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Thrilled to share that my first first-author paper is officially out as a PNAS direct submission! In this study, we uncovered the mechanism diving polycistronic expression in green algae! Come check it out below: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Purdue Undergraduate Research Experiences for Plant Biology and Data Science (PURE-PD) REU Program - Deadline March 7th

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It’s official! Stand Up for Science with us on the east steps of the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, CO! @standupforscience.bsky.social

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🚨CO Scientists🚨 Have you or someone you know been fired from a federally funded position? If so—contact me! Looking for speakers/stories for the Stand Up for Science rally in Denver, CO.

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Today's federal workforce massacre was at NSF. Time to push back. Find state-specific stats on NSF funding at bit.ly/NSF_bystate & call your reps. De-funding science hurts us all—our health, economy & future.

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A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

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"I’m feeling betrayed, gutted, lost, anxious, and furious." Our story for @science.org—on the ongoing mass firing of federal employees and reactions in the scientific community. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Update: This NSF-funded study is now published in MBE. Today more than ever, I'm appreciative of what all the people at NSF do to support our science. Let's fight to support them. doi.org/10.1093/molb...

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Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24. @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025 www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

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The National Science foundation has just updated their FAQ to say they are complying with the court order and has restored access to funds and the ACM$ platform new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

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To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

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Hello All, plz share. Last call for applications for a post-doc position in our lab to study immune function in frogs infected with the fungal pathogen Bd. Deadline is Feb 1, reviews will begin soon after. zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

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Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible. This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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I'm happy to announce a postdoctoral position is available in my lab. We have lots of great data to analyze with respect to transposons & epigenetics and cool biological questions to answer. Please reskeet and share.

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Getting back on the reading after a busy semester start. These look exciting in the world of organelle genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (congrats @sloanevolab.bsky.social et al.!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (congrats @wallaceucsf.bsky.social et al.!)

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We have a research laboratory technician post available in my group - the role will support plant work, and molecular biology, associated with our research on centromeres. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47342/

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‘Big data’ generated from outsourced or centralized facilities often lacks methodological information. This Perspective outlines how and why researchers, service providers, and other parties should report on #methodology and sample #metadata to improve scientiﬁc #reproducibility. plos.io/42hSck6

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What's your experience been in getting methods info from DNA sequencing facilities and similar services? Mark Stenglein and I wrote this perspective after seeing many datasets returned/published without any methods record. Would love to hear what others have found! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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New preprint: Chloroplast and mitochondrial #pangenome of #Arabidopsis thaliana! Work led by wenfeixian.bsky.social #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Check out our new preprint in which we use Arabidopsis mutation accumulation lines to quantify just how important the enigmatic plant MSH1 gene is for maintaining low mito and plastid mutation rates. So many mutations detected in msh1 lines! Feedback appreciated! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies. Interested in contributing? Please contact us! #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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2x Preprint drop!!! Mitochondrial pearling has arrived! “The Biophysical Mechanism of Mitochondrial Pearling”. “Pearling Drives Mitochondrial DNA Nucleoid Distribution” 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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REVIEW: Expansion of the MutS gene family in plants (Daniel B Sloan, Amanda K Broz, Shady A Kuster, Viraj Muthye, Alejandro Peñafiel-Ayala, Jennifer R Marron, Dennis V Lavrov, Luis G Brieba) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae277

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Hi everybody, newcomer to bluesky (seems great), let me share our last results on open science in eco-evo. #ScientificPublishing #EvolutionaryBiology 1/4

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It's been a busy year! The second thing I'd like to share is our is our pre-print on the evolution of the exquisitely cool Cannabaceae sex chromosomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Congratulations to Rachael on this new story out now in PNAS! Delving into translational machinery retargeting across different plant species- plastid presence is the key 🗝️🔬🌱 it was a great experience helping out on the ‘scope for this project and working with some awesome scientists 🥳

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Second paper from the lab out today (woohoo!). This one led by Rachael DeTar. Check out what happens to mito+plastid translation machinery in plants that have lost photosynthesis! Published in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Also available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Happy to share our collaborative review on the expansion of the MutS gene family in plants and all the cool (and in some cases still unknown) roles of these genes. Now published in @theplantcell.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/plce...

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The Finish publication forum downgrades almost all MDPI and Frontiers Journals to 0 from the beginning of 2025. These Journals are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

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Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!

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NEW preprint!🥳 Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves the inference of orthogroups (blue in fig) OrthoHMM may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life 🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6 🧵 1/8

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Mitochondrial DNA mutations in human oocytes undergo frequency-dependent selection but do not increase with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627454v1

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We have a new paper out today in #ScienceAdvances from a #COVIDcollab with postdocs Kevin Archibald, Suzana Leles, and Ferdi Pfab. Our #MOCHA☕💻🦠 team developed a new model to describe how #mixotrophs optimize metabolism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #protistsonsky #NSFfunded (1/6)

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New paper with @snaildit.bsky.social❗ You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction! This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Wow!!!

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Yes! Would love to see less money leaking out of the scientific community to for-profit publishers.

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