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Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠 @tlowepower.bsky.social · 16d

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist

Applications due Dec 1

Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

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he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic,
or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly
motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and
fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a
world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects
of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range
of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal
pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens,
plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to
fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving
pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also
encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with
faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to
addressing issues of importance to California’s agricultural and natural ecosystems.
The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors.
Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on
departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. The department offers modern instructional
facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.

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Tom Buckley @tombuckleylab.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck right off

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 12h

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery

The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 12h

secure.actblue.com/donate/erra-... 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸Repost🇺🇸💙🇺🇸 #Truth #WeThePeople #TaxTheRich #ImpeachTrump Convict Remove #StrongerTogether #NeverSurrender

Donate to Yes on 50 – the Election Rigging Response Act

If Californians don’t act now, Donald Trump will seize total power for two more years.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 13h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 13h

Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.

Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 13h

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor:

Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire.

plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

Lab openings | Laughlin Research Lab

plant-traits.net

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Tom Buckley @tombuckleylab.bsky.social · 8h

JFC I had no idea Bloom County still existed. I just referenced Bill the Cat to my wife an hour ago...

Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 9h

thank you bloom county for necessary humor in these dark times

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💙Matthew U.💙 @match74.bsky.social · 9h

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 13h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 5d

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 3d

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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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 2d

Very honest and very good World View from Severine Toussaert
www.nature.com/articles/d41..., one that is very much in tune with our recent proposals for a framework to incentivise publication of negative or null results: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Six journal rejections and a major rethink: why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too

Outlining the trial-and-error processes that are involved in every research project could help others to become more efficient and paint a more honest picture of life as a researcher.

www.nature.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

“Violence is not the cause of Trump and Miller’s desire to use state power to crush their opposition. It is the pretext for which they transparently long.”

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

Stephen Miller is portraying opposition to Donald Trump in any form, including by judges issuing legal rulings, as an illegal rebellion, Jonathan Chait argues:

Stephen Miller Lays Out the Plan in Public

The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.

bit.ly

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 2d

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 2d

Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project

The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run. Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...

docs.google.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social · 2d

Australia: Send panel tells government: to get results, spend on innovation (free to read): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

Put your money where your priorities are, government urged - Research Professional News

Australian R&D sector needs public funding on the demand side, review panel says

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 2d

Continuing my tour of books I should have already read, Calling Bullshit by @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social. Just a delight - an accessible, entertaining, insightful look at various forms of BS. Much like Weapons of Math Destruction, would love a 2025 update of this one.

Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World

The world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshi...

www.callingbullshit.org

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José M. Torres-Ruiz @torresruizjm.bsky.social · 3d

Great to see this paper out!📰

Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌿🔬

@irnase.bsky.social

Marylou Mantova @maryloumantova.bsky.social · 3d

Just published by Gonzalez et al. in @newphyt.bsky.social:

Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌳🔬

Check out our new way to follow cellular mortality using cavicams at: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 2d

👀Notable context in times when medical research funding is being destroyed. And Funding for the police state increases. 🩺 🧪

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 2d

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

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Osbert Sun @osbertsun.bsky.social · 2d

NEW ARTICLE PUBLISHED @forestecosyst.bsky.social
📰Adding a storage pool improves 3-PG tree-ring simulations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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jobRxiv @jobrxiv.org · 2d

Assistant Professor – Plant Physiology #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky

Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology

Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

jobrxiv.org

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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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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