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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD

@rishimasalia.bsky.social
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Program Dir. @39northstl.bsky.social | Builder | #StartUp | #SciComm | #Innovation | #ClimateTech | #AgTech | #PlantScience | #Phenotyping | #Drought #Genetics | #UofA & #UGA Alum

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Derek Denney @derekdenney.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Great talk on industry careers by Rishi today! Thanks for demystifying the process and hyping start-ups and St. Louis businesses @rishimasalia.bsky.social @39northstl.bsky.social
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Made it to San Diego!!! Started at 5 am in St Louis… see all you beautiful #PAG32 folks soon at the Monkey Bar!
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39 North STL @39northstl.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Hello #PAG32!! We’re St Louis’ AgTech Innovation District attending the conf to amplify the cool 🌱🧬 work happening in #STL! Follow us to keep up to date & network w/ entrepreneurs, researchers, & industry leaders! #PlantScience #Genomics #Industry
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
What a day of travel! So many delays and honestly crazy circumstances. Fingers crossed I make it to San Diego for #PAG32
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I hate everything. 2025 is a wash. Already miss the dawgs. 😭😭😭😭😭
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Sophie Gilbert @sophielgilbert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
For any PhDs thinking of transitioning out of traditional academia where the beans that get counted are high-impact, numerous pubs... just know that you have so many other skills that are highly valuable in other spaces! 🧪
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
TFW rain ruins your plans to spend the weekend moving boxes into the new house
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a man in a suit and tie is looking at something
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking at something
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Noooooooooooo
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New preprint from Ashley Barstow and the Hulke lab at NDSU 🌻🌻🌻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Variant filters using segregation information improve mapping of nectar-production genes in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)
Accurate variant calling is critical for identifying the genetic basis of complex traits, yet filters used in variant detection and validation may inadvertently exclude valuable genetic information. I...
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Dario Cantù @cantulab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Happy to share the final program for the Grape Genomics Workshop #PAG32 (aka Grape Genome Initiative) 🍇 An exceptional lineup of international speakers covering genome editing, genomic selection, epigenomics, and gene regulatory networks. plan.core-apps.com/pag32/event/...
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
@noahfahlgren.bsky.social welcome to blue sky! 😄
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Bills game in the snow is getting out of hand- it’s an avalanche! Let’s go Bills!! #BillsMafia
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
😈😈😈😈
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Well played. And frighteningly accurate.
Time magazine cover overlaying the towers of the Kremlin rising over the White House.
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Chicago! What. Was. That?!?!?
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Toys R us has a float? They still exist?! The more ya know, I guess. #MacysDayParade
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Monkey D Luffy balloon!!! #MacysDayParade
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Bollywood made it to the Macys Thanksgiving Parade?! Hell yeah
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
HELLO Y'ALL READY FOR #PLANTSGIVING?! Count up those plant families (and species if you're feeling extra) in your family meal tomorrow! 🦃🌱
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hello DC!
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Airports already got that holiday traffic…
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Probably a…popular… opinion, but Wicked is an amazing adaptation. 10/10. Need to see this again, immediately.
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Lololol
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/11/2024
Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory
Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky
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drug doc @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Quick reminder! If you’re posting a STEM job listing, include a tag like #ScienceJobs, so your post ends up on a feed (like the one linked below) or is more easily searchable 🧪 #AcademicSky bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/11/2024
D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Welcoming @jphiliptaylor.bsky.social to Blue Sky! Give him a follow for agtech industry updates and thought leadership. Also follow him for interesting info on airports and planes.
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Amazing time at the Arch Grants Nexus Gala tonight to support the org and new cohort of #STL #entrepreneurs!
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
⁦‪@NASA‬⁩ says that Earth’s freshwater levels dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since. Earth's continents have entered a persistently drier phase. science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-s...
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NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels - NASA Science
Earth’s total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since.
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Fun night at the Blues game with the Arch Grants crew to welcome the new batch of founders. Plus, I gotta live that sweet box suite life.
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Let’s gooooooooooo!! Bills win Bills win Bills win
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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
one of my labmates is a genius, behold her tiny arabidopsis farm made from a 96-well plate and pcr strip lids 🤩😆
rows of tiny seedlings only millimeters tall
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Buffalo airport - the actual public airport - is playing Shout (Buffalo Bills theme song) as the KC flight deplaned and walks to baggage claim… I love how seriously we take this. New level of trolling. LETS GO BUFFALO!
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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hi bluesky, it sure is nice to be here! I'm Molly, I'm a plant biologist turned science communicator 🌱 I make videos with researchers to bring their science stories to life! You can find me on YT/insta/tt as Science IRL 🧬🎥 Excited to re-meet everyone here and make new #science & #scicomm friends!
Molly on top of a giant phenotyping robot, delivering a line to a drone camera that is filming from above. Photo credit: Davis de Dios MediaMolly in a respirator crouching on the ground of a greenhouse aisle surrounded by orchids, filming the plants using a camera on a gimbal. Photo credit: Joyce Onyenedum Molly and plant scientist Brandon being filmed by videographer Chris for a Science IRL video. They are admiring plants growing in tissue culture on a shelf with bright grow lights. Photo credit: Matt HayesMolly in a respirator giving a talk about scicomm and Science IRL for the plant bio departmental seminar at UGA. Photo Credit: Tanisha Williams
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The primary energy fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with an equivalent amount of clean energy. BUT: This is not necessary because conversion losses do not need to be replaced. More than 2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat.
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39 North STL @39northstl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
🧩♟️Great time at Pieces near downtown STL for board game night. Thanks to everyone who came out! Fun mix of industry, academia, government, and financial folks in ag. We look forward to hosting more community building events.♟️🧩
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
While I don’t work at CoverCress, I always love good swag! Happy to support friends & companies in @39northstl.bsky.social
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
South America Is Drying Up In August and September, huge portions of South America were shrouded in intense smoke from wildfires raging in the Amazon and other parts of Brazil and Bolivia, as #GlobalWarming increases both drought and flooding problems. eos.org/articles/sou...
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South America Is Drying Up - Eos
A new study shows that dry, warm, and flammable conditions have skyrocketed across the continent, favoring the spread of uncontrolled fire.
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Guillaume Lobet @guillaumelobet.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
New paper alert ! doi.org/10.1093/aob/... Felix Bauer et al showed that decreasing soil #phosphorus availability in maize leads to a reorganisation of the #root system, itself leading to a potential decrease in the root system capacity to take up water
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Root System Architecture Reorganization Under Decreasing Soil Phosphorus Lowers Root System Conductance of Zea mays
AbstractBackground and Aims. The global supply of phosphorus is decreasing. At the same time, climate change reduces the availability of water in most regi
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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We must use genetic technologies now to avert the coming food crisis
Food production is responsible for more than a third of greenhouse gas emissions. To get everyone the food they need in a warming world, governments worldwide must invest in securing our food systems
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
New to Bluesky? Interested in trait-based ecology? evolution?Want papers and discussions in one feed ? Good news! First, link your posts with the hashtag(s) #trait, #traits, #FunctionalTraits or the emojis for 'measure ' 🧮➕📏 ' Second, pin the feed to your account bsky.app/profile/did:... easy! 🌎🧪🌾
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Rishi R. Masalia, PhD @rishimasalia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
@science-irl.bsky.social Molly!!! 👋🏽
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 14/11/2024
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Missouri’s $1.4 billion cannabis market outpaces states with older programs
More than 1,000 industry leaders gathered at the MJ Unpacked Conference in St. Louis to address issues facing the cannabis market.
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Erik McIntire @erikmcintire.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Hi! I’m Erik and I’ll be helping with the moderation of the Science 🧪 feed by adding biologists whose field isn’t covered by any of the other moderators. Please reply to this post with a link to a lab/google scholar/research gate/ORCID/etc page, to be added to the feed!
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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 12/11/2024
Just updated the PoC in #SciComm starter pack with recent requests! If I've missed you, yell at me (nicely) 😊 Reminder this is OPT IN so let me know if you would like to be added ❤️ Tag anyone who should be on it below! go.bsky.app/MaDPSzx
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Dorien Pastoors @dpastoors.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I am really enjoying the surge of people to bluesky but still kind of missing the VERY early career group of people! (Aging in academia is a funny thing) - I went ahead and made this starter pack go.bsky.app/Jq8YaQM - if you would like to be removed/added please let me know
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Thomas P200 Burke @findmeinthelab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Our department at UC Irvine is recruiting for a tenure-track position in RNA biology! Assistant or Associate level, any area of RNA biology including in microbiology are encouraged to apply. Come join our vibrant research community in SoCal! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09320
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Professor of RNA Biology and Molecular Genetics (tenure track/tenure)
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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CSU Department of Soil & Crop Sciences @csusoilcropsci.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hi everyone 👋 Great to be on this new site and looking forward to interacting with everyone!
A tractor parked on a grassy area on the CSU campus
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