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Jenna Ekwealor

@bryophyter.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University www.meep-lab.com

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Nick Silva @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our @sfstatebio.bsky.social is offering an exciting opportunity for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Physiology beginning August 2027. We have a great community of colleagues and trainees from a variety of backgrounds. Link: careers.pageuppeople.com/873/sf/en-us... #STEMJobs
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San Francisco State University - Details - Assistant Professor - Physiology - Department of Biology
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Rose Marks @roseamarks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... new paper on the evolution of desiccation tolerance in land plants. it was a fun project with two of my fav young scientists @bryophyter.bsky.social @youngeukaryote.bsky.social
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Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of desiccation tolerance in land plants
Desiccation tolerance (DT), the ability to survive near-complete cellular dehydration, is widespread in diaspores but rare in the vegetative tissues of land plants. The patchy and punctuated phylogen...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
So: In 2017, Congress made this happen: NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still: 💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets. 📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
And the hits keep coming. NSF just cancelled the Louise Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation grant at the CSU. Since its inception in 1993, CSU-LSAMP has served ~30,000 @calstate.bsky.social students (2000/yr), working to increase graduation rates & broaden participation in STEM careers. 🧪
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Jenna Ekwealor @bryophyter.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This was an incredible, international, tree-of-life spanning collaborative effort led by @roseamarks.bsky.social. I had fun and it was great model for how we can start to reach across disciplinary barriers and silos. @naturecomms.bsky.social #interdisciplinary
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Rose Marks @roseamarks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
our perspective on desiccation tolerance research is out in @naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications - Nature Communications
Desiccation tolerance is an extreme adaptation to water limitation. Here the authors envisage a roadmap to advance desiccation tolerance research, highlight key knowledge gaps, call for standardizatio...
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Sally G Pasion @sgpombe.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Congratulations to future @sfstatebio.bsky.social students attending #ExploreSFState today! Welcome to #SFSU!! Happy to highlight our microbiology labs, organismal bio labs, neuroscience labs, seawater core facility, human anatomy lab, and greenhouse!!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Here is a short video about the work that is still being done at SFSU but that will soon grind to a halt. In this video are my amazing colleagues in the chem and bio departments and two impressive students (one of them was in my lab). @sfsu.bsky.social @sfstatebio.bsky.social vimeo.com/996323996
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Student Enrichment Opportunities Office
This is "Student Enrichment Opportunities Office" by SEO Office - SFSU on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The latest NIH grant chaos: NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country. These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers. MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.
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Department of Biology | San Francisco State University @sfstatebio.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thanks to the amazing generosity of our donors, we’ve surpassed our initial goal! We’d love to keep the momentum going, and every extra dollar we can raise goes directly to support more students, more research and more ways to transform lives. Please consider a gift to reach our next goal of $4000!
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Jenna Ekwealor @bryophyter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
There’s still time to donate to #GatorsGiveDay! www.givecampus.com/0ng63u Your support will allow students to do class experiments like this one we did in the greenhouse with the Three Sisters (corn 🌽, beans 🫛, and squash 🎃). @sfstatebio.bsky.social
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@lizneeley.bsky.social is publishing a weekly newsletter to track the ongoing attacks in science and higher ed. If you want to keep abreast without drowning in the news, I recommend it: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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Making Sense of It All
Hi! I’m Liz Neeley and I’m glad you’re here. Making Sense of It All is an outlet for my work at Liminal, which focuses on sensemaking in a noisy and complicated world. I built Liminal as an antidote t...
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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD @tribblelab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Against Anticipatory Obedience: www.aaup.org/report/again...
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Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
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