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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 1h

Definitely need the dude with the large gun as well as the camera guy for this one. Love that my tax dollars are being spent on this

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

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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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 1h

I'd like to hibernate now

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 1h

Anna has some cool results from a pretty bonkers hybrid system - hit her up if you're looking for a speaker in your PAG workshop!

Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social · 1h

Are you organizing a talk session at PAG 33? I would love to speak about my postdoc work on the genomics of variable facultative CAM photosynthesis in a hybrid Yucca species! Possible workshop topics include: hybrid genomics, abiotic stress, non-model species. Please DM me if you're interested!

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 3h

I'm putting in a few "about me" background slides for a seminar I'm giving this Friday. Inserted a picture I took in undergrad and it looks like it was taken 40 years ago wtf.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 22h

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 1d

well. NOW I KNOW.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow everything is bad. Including the apple I just bit into, which had a literal worm wiggling around in it.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 1d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 1d

Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 1d

I bought a bunch of these in Hawai‘i, maybe Gaylord archival or University Products? Can try to dig up info!

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Shuxiao (Susan) Zhang @sxzhang.bsky.social · 1d

#tenure track #job position in #boston for #plantphysiology: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Details - Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

careers.umass.edu

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 2d

It's LICOR DAY IN PLANT ANATOMY LAB! muah hah hah.

No I am not making them a licor a CAM plant. Just some boring C3/C4 friends.

Photo of a LI6800 sitting on a classroom bench top.

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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 2d

Please share! Psyched to bring in a new member of the team. Starting salary $62K.

#postdoc #sciencejobs #plantpeopleFTW

Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5

Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

www.erininthemorning.com

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 4d

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

president.dartmouth.edu

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 4d

🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!

"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 4d

www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

www.theverge.com

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 5d

The garden tomatoes appear to be immortal this year.

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Buffalo Bills @buffalobillsnfl.bsky.social · 5d

Ornithology is all about the process.

#GoBills | #BillsMafia

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 6d

Hey Botany friends, any PI at a grad-degree-granting institution want to help us out with a "applying to grad school" panel on Oct 9th at 4:30 est? 🙏 Come share your wisdom!

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 6d

Niiice

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 6d

No

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