A. thaliana has been pivotal in advancing our understanding of the bases of adaptation to past and ongoing environmental changes! A very nice review by @ahancock.bsky.social, Swan Portlier, Andrea Fulgione, @mgstetter.bsky.social and @meauxjuliette.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fu...
Applications due by Dec. 1
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I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Left: An early-flowering plant in the wild (at the Angit site in Southern Italy. Right: Flowering time of progeny from wild plants and control genotypes in the greenhouse (22°C long days).
The FLC gene helps determine #FloweringTime variation in #Arabidopsis. Analysis of FLC mutants across 62 natural #genetic backgrounds by @plantevolution.bsky.social shows how #PanGenetics analysis of hub genes can reveal the extent of their broader genetic network @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZkZNvV
This little methods paper to help with read counting allele-specific expression in interspecies hybrids by Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez has escaped biorxiv limbo to find a happy home in @micropub7n.bsky.social doi.org/10.17912/mic...
No enough about Bioscience in here, which is for some reason a major target of the Trump admin and DOGE. So much going on with sequencing technologies, health research and therapy development that feeds into non-academic sectors in the US.
Great to see someone in congress standing up for science. We need it on both sides of the aisle, but agree the R's probably have more power to make an impact currently. WaPo article is not open access. Seems to be the same content on Todd Young's website: www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Without seeds, we have no food. Without seeds, we have no future.
Botanists at Vavilov's seed vault chose to starve to death rather than eat the seeds they were protecting.
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
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If you are someone (or know someone) who is enrolled in an NIH-funded clinical trial that has been disrupted by grant uncertainties or terminations, please DM me.
THANK YOU!
I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics:
go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V
Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack
Come to Purdue this summer to get experience in Plant Data Science!!
That is about 4 times the total annual budget to the major scientific funding organization, NSF, right?
A lot of rich people don't want to admit that a big part of the United States' success in innovation is thanks to government funding & research, and maybe not purely because of their genius-level IQs & unique business acumen.
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 UBC’s EOAS & IRES seek an Assistant Professor of Teaching (tenure track) in Environmental Science. 🌱💡
📍 Vancouver | 💰 $130K–$140K | 📅 Apply by: March 16, 2025
Full details & how to apply: 👉 https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29706
#AcademicJobs #EnvironmentalScience
Rest in Power Roberta Flack
Rest In Peace
Roberta Flack
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@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.
They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...
"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
*Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology* at the University Of Cologne, Germany
It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer
Associate prof position at Stockholm U in plant molecular physiology, including phytoplankton
www.su.se/department-o...
So was that the deal for Elon to get back the money he spent on the campaign?
He's talking about people like Gregg:
