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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 19h

Wonderful opportunity to work with Martin Howard and my group trying to understand how chromatin influences gene transcription and expression. Integration of theory, modelling, and experimentation. Come and join the team!
Please repost!

jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

John Innes Centre

jobs.jic.ac.uk

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 8h

Hellexico. Sounds about right.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 15h

This.

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 15h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2d

VACANCY - We have an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group, working to develop computational models of epigenetic dynamics in the Polycomb system.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Closing date - 9 November 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 36 months, full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher (Howard Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Computational and Systems Biology.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3d

"The strength of a people lies in its purity, not in its diversity."
—Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Klansman

"Real strength comes from homogeneity, from people who share the same blood and values."
—William Pierce, neo-Nazi, author of the Turner Diaries

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

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.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 4d

maybe the best dog halloween costume ever: a suspicious beagle is wearing a clown carrying a plate with the dog's head on it.

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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · 4d

T. rex was formally named 120 years ago today. Hell yeah king happy birthday!

#art

Illustration I did of a roaring and/or yawning T. rex with a judgmental rex onlooker in the background. (done for Beasts of the Mesozoic T. rex figure)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5d

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.

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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 4d

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Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.

PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Deadline: October 15.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

History repeats.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5d

But, of course, the fuckwits.

Dame Sarah Mullally makes history as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury and the Sky news headline fails to name her but it’s ok, her husband is named.

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 5d

I am also scared of the gap in the elevator shaft and absolutely won’t stand right at the edge of the jet bridge.

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Xander Jones @xanderjones.bsky.social · 5d

Only a few days left to apply!

My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.

@starmorph-syg.bsky.social

Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

www.cam.ac.uk

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EpiSeedLink @episeedlink.bsky.social · 5d

⏳ Time is running out!
Join us at Priming, Stress & Epigenetic Memory:
An integrated view from model plants to crops, International Conference, and be part of the future of Epigenetics in plants
✅ Inspiring speakers
✅ Breakthrough research
✅ Global networking
📅 9-10th Feb.
Don’t miss out¡

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 7d

Evergreen post, really

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 7d

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 8d

Dammit autocorrect! I didn’t need an apostrophe!

Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 8d

The UK doesn’t have Costco, yet you can still buy tea bag’s by the thousands

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 9d

Basically a granola bar.

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 10d

Aw - adorable!

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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 11d

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

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