Ben Stone

Congrats! And nice Penstemon! Is there a digital version of this you could share? Or will you be presenting this at Botany this year?

From Research to Action: Communicating Science Effectively for Real‐World Impact Click on the article title to read more.

Science communication is at the heart of why I love doing in science.
Take a look at this paper we published on a workshop we did on effective ways of doing science communication across multiple settings. @esalatamcarib.bsky.social
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) is back!!!

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Awful. Really sad to hear. I’m sorry that happened to your student.

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants, Rosemary Grant Advanced Award, 2025 Recipients: Diego Beltran, Josh Felton, Brian Kirz, Stephen Kupchella, Hossein Madhani, Catherine Ogoma, Gabriel Priesing, Yanã Rizzieri, Juliana Rodriguez Fuentes, Wyatt Toure, Hannah Walton.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards!
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Ghouls, each and every one of you

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

I saw penstemon incertus blooming in December in western Mojave this year

We have FACSaria machines here that I am able to use with assistance — I’m hoping that will work out

Looks very useful! Going to try some flow myself but no prior experience

An angry and wet Virginia Opossum in a small tree at night

Behold

Special Issue: Paradigm Shifts in Flower Color: American Journal of Botany: Vol 113, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

Check out AJB's special issue "Paradigm shifts in flower color" a bunch of cool papers on flower coloration with a focus on non-pollinator drivers of color variation 🌸🌼🌺https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/2026/113/1

Agree

@carriewessi.bsky.social @trinitydepatie.bsky.social @zackradford.bsky.social

New preprint is up!

Not going spoil the results for you 🤓 but we looked at some “bird” vs “bee”-pollinated Penstemon hybrid zones and came away with some pretty unexpected results!

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NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

It’s also very easy to spot which applicants just had it write all of their documents vs writing their own, or at the very least editing it afterwards

I am in the market for a PhD student this year. Please don’t use LLM to write your statement of research. Yes it is obvious. I want to know who you are, not how you prompt.

That moment you have thousands of lines of code and you need to clean it up for the GitHub repo for your paper

I have 10 scripts just for this one analysis WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF

Nectar collecting at the tip of the stigma in Agapetes lacei (Ericaceae).

This #VirtualIssue captures the breadth and momentum of current research in #nectar and nectary biology, spanning ecology, evolution, development, and physiology 👇

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#PlantScience

Side by side images of sweet sand verbena (Abronia fragrans). A white-lined sphinx moth caterpillar eats white flowers on the left and a skipper nectars on pink flowers on the right.

🌼🎨 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color" 🎨🌼

#Pollinator, herbivore, & climatic selective pressures differ across a floral color transition zone

By Sierra Jaeger, et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #herbivory #pollination @aeberardi.bsky.social

Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it.

Blog post: Just quit
Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it.

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I love that tiny stool

A lot of focus on the slop that LLMs can produce and bad faith researchers (frauds) who cite these fake papers, and for good reason, but I’d also like to highlight the worthless journals that allow this crap to make it through copy editing.

Everyone’s to blame!

Good point 😆

Appreciate it! For (1) could “environment” be interpreted as e.g intracellular environment?

Just so happens I was a bit more clear with what my problem was 😊

Sure, and likewise I am allowed to voice my own dismay with their behavior