Image of map of the United States highlighting the impact of proposed federal cuts to NSF and NIH with California, Washington, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and Massachusetts being the top impacted states.

The White House’s April 3 budget proposal would reduce NSF & NIH funding significantly. Our analysis shows that the U.S. stands to lose $35 billion in economic activity and 150,000 jobs nationwide.

See impacts on your local community: scienceimpacts.org
#SCIMaP #NIH #NSF #SciencePolicy

April's #beadwork project!

Happy weekend Fam!

If you’re attending @aspbofficial.bsky.social Northeast Section meeting (25-26April) next weekend, feel free to get in touch with our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social Leadership Team Rep Dr. Sonal Sachdev @sci3ntyst.bsky.social
Scan the QR to know more!

See you at the Meeting! 🌱

Hi Fam! 🌱

If you’re attending @aspbofficial.bsky.social Bay Area Plant Hub (Apr 22) coming week please free to get in touch with our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social Leadership Rep Dr. Aimee Uyehara ✅

Scan the QR code to know more! ✅

See you there ✅

You know you just want to ✨️ boop ✨️ Juniper's nose!

🚨Happening Tomorrow 🚨

Plant Science Postdocs, Senior Grad Students, and ECRs: don't forget to join us next TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET for our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social webinar "What's new with NSF?" 🌾 🧪 🌱

Registration: tinyurl.com/PlantPostdocsApril14

Preprint alert 🚨 (1/10) 🧵

𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺:
It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death 🤯

So what is its actual role?

We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types 🌱🦠 #proteostasis

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hello Fam 🌱

Spring is here and we are bubbling with energy 🌸

We would love to see you participate in this fun Spring Photo Challenge 🌿

Rules are simple and get a chance to be featured on our page 🌷

Looking forward to see beautiful Spring flowers in full bloom 🌺

Webinar Announcement: Plant Postdocs presents "What's new with NSF?" Join to learn about the new NSF structure and funding opportunities relevant to early-career researchers in the plant sciences. Date: April 14, 2026. 2-3pm PT/4-5pm CT/5-6pm ET Registration at tinyurl.com/PlantPostdocsApril14 Speakers: Diane Jofuku Okamuro and Pankaj Jaiswal, Program Directors for NSF Directorate for the Biological Sciences

Plant Science Postdocs, Senior Grad Students, and other ECRs: don't forget to join us next Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET for our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social webinar "What's new with NSF?" 🌾 🧪 🌱

Registration Link: tinyurl.com/PlantPostdocsApril14

Interesting and important work from the @gittacoaker.bsky.social and Jie Zhu labs. There is so much to learn from spatial analyses of plant-pathogen interactions!

This month's #beadwork project!

Top of the Field: Purdue Agriculture #3 in US, #6 Globally in 2026 Rankings Purdue University’s College of Agriculture has once again secured a place among the world’s top academic programs, ranking third in the United States and sixth globally in the 2026 QS World University...

Proud to be a Purdue College of Agriculture alum!

We’d love for you to join us!

Registration Link: caltech.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is an opportunity to hear directly about recent changes to the NSF (USA) structure and funding opportunities relevant to plant biologists, especially ECRs in the plant sciences. We hope this conversation will help clarify current priorities and identify potential pathways for future proposals.

Exciting news! @plantpostdocs.bsky.social
invites you to join our upcoming webinar, “What’s new with NSF?” on Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET 🌿

We are excited to have Diane Jofuku Okamuro and Pankaj Jaiswal - Program Directors, NSF BIO join us for this session.

Protocols in Root-Microbe Interactions Protocols in Root-Microbe Interactions describes laboratory protocols that have been developed and optimized for scientists working in root-microbe interactions, specifically for those wanting to quan...

Link to FREE download:
docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_...

Contributions include members of the Iyer-Pascuzzi Lab and alumni, including myself, Denise Caldwell, Sana Doty, Abigail Rogers, and Tri Tran.

Check it out!

🚨New Pub Alert🚨
Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, professor of Botany and Plant Pathology Department at Purdue University (my PhD advisor!), has published “Protocols in Root-Microbe Interactions" with Purdue University Press.
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...

Congrats, Sandra!!

I don't know anyone specifically, but @plantpostdocs.bsky.social has been really good at posting postdoc opps in their job board lately!

Congrats, @gittacoaker.bsky.social !! So well-deserved!!!

They even got to spend some time exploring the Haworth greenhouse! Lucky!

I had a great time helping host students from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Boys & Girls Club on their visit to KU! 🌱 I walked them through the Wagner Lab and shared what I do day-to-day. We talked about plant–microbe interactions, what it's like to be a researcher, & careers in plant science.

Nuclear winter continues

Fun Sunday afternoon with the Kansas Postdoctoral Outreach Project (K-POP)!

This month,we highlighted principles uncovered by past researchers (Mendel, Curie, Darwin, etc) showcasing how today’s scientists use those principles to better understand the world around us.

My station: oxygen and ozone.

5th Annual KU Center for Genomics Research Symposium The symposium is open to anyone interested in genomics and genetics, with a particular focus on students, postdoctoral researchers, and research staff. The event is free to attend, but registration is required. Participants are welcome to present their research as a talk, flash talk, or poster. Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided.

Join the University of Kansas Center for Genomics on May 8th for the 5th Annual🧬 KUCG Research Symposium 🧬
📍Lawrence, KS
📅Friday, May 8th, 2026
🕘8am - 6pm CT
🧪Abstracts due March 15th
🔗 genomics.ku.edu/ku-center-ge...

genomics.ku.edu/ku-center-ge...

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