Our beautiful work is out in Current Biology! @currentbiology.bsky.social
Immune activation suppresses reproductive growth in Arabidopsis through cytokinin signaling: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
✨Kelp embryos looking extra photogenic under the confocal today 🌱🔬 Young Egregia menziesii embryos developing from the megagametophyte 📸 Image by Siobhan Braybrook #FluorescentFriday
Do any of y’all have a good protocol organization system for your lab that is open source? Seeking inspiration 🙏
As you plan end of the year donations, please consider the Caleb Scholar's program. It is the only program that I know of that provides Alaska Native students how to use their education to support their community after graduation, mentored & run solely by Inupiaq
www.calebscholars.org/donation/
Come work with us!!
We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!
Please help, folks.
That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away.
The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.
Arkadipta Bakshi is recruiting PhD students for his new lab at Wake Forest. Arko is great to work with - check out his lab website for more info! www.arkadiptabakshilab.com
Drawing your attention to an effort to convince NSF to re-open this year's GRFP competition to second year PhD students. Please consider signing or sharing the petition asking NSF to broaden the application eligibility to what it has been previously. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to boost opportunities for domestic scientists by making it prohibitively expensive for universities to hire international faculty and staff. https://scim.ag/3Klmxai
It seems shameful to just let these sit in my phone. Baby moose, meet Lola!
David Brooks, a conservative columnist speaks about the amount of people who have died directly as a result of cuts to USAID by Doge.
Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts.
It’s only been four months.
Ugh
www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024...
I saw him jogging on Duke campus around 545am this morning and thought I’d lost my mind - apparently he’s a student here! WTF Dook!?
Big 10 finally strategizing. The thought: a mutual defense compact
statenews.com/article/2025...
#academicsky
Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@davidpakman.bsky.social One copy left at the Durham, NC Barnes & Noble - looking forward to this read!
Does anyone have a recommendation for a new set of vectors for inducible gene expression in plants? I’ve noticed the ones I’ve been using can be a bit leaky. Thanks! #PlantScience
Keep posting
Are we winning yet?
Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
Agreed. The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to resist.
If we don’t march by the millions we’re not going to have a country.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Hear perspectives on the best path forward for our community amid the turbulence due to policy decisions enacted by the Trump administration. A listening session will be held on March 18, 2025, at 1 pm EST.
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
The pressure to publish in high-impact journals is often at the expense of other scholarly activities
https://go.nature.com/3XihhIf
My department is hiring! Looking for an Assistant Professor of Biology (Botanist/Plant Ecologist) in the Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences at West Texas A&M University.
If you have any questions feel free to DM me.
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WTAMU_...
#standupforscience2025 Great turnout and great signs in Raleigh, NC
#standupforscience2025 Raleigh, NC
'Yale University announced a reduction in spending on faculty pay rises, staff hiring and campus construction. It joined Stanford University, Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have all enacted hiring freezes in recent weeks.'
greetings from berlin... 👋
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social @nabroderick.bsky.social @deniswirtz.bsky.social @contaminatedsci.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social @mcsymbiont.bsky.social @spribille.bsky.social @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social and many more...
