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📣Magnifying a new initiative from MASC (Multi-national Arabidopsis Steering Committee) to support colleagues in need
tinyurl.com/MASC-initiat...
Please read the document and return comments to Thorsten Hamann (thorsten.hamann@ntnu.no) by Oct. 15th. Please share.
#arabidopsis #community #plantscience

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

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

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

Another nail in the US science coffin
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It’s Fustilarian Friday again.

This week: NSF all but abolished in the President’s proposed budget.

Military Parade in Capital on Trump’s Birthday Could Cost $45 Million, Officials Say

Hmmm 45 million could fund a lot of research…..this seems like
the kind of
wasteful government spending that the DOGE bro’s should be cutting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

The costs of disinvestment in science: nondefense government R&D yields returns of 150% to 300% & accounts for roughly a QUARTER of American productivity growth since World War II. The authors conclude:“Our findings point to a misallocation of public capital & substantial underinvestment in R&D.”

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

🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience

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

The dismantling of the National Science Foundation is a disaster and disgraceful.

Foolish people doing stupid things.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.

https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V

Text reads: A message to ASBMB members. The background is an illustration of the neurotransmitter glutamate being transported by synaptic vesicles to the presynaptic membrane.

Earlier today, ASBMB joined three other scientific societies in leading a substantial, 22-page amicus curiae brief in support of the plaintiffs in American Public Health Association v. NIH. This is a formal public submission to the court.
➡️Read our full message: bit.ly/3RJnWbp.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.

Here is a link to the full @60minutes.bsky.social segment!

👀 a nice surprise at 5:25 AND one of our very own, Kristin Weinstein makes an appearance at 9 mins.

#StandUpforScience
#scienceforall
#saveourscience

www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

www.science.org/content/arti...

This is terrible news. Even the resignation letter posted on the NSF is censored. Compare to the whole letter he wrote published here. Knocking down all of the pillars that made American science great.

Thank you @josedinneny.bsky.social and all the organizers of the first Bay Area Plant Hub Symposium. It was great to hear from so many young scientists and wise mentors who shared their research and vision for better future. Fantastic and inspiring.

With @tairnews.bsky.social at the first ever plant bio hub meeting. Excited to hear the talks and to hang out with old friends and new.

@biocurator.bsky.social ISB 2025 has been a fantastic meeting. Great talks, excellent colleagues. Lots of discussion on AI powered biocuration. Happy to be sharing updates from @tairnews.bsky.social and AgBioData here.

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

Gonna nerd: "This is not a moment, it's a movement." The article shows the widespread care & concern about our nation's public data. Much will be lost unless we preserve the data AND speak about its importance. This isn't an issue for academia. It is for all of us.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

what better way to spend day off work with your colleagues …

getting ready

Perspective
𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟎: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭🌱
Sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome 25 years ago transformed plant biology. The 4th MASC roadmap drives innovations to tackle global challenges
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70047
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GIF of how to use the PAN-GO Functionome website to find functions for a specific human gene; stationary slides are available in the Alliance Forums linked in post

The PAN-GO #Functionome was announced last week in @nature.com-but do you know how to use it?

Here's how to find functions for a selected human #gene:
➡️ community.alliancegenome.org/t/8353

ICYMI, more on the PAN-GO Functionome:
💡 community.alliancegenome.org/t/8343

🧪🧬 #science #research #human

Horticulturalists, Biologists, Engineers: Federal ‘Bloat’ or Valued Experts? (Gift Article) President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Hmmm should I go to Sacramento, SF or Cal? Will def be somewhere #standingupforscience March 7

Letter to the editor for Feb. 27, 2025 Growing up, I spent my summers in the creeks, glades and forests of the Elkhorn range. My grandfather Jim Baker — who owned and operated the Baker Super Market on

Here's the OpEd I thought I was writing, turned into a Letter the Editor:

🧪 #PlantScience

www.bakercityherald.com/opinion/lett...

Renewed…

German and US flags

To US colleagues who have lost or are in imminent danger of losing their jobs: please DM whether we can accommodate your research.

On January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and

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📣 Join the Annual Bay Area Plant Hub Symposium in partnership ASPB’s Western Section on April 16, 2025, in Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF!🌱

Learn more and register soon👉 https://western.aspb.org/!

#PlantScience

So many post doc awardees on this list…