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J Friesner

@jfriesner.bsky.social
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Plant science supporting, Arabidopsis, community, manatees, vegetarian, trying to be kind to others

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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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
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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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
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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a group of men are sitting in a car and laughing .
ALT: a group of men are sitting in a car and laughing .
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Ribbit! Resist! Repeat!
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Ready!
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I’m ready!
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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
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
YouTube video by Film Trailer Channel
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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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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
📜 In defense of funding foundational plant science 🧑‍🔬 @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience
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In defense of funding foundational plant science
Abstract. Plants are essential for life as we know it on Earth. They oxygenate the atmosphere, regulate the climate, and comprise much of the primary produ
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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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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This was fun to make!
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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 · 21/03/2025
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Mercenary Apothecary @mercapothecary.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#WI #highered #academicsky
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Protest- international women’s day- Oregon 🇺🇸
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meter @meter76.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...
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Bringing expansion microscopy to plants
Biologist Kevin Cox, in Arts & Sciences, has discovered a low-cost way to more easily study the detailed makeup of plant cells. The ultimate goal is to help grow better crops, improving food security.
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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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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Please sign chng.it/2M6xYQYWJj
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This campaign needs you now
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
What I’m told by many faculty now is that they can’t stand up because ______ will suffer (not them, but their trainees, or staff, or colleagues. This may well be true AND it’s still a cop- out. Status quo works for them. They hide behind that privilege
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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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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Watch the whole video & violent suppression of free speech, let by the local Idaho sheriff. 👉🏼 THIS is what “free speech” looks like under Republicans in the U.S. 👉🏼 This is the party of JD Vance who told our long time allies that the true enemy is Europe suppressing free speech x.com/youranoncent...
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Anonymous on X: "MAGA Nazis in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho dragged out people at a town hall when they opposed cuts to Medicaid, the citizens were attacked and detained by unknown assailants while a MAGA speaker mocked the victims and thanked the rest of the crowd for being docile subservient cowards. https://t.co/SzA6ndtAIq" / X
MAGA Nazis in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho dragged out people at a town hall when they opposed cuts to Medicaid, the citizens were attacked and detained by unknown assailants while a MAGA speaker mocked the victims and thanked the rest of the crowd for being docile subservient cowards. https://t.co/SzA6ndtAIq
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Bye bye 1st amendment… it was good while you were here
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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My teen is reading this book in High school and is shocked at How much it sounds like NOW 😵
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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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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
After an extensive search, the Danforth Center has named Giles Oldroyd, PhD, its next President. @gilesoldroyd.bsky.social is a renowned plant geneticist & one of only a few hundred scientists elected to both the UK @royalsociety.org & the US @nasonline.org. www.danforthcenter.org/news/interna...
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Internationally recognized plant scientist named next President of the Danforth Plant Science Center - Danforth Plant Science Center
After an extensive international search, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has named Giles Oldroyd, PhD, as its next President.
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