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@jmbrkphd.bsky.social
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msp -> ahn // umn -> uga scientist // citizen // liker of plants 🌻 vita est processus 🌻

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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Recent weather events across the South have offered a reminder, from a Minnesotan’s perspective: nobody deals with ice like those from the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...
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Jennifer Mandel @jennifermandel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🌻 Sharing this preprint where we assembled 3 new chromosome-level genomes, including the first for Asteraceae's South American sister Calyceraceae! Asteraceae uses all the tricks when it comes to being the most ecologically successful family of flowering plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴 #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #AcademicJobs #UGA
Faculty job ad for a position in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Just spent waaay too long canceling Spectrum internet by phone. Big thanks to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals (1 Bush, 2 Trump appointees) that blocked the Biden-era “click‑to‑cancel” rule before it took effect this month. Truly working for the people – clicking a button is *so* hard. /s
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Paula Elomaa @paulaelomaa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Happy to see this out and for the opportunity to contribute!! The puzzle of Asteraceae inflorescence development jumps one step forward (a big step 😅) 🌻
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Have you ever wondered how sunflowers got their head? The answer lies in stem cells, a modified signal peptide, and a whole lotta evolutionary history. Happy to have played a role in this work. 🌻
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Knock out science, observe the phenotype. It’s like reverse genetics, but with civilization.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
So. I’m sitting here watching The Terminator and realizing that we’re just four years from SkyNet sending a killer robot back in time to ensure an apocalyptic future. I hope we make it that long.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Academics, do you need a simple way to explain IDC (F&A) rates? Imagine dining at a restaurant. You enjoy your meal but decide to pay only for the chef & ingredients, ignoring the waitstaff, rent, and utilities. Clearly, these “extras” make the experience possible. But imagine if everyone did this.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
True or false… When a major international conference gives you an actual paper notebook as part of the swag, they should also give you a writing utensil. You can get those with sponsor logos, too, right? Or is a $1k-ish registration fee for academics and non-profits too low for such luxuries?
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
TFW you go old school and bust out a bunch of PCR primers that you published 18 years ago to validate some crosses… and you discover that the parents differ for a big ole indel in one of the genes. Few things are as satisfying as seeing genetics in action on an agarose gel. 🌻 🧬
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Hey, if you have Spotify and like Christmas music, feel free to subscribe to this playlist of Christmas classics that I put together for our family… Complete w/custom cover art from ChatGPT. Enjoy. open.spotify.com/playlist/5TM...
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
For those who are fleeing that other place… I’d like to catch you up on things. Since I’ve been here, the only post of mine that’s worth amplifying is below… Sadly, so few people were here back then that it never got the attention it deserved… Or, at least, that’s what I keep telling myself… 😂
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Has anyone sequenced @jrossibarra.bsky.social? I’m curious about what the human pun-genome looks like.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
In theory, one could just post pdfs of their papers online so other can download. In theory, of course...
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
This afternoon, I caught a stinkbug in my office and fed it to my Venus flytrap. I later asked ChatGPT o1-preview about the wisdom of this. Turns out that it may or may not have been smart… At the same time, grabbing a stinkbug w/my bare hand *definitely* wasn’t smart, and I didn’t need AI for that.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Our Computational Biology Core at UConn is hiring a bioinformatics analyst as a facility scientist! Mix of research support and providing training. jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job... 🧪
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
We just had a new paper go up on the AoB Plants website in advance of publication. "Our results demonstrate the importance of leaf anatomical traits in mediating drought responses in sunflower..." 🌻 @kristennolting.bsky.social @aobp.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aobpla/advan...
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Trait variation and performance across varying levels of drought stress in cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)
AbstractBackground and Aims. Drought is a major agricultural challenge that is expected to worsen with climate change. A better understanding of drought re
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
Check it out. Our latest paper on the genomic basis of nutrient stress tolerance in sunflower is available for early access via @jxbotany.bsky.social. 🌱🌻🧬
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The genomic basis of nitrogen utilization efficiency and trait plasticity to improve nutrient stress...
Abstract. Maintaining crop productivity is challenging as population growth, climate change, and increasing fertilizer costs necessitate expanding crop producti
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Back in the day, I defended my PhD on April Fool’s Day. Seems fitting. And now, a student whose committee I’m on has scheduled her own defense for what turns out to be the 25th anniversary of mine. April 1, 1999 🤝 April 1, 2024. Current status: Feeling old…
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
So… I decided to go through my contacts and clean them up, and guess what? I found the numbers of four now-defunct airlines dating back 15+ years. And yes, I deleted them as I doubt I’ll need to call USAir, Northwest, Continental, or America West anytime soon.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Reppin’ the Dawgs w/the family at lunch today in Boise, ID. 🐶
Photo of an astonishingly handsome family that’s bedecked in “Georgia” and “Dawgs” sweatshirts of vaying colors, including red, grey, and black.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Got an early xmas gift w/J. Exp. Bot. accepting one of our papers for publication... Wrapping up 2023 and getting an early start on 2024. It’s a revised version of the linked preprint. 🎄🎁🌻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
TFW when you logon to that other platform and you see UNLV and #VegasStrong trending and you know exactly why without even clicking…
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
I’m starting to think that I might have a problem with it comes to browser tabs… I had two windows open with a total of 456 tabs.
Screenshot of browser notification windows warning about large numbers of tabs to be closed.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Those cats, though… 😼
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
What does this tell you about class attendance? Context: By allowing hourly (pay) parking in our deck, students who didn’t get a permit were filling the deck and freezing out faculty/staff/students who had permits. By restricting things 4 days/week, they solved the problem 5 days/week.
Photo of a sign that reads “PERMIT ONLY NO PAY PARKING Monday-Thursday 8am-1pm.”
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Super random thing… I’m in France for a meeting. Did a tour of the Eiffel Tour. Turns out that a member of our tour group was in my high school graduating class – same school, same year. And yet… We have no recollection of each other. What are the odds?
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
They're still trying to figure out how to profit from it.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
If you're reading this, you should go ahead and follow @kristennolting.bsky.social. She's good people, and an excellent scientist. Even if she's a cat person. 🐶
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Welcome to Bluesky. We have rules here: 1. You have one shot. 2. One opportunity. 3. Don't miss your chance to blow. 4. This opportunity only comes once in a lifetime, yo. 5. You better lose yourself in the music.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
Twelve years ago today. At the Dawgs game with our (now) 18 yr old who is currently in his first year at UGA.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
Go Dawgs!
UGA vs. South Carolina, 2023.
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Derek Denney @derekdenney.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
I just joined Blue Sky and am excited to join the plant sciences conversation! #HelloWorld #IAmaBotanist
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
True or false: The person sitting in the aisle seat gets to decide if/when the passengers in the middle and window seats get to de-plane.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Agree 💯, transformation is a huge bottleneck for non-model folks. Sure, Arabidopsis might be easier, but sunflower is *way* cooler. 🌻
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
I asked ChatGPT to write me an R script to calculate the terminal velocity of an unladen sparrow, and it did. The future is now. Yes, it actually wrote a (Monty) Python script in R. Okay, I’ll see myself out now…
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Went to the Grand Tetons. Took a photo. It’s now my desktop wallpaper. AMA. 😂
Photo looking across Jenny Lake in the Grand Tetons.
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