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Did you miss yesterday's #StateOftheScience 🧪 address? You can now watch the recording and follow along with our thread about it: www.nationalacademies.org/event/44894_...

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A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Do you love もち (mochi)? If so (or even if you don't), this is an interesting article on the origin of adzuki beans (あずき), source of "red bean paste".

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Things to take into account when riding a bike. Financial nightmare fuel by the way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6V8...

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Interested in imaging plants, then this is a great workshop for you! We have a great line up of speakers from plant and ‘outside’ fields, fantastic location and spaces for ECRs to come and join in the fun! 🌱🔬💻🤓

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This seems like trolling. news.cgtn.com/news/2025-05...

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does anyone else think "qiagen box" when they see these?

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No words

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The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists. This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.

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Wow! What a way to surrender your scientific advantage just so that #MAHA can keep needles away from children. #NIH #NASA #NSF

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In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

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Obviously, finding diverse homologs violates federal civil rights law. We should be finding the most qualified homologs! github.com/EddyRivasLab...

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“Oh you think people might have forgotten what’s Chinese Exclusion Act, an actual federal law in 1882? Let’s do it again in 2025 then! How fun!”

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I find this message lacking in focus and a clear path to action. But I guess acknowledging the situation is start.

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I’m sure maga republicans will still feel exactly this same way if we get a progressive administration…

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Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

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"If we are to safeguard the breakthroughs of the future, governments must recognise and protect the pipelines that lead from curiosity-driven investigation to real-world benefit." www.ft.com/content/25dd...

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Human, C. elegans, and fruit flies shared a common ancestor pre-Cambrian, which was at the very least 500-600 million years ago (mya), whereas angiosperms shared a common ancestor in late Jurassic (~160 mya), meaning Arabidopsis is more closely related to most crops than worms or flies are to human.

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Look, I never liked lima beans either, but they're a fascinating thread in human history. First, they're named for the city of Lima, Peru, where they have grown since ~2000 BCE, making them the most ancient domesticated bean in the Americas. So: We're mispronouncing their name.

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They also come in some wonderful colors!

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“Accelerated learning”

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The US Administration has indefinitely blocked all student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

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The histone acetyltransferase GCN5 regulates floral meristem activity and flower development in Arabidopsis academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #plantscience

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A bedraggled Lesson's Motmot hunting for lunch for the kids. The baby motmots should be leaving the nest soon. At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature

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More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer ssb2026.github.io

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David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

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His legacy will endure his art and his forest.

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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates

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This one's for you, Trofim Denisovich. :)

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We chatted with @kevinfolta.bsky.social about maize domestication and new work by @reginafairbanks.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Publication out on the effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests in natcomms.nature.com‬rdcu.be/enby2

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Naming is just the start — taxonomy is the foundation of biodiversity and conservation research. On #TaxonomyRecognitionDay, let’s #NameItToSaveIt and fund it to sustain it! Here you have some pics of @erebiologa.bsky.social in action!

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My engraving-style ink of a begonia inspired by our recent travels in South Carolina. 🐡🌱🐝🎨 Lindzeamays.com

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An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world. The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use. Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

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Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students. Source: Economist, 2025 www.economist.com/science-and-...

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It's wild to see the Right going after the sciences using the same pretextual bullshit it used against the humanities for decades. Just as humanities scholars warned them it would one day.

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Rice plants inherit cold tolerance in just three generations - without changes to their DNA. This study challenges an interpretation of evolution that has been around for more than a hundred years 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Scientists need training. On the GRFP and other cuts www.youtube.com/shorts/qrgY5...

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"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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On Birdingplaces birders share their favourite birding areas. Europe had a big lead, but many areas outside Europe have recently been added. Is your favourite area already described? Check it here: www.birdingplaces.eu/find-a-birdi.... Add an area and help other birders find their way! @audubon.org

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Excited to share that our preprint has found a home in Science Advances. We show that intrinsically disordered regions determine the functional diversification of actin-regulatory SCAR proteins in Medicago. 🧵 1/3 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs

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