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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Super excited about this review/new data preprint on aquatic plant photosynthetic methods - turns out its *hard* to measure stuff underwater! Led by awesome grad in the lab @ellliieee.bsky.social with postdoc @wickellomics.bsky.social and some brilliant people at LiCor! 💧🌿

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

GRFP call is out: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Deadlines pushed back to Nov.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

As we all eagerly (anxiously?) await NSF's release of the 2026 GRFP solicitation, please consider signing up as a mentor for BSA's GRFP workshop. We especially need more senior mentors (PIs, postdocs, and research scientists)!

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Maddy Jalbert @maddyjalbert.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The first step in generating public support for science is telling people what the heck we're doing and why it matters! If you are a researcher who benefits from federal funding, please consider writing a letter to your local paper: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

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Peter Schafran @peterwschafran.com · 20/03/2025

The reviews are in, this was the best Quillwort Conference ever! Thanks so much to our speakers: Gemma Milly Lisa George David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social Megan Nibbelink @megantheebotanist.bsky.social Jacob Suissa John Evans

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025

RNA xkcd.com/3056

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I absolutely love my new 'Isoetes nerd' mug courtesy of the multi-talented, and incredibly thoughtful @ellliieee.bsky.social.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This was my experience on a recent panel. No change to how proposals were evaluated.

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

📣Now Free Access: Low internal air space in plants with crassulacean acid metabolism may be an anatomical spandrel Get the Paper:

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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This is shameful and completely unnecessary.

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Joely DeSimone @joely-desimone.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

NSF PRFB fellows: talk to your POs and transfer the remaining year’s balance of salary and research funds by 5pm today!! Dm me if you want to join the prfb slack where fellows are sharing info with each other #nsf #nsfprfb

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

For the record this doesn't appear to be a blanket cancel of all panels (yet).

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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We are working on a major update to Mesquite, version 4! We welcome any suggestions for features or fixes. A major emphasis will be phylogenomic data. We may not have time for more big features, but please suggest small features for data maintenance or editing that could make your lives easier.

An image of the icon for Mesquite, a modular system for evolutionary analysis (http://www.mesquiteproject.org)

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Lots of incredible SEM images of Isoetes megaspores in this preprint by Larsén et al. mapping spore ornamentation and surface structure onto the quillwort phylogeny (not my work, but I'm glad someone's doing it!): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SEM images of Isoetes megaspores (Larsén et al. 2025)

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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Last week we published a peanut genome that was much more complex than it originally appeared. A 🧵 about 🥜 genomes and what we found ... Find the article as a ‘featured’ genome report in G3: academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar....

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Relics of interspecific hybridization retained in the genome of a drought-adapted peanut cultivar

The genome sequence for the drought tolerant peanut variety

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

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NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A nice starter pack for society journals in ecology and evolution go.bsky.app/VGQ2eYJ

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Shoot apical meristem of my "pin"📌 Mimulus mutant, with plasma membranes of cells fluorescently labeled. #MicroscopyMonday #MeristemMonday #MimulusPropaganda

A shoot apical meristem with all cell outlines clearly visible, and a lot of hair cells surrounding the tip

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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

If you need a distraction on the Election Day, you can read our latest paper out in Molecular Plant - we found that #hornwort #Rubisco is wicked!! Absolutely fun collaboration with Zhen Guo Oh and Laura Gunn at Cornell Plant Bio www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

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Unique biogenesis and kinetics of hornwort Rubiscos revealed by synthetic biology systems

Hornworts are non-vascular land plants, which diverged from vascular plants approximately 500 million years ago, and yet the CO2 fixing enzyme (Rubisco) in hornworts has received little prior attentio...

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Join us on Wednesday, November 6, at 11 AM PST for the the next #PolyploidyWebinar! Sylvia Kinosian and Tamsen Dunn will present. The zoom link will be emailed out before the talks - sign up here if you have not signed up before! www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

A flyer for the next Polyploidy Webinar on November 6, 2024, at 11AM Pacific Time. It includes photos of the two presenters and their presentation titles. Sylvia Kinosian from the University of Arizona will speak on "Genomics is modifying our concepts of evolution in homosporous pteridophytes" and Tamsen Dunn from San Diego State University will present "Deciphering the Polyploid Ks Histogram with Forward Time Simulations."

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

📢 Calling all prospective grad students: join us Oct 30 for a zoom webinar hosted by UofA EEB in a step towards demystifying the grad school application process. Info below 👇, registration required (register here: bit.ly/eebgradwebinar)

A flyer for a webinar on getting into grad school. The event will be on October 30, 2024, at 9AM PST. Sponsored by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Register here: http://bit.ly/eebgradwebinar

Why choose UA EEB for your MS or PhD?
UA fellowships and training grants
What prospective advisors look for
How to apply and what happens next
Advice from current students
Q&A

¡Prepárate para el posgrado!
Webinar: Cómo ingresar a la escuela de posgrado

30 de octubre de 2024 a las 9 a.m. PST

Patrocinado por el Departamento de Ecología y Biología Evolutiva de la Universidad de Arizona.

Regístrate aquí: http://bit.ly/eebgradwebinar

¿Por qué elegir UA EEB para tu maestría o doctorado?

Becas y subvenciones de capacitación de la UA
Lo que buscan los posibles asesores
Cómo postularse y qué sucede después
Consejos de estudiantes actuales
Sesión de preguntas y respuestas

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

It's my Littorella's first birthday! I mean they're clonal... so maybe more of a one year anniversary? Unclear. Either way, I want cake. 🍰🌱🎉

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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

🚨🧬🌾New pub!🌾🧬🚨 Asplenium (ferns) biogeography with a focus on sub-Saharan African taxa! Link to pub: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Isoetes engelmannii and some very happy fern gametophytes along the banks of the Willimantic River in Coventry, CT

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Please repost! The @botsocamerica.bsky.social is hosting a virtual "applying to grad school" Q&A panel on October 3rd from 12-1:30 US eastern! Will be largely focused on applying to botany/plant sci programs, but all are welcome. Head to tinyurl.com/Bot360HowTo to register! 🌾

Flier with "back to school" vibes (pencils, notebooks) that says: "Applying to Grad School. Join us for a panel discussion to help answer all your questions on how to apply to graduate school. October 3rd (Thursday) at 12-1:30pm EST. Register here: tinyurl.com/Bot360HowTo"

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

An entire symposium devoted to my favorite group of plants!? QuillCon-III was just added to the schedule for the 86th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists! www.sebiologists.org/asb-2025.htm...

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

What a pleasant surprise to find that Littorella is apparently the new face of research at the UCONN Botanical Conservatory! Personally, I can't imagine a better choice.

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Join us on Wednesday, October 2, at 11AM PDT for the first #PolyploidyWebinar of the season! @shellygaynor.bsky.social and @pairoflogs.bsky.social will lead us off! The zoom link will be emailed out before the talks - sign up here if you have not signed up before! forms.gle/Bp3VUGeP9nAc...

A flyer for the Polyploidy Webinar that will be at 11 AM Pacific Time on October 2, 2024. Shelly Gaynor from the University of Michigan will present "Computationally intensive methods and models to understand mixed-cytotype populations" and Michael McKibben from the University of Arizona will discuss "Species‐tree topology impacts the inference of ancient whole‐genome duplications across the angiosperm phylogeny".

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Spent the weekend fine-tuning my work-life balance in the catskills. 10/10, would recommend.

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIA!

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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Our groups' goal is to produce genomes that are useful; this does not always mean 'telomere-to-telomere' assemblies. The hybrid sugarcane genome is a nice example of this. The article is out this week in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!

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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Our new paper on #lycophyte genomics are out in PNAS! We found lots synteny remained even after 350 million years of divergence!! Weird!! @wickellomics.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

As jobs are coming out and folks are applying, here's your regular reminder of lots of examples of successful job apps (mostly research academia but also industry, PUI, gov). And if you've gotten a job recently, please consider contributing! github.com/RILAB/statem...

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

My Littorella babies are making more Littorella babies!! And I couldn't be a prouder plant parent.

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David Wickell @wickellomics.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

It was a cold ride to campus this morning but also very pretty

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