I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name
OAI: say no more
A multi-factor experimental test of hypothesized selection on the cyanogenesis trait in white clover finds a much more complicated picture than expected
Man. Science is so cool. #artemisII
Flyer with images of book When Trees Testify (left,) and Beronda Montgomery (right) and text that reads: All Welcome 240 Westminster St., PVD, RI Join us! at Symposium Books Beronda Montgomery's When Trees Testify Moderator To Be Announced April 10th 6pm
I'll be @symposiumbooks.bsky.social this Friday at 6 PM in conversation about When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy.
Looking forward!
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
What AI skills need to be developed exactly? How to copy and paste a question prompt? How to write a more precise command or inquiry? How to better disguise and humanize the resulting AI essay?
These are hardly "critical" skills. And none of this is "education."
That's a good name for software:
MKado: a toolkit for McDonald-Kreitman tests of natural selection
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🌿🧬Our new story is out in @natplants.nature.com! Tobacco plants usually pass down their mitochondria maternally, but we show we can trigger paternal transmission of mitochondria at high levels & restore plant health in the offspring of mothers harboring defective mtDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
I can report that it is challenging to both order and pick up Jersey Mike’s when your eyes are dilated.
New work from the lab: Miles @milesroberts.bsky.social tried out machine learning to estimate sweep times to fixation and (spoilers) it didn't really help www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... As always, we'd appreciate any feedback!
JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
Two university-run science summer camps are canceling their programs for this summer due to financial limitations.
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Close-up photograph of a green and yellow flower bud background with overlaid text announcing a Botanical Society of America award. The graphic reads: “Call for Nominations — Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award.” It notes nomination help for students is available through March 23 and lists the award deadline as April 13, 2026. The BSA logo and a QR code appear at the bottom with a link to botany.org/home/awards.html.
Nominations are open for the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to botanical education.
Student & early career nomination support available through March 23.
Deadline: April 13, 2026.
Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSAawards #IamaBotanist
Small funding opportunity ($3k) for field botany research in Georgia, USA! Spread the word 📣
Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund 🌿
📆 Application due: March 30, 2026
www.gabotsoc.org/projects/mar...
If you are upset about the WP layoffs and the billionaire takeover of the press, consider cancelling your Amazon Prime membership and stop giving them so much business. It took us a while to adjust from the convenience of it when we quit but it was worth it.
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Integrating genomics and habitat surveys to uncover population structure and regeneration challenges in Adansonia suarezensis (Malvaceae)
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
#PlantScience
four people happy in the forest with trillium flowers everywhere
Exciting new undergraduate research opportunities here at Carnegie Museum in Botany! Applications due March 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...
My grad student, who got RWR and appealed, got an email from GRFP program today that said "Your application was screened by NSF program officers with expertise in your proposed field of study and was determined to be ineligible according to the solicitation requirements."
No details were given. 😡
Learning more about the first African-American hired at the US National Arboretum: Roland Maurice Jefferson, famous for work on cherries in DC and crabapples. check the Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_... #BlackHistoryMonth
Dear Sir or Madam: On January 27, 2026, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz posted a video to an official social media account in which he spewed baseless and racially charged allegations targeting the Armenian community in Los Angeles, including that a popular bakery's use of "Russian Armenian" "lettering" and "language" in public signage was an indicator of affiliation with the Mafia. Such racially charged and false public statements by anyone involved in administering these critical federal healthcare programs seriously risks chilling participation in those programs by individuals targeted by the statements. They also reflect discriminatory animus, and reveal a discriminatory motive that could infect how investigations of alleged fraud are conducted.
Accordingly, on behalf of the Armenian community in California, our office is filing this civil rights complaint and seeking an investigation and corrective action to address potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. See 42 U.S.C. 2000d. Sincerely, Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
My office is filing a civil rights complaint seeking an investigation into Dr. Oz's baseless and racist allegations against Armenian Americans in California.
New Article: "Unravelling the predominant genetic paths for asexual reproduction in Kalanchoe" rdcu.be/e1pxI
With News & Views: "Genomic cradle for thousands" rdcu.be/e1pxK
How ‘mother of thousands’ plants sprout new plantlets from their leaves.
Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris)
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606
Curious about this image??? Join NEBS at UConn Fri 2/6 to learn more! Dr. Karolina Heyduk will be presenting "The Wonderful Diversity of Plant Photosynthesis" at 5:30, with an optional tour of the greenhouse and herbarium before. For more details and to register visit rhodora.org/meetings/upc...
New: @cortezmasto.senate.gov is a no on the DHS funding bill.
