Keely Brown

"What you do for your mentees, do because it's right" - absolutely, and something I needed to be reminded of after a tough REU cohort

01.08.2025 11:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

I'm recruiting a US PhD student to come to Canada to work on the genetic and neural basis of female mating behaviour. Fellowship of ~$40k per year. Contact me if interested in submitting an application. Details of eligibility here!
grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

08.07.2025 14:46 — 👍 11    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

So at least we'll have that to look forward to

04.07.2025 23:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quantifying the Evolution of SNPs That Affect RNA Secondary Structure in Arabidopsis thaliana Genes Abstract. Single-stranded RNA molecules can form intramolecular bonds between nucleotides to create secondary structures. These structures can have phenoty

Excited to share our new paper in @molbioevol.bsky.social , led by @galenm.bsky.social !!! We show that mutations affecting RNA secondary structure in *Arabidopsis thaliana* are shaped by selection and linked to gene expression and the environment.
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

25.06.2025 03:19 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Image Text: Phenomics/Whole Plant. Tuesday, July 29, 2025. 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM. Courtney Leisner, Masatsugu Toyota, David Horvath, and Anna Casto. Virginia Tech | Saitama University | USDA-ARS-ETSARC | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Phenomics/Whole Plant Concurrent Session!🌱https://buff.ly/QRYD1aC

#plantscience

14.06.2025 21:35 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I can’t get over this looming fear for my career. I was optimistic pre-2025. Now I can’t stop thinking about how many scientists of my generation will have to give up on science within a few years.

14.06.2025 07:21 — 👍 46    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Mutational load and adaptive variation are shaped by climate and species range dynamics in Vitis arizonica Genetic load can reduce fitness and hinder adaptation. While its genetic underpinnings are well established, the influence of environmental variation on genetic load is less well characterized, as i.....

Our work on the landscape genomics of *Vitis arizonica* is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social !!!

Big thanks to Jonás Aguirre-Liguori, Garren Gaut, and Brandon Gaut (all sadly not on bsky) for making this possible!

27.05.2025 01:46 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Distinguished professor proves effective mentorship is both art and science For the inaugural recipient of the Genetics Society of America Mentorship Award Dr. Brandon Gaut, leading a lab is not only scientific but personal.

Absolutely thrilled to see Dr. Brandon Gaut receive the inaugural @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Mentorship Award! 🏆🎉

Brandon brings humanity back to science, supports inclusive training, and pushes back on the publish-or-perish culture. So well deserved—congrats! 👏🙌

genestogenomes.org/distinguishe...

17.05.2025 22:09 — 👍 43    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Team BioQumulate is up next! Their Big Idea looks to plants to remove contaminants from unusable soil and toxic sites. Tune in to hear from @keelybrownphd.bsky.social, Anna Castro, and Josh Sumner: www.danforthcenter.org/live/
#BigIdeas2025

15.05.2025 23:29 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

My NSF postdoctoral fellowship was one of the grants terminated yesterday. Devastating is an understatement. Thankful for a supportive admin with a plan to support me for now.

19.04.2025 15:11 — 👍 156    🔁 26    💬 13    📌 0

Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

19.04.2025 14:15 — 👍 96    🔁 109    💬 1    📌 2

It may not mean much, but having been one of your students, I can say it meant a lot knowing that you cared!

15.04.2025 14:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fight for the NEH like you would for NIH and NSF. The attack on one is an attack on all. Solidarity is required and needs to include K-12 educators and staff. The Trump administration is waging war against learning on multiple fronts.

05.04.2025 03:23 — 👍 125    🔁 55    💬 2    📌 3

Now 4 of my students have lost their scholarships/stipends mid-degree. Fuck everything. I'm so pissed off and heartbroken for them.

02.04.2025 22:18 — 👍 226    🔁 47    💬 19    📌 3

PlantCV April Newsletter

Our newest PlantCV Quarterly Newsletter is here, with great updates and highlights! Check it out, and subscribe to get it in your inbox: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

02.04.2025 16:57 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

PlantCV December Newsletter

Interested in plant phenotyping using image analysis? Check out the latest updates to PlantCV and sign up for the newsletter so you never miss out on our new exciting features!
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20.12.2024 21:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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We are advertising two fabulous jobs at the Cambridge University Herbarium.

Collection Manager: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49404/

Collections & Digitisation Assistant: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49378/

Incredible collection of 1.1 million specimens including most of Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle material.

02.12.2024 21:05 — 👍 122    🔁 88    💬 3    📌 1

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ASU is searching for a new director for our biocollections! If you are an associate or full professor (or know one) and are interested in curating a huge collection of Sonoran desert (and other places) organisms, give us a look!

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04.12.2024 21:42 — 👍 48    🔁 46    💬 3    📌 0

Annual salary vs MIT living wage, only two points fall above the 1:1 line and pay a living wage.

After lots of delay - we just updated the MIT living wage in our stipend database and we are back to only two points above the line! See more: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

#PhDStipend #Biology @reptilerhett.bsky.social

04.12.2024 01:53 — 👍 51    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 1

First major paper from the lab! The work was led by super talented postdoc Maria Akopyan. She explored how reference bias skews estimates of diversity, demography, divergence & recombination rate with help from @elliecat.bsky.social
& awesome ungrad Matthew. Full thread coming soon 🤓

01.12.2024 02:52 — 👍 133    🔁 56    💬 6    📌 2

Here's the second starter pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists: go.bsky.app/j5DX3f

Link to first starter pack: go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

Follow these inspirational folks to support the next generation of evolutionary biologists #evobio

Out of time for now! Will add more names this weekend

03.12.2024 14:47 — 👍 41    🔁 29    💬 12    📌 0