@mfacette.bsky.social
Plant biologist at UMass Amherst.
Except for when that 90 min meeting could have been an email.
10.12.2025 13:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“A program with a 0.5% success rate is not elite. It’s wasteful. Thousands of highly trained scientists will sink dozens of hours into writing proposals with vanishing odds of success. This is not just inefficient — it’s disrespectful of scientific labour.” Very well said @kamounlab.bsky.social!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
03.12.2025 22:15 — 👍 81 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 2I am pleased to share this paper. A beautiful and useful collaboration between a group of researchers and lecturers who care about plant Science education.
Thank you to all that contributed!
Check it out! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
PS. If you think, gosh, I applied to UMass already - did I mention we have 4 open plant positions? Please apply to all you are qualified for; they're different committees!
Three are still open:
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Come work with us!!
We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!
Hey plant developmental biologists! Want to do great science with a great guy in a great place? @oconnord.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to join his lab at Colorado State:
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#devbio #plantscience #botany #bioimaging #microscopy
Brilliant use of gfp-tagged transposons & automated scoring of kernels, combined with differential style-lengths along maize ear, to screen for genes underlying pollen competition in maize. Diana gave a banger of a presentation on this in #Zeavolution this morning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
29.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Thanks for letting me speak, and to John for inviting me! Sanzhen was a great host. I really loved the questions and how engaged the audience was.
29.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My department is hiring a herbarium manager: www.schooljobs.com/careers/uvu/...
It's a great place to work with a close knit botany group 🙂
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PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.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 here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
That sort of bleaching seems weird for temperature. It almost reads more like herbicide exposure to me?
12.05.2025 17:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0For no reason at all, my brain has started parsing "Bluesky" as "Blues-key".
I kinda like it.
"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.
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Congratulations!!!!
24.04.2025 19:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 💯🌽🍾🤓 www.provost.iastate.edu/faculty-succ...
24.04.2025 18:39 — 👍 78 🔁 9 💬 24 📌 0An 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
It's time for Canada to Lead
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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/...
(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 — 👍 23 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 6This phenomenally nerdy exchange is what I needed today. Thank you both.
24.03.2025 18:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Depends... 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 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!
13.02.2025 16:52 — 👍 3382 🔁 557 💬 14 📌 32Did 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 🧪 #academicsky
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#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 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Being 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.
Unpopular opinion: Not all research needs to be 'groundbreaking'. Small, incremental advancements are just as valuable.
11.03.2024 13:32 — 👍 96 🔁 20 💬 8 📌 5The 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 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Bio Dept at UMass Amherst is hiring: a tenure track and continuing track (lecturer).
TT: Eukaryotic genetics. Plant 🌱, fungal🍄, animal🐟, eukaryotic microbes 🦠 models all welcome! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
CT: Genetic/Cell/Molecular Biology.
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We are recruiting postdocs for our new lab at the
Salk Institute
🌱 receptors, peptides, and signaling
🍄 plant-fungus interactions
🍀 symbiosis
🤩 great team and amazing views
Please check link for more info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/yskywhvf
