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Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Clemson University Arthropod Collection is 100 years old and still going strong! Grateful to the university for helping us celebrate this milestone. news.clemson.edu/a-century-of...
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A century of insects
The Clemson University Arthropod Collection turns 100 this year, and the data it contains is more valuable to the University's land-grant mission than ever. The Clemson University Arthropod Collection...
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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two positions in my department at Virginia Tech in Molecular Microbiology. Come be my colleague! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A little annual Phacelia recently expanded from granite outcrops to roadsides in the SE US. We explored how flower color evolved following the habitat expansion and if shifts in the generalist pollinator assemblage might shape color variation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The Most Effective Pollinators Predict Intraspecific Floral Color Diversity Across an Edaphic Matrix
A generalist-pollinated plant endemic to rock outcrops recently expanded to weedy roadside meadow populations where it exhibited reduced flower color variation and less pigmented flowers. A relations...
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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📣 post-doc opportunity w/ Georgia Native Seed Network @ State Botanical Garden (Athens, GA) 🫘 lead conservation genetics research supporting restoration across the southeastern U.S. 🧬 50% molecular lab work, 30% research, 10% field, 10% training & development www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/503...
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GNSN Postdoctoral Research Assistant
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to lead conservation genetics research supporting native plant restoration across the so...
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am currently searching for a postdoc to work on the evolution of adaptations, cold acclimation, and freezing tolerance in switchgrass. The position entails lab, growth facility, bioinformatics, and fieldwork. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct field and laboratory experiments to understand the causes of genetic variation...
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
fall ‘26 lab photo 😎
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
webhome.auburn.edu/~lss0021/sep... Just registered for SEPEEG '26 (southeastern population ecology & evolutionary genetics) hosted by Auburn this year and pronounced 'seepage' /ˈsēpij/. Check it out!
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SEPEEG 2026 | Auburn University
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026 Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS! Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us
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M O I L A B - Join us!
Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!
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Jesús Martínez-Gómez @jesusgm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025 Reach out! www.martinezgomezlab.com
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Martinez-Gomez Lab
Plant Evo-Devo
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Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973
a matrix of 6 different Solanum (wild tomato) species with six different fruit colors, ranging from white to bright red.
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
rdcu.be/fxlEv New paper! Invasive Callery pear advanced flowering faster than native/naturalized confamilials due to stronger temperature sensitivity. Shifts co-blooming pairs.
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Phenological advance of an aggressive invasive outpaces co-flowering native and naturalized confamilials
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Check out some exciting new projects from grad students at #Botany2026 ! 🌸🌼🌱
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Aaditya Narasimhan @aaditya320.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So happy to see the 2nd chapter of my PhD out! doi.org/10.1093/evol... Here, we studied populations sampled from their local elevational edges and centers on mountain slopes, and characterised the variation in G-matrices (comprised of growth and leaf investment traits) among these populations. 1/5
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Variation in the genetic architecture of ecologically relevant traits along elevational gradients
Abstract. Species are confined within spatial boundaries, which may be determined by various factors. An understudied one is the genetic non-independence o
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Spring in the understory
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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Why are we still spending tens of thousands of $$$ on APC for non-society journals like Nature? Wouldn’t that money be better spent at society journals at least? We are doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to participate in this madness. You don’t need a paper in these journals to succeed.
2 - Gold Open Access - same publishing process as above. The difference is that when an article is accepted for publication, the author/s or funder/s pay an Article Processing Charge (APC). The final version of the published article is then free to read for everyone. The APC to publish Gold Open Access in Nature is
£9390.00/$12850.00/€10850.00.
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
💬 In the second installment of The Evolution Exchange, retired NSF Program Officer Dr. Sam Scheiner returns to discuss how to craft a successful research proposal. Watch or read the transcript here: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...
Text: The Evolution Exchange, a monthly conversation series from the Society for the Study of Evolution. Outlines of cartoon heads with speech bubbles.
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
successful start to fields season! scored phenology for 5885 phacelia individuals and met some nice cats.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
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ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution! friedmanlab.ca
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Friedman Lab
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Check out AJB's special issue "Paradigm shifts in flower color" a bunch of cool papers on flower coloration with a focus on non-pollinator drivers of color variation 🌸🌼🌺https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/2026/113/1
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Special Issue: Paradigm Shifts in Flower Color: American Journal of Botany: Vol 113, No 1
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New preprint is up! Not going spoil the results for you 🤓 but we looked at some “bird” vs “bee”-pollinated Penstemon hybrid zones and came away with some pretty unexpected results!
Foreground: Penstemon davidsonii, a small mat-forming sub shrub with purple flowers growing on top of a stone. Background: Penstemon newberryi, a slightly larger subshrub with pink flowers growing out of stones. All amidst a mountainous landscape.
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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Faster boundary shifts near the cold limit of species' niche Zheng et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Treeline shifts were better explained by the cold tolerance index based on the species' thermal niche.
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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...
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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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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Why do so many ecologists share common feelings of disconnection between their research goals and real-world impact? 🌍 Our new article in #FE&E explores the constraints that limit ecological research and how we can mitigate them. 👇 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Overcoming barriers that limit the impact of ecological research
Ecology and conservation researchers have diverse goals that often include both personal career aspirations and desires to enhance the well-being of the natural world and its inhabitants. Perception ....
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
phenotypic selection on flower thermoregulation depends on air temperature. huuuuge effort by many lab members past and present. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Temperature‐dependent pollinator‐mediated selection on floral thermoregulation
The thermal environment is one of the most pervasive agents of selection. Most plants cannot choose their microclimate, so understanding how they cope with thermal variability is of critical concern...
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Lake Agnes in State Forest State Park
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Have a colleague, postdoc, or student that published an outstanding paper in the field of plant ecology in the last 5 years? Nominate them for the ESA Cooper award. Self-noms welcome! NOV 16 deadline. please retweet or whatever its called now esa-awards.secure-platform.com/a/page/esa-a...
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Ecological Society of America -
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
@omgitsmejenny.bsky.social talks about her masters thesis on the effects of flower temperature on pollinator visitation and behavior
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
new paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social in @natclimate.nature.com, led by @sarahnalley.bsky.social! Dragonflies with dark mating ornaments on their wings are disappearing from parts of the United States that have had more warming and wildfire over the last 40 years 🧪🌍🐙 rdcu.be/eFm7e
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Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire
Nature Climate Change - The authors use 1,603 estimates of local extinctions from 1980 to 2021 to show that dragonfly species with wing ornamentation have disproportionately gone extinct and lost...
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025
Marcial Escudero’s lab has a nice logo 😁 marcialescuderolab.weebly.com #ESEB2025
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza next to a windmill whose sails are a large phylogeny, subtitled Escudero Lab
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Amanda Bretman @amandabretman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Now our first invited speaker @mattkoski.bsky.social tells us about flower thermal performance local adaptation for gametogenesis (complete with cheerleader moves to show us thermoregulating petals)
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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Hiking in the Pyrenees for a few days before #eseb2025 to commemorate my first official day as associate Professor
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Jen’s awesome thesis work on flower temperature and pollination out in @funecology.bsky.social !! @omgitsmejenny.bsky.social
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fig.3 Micropatterns on the petal surface are created by variation in epidermal cell pigment, shape and cuticle textures.
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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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Floral shape and color impact heat accumulation and thermal stability of the floral microenvironment in a subalpine meadow
Premise The floral thermal microenvironment impacts plant reproduction through its effects on gametophyte performance and plant–pollinator interactions. Color and shape are axes of floral variation ...
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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New preprint out today! A really fun collaboration with @shchurch.bsky.social and Robin Hopkins in which we study flower color variation in Monarda fistulosa using iNaturalist data. We process >40,000 images and use them to phenotype flower color in >16,000 observations: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Figure 1: Steps with representative photographs of the flower color phenotyping pipeline. A) We exported all research-grade iNaturalist observations of Monarda fistulosa from GBIF. B) We used GPT-4o to classify each image as to whether it contained a flower. C) We trained a Roboflow semantic segmentation model on a subset of images and applied the trained model to extract “flower” pixels from each image in the dataset. D) We calculated the geometric median of each set of extracted pixels to represent the flower color phenotype from each image, and we paired this phenotype with the observation’s iNaturalist metadata for spatial analysis.Figure 2: Spatial summary of Monarda fistulosa flower colors across North America. A) Map of the color of M. fistulosa flowers. Each square is a 200km x 200km cell with the color corresponding to the average median CIELAB color value of each observation in the cell. The dotted line denotes -100° longitude, separating eastern and western regions of the range. B) Boxplots summarizing LCh color components west and east of -100° longitude, with each box showing the median and interquartile range, and with the color of each box reflecting the geometric median CIELAB value from west and east, respectively.
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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Super excited to share our new paper investigating convergence across planktivorous fishes and assessing the impact of ancestry and light environment led by Dr Jen Hodge @fishncurious.bsky.social and including most members of the lab past and present academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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Unravelling the Effects of Ecology and Evolutionary History in the Phenotypic Convergence of Fishes
Abstract. Understanding the ecological drivers and limitations of adaptive convergence is a fundamental challenge. Here, we explore how adaptive convergenc
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The CapituLab @thecapitulab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The news is out! The CapituLab is moving to Clemson University this fall 🌻 We are excited to get there and get started!
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Margarita Lopez-Uribe @mmlopezu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I am so excited about this upcoming publication about the Bees of Pennsylvania! 🐝 Stay tuned; we will have a page online where you can purchase this book in July! @nashturley.bsky.social @napoleonicento.bsky.social @stephanidae.bsky.social
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.


We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks. 


We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA


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Andrea Berardi @aeberardi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Check this out! Latest pub from the Hopkins lab, and the brainchild of @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social !
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Here's a super helpful site called Signal in the Storm that is automated to keep track of federal policy changes (EO's and Ed dept) and news re: academia. Also includes suggestions on what to do, and a faq's page about indirects, etc. Pls RT! signalinthestorm.org/index.html
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Signal in the Storm
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Plant evolutionary ecology has lost a very rare talent. Shu-Mei was a genuinely kind, whip-smart, reasonable, creative, bright light of a person. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/a...
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Shu-Mei Chang Obituary - Athens, GA
Celebrate the life of Shu-Mei Chang, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Bernstein Funeral Home.
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