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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 3h

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 11h

Recent conversation with Luis De Luna Valdez post-doctoral researcher @ucriverside.bsky.social & Features Editor for @theplantjournal.bsky.social

10 questions about my academic work at interface of plant boo, leadership, mentoring & institutional change: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AKQTDG....

In conversation with Dr. Beronda Montgomery

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 13h

Can’t wait for the #EMBO workshop on Plant Evolution: From Origins to Diversification on Land! Just finalized my registration.

meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla...

Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land

The evolution of plants – photosynthetic eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium and a non-photosynthetic host cell – transformed the earth system by reducing the amount of CO…

meetings.embo.org

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 1d

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

Best consideration deadline, Friday Oct 10:

#SCIMaP (scienceimacts.org) seeks to hire a Research Communications and Media Outreach Specialist at U-Maryland to facilitate public engagement related to federal investment in science and health research.

umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

SCIMaP job opportunity - https://umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/job/Research-Communications-and-Media-Outreach-Specialist_JR102577

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 1d

and how

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Bethann Garramon Merkle (@commnatural elsewhere) @bgmerkle.bsky.social · 2d

Tl;dr: for the PhDs, postdocs, and early career faculty (hoping to be) among us, I have a recommendation for *the* book for early career academics trying to stay afloat (plus bonus recs).

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#scicomm #AcademicSky #🧪

*The* book for early career academics trying to stay afloat (plus bonus recs)

For the PhDs, postdocs, and early career faculty (hoping to be) among us

schoolofgoodtrouble.substack.com

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 1d

very cool

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 1d

An incredible book!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 2d

pumpkin ravioli from TJs is pretty good!

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 2d

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 8d

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MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.

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

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 2d

Great words, much needed!

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 3d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3d

Some good advice in here but one critical piece I always give is this:

Get a hobby. Preferably a mildly social one. One that has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE. NOTHING.

You need friends. Not colleagues. FRIENDS. Friends who will love you no matter your research prospects...

Nature @nature.com · 3d

What's one piece of advice you'd give to someone considering a PhD?

We asked 3785 doctoral candidates across 107 countries for their hard-won wisdom
go.nature.com/4nDjJ7t

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

go.nature.com

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 5d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 5d

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 37:
- 9 universities face loyalty oath (“compact”)
- government shutdown - impact on services & fear of further RIFs
- four NIH directors officially fired

& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Week 37

Sept 27-Oct 2, 2025 - hold the door

buttondown.com

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 6d

Shared how the greater shutdown of NIH science has been underway since January on @msnbc.com today.

We need Congress to stand firm to protect science, democracy and the American people.

www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...

Furloughed NIH worker: Left office with 'pit' in my stomach about future of our country

On day three of the government shutdown, around 750,000 federal employees are furloughed as the White House threatens mass firings as early as today. Furloughed NIH Program Director Jenna Norton joins...

www.msnbc.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 7d

The only thing wrong with this editorial is that is too late.

Where was this disbelief from 2020-2024?

It’s been obvious for years that Makary snd Bhattacharya are bad faith actors.

The evidence is abundant and public.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/questions/

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 7d

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 8d

I just heard Elizabeth Warren lose her patience with an NPR reporter on this topic, and for good reason!

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 8d

"What is happening in this country is happening because science is bad for tyrants, and always has been"

Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 8d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 8d

Today is bittersweet for me, as I have now officially retired from the USDA-ARS.

It is still difficult for me that the doors to the Lovett Lab have closed.

I am so grateful for the community and science we were able to stir up as a research scientist at the USDA.

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 8d

“We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks. . . Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us.”

BLISTERING essay by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social in today’s NYT

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 9d

So as part of an art project to be presented later next year, I am exploring the topic of eugenics using plant breeding as the medium. We often select for "perfection", but what does that mean? Who arbitrates taste in such a way as to label a living being "unworthy"? 🧵 1/n

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