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The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

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⏰ Don’t forget – applications for the JXB 2026 Editorial Internships closes next Tuesday (30 Sept)! 🌱✍️

⚠️ Don’t leave it to last minute – the application takes some work:
📄 CV
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🔍 Commentary (Insight style, max 1500 words, based on a JXB paper ≥ July 2024)

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Engineering flowers as a means for public outreach and art!

Dr. @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social reimagines Arabidopsis with new colors and shapes, blending plant biology, synthetic biology and creative arts!

Hear him speak at SB 8.0 at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! jamboree.igem.org/2025/program...

YouTube video by Film Trailer Channel Idiocracy (2006) Trailer | Luke Wilson | Dax Shepard

I’m officially starting the call for this movie to play EVERYWHERE in 2026- in honor of the USA’s 250th anniversary (and the film’s 20th) It was amazingly prescient
youtu.be/6lai9QhBibk?...

we should refer to him from here on out as Gavin “Big Balls” Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov

The GOP are the biggest cheaters. Fact check here: independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx

Ruby heard me discussing taking a walk before it hit 90° and wanted to register her interest in participating 🤣

In defense of funding foundational plant science Abstract. Plants are essential for life as we know it on Earth. They oxygenate the atmosphere, regulate the climate, and comprise much of the primary produ

📜 In defense of funding foundational plant science

🧑‍🔬 @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social

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#️⃣ #PlantScience

Lots of fun to make this and work with Catherine, Adrienne, and Arif!

This was fun to make!

Promotional postcard to advertise the JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium, to be held in Edinburgh fro 17-19th September 2025. The invited speakers are listed, as well as some highlights from the program. The images show an oak tree, leaf and acorn.

Registration is open for JXB's 75th Anniversary Symposium
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We have plenty of speaker slots for ECRs & lots of opportunity to network
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#plantscience 🧪

Maybe why they’re dismantling US Universities ?

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#WI #highered #academicsky

Protest- international women’s day- Oregon 🇺🇸

Bringing expansion microscopy to plants Biologist Kevin Cox, in Arts & Sciences, has discovered a low-cost way to more easily study the detailed makeup of plant cells. The ultimate goal is to help grow better crops, improving food security.

Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...

This suppression of first amendment rights by the U.S. government is utterly shocking

Reading an internal NIH guidance memo which basically says since we’re probably going to be shutting down labs with little or no notice just be sure to remember about the whole disposing of biohazard materials the right way thing. ☣️ 😬🤡

i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing

From the Community | I am more than a researcher, but Stanford doesn’t care Assistant Professor Elliot White Jr. denounces the University's faint response to political threats against DEI, especially compared to the robust support its research initiatives in the wake of NIH f...

Finally some truth about what the impact of institutional silence is as DEI is mothballed. "I see the University for what it is: a place of incredible power and prestige more concerned with public image than the well-being of affected faculty, staff, postdocs and students..."
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What I’m told by many faculty now is that they can’t stand up because ______ will suffer (not them, but their trainees, or staff, or colleagues. This may well be true AND it’s still a cop- out. Status quo works for them. They hide behind that privilege

Registration is now open for the #CSPB #SCBV 2025 Annual Meeting CSPB2025.ca for all details and information. The meeting will be hosted in Halifax, NS this year from Aug 9 - 12. We can’t wait to see you there! #scienceconference #plantscience #conference

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I am hiring a lab technician! If you know anyone who has experience with field studies, enjoys working with plants, and is a good communicator and hard worker, pls pass this along! The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. Please re-skeet!

careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Vacancy — PhD Candidate Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for plant science? Would you like to apply your enthusiasm to a highly relevant project in the field of plant-microbiome interactions? Then we have th...

📌Vacancy at the University of Amsterdam!
Join us at the Green Life Sciences with three open positions by my colleagues. 🌱🌻
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PhD position on "Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience" in the group of Dr. Kathrin Wippel: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.

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The Great Resegregation The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

"They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy."
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Anonymous on X: "MAGA Nazis in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho dragged out people at a town hall when they opposed cuts to Medicaid, the citizens were attacked and detained by unknown assailants while a MAGA speaker mocked the victims and thanked the rest of the crowd for being docile subservient cowards. https://t.co/SzA6ndtAIq" / X MAGA Nazis in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho dragged out people at a town hall when they opposed cuts to Medicaid, the citizens were attacked and detained by unknown assailants while a MAGA speaker mocked the victims and thanked the rest of the crowd for being docile subservient cowards. https://t.co/SzA6ndtAIq

Watch the whole video & violent suppression of free speech, let by the local Idaho sheriff.
👉🏼 THIS is what “free speech” looks like under Republicans in the U.S.
👉🏼 This is the party of JD Vance who told our long time allies that the true enemy is Europe suppressing free speech
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