NEW: Preliminary findings released today from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty decreased & remain below pre-pandemic levels.
The FCS is the largest independent source of data on faculty salaries. Check out preliminary findings below.
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🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI!
Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible!
#plantscience #plantbiology 🧪
bit.ly/3ZHtneT
#HigherEd #AcademicSky
*Please* amplify this risk.
The US DOE wants to implement an earnings test on all undergrads and grads--if grads of your programs do not earn a specified amount upon receiving their degrees, your programs risk losing federal funding. The earnings tests begin *this October*.
Your time for doing science waxes and wanes throughout your career. Don’t let anybody tell you that you’re doing it wrong. You get to decide what’s right for you (as long as you meet your basic commitments). 🧪
The Chemistry Dept at Kenyon College is seeking a Visiting Assistant Professor for a 2-year position, starting July 1.
This is a great opportunity for any chemistry PhDs interested in teaching in a liberal arts college setting! Priority date: Feb 28
careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...
When we are informed, we are prepared. When we are prepared, we save lives. NCAR keeps us informed.
Join us in writing to Congress to #SaveNCAR #FundNCAR!
It takes 30 seconds to write an email at tr.ee/save-ncar
Scientists have identified Tidestromia oblongifolia in Death Valley as the most heat-tolerant plant ever recorded, capable of surviving temperatures above 120°F, according to a study published in Current Biology.
#ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat #PlantScience #AgricultureFuture #GlobalWarming
Ten days left to apply for our International Undergraduate Summer School 2026 with the @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social!
A unique opportunity for global undergraduates to spend 8 weeks with us on Norwich Research Park 🧬🧪
⏰ Deadline 16 January 2026
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
Holiday card that says "Cell-ebrate the Season! Happy Holidays from the K. Rouhier Lab". It includes sketch-generated images of seven people in the Kerry Rouhier's research group along with a decorated evergreen on the left and a snow-person on the right. The image was created in BioRender.
Happy Holidays from my lab to yours! (my research students generated the card using BioRender from our group photo - love my students!)
Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
Pretty interesting for all people who participate in video interviews:
Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please share, deadline approaching soon!
Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
BSA and more than 90 scientific/professional organizations signed this letter to Director Kratsios at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) yesterday in response to the recent Executive Order "Restoring the Gold Standard in Science."
unitedsciencealliance.org/good-science...
My wonderful colleague in Biology is looking for a post doc. See careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us... for details.
What’s the next PDB? Maybe it’s …the PDB.
We just launched @diffuseproject.bsky.social a structural biology initiative exploring protein motion & rethinking how we generate and use experimental data. Quick 🧵👇
www.diffuse.science
NEWS - Innovative Neurodiversity e-learning now available
The John Innes Centre has launched a new Neurodiversity e-learning resource available to all, following a successful year-long BBSRC-funded Understanding, Valuing and Celebrating Neurodiversity project: www.jic.ac.uk/news/innovat...
What a great week at #PlantBiology2025 #PB2025! Lots of great talks, great sessions, and great food! Thank you Milwaukee for being a great host!
Hi folks, we had a last minute cancellation at MBL STAMPS, the microbiome data analysis course in Woods Hole that runs from July 14th to July 24th. We can provide housing space for a woman. If you or anyone you know is interested, pls drop me an e-mail at ctbrown@ucdavis.edu. Thx!
Today is the deadline to register for ASBMB's unique, education-focused conference!
📣"I believe coming to this meeting is a fantastic opportunity to network as well as learn something that will make you a better teacher."
—Betsy Martinez–Vaz, professor
www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
2030STEM in partnership with Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is building a new, catalytic resource to advance the careers of early to mid-career STEM researchers and professionals who are motivated to build an inclusive STEM ecosystem.
Get more informarion at 2030stem.org/fellowship-1
Congratulations!!!!
🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!
These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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Researchers can fight these attacks by spreading insights into how fed funded research works, and sharing how we serve the public with the fed dollars we work hard to earn.
Write an op-ed for your local hometown paper to be published June 16! #SciComm #McClintockLetters
tinyurl.com/McClintockLe...
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
Today in Chemistry History infographic on the discovery of the electron in 1897 by Sir Joseph J Thomson. Thomson discovered the electron, found the first evidence for isotopes of stable elements, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for ‘investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases’. An annotated diagram of the cathode ray apparatus Thomson used to discover the electron is shown. The rays were deflected by an electric field. Comparing this with how much they were deflected by a magnetic field, he deduced that cathode rays were made of negatively charged particles, which he termed ‘corpuscles’. The discovery led to his ‘plum pudding’ model of the atom, with electrons scattered throughout a cloud of positive charge.
Happy birthday to the electron! ⚛️
#OTD in 1897, Joseph J Thomson announced his identification of the electron — the first subatomic particle to be discovered.
www.compoundchem.com/2018/04/30/e...
#ChemSky 🧪
Arabidopsis genetics. 6 stages of Arabidopsis rosettes arranged into 2 helices. Hand printed Spring 2024.
Young leaf. Print based on a microscopy image of a 3-day old Arabidopsis leaf. Press printed August 2022.
Mushrooms. 3 of 5 total mushrooms. Press printed March 2023.
Bees and hexagons. Two-layer print of blue bees on a gradient of hexagons. Press printed March 2022.
In this new #SciArt profile, we meet Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social, a plant developmental biologists @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. Margot enjoys linocut printmaking. Her designs are often inspired by images from the lab and scenes from nature 🌱
thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...
