out to bask (Butler University campus prairie, Indianapolis, IN, USA)

Sarah, how's the writing going? Wellll I started taking pictures of my cat as if she was getting married, so, yeah. I mean, great.