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Alex Lando

@alexlando.bsky.social
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linktr.ee/alexlando 🏳️‍🌈 PhD candidate in Hodge and @lovettbr.bsky.social labs at @cornellpppmb.bsky.social Researching insect-killing fungi 🍄‍🟫🦟 SciPol @snapcoalition.org Co-prez of @cornellasap.bsky.social 🧪⚖️ Bio undergrad at #UChicago #FieldMuseum

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jp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · 02/10/2026
Who comes to mind when you picture a scientist? This #HispanicHeritageMonth, meet hundreds of Hispanic/Latinx & Latin American scientists changing how we understand our world! Explore the Atlases, find a scientist, and share their story 🥳🔬🌎 www.inspiringlatamscientists.org
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This was such a joy to work on over the past few months! Take a look at the materials if your science policy group wants to learn more!
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The Partnership @ourpublicservice.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
DYK: Public-funded science supports American farms and our favorite foods? Plant pathologist Isako Di Tomassi helps farmers identify potato diseases to protect harvests, keep our food safe and grow our economy. Learn about public-funded agricultural research at science.federalharmstracker.org.
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Have you heard about the #OMBrule but don't know how to write your public comment? Come to the Power Hour! And here is some reading material in the meantime to share a perspective on what the proposed rule could mean for the next generation of scientists: sciencepolitics.org/2026/06/05/w...
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What Happens to the Next Generation of Scientists if Politicians, Not Peers, Determine Research Funding - Science Politics
Fewer trainees today will mean fewer scientific discoveries tomorrow.
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@alexlando.bsky.social and Clancy Larmour hosting a #scicomm workshop for @msastudents.bsky.social happening TODAY @ 4 p.m. ET! Join us and spread the word = ) calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...
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MSA SPS Science Communication Workshop — Invitation via Google Calendar
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hi, #scipol #scicomm and #scisky peoples! You should follow the @snapcoalition.org blog, "Science Policy in a SNAP"! Check it out here: medium.com/science-poli... #ECRs #science #policy
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Science Policy in a SNAP
Early-career researchers bridging science and community. This is the blog for the Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP).
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Glad to see @snapcoalition.org member Emily Yao teaching a new SNAP Science Policy 101 course module! These will be publicly available open-access #SciPol modules on topics such as #SciComm, how the government works, science diplomacy, and others!
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Such a fun opportunity! Love communicating science with my fellow SNAPers <3
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
HAPPENING NOW @snapcoalition.bsky.social panel discussing the work to mobilize scientists to engage with communities and policy makers @sneharao.bsky.social @eselland.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social and David Ramotowski
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Sneha Rao @sneharao.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So excited to present on a panel at SciTalk with my amazing fellow SNAPpers @alexlando.bsky.social David Ramotowski @eselland.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social! If you're attending, stop by the SNAP posters too! Cael Dant @disha-patel3.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We especially want to thank all of the other SNAPpers and ASAPers who made this possible @erinmorrow.bsky.social @bdavisbio.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @ashyeneng.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social @kassstem.com @jonj-udd.bsky.social
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American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org · 13/02/2026
🫰snaps🫰for @snapcoalition.bsky.social, the first group of grad students to join us on the plenary stage in almost 180 years!
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Scientist Network for Advancing Policy @snapcoalition.org · 13/02/2026
Do you like swag and care about #EarlyCareerResearchers in #scipol and #scicomm? Of course you do. Drop by Booth 605 at #AAASmtg today to speak with SNAPpers about what we do and how you can help! And come see our plenary panel today @ 1 p.m.! #AAAS2026
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Of course also huge thanks to @emmascales.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io @bdavisbio.bsky.social @rosemalb.bsky.social @sneharao.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social @ashyeneng.bsky.social & all others who helped!
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ASAPers @emmascales.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @braineelainee.bsky.social are attending @aaas.org conference in Phoenix Feb. 12-14! If you're going, don't miss @snapcoalition.bsky.social events, including the reception (forms.gle/T4Ue52eVXhG2...) #AAAS2026
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
@bdavisbio.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @kassstem.bsky.social @gator-pase.bsky.social @scipolucla.bsky.social @pspdg.bsky.social
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
No kings in Ithaca! @isakoditomassi.bsky.social
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Mycological Society of America @msafungi.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
📢🍄Job alert🍄📢 The Department of Plant Pathology of the University of Georgia is accepting applications for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Fungal Biology/Mycology. Anticipated start date of May 2026. Open until filled, so apply now! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...
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Assistant or Associate Professor - Fungal Biology/Mycology
The Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at the University of Georgia is recruiting for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Fu...
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Impactful matriculation speech for new #gradstudents by @yale.edu Grad School Dean Lynn Cooley on how crucial #SciComm is, with shout-outs to @snapcoalition.bsky.social & wonderful SNAP co-founder Alex Rich. ~23 minutes in: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGv...
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Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Matriculation Ceremony
YouTube video by Yale University
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Two years down, three to go! Thanks to a fantastic committee and my even better friends (although two cakes was very unnecessary)
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
UChicago representation! I always loved working with the organismal bio people at the Field Museum. Good luck and may the tiktaalik spirit guide you @neilshubin.bsky.social
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Scientist Network for Advancing Policy @snapcoalition.org · 11/07/2025
Coming down the home stretch for #McClintockLetters! There is still time to participate. Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! Are you living in or are from #Arkansas? Write to your local paper to share your science: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Meeting such amazing mycologists at this conference is really making me feel good about the future again <3
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Hi, friends! I know @alexlando.bsky.social, @epiplantpath.bsky.social and I will be at #MSAfungi2025. Who else is coming to #Madison next week?! @msafungi.bsky.social @msastudents.bsky.social
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Excellent opinion piece written to your hometown community, Alex! "And what will we lose if we allow that science to be quietly dismantled?" #McClintockLetters
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Even the most politically conservative newspapers will still publish an article on funding science if you make it relevant to their readers! Check out my Letter to the Editor (pg 14) as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! view.flipdocs.com?ID=10009972_...
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JL #586
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Emma Scales @emmascales.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
What a week!!! First @nytimes.com, and now we are so honored to have the McClintock Letters initiative featured in @science.org ! Let’s keep the ball rolling on public-facing sci comm :) www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers
Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Happy 123rd Birthday, Dr. Barbara McClintock! Thank you to the #scientists participating in the nationwide #SciComm initiative, #McClintockLettters, that is in her honor. We are speaking to our local hometown communities about the value of federally funded research, and the impactful work we do.
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Emma Scales @emmascales.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Hbd to the legend, Barbara McClintock 🎂🎉 Working on the McClintock Letters initiative with @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social + others has been beyond inspiring. Thank you to all 580+ scientists who participated!!!
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How amazing are @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social in the Times?? Happy birthday to Barbara McClintock and what an honor to work on this project in her name! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...
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To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Sign on to the open letter by us over at @snapcoalition.bsky.social! An amazing collaboration of researchers pushing the fight for science with brave new ideas and impeccable communication skills!
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Check out our fungi-tastic special issue, full of marvels of mycology — and many articles accessible for free! 🍄🍄🍄 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Current issue: Current Biology
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Early career scientists, please sign our open letter to call for the preservation of the future of American Science. It only takes a moment to sign to #DefendResearch docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter: A Call to Preserve the Future of American Science
The Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) invites early-career scientists (e.g., student, post-bacc, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, early-career faculty) in the United States to join...
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The McClintock Letters made it to NBC News! Take a look at ours and the other initiatives we’ve been working with over at @cornellasap.bsky.social to humanize scientists and make our voices heard. Be a part of the movement! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Researchers have a radical plan to thwart Trump's war on science: Talking to people
Faced with federal funding cuts, scientists are learning to communicate about what they do — and why it matters.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/06/2025
If you missed the brave and articulate Jenna Norton - one of the hero researchers at #NIH who signed the Bethesda Declaration - on #NPR yesterday, check her extraordinary interview here. one.npr.org?sharedMediaI... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #SaveNIH #StopTrump #KillTheBill
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🔊 Listen Now: NIH scientists sign Bethesda Declaration to protect biomedical science through Trump administration
Here & Now from WBUR on NPR One | 6:30
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Now or never! If you’re writing a McClintock letter or even if you’re not, please consider signing this open letter!
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
You can really tell how animated I get when talking about #scicomm
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Look at how far this initiative is going! Join us in taking our science home to the people it impacts most! #McClintockLetters
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Attend our McClintock Letters Initiative science communication workshop, to get yourself started on writing your op-ed piece! Wednesday, May 21 @ 12:20p ET Sign up here for Zoom link: cglink.me/2ee/r2286347
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is what we fight for. How beautiful is a life as a scientist <3 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Six striking images showcase scientific fieldwork
The winners of Nature’s 2025 photo competition braved crashing waves and misty mountains to capture their science.
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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I’m happy that our commentary is out! (It would be wonderful if this made a difference!) In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
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In defense of funding foundational plant science
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I had the pleasure of knowing the first author on this paper, Dr. O’Connor, at the Field Museum a few years back, and she is the coolest science person to ever do scicomm. So glad to see this work finally coming out!
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Starting local is a fantastic idea! Thats why we’re focusing on the #McClintockLetters. The best way to share science to local communitites is to do it ourselves, so sign up to write one!!! tinyurl.com/McClintockLettersd
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McClintock Letter Sign-Up
Thank you for contributing a McClintock Letter to your hometown newspaper! Sign up now by answering the questions below, thus counting you as a participant. Please submit your letters for JUNE 16TH pu...
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Here’s a shocker: it’s not going well these days.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/05/2025
Researchers have found a new ally in the fight against a serious liver disease: a symbiotic gut-dwelling fungus that produces a molecule shown to be capable of reversing disease progression in mice. scim.ag/42ZzVrC
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A symbiotic filamentous gut fungus ameliorates MASH via a secondary metabolite–CerS6–ceramide axis
The gut microbiota is known to be associated with a variety of human metabolic diseases, including metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH). Fungi are increasingly recognized as importa...
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Interest is spreading! Sign up to write your letter!!
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
And the brilliant Dr. Lovett strikes again! A wonderfully written side effect of having some extra time on his hands these days.
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We have to move the needle on public perception of the value of science. Scientists, tell your story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“Science policy is not just about managing budgets - it is about shaping the future”. Never did I think a Forbes article would explain the dismantling of the NSF so clearly and expansively (beyond economics). The loss is profound, and for some of us, Earth-shattering. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy
The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/05/2025
NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped. This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity. www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
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NSF initiates more layoffs amid major agency shake-up
The agency will also reassign all remote employees to in-person work at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.
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