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Just some amazing signs up in a congressional office building. Whoever did this… hero(es).

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In this interview, Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social talks about her research in stomatal development, her role as an Editor at Development, and how her passion for comparative biology has influenced her career: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204667

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I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

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This morning I was talking with a group of senior scientists about this. It makes us feel like raving conspiracists just by explaining the bare facts. The most sober read out sounds like hyperbole and catastrophizing. It’s not.

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This was supposed to be a post about my lab's first funding of the year, a diversity supplement to fund our amazing research technician. The award never arrived. Now it's a post about the value of diversity and trying to persevere in these dark times. devinenilab.org/news/diversi...

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There’s a google doc trying to keep track of funding/grad school admission/hiring freezes & status please share 🧪 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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The #LatestIssue of Plants, People, Planet is online now! Special issue: Parasitic plants, people and planet 📚 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/25722611/2025/7/2 On the cover: Rafflesia bengkuluensis with its custodians in Sumatra. Courtesy of @christhorogood.bsky.social. #PlantScience

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Proposals are due Feb. 19 for the R.C. Lewontin Early Awards, which provide funds for beginning Master’s and PhD students. Check your eligibility and review the proposal requirements here: https://buff.ly/3YZlUHf

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www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-... The Soyabean Innovation Lab led by Professor Peter Goldsmith at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has to close and let go of 30 people because they lost USAID funding.

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

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To navigate these terrible times, we need Audre’s Lorde’s audacity: Protect the public sphere. Refuse to be silenced.

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People come from around the world - the best and brightest - to study in our labs. Many stay here forever, making their talent and drive part of our American experience, bettering us all. Every dollar spent in academic research brings $3 to their communities - especially land and sea grant schools!

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Years of work by a tremendous group, lead by Gabriel Marais. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Read every word of @stephanienolen.bsky.social 's story on how the demolition of #USAID, #CDC, and #PEPFAR is setting research back years and harming trial volunteers, some of whom are on experimental treatments and have lost access to care shd something go wrong. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Fellow science teachers- Please explain to your students the importance of government funding for research in this country. I didn't know how science was funded until grad school but our next generation of researchers need to know what is at risk. It will have HUGE implications for their future.

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🆕 Our #LatestIssue is online now! 📚 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2024/245/6 🌱 Genomic secrets of invasive #plants 🌱 Pot vs field #experiment trade-offs 🌱 Centromere #diversity: impact on plant karyotypes & reproduction Read more 👇🧵

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An attack on NSF is not just an attack on the staff working there; it's also an attack on academia as a whole. The aim is to starve out the universities and stop the training of new scholars. It's an attempt to rip out the system's roots and stems so it can't come back.

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Deadline approaching! Submit your abstracts for our call for papers on #stomata: https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/353 Deadline: 14 February 2025 #PlantScience

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Did you know that BSA gives out over $125,000 in awards each year? 🌿 Grad students, apply for a $1500 Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), including the J.S. Karling & A.J. Harris GSRAs. Deadline: Feb 17, 2025. Apply now: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #BSAstudents #IamaBotanist

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This is how you do it. Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social Read their whole email to membership here mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

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Check out this new #AJB Commentary by Elizabeth Lombardi & Hannah Marx! #Herbaria as critical resources for studying plant-virus #biodiversity & #epidemiology doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology

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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 28 days ago • 3791 comments

Gave 46 FGLI undergrads summer research opportunities in our REU program.

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Here is a moment of peace for your timeline. Little River, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

submitted 29 days ago • 167 comments

🌳🌳🌳 We have a new paper in @pnas.org showing climate warming leads to growth decline in beech because it drives trees to reproduce more frequently. Climate change can cause growth decline even when drought isn’t increasing by shifting where trees allocate resources doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423181122

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My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and waves vaguely this nonsense, and it will impact their productivity. It can't not.

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Excellent summary thread of the chaos that is American federally-funded research. And what may not be obvious is that some industry research is also on pause because it depends on collaborations with research agencies that are currently in a communications blackout.

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Have you called your reps to oppose the nomination of RFK Jr yet today? Have you called your reps to tell them the impact the current EOs will have on your research today? Have you called to say how these EOs will affect your neighbors, friends, family? Are you involved in political organizing?

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This is the most epic cold open we've ever done for a Science IRL episode -- from the top of the world's largest phenotyping robot 🤯 I'm so grateful we got to tell this science story and that it's now out in the world! Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJfK...

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Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a 🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st → tinyurl.com/2872w6vm The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb. Spread the word!

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If you know anyone who might be interested in working as a technician before a PhD, I'm looking for someone to work with me to generate some amazing data to understand the genetics of behavior, sex differences, and reproduction in an evolutionary context. Bonus? Amazing and supportive department!

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Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...

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