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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 8m

One week remaining until application review begins for the TT mycology position at UGA!

Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · Aug 21

🍄 UGA Plant Pathology is hiring TT faculty in Mycology/Fungal Biology/Fungal Ecology at the Asst/Assc level! Please pass along this opportunity to anyone you know who may be interested. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. 🍄 www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Assistant or Associate Professor - Fungal Biology/Mycology

The Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at the University of Georgia is recruiting for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Fu...

www.ugajobsearch.com

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 1d

We also have an opening in the Biology Dept. at UMass Boston for a tenure track position to teach #genetics! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us... - research area very flexible! Could definitely see candidates applying to both.

Page Up - UMass Boston

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 1d

We also have an opening in the Biology Dept. at UMass Boston for a tenure track position for someone who's research centers on Biology Education and pedagogy! This candidate will take up our intro bio courses. Area of biology flexible! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

Page Up - UMass Boston

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 1d

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!

These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 1d

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

The ISC - your new home at UMass Boston?

The view of Boston Harbor from front of campus

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 2d

uh oh hopefully @journalofecology.bsky.social doesn't go this direction

Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2d

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

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Rebecca Wang 王思寧 @rebeccawang.bsky.social · 2d

Getting "jump-scared" by moon cake boxes left and right these last few days. 🤣

Like whad'ya mean they sometimes contain actual moon cakes🥮 , not entomological specimens?!

Thread with context:
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Rebecca Wang 王思寧 @rebeccawang.bsky.social · Mar 21

#MuseumConversations @ the HKBM
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Q: “Uhhh… why are there dozens of mooncake/月餅/🥮 boxes stacked up on your desk? In late March??”

A: “Right... So you know how those blue Danish butter cookie tins always contain sewing supplies? Like magic? Without fail?

Well...”

A cluttered desk. On the left is a stack of paper labels and identification sheets. In the center is various stationary items (like scissors, pencils, highlighters). On the right are the aforementioned moon cake boxes stacked up high.

Blurred in the background are a bunch of other entomology supplies (including small tubes containing ethanol preserved specimens, wooden display case, more moon cake boxes) etc

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Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social · 5d

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Science Magazine @science.org · 6d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 5d

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword

The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

www.kcur.org

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 6d

Hey Botany friends, any PI at a grad-degree-granting institution want to help us out with a "applying to grad school" panel on Oct 9th at 4:30 est? 🙏 Come share your wisdom!

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 6d

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

This is my favorite LLM after the one made in Oxford

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 6d

📣We're Hiring!📣 Come join us as a marine micro lab tech in sunny Santa Barbara! A great position for a 2-year post-bacc or starting point for a long-term technician position. Apply by 9 October for full consideration, and please share widely! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...

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Jonathan L. Fischer @jonfischer.bsky.social · 7d

NEWS: White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities

The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 6d

I am filled with so much love and gratitude that I cannot grieve. Dr. Goodall worked tirelessly in her gentle, hopeful way for a better world for all life on Earth. She has laid down her field notebook for the last time; now it is for us to fill with wonder, joy, and connection, into infinity.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 6d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 7d

I thought there was a markdown book on this by Jon but I can't find it. Here's the original post jonlefcheck.net/2014/07/06/p...

Piecewise structural equation modeling in ecological research

[Updated December 30, 2019: You can read more about the package, new functionality, and other approaches to SEM in my online book (work-in-progress): [Updated October 13, 2015: Active development h…

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Clayton Hale (he/him) @chale9.bsky.social · 7d

Help! 🚨 Looking for resources on structural equation models—favorite methods papers, example studies, or guides for building an SEM pipeline. Thinking of using one for a dissertation chapter & not sure where to start. Suggestions? Please share!

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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 8d

"A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers..." Uprooter @alexip718.com for @thexylom.com

www.thexylom.com/post/h-1b-vi...

The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions

A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8d

That's quite the chart annotation.

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

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 10d

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this:

“These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview

open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

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Megan Behringer @megbehri.bsky.social · 9d

Our lab is hiring!!
We are looking for a research assistant who will be involved with our experimental evolution studies on how stress affects population dynamics in E. coli.
Great opportunity for recent grads!
E-mail for more info and apply here:
ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 9d

Extremely proud of Eileen Enderle for publishing her second PhD paper in @journalofecology.bsky.social !!

She shows that the impact that drought has on plant-soil feedback is mediated by soil bacterial and fungal communities.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Drought legacy effects on plant growth and plant–soil feedback are mediated by soil microbial communities independently of root exudates and root litter

The results show that drought indirectly restricts plant growth, which is not mediated by root exudates or root litter, but through altering microbial biomass and community composition. These finding...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10d

When it comes to road deaths, we often put the onus on people doing the dying rather than people doing the killing.

NPR @npr.org · 12d

In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed on the road, and in recent years, more than 1,000 cyclists have been hit and killed annually. Safety experts explain how bikers and walkers can stay safe.

8 walking and biking safety tips that just might save your life

In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed on the road, and in recent years, more than 1,000 cyclists have been hit and killed annually. Safety experts explain how bikers and walkers can stay safe.

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