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Michelle Facette

@mfacette.bsky.social

Plant biologist at UMass Amherst.

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Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown... Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found hereπŸ‘‡

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

05.06.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1922    πŸ” 1462    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 107

That sort of bleaching seems weird for temperature. It almost reads more like herbicide exposure to me?

12.05.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For no reason at all, my brain has started parsing "Bluesky" as "Blues-key".

I kinda like it.

01.05.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agriculture Abstract. Advances in agricultural genetic, genomic, and breeding (GGB) technologies generate increasingly large and complex datasets that need to be adequ

"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture"
Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed.
Please share widely.
academic.oup.com/database/art...

01.05.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Congratulations!!!!

24.04.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2025-2026 Approved Faculty - Division of Academic Affairs

I’m so happy to share my official tenure!! Super grateful to my amazing research team (past & present), all the letter writers, my mentors, and the cheerleaders who helped me achieve this career goal πŸ’―πŸŒ½πŸΎπŸ€“ www.provost.iastate.edu/faculty-succ...

24.04.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 0

An important consequence of the analysis by Paajanen et al is that the 'cell-to-cell mobile RNA' user-defined description listed under Gene Ontology by TAIR is a classification based on flawed analyses. Be careful!

#PlantScience

23.04.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion: Canada can be the global leader in medical research As the U.S. slashes funding to its research initiatives, there is a chance for us to recruit the best talent from around the world

It's time for Canada to Lead

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

18.04.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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(1/6) The very first paper on actin-microtubule interactions and the collaboration between @Qiong_Nan Qiong's lab at Northwest A&F University and my lab is online now at @CytoskelJournal Cytoskeleton journal!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

16.04.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(1/17) We are excited to share the Ashraf and Gallagher labs collaboration on cell cycle regulation during environmental stress recovery in Arabidopsis, Brachypodium, and ryegrass.

06.04.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

This phenomenally nerdy exchange is what I needed today. Thank you both.

24.03.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Depends... but I would follow up weekly. Some unis refuse more than 30 days after travel and depending on where the hang up is (if you are dealing with "intermediate" admins) this can be an issue. Okay to be bothersome with this, IMO.

05.03.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted to unveil the poster and speakers list of the Mechanism of Plant Development meeting. 2 keynotes by @bradylabs.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social to honour the legacy of P. Benfey & J. Chory. Congrats to @minyaaa.bsky.social for her beautiful Mimulus image.
➑️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

17.02.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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Howard University Receives β€œResearch One” Carnegie Classification Indicating Highest Level of Research Production The American Council of Education (ACE) today announced that Howard University has been conferred a Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, indicating β€œvery high research spending and doctorate pro...

Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

13.02.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3422    πŸ” 569    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 32
Diversify Plant Science

Did you know there is a great database of diverse plant scientists created and maintained by @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social? 🌱 Fantastic resource for inviting speakers, reviewers, and applications!

#PlantScience πŸ§ͺ #academicsky

rdale1.shinyapps.io/diversifypla...

03.02.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Dior Kelley Dr. Kelley, Assistant Professor,Β received herΒ B.S. in ChemistryΒ from theΒ University of California Santa Cruz in 2000, and her Ph.D. inΒ Plant Biology from the University of California Davis in 2009. Dr...

#plantproteolysis2025 cont'ing with another very talented grad student, Jodi Callwood from @diorkelley.bsky.social lab, giving a fantastic talk on #ubiquitination & quantitative #proteomics www.gdcb.iastate.edu/people/dior-...

22.01.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

21.01.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 14427    πŸ” 4545    πŸ’¬ 504    πŸ“Œ 1305

Unpopular opinion: Not all research needs to be 'groundbreaking'. Small, incremental advancements are just as valuable.

11.03.2024 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

The TT is an off-cycle search - great opportunity for fabulous post-docs whose research didn't "sync up" with the regular search season.

06.02.2024 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Bio Dept at UMass Amherst is hiring: a tenure track and continuing track (lecturer).

TT: Eukaryotic genetics. Plant 🌱, fungalπŸ„, animal🐟, eukaryotic microbes 🦠 models all welcome! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

CT: Genetic/Cell/Molecular Biology.
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

06.02.2024 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are recruiting postdocs for our new lab at the
Salk Institute

🌱 receptors, peptides, and signaling
πŸ„ plant-fungus interactions
πŸ€ symbiosis
🀩 great team and amazing views

Please check link for more info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/yskywhvf

10.11.2023 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I think COVID threw a spanner in the works with scheduling with certain "competing" plant conferences. So even though it is "due" in '24, they are waiting until '25 to offset it with certain GRCs.

09.11.2023 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I recently dug into this. It will be in 2025, exact date not yet set (probably between July & August). Ikram Bilou and Ross Sozzani organizing.

09.11.2023 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You can DO IT!

08.11.2023 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooo, I did this, and it was hard to get over ~4" stage. Good luck! (At the time, I had a cap fall off my front tooth. So I was shaggy and toothless. Wasn't a good look!)

07.11.2023 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it should be against the science rules to release a new version of genome annotations without an id conversion table from the old version.

07.11.2023 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, organismal biology The Department of Biology at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences. Appointment to this position will be for a term o...

The Oberlin College Biology Department is hiring! We seek a Visiting Assistant Professor in Organismal Biology for three semesters, starting February 1, 2024. Details are below--come join us!
jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/14655

07.11.2023 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brian, I had to Google this. Coming from you, I genuinely have no idea if this is completely true; well-known lore but false; or something you made up off the cuff.
I found this: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
which sounds interesting but also I still don't know if this thing is correct.

26.10.2023 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a cross section through a peperomia leaf stained blue with Toluidine blue. A large layer of succulent epidermis is on top, followed by a narrow band of palisade mesophyll and lots of large spongy mesophyll cells.

Photo of a cross section through a peperomia leaf stained blue with Toluidine blue. A large layer of succulent epidermis is on top, followed by a narrow band of palisade mesophyll and lots of large spongy mesophyll cells.

Love me some Peperomia leaf cross sections. Look at that chonky epidermis*!

*I don't know off the top of my head if this succulent tissue is really derived from epidermis or ground tissue, but I always thought epi. Either way it's juicy.

11.10.2023 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tenure-track position focused on temperature stress. Come join me at VT!

careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

23.10.2023 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

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