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I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

submitted 23 hours ago • 89 comments

As many of you know, ~170 Program Officers at #NSF were fired on Tuesday, including a number that worked in Divisions important to the EEB community (e.g., DEB and GEO/OPP). 1/3

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Must watch speech by neuroscientist Kailyn Price at a HHS rally protesting funding cuts to science. "Cutting indirect costs is like telling a football team to work with only the players. No lights for the field, no physical therapists for the players, no water for the showers."

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

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)

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Where can we donate to the legal fund for NSF employees fired without cause today?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is absolutely devastating www.wired.com/story/nation...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Last day to apply for SSE funds to attend this event and receive valuable science policy training from AIBS! forms.gle/ghaAzVTPCCKC...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We are supposed to be able to use tribal IDs for (not all) legal things (sick so can't think of word). This letter highlights: 1. Vigilantes are intimidating people on behalf of ICE and 2. ICE can't tell the difference between North and South Indigenous people. It's almost like we both belong here

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Two incredible #BSAawards opportunities are closing soon! 📅 Apply by Monday, February 17, 2025, for the AJB Synthesis Papers, including the $2,000 AJB Synthesis Prize, and the $1,500 Graduate Student Research Awards. Visit: botany.org/home/awards.... #AJBSynthesisPrize #BSAGSRA #IamaBotanist

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 8 days ago • 710 comments

Someone awesome in my circle shared some terrific news with me today but was hesitant to do so because of all that is going on in the science world. It may appear insensitive that you are celebrating when other colleagues are struggling but I entreat you to celebrate & share good news. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Every time I listen to @ruha9.bsky.social, I get a little smarter. youtu.be/1VRCfuKEGdo?...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Here, a celebration of Apocynaceae (dogbanes, milkweeds, swallow-worts etc.) fruits and flowers tucked into a phylogenetic study. Remarkable diversity. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 13 days ago • 3912 comments

NIH had two tracks for the same fellowship: those from underrepresented backgrounds and those not. Both usually get funds. Rather than merge back to one track to comply with their understanding of executive orders, they essentially rejected without review all the ones on the underrepresented track.

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

🌱 The BSA Emerging Leader Award honors early-career botanical scientists making a significant impact in the field. Know someone deserving? Submit your nomination today! Deadline: March 15, 2025 Learn more here: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAEmergingLeader #BSAAwards #IamaBotanist

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The program that changed my life ❤️

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Hey so when are scientists going to be in the streets? They want to cut a quarter to a HALF of NSF staff!!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Proud of this statement from the tenure track/tenured caucus with UCW Colorado rebutting a right-wing smear campaign targeting faculty hiring programs. www.ucwcolorado.org/cu-boulder

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Hey look! A Society for the Study of Evolution starter pack! Includes ESEB, ASN, and journals! Pls Re-skeet!

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

1st paper from my lab this year. Chelsea & Erica showed that self-incompatible plants of this little groundcherry change to self-compatible as they get old, but they are only passable selfers, making less than half the number of seeds as plants are fixed for self-compatibility rdcu.be/d7ZM8

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

The Oath of Office taken by me and my colleagues at the NSF - “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; …”

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria from openly available specimen images New in #AppsPlantSci by @tvasconcelos.bsky.social & @jboyko.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @r-foundation.bsky.social @gbif.org #botany #biodiversity #iamabotanist

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Try our new in silico PCR (sPCR) tool sharkmer- github.com/caseywdunn/s.... You give it primers and fastq reads, it gives you sequences that would be amplified by PCR. Works in minutes on a laptop for high copy regions like rRNA, great for species id etc. Feedback welcome. #bioinformatics #ngs

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Now do NIH, NSF, and the other science funding agencies.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Someone decided the bathroom next to my office should feel more homey, and I'll tell you what, I am on board.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 29 days ago • 69 comments

A reminder to all plant (and plant-adjacent) ECRs, the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientist symposium will be at Birmingham this summer. We'd love to see you there! 🙂 Application deadline is Monday: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent... #Plantscience #newphytologist

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 31 days ago • 610 comments

✨ BSA Emerging Leader Award – Nominations Now Open! ✨ This award honors early-career scientists for their innovative research and contributions. Deadline: March 15, 2025. Details: botany.org/home/awards/awards-for-early-career-scientists/emergingleaderaward.html #BSAawards #BSAEmergingLeader

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I review a paper where I can't figure out what the message is, I come back to this. Clearer topic sentences would drastically improve most papers. So take a hot minute before your next submission to read this. @stephenbheard.bsky.social scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/t...

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism - "Bryophytes...flourish in environments where even the hardiest vascular plant species cannot survive"...the diversity of bryophytes surpasses that of ferns, lycophytes and grasses #botany www.nature.com/articles/s41... #botany 🧪🌾

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

I am super excited and proud to share the paper of my two undergraduate students, where we look at how a liverwort adapted to drylands uses its scales for as sunscreen!! bioone.org/journals/mad...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Today my colleague shared with me the most EXQUISITE image of a seed the size of a dust particle, collected from a rare plant called Xylanche in Nepal, and photographed using scanning electron microscopy. Wow.

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

Travel awards (up to $5,000) are available to support the study of collections in the United States National Herbarium. Applications are due on 15 January: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

New! @jenncoughlan.bsky.social kindly shared their MIRA NIH award with our github repo. If you have a successful grant app you're willing to share, please contribute! github.com/RILAB/statem...

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

What do we have here? This is a scar from historical resin extraction in a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) tree. It helps to explain an important era of American history...and also the decline of one of my top two favorite tree species. A thread.

submitted 54 days ago • 12 comments

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

There's a super fun story about these spurless Columbines! Pollinators mainly visit flowers for nectar, but these nectarless populations were very stable, and this study found both molecular & biological basis for these supposedly disadvantageous forms. 🧪 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment