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Emily Johnson @emilyrj.bsky.social · 27d

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.

“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jun 10

The FLC gene helps determine #FloweringTime variation in #Arabidopsis. Analysis of FLC mutants across 62 natural #genetic backgrounds by @plantevolution.bsky.social shows how #PanGenetics analysis of hub genes can reveal the extent of their broader genetic network @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZkZNvV

Left: An early-flowering plant in the wild (at the Angit site in Southern Italy. Right: Flowering time of progeny from wild plants and control genotypes in the greenhouse (22°C long days).

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Asher Cutter @asherdcutter.bsky.social · Jun 2

This little methods paper to help with read counting allele-specific expression in interspecies hybrids by Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez has escaped biorxiv limbo to find a happy home in @micropub7n.bsky.social doi.org/10.17912/mic...

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · Mar 31

No enough about Bioscience in here, which is for some reason a major target of the Trump admin and DOGE. So much going on with sequencing technologies, health research and therapy development that feeds into non-academic sectors in the US.

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · Mar 31

Great to see someone in congress standing up for science. We need it on both sides of the aisle, but agree the R's probably have more power to make an impact currently. WaPo article is not open access. Seems to be the same content on Todd Young's website: www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Young, Pottinger Op-Ed: Funding for R&D Isn’t a Gift to Academia. It's Vital to U.S. Security. - Senator Young

The following column by Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Matthew Pottinger, Former Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States, was published in The Washington Post on March 24, 2025. By Sena...

www.young.senate.gov

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Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · Mar 21

Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus

Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · Mar 22

Without seeds, we have no food. Without seeds, we have no future.

Botanists at Vavilov's seed vault chose to starve to death rather than eat the seeds they were protecting.

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The Tragedy of the World’s First Seed Bank

Soviet geneticist Nikolai Vavilov led an ideologically perilous campaign to rid the world of famine.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 21

ATTENTION

If you are someone (or know someone) who is enrolled in an NIH-funded clinical trial that has been disrupted by grant uncertainties or terminations, please DM me.

THANK YOU!

stan marsh from south park says see that 's what happened to me !

ALT: stan marsh from south park says see that 's what happened to me !

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · Feb 28

I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics:
go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V
Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · Feb 26

Come to Purdue this summer to get experience in Plant Data Science!!

Chris Oakley @quercus62.bsky.social · Feb 26

Purdue Undergraduate Research Experiences for Plant Biology and Data Science (PURE-PD) REU Program - Deadline March 7th

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · Feb 26

That is about 4 times the total annual budget to the major scientific funding organization, NSF, right?

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · Feb 26

A lot of rich people don't want to admit that a big part of the United States' success in innovation is thanks to government funding & research, and maybe not purely because of their genius-level IQs & unique business acumen.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Feb 26

A seven-byline story from WaPo:

“.. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits ..”

@washingtonpost.com $TSLA
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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UBC EOAS @eoas.ubc.ca · Feb 25

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 UBC’s EOAS & IRES seek an Assistant Professor of Teaching (tenure track) in Environmental Science. 🌱💡

📍 Vancouver | 💰 $130K–$140K | 📅 Apply by: March 16, 2025

Full details & how to apply: 👉 https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29706

#AcademicJobs #EnvironmentalScience

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · Feb 24

Rest in Power Roberta Flack

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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · Feb 24

Rest In Peace
Roberta Flack

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Feb 24

Please share:
@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.

They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze

On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · Feb 24

"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...

Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites

The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.

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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · Feb 24

*Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology* at the University Of Cologne, Germany

It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer

Professorship in genetics and molecular cell biology (W3) (f/m/d) - Academic Positions

The University of Cologne is one of the oldest and largest universities in Germany. With its six Faculties covering a broad spectrum of disciplines and its i...

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Feb 21

Associate prof position at Stockholm U in plant molecular physiology, including phytoplankton

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DEEP seeks Associate Professor in Plant Molecular Physiology – apply now! - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) at Stockholm University is looking recruiting an Associate Professor in Plant Molecular Physiology, a tenured position.

www.su.se

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · Feb 24

So was that the deal for Elon to get back the money he spent on the campaign?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 24

He's talking about people like Joe.

Colorado CDC researcher terminated amid federal budget cuts while working on Lyme disease projects

Colorado research biologist Joe Cardiello was excited about being involved in what could become lifesaving research for people who have been impacted by Lyme disease.

www.cbsnews.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 24

He's talking about people like Gregg:

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Feb 23

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.

100% of his salary is paid by WA state.

Elon fired him. Share his story.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 24

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump.

www.sfgate.com/california/a...

Michelle Beutler cleared 67 trees off a U.S. Forest Service road in two days. It was the spring of 2023, after a record-breaking winter in the Stanislaus National Forest in California’s Sierra Nevada. Beutler, 59, worked alone with a chain saw to remove every fallen tree on a 10-mile stretch of road between the town of Long Barn in Tuolumne County and the popular Hull Creek Campground. She single-handedly finished the work so the road could open in time for Memorial Day.

As a recreation technician based out of the Summit Ranger Station in the Stanislaus National Forest, Beutler’s job was to clean toilets, pick up trash and maintain recreation sites and campgrounds up and down Sonora Pass. She’d typically drive her Forest Service truck 100 miles a day. She sprayed pit toilets with a fire hose. She wiped away graffiti and removed thousands of pounds of house trash, old furniture and useless stuff that people dumped in the forest. She extinguished hundreds of abandoned and illegal campfires. She assisted law enforcement during emergency accidents, helping officers navigate a swath of rugged forest land that she grew up on and knows intimately.

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