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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Big festival after the march in the small-ish town of Corvallis, Oregon! It ended with a dance party… many people are still on the streets with their signs- 3 hours later!

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

@radiolab.bsky.social I loved Soren’s reframing & it happens to provide clarity on something I’ve been trying to articulate: Jane Goodall: “I don’t like to talk about animal rights. I prefer to talk about human responsibilities.” Me: “what are OUR responsibilities to each other? To our community?”🥰

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Ready for today’s march for Democracy! (With a nod to my neighbors to the North in Portland! 🐸🥰)

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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

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An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

⏰ Don’t forget – applications for the JXB 2026 Editorial Internships closes next Tuesday (30 Sept)! 🌱✍️ ⚠️ Don’t leave it to last minute – the application takes some work: 📄 CV 📝 Cover letter 🔍 Commentary (Insight style, max 1500 words, based on a JXB paper ≥ July 2024) Apply now: bit.ly/jxbinterns

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I’m officially starting the call for this movie to play EVERYWHERE in 2026- in honor of the USA’s 250th anniversary (and the film’s 20th) It was amazingly prescient youtu.be/6lai9QhBibk?...

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Idiocracy (2006) Trailer | Luke Wilson | Dax Shepard

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

we should refer to him from here on out as Gavin “Big Balls” Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The GOP are the biggest cheaters. Fact check here: independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Ruby heard me discussing taking a walk before it hit 90° and wanted to register her interest in participating 🤣

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Lots of fun to make this and work with Catherine, Adrienne, and Arif!

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Registration is open for JXB's 75th Anniversary Symposium 🌱 We have plenty of speaker slots for ECRs & lots of opportunity to network 🌳 There's a conference dinner at The Caves & workshops for ECRs 🌾 Sign up now to join us in Edinburgh in September, places are limited: bit.ly/JXB75 #plantscience 🧪

Promotional postcard to advertise the JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium, to be held in Edinburgh fro 17-19th September 2025. The invited speakers are listed, as well as some highlights from the program. The images show an oak tree, leaf and acorn.

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Maybe why they’re dismantling US Universities ?

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This suppression of first amendment rights by the U.S. government is utterly shocking

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Reading an internal NIH guidance memo which basically says since we’re probably going to be shutting down labs with little or no notice just be sure to remember about the whole disposing of biohazard materials the right way thing. ☣️ 😬🤡

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing

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José Dinneny @josedinneny.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Finally some truth about what the impact of institutional silence is as DEI is mothballed. "I see the University for what it is: a place of incredible power and prestige more concerned with public image than the well-being of affected faculty, staff, postdocs and students..." disq.us/t/4tb43sv

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From the Community | I am more than a researcher, but Stanford doesn’t care

Assistant Professor Elliot White Jr. denounces the University's faint response to political threats against DEI, especially compared to the robust support its research initiatives in the wake of NIH f...

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Canadian Society of Plant Biologists @cspbscbv.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Registration is now open for the #CSPB #SCBV 2025 Annual Meeting CSPB2025.ca for all details and information. The meeting will be hosted in Halifax, NS this year from Aug 9 - 12. We can’t wait to see you there! #scienceconference #plantscience #conference

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I am hiring a lab technician! If you know anyone who has experience with field studies, enjoys working with plants, and is a good communicator and hard worker, pls pass this along! The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. Please re-skeet! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Research Lab Tech Lead - Baucom Lab | U-M Careers

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pfeilmeier.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

📌Vacancy at the University of Amsterdam! Join us at the Green Life Sciences with three open positions by my colleagues. 🌱🌻 1/3 PhD position on "Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience" in the group of Dr. Kathrin Wippel: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Vacancy — PhD Candidate Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience

Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for plant science? Would you like to apply your enthusiasm to a highly relevant project in the field of plant-microbiome interactions? Then we have th...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2025

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

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Cancellation megathread

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Great Resegregation

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/02/2025

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

One week from today. Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with us as we hear from three Black #PlantSci professionals. Online, free registration, everyone is welcome.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I got in our local paper (Corvallis, Oregon) at the “not my president’s day” protest yesterday. (It’s behind a paywall so not that accessible but I took screenshots.) gazettetimes.com/news/local/g...

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Being interviewed by a local newspaper reporter at the President’s Day pro-democracy protest (Oregon)

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Labfrog @youngfroglab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

HHMI just cancelled our grant. We were in the second year of developing programs to retain students from all backgrounds in STEM. All that work, all that energy…..I am profoundly disappointed. Well-funded HHMI labs, what do you think of dismantling funding for these training programs?

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

There are so many participating in this battle (and have been, for a long time!) Just a few: @drugmonkey.bsky.social @drstarbird.bsky.social @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social Follow them too!

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Check out the DiversifyPlantSci database and list started by NAASC in 2019. Helps to find people for collaborations, speaking slots, etc. info on how to add yourself is shown at the resource

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/02/2025

A private citizen shutting down a government agency is a coup. Do not normalize this.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Resources for scientists who are being threatened or targeted below from the @nationalacademies.org www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

There are a few more days to apply for a science comic collab! This semester’s cohort of students had a few special requests for scientific topics. 😎 If you or a colleague researches one of these, please consider applying! Form can be done in a few minutes. And please share widely.

Ad for scientist collaborators that includes special requests from students: Chinook salmon, nutrition, sedimentary rock, food biochemistry, black holes, scavenger biology (especially vultures), sexual systems, whiskers, and non-visual photoreception.

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Arabidopsis Community easy (200-500 words) nominations for (1) Lifetime Achievement in Arabidopsis (2) Excellence in DEIB for the Arabidopsis community (3) Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge 🔥Deadline extended to the end of Monday February 3!🔥 www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/community-awards

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Don’t forget to nominate Arabidopsis community people for these awards by the end of January 2025!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/01/2025

🚨 The Senate is expected to vote tomorrow morning on one of the most dangerous immigration bills in recent history. The Laken Riley Act wouldn’t protect anyone. What it would do is create chaos that could impact millions.

The Laken Riley Act would imprison immigrants indefinitely without due process

Accused of a minor offense, like shoplifting? Not convicted -- just accused? You're detained indefinitely. No bail. No trial. No justice. Even if charges are dropped, or you're proven innocent, you stay locked up. That's not safety. That's state-sanctioned cruelty.

The Laken Riley Act would target Dreamers and legal immigrants

Dreamers who grew up here, went to school here, and are part of our communities? Detained. Refugees fleeing violence? Detained. Even legal immigrants caught in bureaucratic limbo are swept up in this nightmare. This bill punishes everyone.

The Laken Riley Act would hand MAGA extremists federal power

This bill gives people like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton the ability to hijack federal immigration policy. He could demand federal judges lock up asylum seekers en masse or block visas for doctors, engineers, or students from entire countries. Imagine one MAGA state deciding who can live and work in the United States. That's what this bill allows.

The Laken Riley Act would gut legal Immigration

By letting courts impose blanket visa bans on entire countries, this bill risks shutting down legal immigration altogether. Skilled workers, students, and even families trying to reunite would be turned away -- not because of anything they've done, but because MAGA needs a scapegoat.

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