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Color tierrita. Maize Genetics 🧬 🌽. Don't let poets lie to you.
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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... 🧪

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]

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...

"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!

📣#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

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

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.

*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! 🧪

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

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

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

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.

🚨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

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

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_...

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".

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

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! 🌱🔬💻🤓

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

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

No words

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.

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

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...

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

“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!”

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

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

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.

"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...

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.

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.

They also come in some wonderful colors!

“Accelerated learning”

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.

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

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

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

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

His legacy will endure his art and his forest.

“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

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

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