#JobAlert #PhD 🌱
We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers.
We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition.
Interested? Please get in touch for more information!
At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).
Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."
Group photo of PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award recipients at the Botany 2025 conference. Text reads: PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award and Mentored Experience — Now Accepting Applications! Benefits include mentorship, complimentary conference registration, free travel and lodging, meals, a field trip, and a 3-year BSA student membership. Deadline March 15, 2026. Visit botany.org.
Hey Botanical Science Undergrads, the PLANTS Grant deadline is coming up!!
This award covers Botany 2026 travel, lodging, meals, mentorship, a conference field trip & a complimentary 3-year BSA membership.
Deadline: March 15, 2026
For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/...
🌿 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!
Fluorescence microscopy image of a spherical cluster of chloroplasts, showing magenta-stained interiors surrounded by bright green outlines against a black background.
Moss (Physcomitrium patens) protoplasts (wallless cells) transformed with chloroplast envelope protein tagged with mGFP (green). The chlorophyll autofluorescence is in magenta.
The protrusions of the chloroplast envelope are called stromules.
#microscopymonday, #plantcells, #plantmicroscopy, #moss
I love the LL Bean canvas tote bags. They are pricy for a grocery bag but they last forever, lots of options, and are what we grab for first on most trips
Figure F3: Correlation of world prices of maize from the US, the EU, and the Black Sea. Graph shows prices tracking closely from 2016-2023. Source: Authors’ drawing based on data from the International Grains Council and FranceAgriMer. https://tobin.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-01/Berry%20Searchinger%20Yang%20GTAP%20Paper%20%282024.12.%29.pdf
The global oil market is integrated. Changes to supply or demand in one place cause price effects that ripple around the 🌎.
But did you know this is true for non-branded bulk food products like grains & vegetable oils?
Below are export prices of maize (corn) from the US, the EU, & the Black Sea.
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
Cool work on Marchantia development
An old friend who had been a student took me when I first arrived on campus, bc for some it’s kind of a thing, but the food was meh and I never went back. Plus, the whole cult issue
If I started a religion it would be centered on great food, seems kinda fundamental
They seemed to have a deal to sell on campus that was not open to other food trucks, for eg, and the food honestly was not great. Not sure how the stuck around this long
We are offering a fully funded two-year postdoctoral position focused on sex chromosome evolution and speciation in the *Jaera albifrons* species complex. Please find the advertisement attached. We welcome applications from interested candidates. Join us :-)
Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am!
We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal.
His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!
I'll save everyone the click, it's just this chart:
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15
csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...
Beautiful work on moss morphology and development
June 14, flag day
Can confirm. My parents retired to Lorain County
Florida’s population grew last year, over 196k, but ~88% came from abroad.
If he did vanquish that opener I would love him even more!
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
This is a great thread on feeding yourself
Reposting again because according to Reddit threads, another round of RWR emails went out today.
Prob 20% of my feed used to be academics stressed about writing, but 100% of them would endorse this sentiment.
They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*.
If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE
“At NSF, the net reduction of 205 STEM Ph.D.s between 1 January and 30 November constituted 40% of its total pre-Trump Ph.D. workforce of 517, by far the largest percentage at any agency. STEM Ph.D.s also make up a larger percentage of the total workforce at NSF than at any other agency…”.
NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.
Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
