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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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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Kingdom animalia.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Speaking on behalf of science, we’re okay with this outcome.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
But you can do that right now, though, right? As far as I’m aware, neither arXiv nor bioRxiv have format or length requirements. If you’re going to blow up article formatting, why not blow up commercial publishing at the same time?
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Don’t worry, you can just feed the plots and bullet points into an LLM and ask it to create a paper for your to read. /s
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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 · 10/05/2025
Nice. Fwiw, I can translate science into gibberish *or* gibberish into science. That’s my super power.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Okay, found them. Artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science. None of which I can eat.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Wait. What are the President’s five priority areas?
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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 · 14/02/2025
Same old same old. Unfortunately.
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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 · 18/01/2025
How many bikes can one man ride?
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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 · 14/12/2024
Also, funny thing… If your child is under 18, you don’t have to certify then as a tobacco non-user… So yeah, they can smoke all they want with no impact on your insurance. 🤷‍♂️
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Dude, your insurance doesn’t carry on, same as it ever was, if you don’t re-opt-in for your dependents? That’s criminal. The only thing we *have to* do every fall is re-confirm that we’re not tobacco users to avoid an upcharge. The price of coverage increases (of course!) but it stays in place.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Then again, maybe you’re a sleeper agent for Big Corn™️…
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I think the word you’re looking for is “cornologist.” Side note: that auto-corrected to corporatist, which I’m pretty sure you are not.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I see five. Corn, corn oil, corn maltodextrin, corn protein, and corn syrup. I wonder what percentage of corn that is by mass?
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
That’s really cool, small world!
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The corner of Pine Lane and what? My wife grew up on Colby Drive. P.S. Beautiful tree! I hope it’s a male gingko… Otherwise, RIP your nasal passages. 😂
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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 · 05/12/2024
Fyi, I told a bunch of people and nobody cared. 🤷‍♂️
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Twinkies arranged to spell “NOPE!”
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Any organism with a genome > 25Gbp is clearly compensating for something.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
And then take a nap.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
That’s wild! It looks like it snowed, but only on one small part of the tree.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Let me guess… Maize wasn’t domesticated, it’s always existed in its most perfect form… Altough breeders are continuing to make it *more* perfect with each passing day. Yes?
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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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Our Christmas Classics
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hah. It did not.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
If by “it,” you mean the sunflowers, then I agree. 🌻😂
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hey, I recognize those plants!
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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 · 25/11/2024
On the bright side, you just got confirmation of your status as a well known weed scientist!
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Looks like it’s screaming “do you own research!” into the camera.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Very cool. Plus, you can download it in .svg format. Good find.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Quick, invite them again! As the saying goes, if you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
media.tenor.com
old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper
Alt: old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
And no change to my (friend’s) pending reports… 🫠
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Btw, it ultimately worked. PLUS… I got to enjoy a slow trickle of expired verification codes throughout the day. :-)
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Also a good excuse to not work on annual reports…
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
I’m still waiting. Just tried again. Nothing.
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Yup, the email never arrives… Of course, I’ll get like a dozen at once when they fix the glitch and catch up on my requests. Fwiw, I’ve seen others complaining about the same issue.
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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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