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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That you even *have* an upper level general plant biology course… 🫠

Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We just got back from our 14th year’s field trip partnering with Virginia’s DCR, sampling Phragmites at their natural area preserves! Love the opportunity to continue this CURE. 💪🏼#PUI #plantpeopleFTW

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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bad taxonomy kills

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Awesome! I’ll email. And congrats again on the position!!

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve wanted to teach a class on this (Plant Responses to Climate Change) for a while here…🤔

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wooo congrats!! Would love to compare ideas!

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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm excited to release the newest version of my free applied biostats textbook. It's tidyverse style, clarkia inspired and loads of fun Im putting this down until the end of the semester, when I'll add and polish additional chapters, but the 1st 21 are pretty solid yanivjb.github.io/biostats-book

yanivjb.github.io

Applied Biostatistics

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a "least bad" outcome of a self-inflicted problem from Duke University. Is it better than the collection being atomized and shipped all over the place? Yes. Is it a travesty that one of the world's wealthiest private Universities divested from their herbarium? Definitely yes.

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And our university decided that we’d switch to Canvas as of this summer. Oh yay.

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I wish they weren’t so close in timing, too

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Next year, both of you make cameos!

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Are you going to be there too?

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Joanna Thompson @jojofoshosho.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Trump administration has decided to move forward with closing USDA’s flagship campus, even after enormous public pushback. They just gave researchers until Sept 30 to clear out their labs. New by my for @science.org 🧪🪲🌎

science.org

USDA accelerates plan to close its flagship scientific campus

Agency says closing the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center will improve efficiency, but skeptics argue it will undercut research critical to farmers

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Our students LOVE stickers! And you can order in larger amounts if you don’t include a date.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The Harvard “grade cap” issue is about how institutions try to solve a problem without solving the problem. Problem: a lot of professors don’t know how to teach, nor do they have time to teach well. (This last part is very important and, importantly, insoluble in the current system.)

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thanks, David! That would be amazing.

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🌱🪴🏫 Has your college / university built a greenhouse recently? We're at the early stages of a major renovation to our science building, including the greenhouse. I'd LOVE to get a functioning head house with dedicated rooms for teaching, research, and collections. All advice/guidance & help welcome!

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Seeds of annual & perennial populations of #Mimulus guttatus exhibit differential responses to cold stratification New #AJB research by Alec Chiono, Elisabeth Sellinger & @ncemery.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower

A figure showing the proportion of viable seeds that germinated after two cold stratification treatments (not stratified or stratified) for annual and perennial populations of Mimulus guttatus. Raw data are shown as points; dashed lines connect maternal-family-level raw estimates, while solid lines show estimates from 200 random posterior draws. Seeds from annual populations were more likely to germinate after cold stratification while seeds from perennial populations were less likely to germinate.

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I remember pollen from invasive scotch broom being the bane of my spring growing up in the Pacific Northwest! 🙂

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

1000000% agree. Meeting up with those students years after they graduate confirms that. Sadly, not many of our (non field biology) colleagues and administrators fully understand that

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

So awesome!! Gonna be a couple of years until I get to teach my class again, sadly

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Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿 @kristennolting.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢

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three peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' .

Alt: three smiling peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' .

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

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.

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I mean, it’s not the day before your first class…🤔

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Umm whaaa this is crazy cool

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Yaaas for us vertically challenged folk. And updates on the barrel legged jeans?

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I hate high rise that go way above my ribcage

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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Make a Bond movie academic: From Russia With Love: Invasive properties of Russian Olive in North America

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Aah! I know exactly where…btw Olin and Sprague, right??

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Trying to figure out where on HMC that plot is located…. 🤔☺️

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/12/2025

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"Her wit was as sharp as her convictions, and her honesty was refreshing and rare." A wonderfully written (by @gbaucom.bsky.social) obituary for my grad school friend and Auburn University Prof. Vanessa Koelling, who passed away last week. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/m...

dignitymemorial.com

Vanessa Koelling Obituary - Montgomery, AL

Celebrate the life of Vanessa Koelling, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Leak Memory Chapel.

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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I'm hiring a full time fixed-term 1yr lab tech to assist with field and greenhouse projects related to floral evolution and plant reproductive ecology. Please share! Ideal start date early 2026. jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Yeah, no. Definitely not that long ago

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I often say something similar - we’re one plant disease away from mass starvation, and protected by a ‘thin nerd line’ of plant pathologists

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

That’d be fantastic!! Thank you

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This is fantastic! Do you have a syllabus or course description to share, that we might use as a model?

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Does anyone have good "plant herbivory" or "inducible defenses" lab for an introductory-ish level biology class that doesn't involve invasive herbivores? 🌱🐛

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Some lovely Lobelia cardinals in Maryland, spotted while searching for far less photogenic invasive species in the forest understory last week

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I’d love to learn more about your intro grad stats class! I’m the only person teaching it in our (undergrad only)department, and am interested in how the courses compare ( and what I can do to set up my students to succeed at the next stage)

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Inspired by this, here’s Tetraneuris grandiflora in Colorado

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Carrie Wu @carriewu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Aargh!! But you've got this!

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