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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.

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

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relational data of agony and despair

Congrats to the section award winners. Thanks @li-corenv.bsky.social for sponsoring.

Best LI-COR Poster :
Amelie LeTierce, University of Minnesota - Duluth
"Beauty is Skin Deep: Obscured Chlorophyll is Photosynthetic in Zinnia elegans Flowers"
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#bsaecophys #botany2025

my analysis reveals that you are a significant person (p < 2e-16)

i ate chili tonight and i think soup

Zinnia elegans bedding plants with orange blooms soaking in the sun of Northern Minnesota.

Horticultural plants like Zinnia elegans help us smile 🌱😊🌻

#Bloomscrolling #Letsgoplants #Iamabotanist

Trans Day of Visibility should be a day of joy, but it feels somber this year. The onslaught of attacks against trans folks seems endless, so I just want to say this:

Trans people deserve respect, freedom, and autonomy. They deserve to live their lives as their true selves without fear.

Invitation for U.S. Members to Advocate for Science

SETAC North America has prepared an Environmental Science Advocacy Letter urging US leaders to reconsider proposed policy changes that could undermine environmental protections, public health and science-based decision-making. Show your support by signing the letter by April 7.

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Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe An eyewitness said masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home.

Nobody should be disappeared from the streets of Somerville – or anywhere in America.

Everyone should be alarmed by the video of Rumesya Ozturk being handcuffed and taken away by agents. The government must immediately release her.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

Hundreds rally in support of Duluth EPA lab A reduction in force plan submitted by the EPA reportedly calls for shuttering the agency's science and research arm.

A reduction in force plan submitted by the EPA reportedly calls for shuttering the agency's science and research arm.

science moves slow and
disinformation moves fast.
how can we keep pace?

‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana immigration detention for first time * Never miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time. In his first public remarks since…

‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs

A map of the United States colored to show that Rhode Island and Wisconsin both stand out for calling a drinking fountain a "bubbler."

feeling bubbly tonight having recently learned about this unprecedented gesture of RI / WI solidarity

strawbs got moves 🍓 💃

Grad Admissions Impact Survey It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing research funding. Dozens of graduate program...

If you are aware of grad program reduction due to cuts in science funding in the USA -- please help catalog it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🌿🐸

Forest moss wth green sporophytes on a chilly March Day.

northern MN: now presenting! 4th winter!

some moss: hell yeah sexy time

U of M board of regents prohibit faculty statements on ‘matters of public concern’ The approved resolution prohibits U of M departments from issuing statements on “matters of public concern or public interest,” after some departments expressed solidarity with Palestinians in 2023.

Under the new policy, departments are prohibited from sharing statements through university channels expressing solidarity with others or seeking to advance a particular position on a matter of public concern.

Not only are rambling papers taxing on writers, readers, and reviewers, I'd argue they also contribute to the replication crisis by making citations meaningless. How am I supposed to trust a passing reference supports someone's argument if I can't even identify why it's been referenced?

Lunar #Eclipse lovers - tonight is the night! 😎🌍🌚

Favourite fact: The moon turns red at totality because you're seeing the reflected light from every sunrise and sunset across the globe 🥰 🧪🔭

ℹ️: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...
📷: David Alexander Elder, East Kilbride 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Probably you've already thought of this but NOW is the time to stockpile chemicals, pipette tubes, kimwipes, parafilm, gloves, agar, sharpies and post-it notes.

Spend from your grants while they still exist.

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thinking about the time my openly anti-gay high school religion teacher at catholic school (a young whie woman) had the class write an exam essay about injustice and more than half the class wrote about the unethical prohibition of gay marriage

This move will make it harder for students to get the financial support they need to go to college. Which will likely lead to fewer degrees. And yet, this administration--with its "merit" obsession--will likely imply that these students don't "deserve" degrees if they can't figure it on their own.

Make everyday international women's day

Way up in the north, we're gonna let it shine!

#standupforscience #Duluth #Minnesota

standing up for science in Duluth!

Science funding is an intersectional issue. Don't downplay this administration's stance on gender-affirming research. This research not only protects the health of trans Americans, but is also evidence against anti-trans bills.

#standupforscience #plantjoy #iamabotanist

‘There’s no other solution’: Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws Frustrated by government’s failure to ease rules, an NGO is opening a centre a stone’s throw from parliament in Warsaw

‘There’s no other solution’: Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws

so sick of DEI. Donald, Elon, and the Ignorant masses

This image shows 4 years of students and mentors who were part of the PLANTS program. Text: PLANTS undergraduate travel award and mentored experience. Join the 2025 PLANTS cohort! Deadline March 1, 2025. www.botany.org

The deadline to apply for the 2025 PLANTS grants is coming soon on March 1, 2025!

The PLANTS grant is a travel award for underrepresented undergraduates to attend #Botany2025. It offers special programming and includes registration, travel, meals, and lodging.

Visit: botany.org/home/awards/...