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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota

@tlowepower.bsky.social
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I study how bacteria kill plants. Interested across biological scales: molecular 🧬, cellular🦠, organismal 🧫, ecological 🥀🌍, and evolutionary 🧬. Optimistic pessimist: The world is dark, so how can we slow the decline?

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 18h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 24/09/2026
“Many of the greatest scientific breakthroughs have emerged from this ability to…challenge prevailing conceptual frameworks…it remains unclear whether [AI systems] can deliberately perform this kind of conceptual reframing.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Scientific culture in the age of AI - Nature Cell Biology
Recent changes in Genentech’s scientific organization, occurring as the company makes artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly central to its research strategy, highlight a broader question facing bi...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some random thoughts: Good science doesn't always need disruptors. Often, it needs load-bearing walls. You can't pivot away from a failed multi-year experiment or "iterate" your way out of a mentee's PhD. Science needs stable foundations, not churn. Don't break the people building on top of it.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A former mentor of mine used to say "we don't often stand on the shoulders of giants, we're usually standing on the shoulders of our colleagues and the ones who came before us who were, like us, pretty normal sized"... or something to that effect.
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Lambros Frantzeskakis @lambrosf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re a graduate student and interested in fungi please apply, this a great opportunity to experience research in an industry setting jobs.bayer.com/job/Chesterf...
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Fungal Discovery & Genomics Co-Op
Fungal Discovery & Genomics Co-Op
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's 20 years since I was part of the inaugural class in the Georgia Tech Honor's Program. Georgia Tech is a nerd campus, so the founding director, Dr. Nobles, had a vision for an honors program that wasn't focused on grades, metrics, etc. “A program more about questions than answers."
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eric Jones is not a serious candidate. I recommend reading this short article if you are in Davis/Napa congressional district davisite.org/2026/09/14/e...
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Eric Jones campaign hands out different flyers for Republicans and Democrats
A continuation of the deceptive tactics we’ve seen since the primary Republican-geared version of the Eric Jones for Congress flyer, with my annotations. By Roberta Millstein Last week, a Davisite …
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good news! The Trump admin was trying to limit grad students to a 4-year cap on their visa. But a judge blocked it. www.statnews.com/2026/09/14/c...
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Judge blocks Trump administration plans to limit visa length for grad students, postdocs
A federal judge halted a Trump administration plan to place a four-year cap on the kinds of visas used by graduate students and postdocs
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My least favorite part of grant writing is settling on a title.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026
Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why are tax dollars being diverted to support R&D at private industries? Can't those industries attract their own investment? Isn't that the entire point of those private industries? Are investers so fucking greedy that they no longer want to risk their own money on tech, so they have to spend ours?
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The implementation phase begins... whereby investigator-initiated research is considered secondary to the whims and political priorities of OSTP and OMB who want to narrow what constitutes science into a limited set of corporate-focused interests while slashing budgets. www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-lea...
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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science
The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...
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Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Over the past decade, a toxic fungus that destroys cheese rinds has been popping up in cheese caves throughout New England. In a new paper from my lab, we tried to better understand this emerging threat to New England's artisan cheese industry. doi.org/10.1128/aem....
Cheese rinds contaminated with Aspergillus westerdijkiae
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Grantmaking has leveled off, so it looks like NSF will make around 6,200 new grants—down from an average of ~11,000. That's a historic low, not seen since the 1980s, when NSF was a far smaller organization. Left was our projection three weeks ago, right is the current data.
Previous plot of NSF new grants projected FY26 would be ~6100Current data for total new grants at NSF
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John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 03/09/2026
I am hiring in this round – please do apply if you are interested in: machine learning (protein/genome/gene language models), methods for pathogen data analysis, pangenomes (or share with any students who might want to work with us)
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
NSF just posted the call for the annual Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB). You must propose a project to apply AI to biological research. Deadline is Sep 29, 2026 www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good news. Still, the article notes that additional reviews need to be completed by the Environmental Protection Agency before American chestnuts can be distributed to individuals or used for wider restoration projects. However, this recent decision will be immediately beneficial to researchers.
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Dan Kliebenstein @spicybotrytis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Necessary and sufficient is a gold standard in genetics thought to mean key importance. Which often becomes a way to say we know it all so why do more. However, necessary and sufficient is only true in the specific background tested, so likely way more going on.
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is very upsetting.
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Really lovely to visit UT Knoxville Microbiology today. A lot of awesome microbiology out here!
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Read the linked blog. It has a detailed description of the questionable editorial practices at three successive MDPI journals with the same deeply flawed paper
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Please zoom in to see the details: These artworks are created with grains and seeds, and the artists mean it.
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Doing my first experiment in years today. Wish me luck!
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In case anyone is wondering my opinion, Perplexity is not worth paying for, but Claude has been pretty effective.
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Drew Hryckowian @a-hryckowian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We're looking for someone who is highly organized & detail-oriented to serve as the central operational node and technical backbone of our growing lab. Time will be split equally between lab management (~20 hours/week) and research (~20 hours/week). Apps due EOD Aug 3 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...
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Researcher and Lab Manager – Hryckowian Lab - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type:Terminal (Fixed Term)Job Profile:Researcher IJob Summary:The Hryckowian Lab is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented Researcher I to serve as the central operational node and technical backbone of the laboratory. This role splits time roughly equally between comprehensive laboratory management (~20 hours/week) and direct bench research assistance (~20 hours/week).The Hryckowian Lab’s research focuses on understanding how resident microbial communities (microbiomes) act as a "microbial shield" to protect against pathogenic bacterial infections, and how to...
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
During Covid, I wrote a grant on these benches with Becca Schomer and Becky Parales
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/07/2026
We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!
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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
New Preprint 🥳 Here we wondered how phages that have been extensively studied in laboratory E. coli strains actually behave when they encounter a real pathogen such as O157:H7 strain...one with a far more complex cell surface & one of the most consequential foodborne pathogens in the United States.
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Animated E. coli Bacteria Drawing
Alt: Animated E. coli Bacteria Drawing
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Student visa is already one of the most highly restrictive/monitored visa type. When I was a student, my transcript and my address were all monitored. Student already have to be good academic standing throughout their study to keep the visa. Have to have a work permit to work after graduate.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
9. By supporting universities, they support the human capital development that flows into the commercial sector and generates the growth and innovation that has been a massive boon for US commerce. This plan undercuts that role, with disastrous consequences that will ricochet for years to come.
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There are a lot of very wrong things in the OSTP report, but this one is just silly for multiple reasons? The average tenure of an employee at unicorn tech and biotech startups in SF is just 2-4 years. www.inc.com/business-ins... (Maybe just a bit higher post 2022 slump?)
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Here's the Average Tenure for Tech Workers in Silicon Valley's Top 15 Companies
A new report shows that software and internet companies had the highest employee turnover in 2017, compared with other major industries.
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Microbiology professors/PIs, would you like to join the microPI slack? Microbiology is defined broadly. This is an open tent. Professor/PI is inclusive to teaching focused roles, or pure research PI roles like a National lab PI. Reply or DM me and I will send you a link.
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Newsom would make a terrible president. Our next president needs to have empathy for the traumatized federal workforce. Newsom has recently forced CA state workers to return to office, leading to increased taxpayer costs and worse QoL for employees www.abc10.com/article/news...
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Microbiology professors/PIs, would you like to join the microPI slack? Microbiology is defined broadly. This is an open tent. Professor/PI is inclusive to teaching focused roles, or pure research PI roles like a National lab PI. Reply or DM me and I will send you a link.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22/07/2026
This misunderstands the role of private vs. public R&D. Private R&D is great but is connected to R&D tax exemptions, & often doesn't spill out into the public domain. There's a notion we can ramp federal R&D spending down & be competitive. We can’t & we shouldn’t. www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
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OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios
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Barbara Mellone 🇺🇦 @centromellone.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
America's R1 universities educate ~8–9 million students (undergraduate + graduate) -> more than 1/3 of U.S. college students (vs. the ~0.6% of Ivies). Undermining this system threatens the institutions that train our workforce and drive scientific innovation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An American research crisis with real human consequences
Ivy League universities have dominated recent news headlines, having become popular targets for critics of higher education. But the threats they face—cuts to federal research funding, assaults on aca...
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I learned about Epscore when I started my lab. I did not love knowing that the same grant from California is less likely to be funded than if it was submitted from a state with low research funding. However, I think grant funding should be geographically distributed across the US.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NEW: Taylor Farms is a big player in conservative politics. The company donated $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025 and its CEO has personally donated more than $900,000 to Republican PACs and candidates. It's also spent $810,000 on anti-regulatory lobbying since 2025
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Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I really want salad this week, but I'm not going to risk it.
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Sanjay Antony-Babu @santonyb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
📢 Postdoc opening — Antony-Babu Lab @txresearch, College Station TX. Lead field pathology + pathogen genomics of cotton soil-borne disease: field → genome → diagnostics. @USDA_ARS funded. PhD req'd. Apply 👇 tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AgriLife_Res... #PlantPath #Genomics
Lead field pathology + pathogen genomics of cotton soil-borne disease: field → genome → diagnostics. @USDA_ARS funded. PhD req'd.
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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"The investigation has raised questions about whether there is more lettuce posing potential risk." www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...
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FDA: Taylor Farms lettuce that's not part of recall tests positive for cyclospora
Taylor Farms de Mexico lettuce sample tested positive for cyclospora, FDA said, as officials investigate a multistate outbreak of the parasite.
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Schwarz @schwarzcrow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"parasite outbreak blamed on taco bell because they're the only company reporting it" feels very "1918 flu blamed on Spain because they're the only country reporting it"
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 16/07/2026
We (the globe) are not in any way prepared for the scale of fires coming our way. Might not want to nuke the few tools we currently have at our disposal (MUTUAL FUCKING COOPERATION) This happened barely more than a year ago
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Canadian ‘Super Scooper’ plane grounded after hitting civilian drone over Los Angeles wildfires | CNN
A Canadian “Super Scooper” aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had to be grounded after it hit a drone flying in restricted airspace over the devastating blaze on Thursday, the local f...
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Anyone else avoiding work commitments for the week after election day so that there's bandwidth for whatever happens?
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
People have become jaded to it, but a President who threatens to outlaw media in a free society should be immediately removed from office. Trump's words are completely antithetical to the core American commitments of free speech and free press.
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