Let's welcome @watermelondoctor.bsky.social to these blue skies!

She's a #scientist and #activist working to better the world. Studying #Colletotrichum, she's an #AgResearcher specializing in #AgExtension and #SciComm!

#PlantPathology #WomenInSTEM #AgSci

OPM alters memo about probationary employees but does not order mass firings reversed The Office of Personnel Management has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to identify probationary employees ahead of a mass firing. The reissued memo does not order fired workers reinstat...

I am hoping and praying that this means the #USDA will bring back all of the illegally terminated employees. My wonderful PhD advisor was an #AgResearcher working to serve American ag production, and did not deserve to be fired.

#USDA-ARS #SaveScience

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