🚨Early Career Researchers!🚨
Grad students, undergrads, post-docs, technicians!

Our summer conference has a lot of great opportunities to present your work, network with other great #secmet #botany #medicinalplant scientists, and even win some 💵!

Come join us in Hershey PA this June!

#TIL that some of my students have a nickname for me. Apparently, it's "science dad."

I'll take it 😎
#STEM
#academicsky
#professor
#sciencedad

#secmet

Josh Kellogg on stage at the TEDxPSU event in February 2026.

Josh Kellogg on stage at the TEDxPSU event in February 2026.

So I did a thing this weekend... was excited to be nominated and even more thrilled to deliver a talk with TEDxPSU on #medicinalplants, #naturalproducts, #synergy, and the next generation of medicines. I'm honored to be among such great speakers for the TED series at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social

🎉We are delighted to welcome @kelloggnpgroup.bsky.social, @kateduncan.bsky.social & Yihua Chen to the @natprodreports.rsc.org Editorial Board! #natprod #secmet

Learn more about our new Editorial Board members here🔽
blogs.rsc.org/np/2026/01/3...

Gotta love it when a student's written paper kicks off with, "To begin, we should start at the beginning."
#gradingseason
#proflife
#writing

Bioactive identification using a Metabolome-wide association study (MeWAS) approach using basil (Ocimum) as a test case; now published in #Metabolomics!

Congrats to the team (including graduate and undergraduate students and our manager)!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#secmet
#massspec
#plants

A early career researcher in #secmet, #botany, #medicinalplants? Come join us in Hershey, PA for the 2026 ACMAP annual conference!

Travel awards available for students and postdocs, prizes for best poster presentation, and career development panels!

For more information, see: acmap.org/conference/

When teaching students about #toxicology and #secmet and #medicinal #plants, I try to find fun ways to keep the material fresh. I was rewarded yesterday when my undergrad tox class gave a hearty chuckle at my 90s era flashback for tubulin disruptors as toxins (and chemotherapy agents). Tubular!!

@savannahanez.bsky.social giving her 4th year seminar on the #ethnobotany and #secmet of monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe. So proud of all that she's accomplished so far, and all that is to come!

A great conference with diverse sessions on #medicinal #plants, #secmet, #plantbiology, #ethnobotany, and more! Check it out!

#secmet
#massspecsky
#ethnobotany
#chemsky

Targeted and Untargeted Mass Spectrometry Do Not Detect Grayanane-Type Toxins in Monotropa uniflora L. Monotropa uniflora L. (“ghost pipe”), is a North American traditional medicinal plant which has recently seen an increase in consumption nationwide. However, a single 1889 study reported the presence ...

An 1889 paper reported ghost pipe (Monotroa uniflora) contains grayanotoxin, but our @savannahanez.bsky.social
revisited this claim, using #massspec approaches to try and detect the toxins. Spoiler alert, we were unable to find any! Her work is now available in JNP!

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

A fun project with our partners at Penn State College of Medicine, looking at conventional vs cover crop systems for cannabis production, and the variation seen in the cannabinoid and terpenoid composition. The last manuscript for my student Cisco as well :)

To our #secmet #chemsky #plantbiology #ethnobotany #plant #science folks, come check it out!
acmap.org/conference/

ACMAP Conference This year’s meeting with a focus on the scientific advances in several health and nutritional areas including the newly emerging field of hemp and medicinal cannabis.

We're excited to host the 2026 @acmap.bsky.social conference "Science Meets Sweet Escape" here at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social's College of Medicine in Hershey, PA!

Early registration, student travel awards, and more information can be found on the website
acmap.org/conference/
Hope to see you there!

Thanks Dan, appreciate this feed and keeping the #secmet and #natprod community connected. What are the costs associated with upgrading the feed?

8/22 On Samantha Heller's Health & Nutrition Show, @NYUDocs, 12-2 pm ET: @MelissaJoyRD #RD clears up confusion abt #seedsoils, #CGM, #UPF! @kelloggnpgroup.bsky.social on pros/cons of #psychedelic microdosing. Open phones
877-NYU-DOCS.

Fashionista #butterfly: her body matches her wings 💕

At the #ASP #pharmacognosy conference, and got to see both my PhD (Mary Ann Lila) and postdoc (@nadjacech.bsky.social) mentors at the same time! I'm forever grateful to have had the chance to be guided by such brilliant strong scientists!

The ghostly white plant that has sparked a war among foragers Used medicinally by Native Americans for centuries, Monotropa uniflora — a.k.a. ghost pipe — is having a moment on social media. Not everybody is happy about it.

Our grad student @savannahanez.bsky.social was interviewed about her work on ghost pipe and its #ethnobotany and #pain #secmet potential, and was picked up by the @washingtonpost.com!

www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/07...

So important for #openacess science!!

The workshop brought nearly 50 people to talk and share about medicinal plants of North Dakota, and our team did a great job leading their first field screening tutorials. Great job to the team, hopefully the first of many!

Kicking off our workshop "Bridging Worlds: Medicinal Plants and Modern Science" with our partner, United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, ND. Thanks to @pennstateuniv.bsky.social's Huck Institutes for their support.
#ethnobotany #medicinal #plants #secmet

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article) The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I commented. You should too!

Now that we're into spring/summer, this is a fun little map and blog post, for anyone who wants to visit #botanical #gardens throughout #Pennsylvania. Penn State's #arboretum is on the list, along with some other fabulous destinations :) Enjoy!

www.travellerselixir.com/pennsylvania...

#plantscience
🌽🌾🌿

Early Registration is extended until May 19th!
Come visit us at Penn State and join in some amazing #plant #secmet #naturalproducts talks, posters, and research!
#botanical
#academicsky

NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff

1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.

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Congratulations!