Tommy Phannareth

I dislike how many accounts there are that use follows as a method of extending reach.

There’s no definitive way to measure how predatory a journal is. Special issue count? APCs? Peer review quality? Website design? These indicators are often subjective, inconsistent, and context-dependent. No single metric tells the full story. #AcademicPublishing #Predatory #Science

USDA chief says agency is trying to fill key jobs after paying 15,000 to leave Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the department will consider bringing back some employees who took the government's deferred resignation offer.

This is so incredibly frustrating to witness.

To maintain our operational integrity and continue delivering the service and quality our customers rely on, we have made the decision to implement a tariff surcharge. This temporary surcharge is in lieu of a tariff cost passthrough and protects our customers from experiencing the full impact of the broad tariff rates, some of which are very high. By leveraging a surcharge, we retain flexibility to adjust or remove the surcharge if the situation changes in the coming weeks or months. Effective May 5, the surcharge will be applied to product orders shipped to locations in the United States which reflects the tariffs' broader impacts on our overall global supply chain processes, including production and procurement costs in addition to any direct costs on products. This charge will appear as a separate line item on quotes and invoices.

Welp, it begins. Sigma Aldrich.

I need more linen things, I love the pieces that I own.

Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...

Even common plants with broad-scale distributions are going to feel the effects of climate change. We modeled plant responses using species distribution modeling and demographic surveys to find that B. stricta is at risk of decline. @science.org

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This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.

Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

Now soliciting advice for sending viable (seed) material to international collaborators and receiving non-viable (dried leaves) material from international collaborators (Czech Republic). The USDA’s website is a tad overwhelming and I’d love to chat with someone with experience! Please help!! 🍎

How often has anyone ever did ‘scp <directory name>’ and not intended the -r?

Assistant Professor of Plant Genetics and Director of the C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

The UC Davis plant community is recruiting for a new head of the Charles M. Rick Tomato Genetic Resource center. This position is a cornerstone of the tomato and Solanaceae community and provides some really cool research and teaching opportunities. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06784

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...

It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

Me with green hair, in a white shirt, gray pants, and suspenders

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TAIR cut me off for the month 😭

Glad to see more scientists coming over to here

TAGC24 attendees! Hope to see you at the "Cry Until You Laugh" TAGC Variety Show on March 9th 😁

Anyone I know going to TAGC 2024?

There’s a conference I want to attend, but abstracts are due next week and I don’t think I presently have enough hard set to submit even an abstract

Gosh, I haven’t posted a letter in the mail in forever.

Anaconda seems to complicate things more than simplifying

People want a random uniform distribution rather than true random

Is there a way to switch between accounts on this app with just one or two taps instead of three?

I’ve been operating at like… 25% capacity for the past month and can’t figure out why.

Teaching my friends Bridge has been a very blind-leading-the-blind situation, only one contract was completed over 8 hands

I’m normally a pretty optimistic person, but I sometimes find myself becoming wholly unmotivated to do science for a day when I run into a research dead end.

Had a thoroughly enjoyable (and exhausting) day hitting up my favorite museums

Managed to blow up my Linux partition somehow with upgrade, going to have to spend the morning to fix that.

Data hot take: has anyone ever gotten a useful insight from a genomic circus plot? It feels like a lot of them just say “Look at all this data we collected!”