Big festival after the march in the small-ish town of Corvallis, Oregon! It ended with a dance party… many people are still on the streets with their signs- 3 hours later!

@radiolab.bsky.social I loved Soren’s reframing & it happens to provide clarity on something I’ve been trying to articulate: Jane Goodall: “I don’t like to talk about animal rights. I prefer to talk about human responsibilities.” Me: “what are OUR responsibilities to each other? To our community?”🥰

Ready for today’s march for Democracy! (With a nod to my neighbors to the North in Portland! 🐸🥰)

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

⏰ Don’t forget – applications for the JXB 2026 Editorial Internships closes next Tuesday (30 Sept)! 🌱✍️ ⚠️ Don’t leave it to last minute – the application takes some work: 📄 CV 📝 Cover letter 🔍 Commentary (Insight style, max 1500 words, based on a JXB paper ≥ July 2024) Apply now: bit.ly/jxbinterns

Engineering flowers as a means for public outreach and art! Dr. @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social reimagines Arabidopsis with new colors and shapes, blending plant biology, synthetic biology and creative arts! Hear him speak at SB 8.0 at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! jamboree.igem.org/2025/program...

I’m officially starting the call for this movie to play EVERYWHERE in 2026- in honor of the USA’s 250th anniversary (and the film’s 20th) It was amazingly prescient youtu.be/6lai9QhBibk?...

we should refer to him from here on out as Gavin “Big Balls” Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov

The GOP are the biggest cheaters. Fact check here: independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx

Ruby heard me discussing taking a walk before it hit 90° and wanted to register her interest in participating 🤣

📜 In defense of funding foundational plant science 🧑‍🔬 @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience

Lots of fun to make this and work with Catherine, Adrienne, and Arif!

Registration is open for JXB's 75th Anniversary Symposium 🌱 We have plenty of speaker slots for ECRs & lots of opportunity to network 🌳 There's a conference dinner at The Caves & workshops for ECRs 🌾 Sign up now to join us in Edinburgh in September, places are limited: bit.ly/JXB75 #plantscience 🧪

Maybe why they’re dismantling US Universities ?

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#WI #highered #academicsky

Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...

This suppression of first amendment rights by the U.S. government is utterly shocking

Reading an internal NIH guidance memo which basically says since we’re probably going to be shutting down labs with little or no notice just be sure to remember about the whole disposing of biohazard materials the right way thing. ☣️ 😬🤡

i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing

Finally some truth about what the impact of institutional silence is as DEI is mothballed. "I see the University for what it is: a place of incredible power and prestige more concerned with public image than the well-being of affected faculty, staff, postdocs and students..." disq.us/t/4tb43sv

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Registration is now open for the #CSPB #SCBV 2025 Annual Meeting CSPB2025.ca for all details and information. The meeting will be hosted in Halifax, NS this year from Aug 9 - 12. We can’t wait to see you there! #scienceconference #plantscience #conference

The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.

I am hiring a lab technician! If you know anyone who has experience with field studies, enjoys working with plants, and is a good communicator and hard worker, pls pass this along! The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. Please re-skeet! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

📌Vacancy at the University of Amsterdam! Join us at the Green Life Sciences with three open positions by my colleagues. 🌱🌻 1/3 PhD position on "Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience" in the group of Dr. Kathrin Wippel: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

"They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Watch the whole video & violent suppression of free speech, let by the local Idaho sheriff. 👉🏼 THIS is what “free speech” looks like under Republicans in the U.S. 👉🏼 This is the party of JD Vance who told our long time allies that the true enemy is Europe suppressing free speech x.com/youranoncent...

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

After an extensive search, the Danforth Center has named Giles Oldroyd, PhD, its next President. @gilesoldroyd.bsky.social is a renowned plant geneticist & one of only a few hundred scientists elected to both the UK @royalsociety.org & the US @nasonline.org. www.danforthcenter.org/news/interna...

One week from today. Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with us as we hear from three Black #PlantSci professionals. Online, free registration, everyone is welcome.

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

I got in our local paper (Corvallis, Oregon) at the “not my president’s day” protest yesterday. (It’s behind a paywall so not that accessible but I took screenshots.) gazettetimes.com/news/local/g...

Being interviewed by a local newspaper reporter at the President’s Day pro-democracy protest (Oregon)

HHMI just cancelled our grant. We were in the second year of developing programs to retain students from all backgrounds in STEM. All that work, all that energy…..I am profoundly disappointed. Well-funded HHMI labs, what do you think of dismantling funding for these training programs?

There are so many participating in this battle (and have been, for a long time!) Just a few: @drugmonkey.bsky.social @drstarbird.bsky.social @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social Follow them too!

Check out the DiversifyPlantSci database and list started by NAASC in 2019. Helps to find people for collaborations, speaking slots, etc. info on how to add yourself is shown at the resource

A private citizen shutting down a government agency is a coup. Do not normalize this.

Resources for scientists who are being threatened or targeted below from the @nationalacademies.org www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

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There are a few more days to apply for a science comic collab! This semester’s cohort of students had a few special requests for scientific topics. 😎 If you or a colleague researches one of these, please consider applying! Form can be done in a few minutes. And please share widely.

Arabidopsis Community easy (200-500 words) nominations for (1) Lifetime Achievement in Arabidopsis (2) Excellence in DEIB for the Arabidopsis community (3) Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge 🔥Deadline extended to the end of Monday February 3!🔥 www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/community-awards

Don’t forget to nominate Arabidopsis community people for these awards by the end of January 2025!

🚨 The Senate is expected to vote tomorrow morning on one of the most dangerous immigration bills in recent history. The Laken Riley Act wouldn’t protect anyone. What it would do is create chaos that could impact millions.

Just released a new Science IRL ep! Scientists at CROPPS are using giant robots & genetic light switches to help plants be more resilient in the face of climate change. It gives me hope to see researchers doing this sort of work, especially now: youtu.be/EJfKeySYWm4?... 🧪 #plantscience #scicomm