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Molly Edwards, PhD

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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hi bluesky, it sure is nice to be here! I'm Molly, I'm a plant biologist turned science communicator 🌱 I make videos with researchers to bring their science stories to life! You can find me on YT/insta/tt as Science IRL 🧬🎥 Excited to re-meet everyone here and make new #science & #scicomm friends!

Molly on top of a giant phenotyping robot, delivering a line to a drone camera that is filming from above. Photo credit: Davis de Dios Media

Molly in a respirator crouching on the ground of a greenhouse aisle surrounded by orchids, filming the plants using a camera on a gimbal. Photo credit: Joyce Onyenedum

Molly and plant scientist Brandon being filmed by videographer Chris for a Science IRL video. They are admiring plants growing in tissue culture on a shelf with bright grow lights. Photo credit: Matt Hayes

Molly in a respirator giving a talk about scicomm and Science IRL for the plant bio departmental seminar at UGA. Photo Credit: Tanisha Williams

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 5d

Friday Flower 006: Aquilegia 🌸🦋

Columbines vary in stamen number, making them a powerful model for how floral whorls expand.

Darwin marveled at their long nectar spurs, which co-evolve with hawkmoth tongues to reward pollinators that brush the stamens ✨

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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 15d

Absolutely magical 🥹 thank you for sharing this!

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 15d

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts

I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??

here she is at her burrow entrance.

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Jessamine Finch, PhD @seedystudies.bsky.social · 16d

🌿Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science 👩‍🔬

📨 applications close Oct. 15
🌎 1y program in St. Louis
📆 Cohort 2 runs Jan. - Dec. '26
💸 $37k stipend
🎓 associate or bachelor’s req'd

www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

Spread the word about this really special program!

Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center

The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.

www.danforthcenter.org

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Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social · 18d

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 19d

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Tweet from Dan Satterfield

Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel.
The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact?
See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area.
2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week.
3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts.
4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.
Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years.
Nothing you do will have greater impact.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20d

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 21d

How Did Hands Evolve? The Answer Is Behind You. (My story of some surprising evo-devo!) nyti.ms/42Cg8xH

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 20d

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 21d

Yaaaaaayyyyy I love this so much 🥹😭❤️✨🫶

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 22d

Whenever I see cactus blooms, I tickle them. 💅🏻🌸
Thigmonastic stamens - rapid, touch induced movement for pollination.
#plantjoy #iamabotanist

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"Young ordered the restoration of $783 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2025 — a portion of which, totaling millions, was allocated to Harvard — before the Supreme Court stayed the order nearly two months later. (The total multi-year funding pool affected by Young’s ruling included $3.8 billion in grants, many of which were partially paid out before the freeze. According to a Crimson analysis of court filings, Harvard was awarded more than 140 grants within that pool, with a combined multi-year value exceeding $60 million.)

Harvard expected the grants listed in Young’s ruling to flow back to researchers, according to a person familiar with the matter, even though the White House had imposed a block on all Harvard grants as part of its initial funding cut in April.

But the funds never arrived, and Harvard wrote in an August press release from the School of Public Health that the NIH was continuing to “block disbursement of any funds to Harvard University.”

According to one person, Harvard has been unable to access any funds from the NIH since April because of the restrictions imposed by DOGE through its oversight of the NIH’s payment system, including in the two-month period in which Young’s ruling mandated that grant awards listed in the ruling be resumed."

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

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terrere means frighten @boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de · Sep 6

kinda impossible to separate the aesthetics of GenAI slop and the current wave of american christofascism at this point

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Sep 6

My god…

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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · Sep 6

Boosted! Thank you @massgovernor.bsky.social for kicking ass & making COVID boosters available asap!

Molly inside of a CVS wearing a black respirator. She is smiling under her mask because she just got a Covid booster! Her sleeve is rolled up to show the bandaid on her arm

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

Gotta say seeing governors competing to one up each other to see who can make vaccines most accessible is a refreshing change.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · Sep 4

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!

Steven Burgess @sjb287.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology

Duties & Responsibilities

illinois.csod.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yesss!!!

Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · Sep 3

Omg yaaaay!!

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 29

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid:

“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”

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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · Aug 29

It fills me with rage that we could've spent the last 5yrs overhauling indoor ventilation and just...didn't. Like, it's good for capitalism! Even if that's allll you care about, healthy people are more productive workers! And people don't have to take as much time off work if their kids are healthy!

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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · Aug 29

Embyophytes what’s up

#iamabotanist

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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · Aug 29

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