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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 1d

"Assistant Professor, Biology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/17/2025"

Read more here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307414

#PlantSciJobs

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 1d

Dancing seems to have gotten even wilder since I lived there

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

I was completely unprepared for the threat posed by the Antifa super soldiers.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... “I think he may be backpacking in the backcountry in Idaho”.

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 3d

🤩 BEAUTIFUL images and super creative experiments. Congrats to the team

nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 5d

A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

www.science.org

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 3d

Last of this season’s figs in a lemon 🍋 ricotta cake 😋

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 3d

So exciting. Identification of 12,623 peptide sequences with potential antimicrobial activity, which they call archaeasins.

César de la Fuente @delafuentelab.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much for highlighting our latest work!

Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 8d

Research Highlight: Mining archaea for antibiotics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 4d

Blue-throated Goldentail from this morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

I haven't seen these for a few months, so it was nice to spend time with this one. They're much more shy than the Snowcaps and I have to be stealthy when approaching them.

#hummingbirds #birds #nature

A small hummingbird perched on a slender branch with a bright red bill, shimmering green and blue feathers, and a blurred green background.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 4d

A lifer #butterfly for me today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social, the Zavaleta Glasswing (Godyris zavaleta). These are found mostly in Ecuador and Peru, and this was fun to see in #CostaRica

#butterflies #invertebrates #lepidoptera

A butterfly with yellow and black wings and white spots perched on a green leaf against a soft green background.

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 4d

Done

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 4d

Colleagues have pointed out that the Dartmouth response is strategically ambiguous. If I were faculty or alumni, I would provide feedback that: 1) you interpret this to mean that the unviersity is refusing to sign a corrupt contract; and 2) you are proud of the university for taking that stance.

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 4d

Dartmouth’s response to the Trump admin’s corrupt contract, short and sweet: “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 4d

A comprehensive look at a future sustainable food system

Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 4d

A #foodsystems transformation is key for solving crises related to #climate, #biodiversity, #health & justice. This includes a shift to healthy #diets, increased #agriculture productivity & reduced #foodwaste. A “planetary health diet” promotes mostly #plantbased foods… (1/2) doi.org/10.1016/S014...

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 8d

laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/ Sign on and/or join mailing list to restore eligibility for our talented NSF GRFP applicants

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 10d

Here's my NSF GRFP OpEd. Who wants to publish it?

"Revert text of NSF 25-547 (GRFP FY26) to NSF 24-591 (GRFP FY25) and keep current competition dates so that all applicants have a fair chance and awards can be made in advance of April 2026 decisions for graduate school."

A proposal to address the late release of the NSF GRFP call (25-547).

Proposal: Revert text of NSF 25-547 (GRFP FY26) to
NSF 24-591 (GRFP FY25) and keep current competition dates so that all applicants have a fair chance and awards can be made in advance of April 2026 decisions for graduate school.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11d

Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 12d

Female American Kestrel strikes a pose 🪶☀️🌵

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 14d

Ooooh

Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 14d

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 17d

For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs.

To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!

TeamFoldscope @teamfoldscope.bsky.social · 18d

🔬 Free microscopes + teacher training!

📅 Applications are now open. To apply, visit www.foldscope.com or scan the QR code (video)

✉️ Any questions? Email us at [email protected]

#stem #education #science #teachers #training #free #microscopy #educators #professionaldevelopment #microscope

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 18d

I have been sharing Mary- Claire King’s interview with graduate students and other young people. She describes the sometimes bewildering process of becoming a scientist so well. And, as we know, she became one of our generations most remarkable and inspiring scientists.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18d

This is a GREAT interview. Definitely worth a listen.

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 19d

this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 20d

Echinopsis chamaecereus, Datura wrightii, Lobelia cardinalis, Erythranthe verbenacea. Hint: I do not have large red rock walls in my backyard.

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 20d

Plants found in September along the Colorado River of the Grand Canyon 🤩 Which one is blooming in my garden in Davis and NOT in the Grand Canyon? Oenothera pallida, Senna covesii, Mamillaria grahamii, Oenothera elata

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 20d

In case you had any doubts, a new report by the NAS, which includes improved observations,
confirms unequivocally that GHG emissions are warming Earth’s surface and changing the climate. These changes harm the welfare of people in the United States. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09...

www.nationalacademies.org

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 22d

My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.

careers-fhcrc.icims.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 22d

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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bezosearthfund.org @bezosearthfund.org · Sep 3

Whales, sharks, and turtles need safe migration routes. 🐋🦈🐢 The @bezosearthfund.org and @rewildorg.bsky.social are working with partners to help four nations create the world’s first cross-border biosphere marine reserve in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Sep 8

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

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