Michael Muszynski

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

Did you see @racheljabaily.bsky.social new open educational resource "Biology of Plants" coloring textbook when you were at #Botany2025 ? No? WELL GO CHECK IT OUT: oercommons.org/courses/the-... Gorgeous illustrations by MGB Hurst 😍

An exciting negative result!

The best (IMHO) of the Smithsonian Museums, The Renwick Gallery, will have a corn-relevant installation

Justin Favela: Capilla de Maíz (Maize Chapel)
americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/...

From Aug. 22, 2025 to Sept. 7, 2026

I am looking to connect with my plant bio assistant professor cohort. If you know someone (or if it’s you!) please let me know.

#PlantScience

District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order Judge Susan Illston provided a great example on Friday of how to deal with the current Supreme Court in an order that the Trump admin turn over its mass-firing plans.

BREAKING: District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order.

Judge Susan Illston provided a great example on Friday of how to deal with the current Supreme Court in an order that the Trump admin turn over its mass-firing plans.

New, at Law Dork:

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly.

Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.

You can sign up at the link below!

www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

They took my concerns to heart and fixed it!! Yay BioRender!!! @biore.bsky.social @maizegdb.bsky.social

Past the peak already. That was fast!!!

SynAdapt cycle 5!!! Lots of MDMV and leaf hopper pressure this year. Selection pressure!!!!

Protect NIH and NSF Funding – Your Voice Is Urgently Needed - ASCB In the next six weeks, Congressional committees will decide how much funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will receive for Fiscal Year 2026. While…

Speak up for science! Proposed cuts to NIH & NSF threaten critical research. Call your lawmakers—especially if they’re on Appropriations—and urge them to protect funding. Act now:

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who reportedly accompanied Mr. Miller on his visit to ICE headquarters, seems to defer to him. “It’s really Stephen running D.H.S.,” a Trump adviser said. The attorney general, Pam Bondi, is so focused on preparing for and appearing on Fox News that she has essentially ceded control of the Department of Justice to Mr. Miller, making him, according to the conservative legal scholar Edward Whelan, “the de facto attorney general.” And in a White House where the chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is not well versed or terribly interested in policy — “She’s producing a reality TV show every day,” another Trump adviser said, “and it’s pretty amazing, right?” — Mr. Miller is typically the final word.

LOL, I think www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

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Excited to announce some new plasmid offerings in my shop at atinygreencell.com! Here's a thread of the current catalog. All proceeds directly support my lab and my continued effort to build useful open-source tools. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more. Please share! 💚

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Trump and GOP target ballots arriving after Election Day that delay counts and feed conspiracy fears President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day.

How the hell did the AP write an entire article about GOP efforts to throw out lawful votes without noting: (1) The GOP is trying to throw out lawful votes; and (2) they are doing it because it will disproportionately harm Democrats?

This is about GOP stealing elections.
apnews.com/article/trum...

This is, emphatically, not the way it’s supposed to work.

And I guess here’s where I should remind everyone that the global economy is captive to the every whim of a man who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

This opinion piece, just published in my hometown newspaper in GA, seeks to make a strong case for continued federal support for scientific research in the USA. It's one of many across the nation, part of the #McClintockLetters Initiative www.theclaytontribune.com/opinion-edit...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rx8qRzr2oKWGhMr-OYDn1ydwUCVeH6YPMIFevtSpKes/edit?usp=sharing

For those without a subscription to the newspaper, here's a screenshot of the viewpoint, with a link to the full text in the Alt text

Just like the 2006 paper by Burch-Smith et al., TRV-VIGS in Arabidopsis is very uniform when infecting in the first 2 true leaves 😊 Hoping it works with my genes of interest!

The Government does not ask for complete stays of the injunctions, as it ordinarily does before this Court. Why? The answer is obvious: To get such relief, the Government would have to show that the Order is likely constitutional, an impossible task in light of the Constitution’s text, history, this Court’s precedents, federal law, and Executive Branch practice. ... The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. A majority of this Court decides that these applications, of all cases, provide the appropriate occasion to resolve the question of universal injunctions and end the centuries-old practice once and for all. In its rush to do so the Court disregards basic principles of equity as well as the long history of injunctive relief granted to non-parties.

Sotomayor: Trump knew his birthright citizenship order was unconstitutional, so he went after the universal injunctions.

"The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Whether it's Trump or Cuomo, Letitia James is a woman who doesn't suffer fools, sexual predators or corrupt men.

letitia makin me want to tithe to whatever church this is

tonight felt like an election night on old-school twitter — the jokes, the joy, the shitposting. don’t let anyone tell you this place doesn’t have the juice.

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨

We used single-cell RNA-seq + GRN analysis to uncover novel morphogenic genes that boost #maize transformation frequency 🌽

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks to @vandepoelelab.bsky.social @bertderybel.bsky.social and all other co-authors!

#PlantScience

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

A bibliography for the 2025 IDEA plenary The recording of my talk for the 2025 IDEA plenary is now posted over on the Evolution meeting YouTube channel (there’s a bunch of dead air at the start of the recording; the action starts a …

The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...

Generally speaking, one swaps out license plates solely to commit crimes

Li's lab logo. It has a pink Catharanthus flower with green leaves on the left, and green kalanchoe leaf with a plantlet on the right. The structure of vindoline at the center top, and symbol about gene regulation at the center bottom, text "cxLi Lab" near the bottom, and a grey circle as background.

I'll be joining the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University in Mid August as an Assistant Professor.

cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/

Check out the impact of the post-pandemic surge in review paper publications. Visualization of the citation histories of seventeen plant science faculty.

My first alma mater with history all need to know: chances are, MSU founding prez/Confederate officer Stephen D. Lee would’ve agreed with Trump because he led the burying of race/racism/white violence history and firing of profs teaching truth across US:

www.mississippifreepress.org/democracy-le...