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Great SciComm teaching tool -"Bad news" "Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as a news site. Playing it builds cognitive resistance against common forms of manipulation that you may encounter online." 👍 www.getbadnews.com/en

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#ASHS2025 Workshop Ethylene-releasing and ethylene-inhibiting materials are essential tools to manage different aspects of horticultural crop production such as plant growth and development, flowering, stress response, thinning and harvesting. Register ashs.org/page/ASHSAnn... #plantscience

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Exciting postdoc opportunity in #plantscience! 🌾 Join the fantastic @lluginbuehl.bsky.social group to work at the cutting edge of plant-fungal symbioses research in a brilliant department @camplantsci.bsky.social

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🌿Thank you, Africa! 🌍 We extend our heartfelt thanks to all the participants, hosts, sponsors, exhibitors, and service providers who made the inaugural African Plant Genomics Symposium a resounding success! See more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/africa... #africanplantgenomics #plantgenomicsafrica

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🇮🇳 India approves its 1st genome-edited rice using CRISPR-Cas: 🌾 DRR Rice 100 (Kamla) 🌾 Pusa DST Rice 1 🚫Not GMOs — no foreign DNA. 🌿Boosts yield, climate resilience, and low water requirement. Developed by @icar_iirr & @Icar_iari. #CRISPR #Rice

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My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

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As part of the special issue for nectar and nectaries, our new review on nectary development and evolution is now published at @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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I was funded by the NSF Interdisciplinary Graduate Training program (IGERT) at UW-Madison. It connected sociology, ecology, and limnology and trained us to work together on common problems in the real world by DOING RESEARCH together. There is no question that I would not here today #WithoutNSF

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#JustIn on Plantae: Celebrating Disabled Scientists in Plant Science. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellow, Malini Muthu Karpagam, shares the journeys of two disabled plant scientists who are reimagining how plant science can become more welcoming of everyone. buff.ly/Q4Stb7H #plantscience

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📣 Did you know that JXB turns 75 this year? 📣 Join us in Edinburgh, 17-19 September, to celebrate! 🌿 Speaker slots for ECRs 🌱 Workshops, networking, and a conference dinner at The Caves 🎉 Places are limited - register now: bit.ly/JXB75 #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

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Plant immunity wins the biology category prize for Dance Your PhD and capsaicin from chilli peppers forms the basis for the Overall winner! www.science.org/content/arti... #PlantScience

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🌿 SAVE THE DATE: ASPS Conference 2025! Join us 24-27 November at Flinders University, South Australia! Registration opens in June. Stay tuned for program details and abstract submission information. www.asps.org.au/asps25 #ASPS2025 #PlantScience #Conference

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This semester my class has been learning to review papers during discussion sections, the final assignment was to produce constructive reviewer reports using a preprint which included #genetics and or #genomics in #plantsci. Impressed with the outcomes, I will be posting the results 1/n

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Quick note - I'm hearing from many people who are expecting emails from @theplantcell.bsky.social or @plantphys.bsky.social that haven't arrived. Since migrating to our new journal submission system in January, lots of journal emails are getting stuck in spam filters. Seek and you might find!

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Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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#Sisters #PrettyCure #PrettyCute Sharing a moment of happiness.

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look at this nerd (reprint of previous article but with new pictures)

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Dismantling systems aimed at addressing inequities is highly misguided, but the way DEI initiatives are implemented should be improved. Too often, they are symbolic gestures that fail to address real barriers A great read from @profkeonwest.bsky.social #academicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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📻Catch Cara Griffiths talking to about new results boosting wheat yield using the T6P biostimulant developed by Rothamsted, @ox.ac.uk & @rosfrankinst.bsky.social on BBCR4 Farming Today this morning. First item in the programme... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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From cereals to fruit growing and viticulture, through to medicinal plants and forestry – our 18 specialised institutes conduct crop research at nine locations across Germany. Our focus: #breeding and breeding #research, #plant diseases and pests, #biodiversity, and sustainable #cultivation.

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I had some absolutely incredible papers come online this week, and I need to take a minute to post about each of them. First, let me tell you about the CarboTag probes for imaging plant cell walls! From the Sprakel lab (a short thread) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture" Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed. Please share widely. academic.oup.com/database/art...

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NAASC is excited to host Dr. Stefan DeFolter, Dr. Nayelli Marsch, and Dr. Stewart Gillmor on June 6 to learn their Plant Biology Story! Join the June 6th webinar to learn about 3 plant biology faculty at CINVESTAV-IPN in Irapuato, Mexico Register now at www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/mpbs

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We’re sounding the alarm for science. America has led the world in groundbreaking discoveries because we funded public science for the public good. That is now all at risk of being lost, far faster than anyone imagined. You need science. Science needs you. SaveScienceNow.org

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Fascinating article 👇

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Apply for Senior Museum Scientist in Paleobotany at the UCMP. Learn more: ucmp.berkeley.edu/2025/04/appl...

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Congratulations to all the talented scientists elected to the NAS! Especially our colleagues Hailing Jin, Roger Innes, Robin Buell, Alice Cheung, Uta Paszkowski, Dan Kammen! www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...

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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Stopping citrus greening with peptide therapy (Science) (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social ) buff.ly/BR0cAtS #PlantaePSRW

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“The best science communication ends with the spark of curiosity.” “Trust starts with a human face and a personal touch” I’ve loved the emphasis on breaking your bubble, building community and stepping off your pedestal in the science communication conversations at #EGU25.

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Honoured to have been awarded a #BBSRC Fellowship to study the influence of histone modifications on plant defence memory at UoB 🌱 Excited to return to plant pathology & explore how epigenetics shapes long-term immunity 🧬 Incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support 🙏 tinyurl.com/2u8ndyb2

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AGU has filed a new lawsuit to prevent the Administration’s dismantling of U.S. scientific agencies. We’re proud to take this stand with our plaintiffs’ coalition for our federal workforce. buff.ly/3U56ooz

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UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🌾 WHEAT 🌾 Editors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Reyazul Rouf Mir, Matthew Reynolds & Nicola Pecchioni 📅 Deadline: 30 June 2025 📝 We welcome contributions! 🔗 Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social (1/2)

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Join us. May 13, it's going to be a super, fun learning experience.

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#Train2EGU ICE91 is unstoppable (yes, duct tape can fix train windows). Who also made it to Vienna and likes water and forests? Join me for this talk tomorrow, there will be fresh results from combined #dendrometer and #sapflow measurements: 🕔 28/4 17.00h 📍Room 2.15 @enricounigoe.bsky.social #EGU25

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New preprint from my PhD! How cis-regulatory evolution shaped grass diversification worldwide www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We looked across 589 (!) grass species to ask: — What regulatory changes enabled grasses to adapt? — How can this inform crop breeding for resilience? Here’s what we found:

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Gen Z and conservatives show higher misinformation susceptibility, large-scale study finds www.psypost.org/gen-z-and-co... via @psypost.bsky.social "...scores generally decreased as individuals identified further towards the conservative end of the spectrum."

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For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.

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“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025

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Along with every geneticist I am a total Mendel groupie and this new figure (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) that shows the chromosome location and underlying basis of his allelic pairs moves me to near-tears. Oh, to fly back in time and show this to him ...

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New National Academies report out, "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science" nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2789... These reports are always useful resources & free to download, and have concise summaries as well - Highlights PDF here nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/278...

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Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grass-roots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted or decommissioned on the orders of US President Donald Trump’s administration 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“Constitutionally, you have a right to due process,” says Bridget Fahey, a legal scholar who specializes in contracts at the University of Chicago in Illinois. New story from @dangaristo.bsky.social on NSF grant terminations (a fresh batch today, even more than last week's ~400 terminations):

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Yeast in the Trees: How a Tiny Organism Traces the Footsteps of Ancient Humans www.anthropology.net/p/yeast-in-t...

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🌱 Tomorrow is #InternationalSeedsDay — and we’re taking a moment to honor the tiny powerhouses behind food, sustainability, and resilience. Why do seeds matter? 🌾 Genetic diversity 🛡️ Climate-smart sustainability 🌍 Food justice 🧪 Innovation rooted in nature #PlantScience #SeedDiversity

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ASHS Career Center Research Associate I - Pathology ow.ly/AmN050VHX3k Wine Specialist (Full-time) - Imagery Estate Winery ow.ly/v75R50VHX3f Assistant Professor - Landscape Design ow.ly/ccLT50VHX3j More jobs at ashscareers.careerwebsite.com/jobs/ #plantscijobs

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