Richard Hilleary

Please help, folks.

That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away.

The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.

Arkadipta Bakshi is recruiting PhD students for his new lab at Wake Forest. Arko is great to work with - check out his lab website for more info! www.arkadiptabakshilab.com

Drawing your attention to an effort to convince NSF to re-open this year's GRFP competition to second year PhD students. Please consider signing or sharing the petition asking NSF to broaden the application eligibility to what it has been previously. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Trump visa policy requires universities to pay huge fee to hire foreign scholars U.S. employers to pay $100,000 for every new H-1B visa

U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to boost opportunities for domestic scientists by making it prohibitively expensive for universities to hire international faculty and staff. https://scim.ag/3Klmxai

It seems shameful to just let these sit in my phone. Baby moose, meet Lola!

David Brooks, a conservative columnist speaks about the amount of people who have died directly as a result of cuts to USAID by Doge.

Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts.

It’s only been four months.

Ugh

Incoming Duke Law student Jefferson Griffin sues NCSBE over election data disclosure delays in NC Supreme Court race In a North Carolina Supreme Court race with over five million ballots counted, a Duke Law student trails by just 623 votes. Now, he’s suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections.

www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024...

I saw him jogging on Duke campus around 545am this morning and thought I’d lost my mind - apparently he’s a student here! WTF Dook!?

MSU faculty join call for Big Ten 'mutual defense compact' against Trump administration - The State News Under the compact, participating institutions would “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund” that would “provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution un...

Big 10 finally strategizing. The thought: a mutual defense compact

statenews.com/article/2025...

#academicsky

Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@davidpakman.bsky.social One copy left at the Durham, NC Barnes & Noble - looking forward to this read!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a new set of vectors for inducible gene expression in plants? I’ve noticed the ones I’ve been using can be a bit leaky. Thanks! #PlantScience

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Are we winning yet?

Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada Visit the post for more.

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.

www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

Agreed. The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to resist.

If we don’t march by the millions we’re not going to have a country.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ASPB Board of Directors Town Hall/Listening Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. ASPB Past-President Leeann Thornton recently shared that the ASPB Board of Directors is organizing a listening session to sit down virtually with ASPB members and members of the plant science communit...

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Hear perspectives on the best path forward for our community amid the turbulence due to policy decisions enacted by the Trump administration. A listening session will be held on March 18, 2025, at 1 pm EST.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.

The pressure to publish in high-impact journals is often at the expense of other scholarly activities

https://go.nature.com/3XihhIf

Assistant Professor of Biology Job TitleAssistant Professor of Biology Agency West Texas A&M University Department Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationCanyon, Texas Job TypeF...

My department is hiring! Looking for an Assistant Professor of Biology (Botanist/Plant Ecologist) in the Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences at West Texas A&M University.

If you have any questions feel free to DM me.

tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WTAMU_...

#standupforscience2025 Great turnout and great signs in Raleigh, NC

#standupforscience2025 Raleigh, NC

‘Terrifying’ long-term threat to global research from US cuts Yale University joins several other leading research institutions in pausing hiring or spending

'Yale University announced a reduction in spending on faculty pay rises, staff hiring and campus construction. It joined Stanford University, Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have all enacted hiring freezes in recent weeks.'

greetings from berlin... 👋
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Hi Evelyn - awesome video! What’s the signal triggering these intercellular waves? Do you know the receptors/channels/pumps involved?

Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state is the likely culprit Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primari...

Let’s hope the rest of the US doesn’t end up like Alaska with McMahon running Education: www.npr.org/2025/03/04/g...

WTF?

‘Alaska Native’ removed from Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program website The change to the University of Alaska program follows President Trump’s directives aimed at getting rid of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has removed the phrase “Alaska Native” from its website. The award-winning University of Alaska program is now referred to simply as its acronym, ANSEP.

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!

If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!

Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.

JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺

#24HourEconomicBlackout