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Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years. Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park. Team of grad and undergrad researchers collecting plants at Guadalupe Mountains National Park, to study changes in plant genetics and ecophysiology over the 50 years since the Park opened. May 2024. (see also my profile picture)

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Dear Manager: 1) Do you hear the people sing? 2) Singing the song of angry men? 3) It is the music of a people 4) Who will not be slaves again... 5) There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes! ~The US Army Choir www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQh...

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I am a machine, precisely tuned to efficiently transform Rockstar energy drinks into emails.

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Had the opportunity to chat with In Defense of Plants about my favorite plant, Galax urceolata. We dive into its ecology, genome evolution, and the fascinating world of polyploidy. Check out this week’s episode:

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This post now has the most engagement of anything I’ve posted on BlueSky before. Guess I’ll be known as the Grant Font Guy now?

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The "database" being just an excel file named "Public Database_Release (1) (1).xlsx" is just objectively funny.

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Message from SSE Council: Supporting our Community and our Mission mailchi.mp/evolutionsoc...

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shout out to the bro-y guy in the back of my class who got a multiple choice clicker question right, did a fist pump and yelled out “YEAH! Let’s GOOOO” and high fived his friends needed that energy this morning!

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Hey can someone run down to the EEO office and grab me one of them “we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong” forms? I’ve got an idea…

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Submitting a proposal to NSF this week out of spite more than anything else at this point.

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"Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them... We can only be free together."

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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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NSF’s cash management service is now back up and running. Seems like they responded to the court order. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo rescinding the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

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In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. - @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Breaking news: The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.

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Do not comply in advance.

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OK it actually seems pretty isolated, re NSF panel cancellation. Currently, only four panels in the next few months are listed as cancelled. new.nsf.gov/events/propo...

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I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

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Get it together, Rubisco, geez you’ve only had 3 billion years

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Rubisco is slow across the tree of life doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Martin Niemöller and George Santayana are having an epic grave rolling competition today.

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Are you a biology educator? Check out our new paper, Charting a new vision: Lessons on Vision & Change from a network of biology educators! We describe the conversations we've had as members of the Promoting Active Learning and Mentoring (PALM) Network 1/5 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Two new #hornwort papers from our group out in Nature Plants @natureplants.bsky.social today - a great way to celebrate the new year! 1/4

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An annual tradition - listening to John Green's beautiful, haunting, and humbling review of Auld Lang Syne. In 2025, be the bright pink flower poking out of the asphalt. We're here because we're here because we're here because we are here because we're here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSrq...

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Excited to watch this classic Supreme Court rematch

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Science isn’t always linear. More often than not, new discoveries make us re-evaluate what we once thought we knew for certain. The Twitter/X-famous #BlueSoup saga is a great example of this! Learn more here: youtu.be/6g-gNJcGsLY featuring @bielleogy.bsky.social @atinygreencell.bsky.social

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New Checklist of the mosses of continental USA and Canada just dropped! Goffinet and Buck: bioone.org/journals/the...

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I took Prof. Pilkey’s “beaches” class (seen in the photo in the obit). He was a kind and passionate educator and a role model for blunt honest environmental truths. We need more Orrin Pilkeys.

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After lots of delay - we just updated the MIT living wage in our stipend database and we are back to only two points above the line! See more: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog... #PhDStipend #Biology @reptilerhett.bsky.social

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Help fund my Plants X Tech lab's latest project! This collaboration with @mossmatters.bsky.social and my lab has big potential for research, education, & outreach! experiment.com/projects/dev...

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We have an important announcement about #Botany2025: due to unforeseen site renovations at the planned location in Tucson, the conference will have a new location---but the same dates, July 26-30, 2025! For more details, see mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...

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