Jess Gersony (she/her)

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

22.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 2866    🔁 436    💬 290    📌 116

Plantae Fellows group photo

Plantae Fellows from past and present, near and far, gathered #IRL at #PlantBio2025, creating community year after year!🌱

📣Application is now open for the 2025-2026 Plantae Fellows program! Learn more and apply by August 31! plantae.org/2026fellowsapp/

29.07.2025 04:12 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

Wondering where to submit your abstract for #AGU25
@agu.org annual meeting? Consider our cross-scale "Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes from Molecules to Ecosystems" organized session (#246685)! #EcoPhys

14.07.2025 14:26 — 👍 26    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

CONGRATS SAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

27.06.2025 18:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's another workshop scheduled to support this initiative, June 6th, 12pm ET, led by Dr. Katherine Xue, assistant professor at UC Irvine who has written for The New Yorker, Harvard Magazine, and The Conversation. blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

03.06.2025 06:47 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

A large proportion of these canceled awards are focused on broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM, which NSF was mandated to do by Congress. At what point does Congress plan to act to restore the balance of power?

22.05.2025 18:43 — 👍 94    🔁 37    💬 5    📌 2

They should immediately join together and file a joint lawsuit. Those awards are not made to Harvard, but to them as individuals.

22.05.2025 19:53 — 👍 229    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 0

One of *the most impactful programs* from my society was terminated by NSF, but we will not let the program just die like this. We will get through this storm and become stronger, because we have a great community to rely on! Donate if you're able, any bit helps. #iamabotanist #supportPLANTS 🧪🌱🌾🌸

15.05.2025 16:33 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS – Brodersen Lab

I have two open postdoc positions in my lab that include opportunities to collaborate with @alecaborsuk.bsky.social and researchers at the Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative.

If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:

campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...

15.05.2025 18:12 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Planting the Seeds of Change: Communicating Science with Purpose. An online student-led symposium series, featuring Dr. Molly Edwards. We’ll discuss best practices for short-form video production, explore different formats and approaches, and workshop your own ideas for videos. You’ll come away with actionable steps for producing your own video that stands up for science, and we plan to stay in touch after the workshop ends to help each other amplify our videos when they come out. May 13th, 8-9am PDT / 11am - noon EDT. Open to all, come be a part of it!

Join us for an exciting Student Symposium workshop featuring Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social. It's an interactive workshop on science communication, focused on short-form video production. May 13th 11am EDT.
More information & registration link here rootandshoot.org/planting-the...

24.04.2025 12:38 — 👍 34    🔁 26    💬 2    📌 6

total; nsf grfs 2021-2015

nsf GRFS by major field 2021-2025

Quick look at NSF GRFPs awarded 2021-2025. Overall 50% drop from 2024, with biggest absolute decreases in engineering, life sciences and chemistry.

(sorry about the meh viz, in a hurry)

08.04.2025 13:43 — 👍 39    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 2

Trump to Americans: F*ck Clean Air and Clean Water and Clean Energy 🥸 An environmental news roundup of the 1st two months.

ICYMI an environmental news roundup. A downer, but it's important to know what's going on.

Important: Most of this isn’t final. It will be litigated in the courts. Stay tuned...

Keep speaking up! Keep pushing your members of Congress! It's making a difference.

open.substack.com/pub/ayanaeli...

21.03.2025 19:18 — 👍 73    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 0

Hi Bluesky!!! In case you're interested in what the PLACE (PLant physiology, Art and Community Engagement) has been up to these past few years, check out our opening lecture for the Smith College Bulb Show! It was such an honor to give this talk! t.co/Vy9T4jdHzD

12.03.2025 18:34 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1