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The risk of the ‘producing more with less’ narrative www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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"TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITIONS INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan *Application Deadline: 8/31/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Tu_6-13-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

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HHS budget cuts threaten America’s health and innovation—including in NC share.google/V0Fij4QKlA8L...

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Introgression dynamics of sex-linked chromosomal inversions shape the Malawi cichlid radiation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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FYI: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is trying to get more info on the impact of recent research grant terminations. If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...

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Advocacy campaign launched in a bid to resume US student visas search.app/X8mGP

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I'm delighted to present this Science special issue on Plants and Heat! Through a series of Reviews and Perspective articles, covering topics from cell signalling to ecology there is something for everyone here. (1/8)

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Temperatures are soaring, and there's a limit to what plants can handle. Scientists are figuring out how to engineer crops to take the heat so they can get into the kitchen. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...

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Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

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You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/y... 🧪

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We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at #InstituteofBiologyLeiden within our @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project to discover interaction of #circadianclocks between Bacillus subtilis and Arabidopsis please share these with your network! 🙏 links below👇 [1/3]

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Got a new op-ed in LNC/LancasterOnline this morning, on the importance of the curiosity-driven science the National Science Foundation is supposed to support lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...

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"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

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📣#PlantBio2025 Opportunity Alert: ASPB's African Research Network (ARN) will be awarding the "Seeds of Change" poster award to up to 5 young #scientists doing amazing work to improve agriculture.🌱 👉Submit your abstract by 6/19 to be considered. plantbiology.aspb.org/submit-an-ab... #plantscience

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We're hiring! iNaturalist is searching for a Senior Staff Mobile Engineer team to lead the continued development of our cross-platform applications. Learn more: www.inaturalist.org/pages/jobs

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Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.

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URGENT please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign TODAY in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪

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Something blue for BlueSky, to lift everyone up in such dark times.

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Ancient DNA reveals mysterious Indigenous group from Colombia that disappeared 2,000 years ago www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Tree plumbing is hard. Xylem “pipes” must move water & not collapse. New study in #PlantCell&Environment (shorturl.at/CPF9s) led by #MichaletzLab PhD candidate @milossimovic.bsky.social shows how #mechanics (not just #hydraulics) shape xylem traits from leaves to roots, across 5 spp & 600k conduits.

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🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

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Science PhDs face a challenging and uncertain future arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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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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