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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · 12d

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities

Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities.

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Madison Bullock @madiraibullock.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to share what I've been working on with the science community! Starting to get my PhD papers out as I get closer to graduating, and looking into next steps in my career. If anyone has any postdoc ideas, please reach out! 🙂🌱

Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · 16d

New preprint from our lab - how miniaturized library prep drives down costs for target capture sequencing with minimal impact on recovery. Led by @madiraibullock.bsky.social and with two undergrad coauthors!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fun-Sized Library Prep: Miniaturization is a valid method for per-sample cost reduction in targeted sequencing of angiosperm DNA

Genomic analysis of population structure is important to the conservation of plant species of concern. A limitation of using genetic information in conservation is the cost of obtaining large datasets...

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · 16d

New preprint from our lab - how miniaturized library prep drives down costs for target capture sequencing with minimal impact on recovery. Led by @madiraibullock.bsky.social and with two undergrad coauthors!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fun-Sized Library Prep: Miniaturization is a valid method for per-sample cost reduction in targeted sequencing of angiosperm DNA

Genomic analysis of population structure is important to the conservation of plant species of concern. A limitation of using genetic information in conservation is the cost of obtaining large datasets...

www.biorxiv.org

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · 20d

Is it possible to learn this power?

Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 21d

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Sep 4

Maybe i’d be ok with higher APC if I knew where the money went. The current system relies on thousands of hours of unpaid labor in service of multibillion dollar corporations which is not better.

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Sep 4

Citation: Cotton et al., 2025 journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/a...

Effect of Monetary Incentives on Peer Review Acceptance and ... : Critical Care Medicine

tested the impact of providing cash incentives to complete peer review assignments at Critical Care Medicine. DESIGN: Quasi-randomized, blinded, interventional study with an alternating treatment d...

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Sep 4

Interesting pilot study on paid peer review. From the thread, $250 US significantly increased "rate of conversion" for review invitations without decreasing a metric of review quality in a medical journal.

Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Sep 4

DM: Incentivized reviewers had slightly higher positive response, and were a bit faster in sending in reviews.
The incentivized manuscript surprisingly had a slightly longer time-to-acceptance. The peer review time, however, is just a small fraction of the total editorial time.
#PRC10

Results day with a table with percentages.

Conclusion slide with a photo of a painting of the Venice Arsenale.

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Sep 2

Are you a mammologist whose research involves natural history collections? Apply to be my colleague!

Assistant professor position with the Department of Biological Sciences and the Natural Science Research Laboratory at Texas Tech University.

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Job Search Welcome | Texas Tech University System

Search for Internet job openings.

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Erika R Moore-Pollard @erikarmoore11.bsky.social · Sep 2

So excited to be co-leading this special issue! Cannot wait to see all the innovative ways target enrichment sequencing is being used!

Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions ☺️

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Sep 2

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

#AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data,” led by @emcassey.bsky.social, @erikarmoore11.bsky.social, Mafe Torres Jimenez & ‪@yannickwoudstra.bsky.social‬

Deadline 30 Nov 2025

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Sep 1

brb writing a dichotmous key for types of power plants

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Sep 1

So it's a lecture about peas, then?

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Sep 1

Update - it's actually a video the smoke MOVES what

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes thank you very much for the design idea, Powerpoint, that is exactly the right vibe for this lecture.

Generated slide idea for "Introduction to Plant Taxonomy, BIOL4302: Field Botany and Natural History Collections" featuring a large industrial plant with several stacks billowing smoke. Might actually be a nuclear power plant? Still, wtf Powerpoint

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · Aug 21

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Aug 16

Gotta show the full picture, though. Sometimes, I'm softly cursing at my phone.

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · Aug 9

FREE TEACHING RESOURCE! 📣
I illustrated this poster as a project during the ComSciCon-ATL conference in 2024 on sunflowers and their unique inflorescence architecture. I am happy to share it here now! Feel free to download, use, and share!
You can also contact me for a higher resolution version 🌻

Infographic showing drawings of sunflowers and sunflower parts. There are explanations to each type of flower within the sunflower inflorescence and their function

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Aug 6

How about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of Major League Baseball pitchers who have thrown an immaculate inning - Wikipedia

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Aug 5

Got one in a place of honor on our fridge!

Steel fridge with magnets and stickers, including We Are All Beautiful, Palo Duro Canyon, I <3 Lemurs, Roswell, and Pluto: Revolve in Peace

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Aug 4

Tenure dossiers were invented by the Vogons.

No amount of record keeping prepared me for the surprise "no you needed to use this other obscure version of your annual reports" or "oh btw also include every syllabus" one week before the due date.

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