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...

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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If you saw our new paper and thought "I didn't know aquatic plants use CAM!" boy do we have a fun project for you! Our lab is developing high throughput methods to screen plants for CAM. Do you work on, or know of, a plant that you think could be using CAM? Let us know! 👉 forms.gle/AyQc5KgzEYoM...

Are your plants CAM suspicious?

Have you ever wondered if the plants you work on are... living a double life working the nightshift? We are too. Our lab is looking to identify and screen more plants for CAM activity. We are beginnin...

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Karolina Heyduk@kheyduk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New lab paper, led by @ellliieee.bsky.social with assist from @wickellomics.bsky.social, other lab members, and folks at @li-corenv.bsky.social - how do we study photosynthesis in aquatic plants? Turns out it's pretty hard! Part review, part methods paper. Check it out! doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

As you're making your itinerary on the #Botany2026 app, check out some of these lab presentations!!!

Don't write your manuscript reviews using AI. DEFINITELY do not feed someone else's manuscript into AI and have it write the review for you.

Join us NEXT WEEK for the #Botany360 event "Exploring Non-Faculty Careers in Plant Science" May 20th at 4 p.m. Eastern. A free virtual Q&A panel with industry and non-faculty professionals sharing their career paths in botanical science. Register today at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...!

More awards through GRFP this year! Yay!! Quick back of envelope comparison of awards by category to 2024 (skipping 2025 b/c it was weird): Life sci: 486/2599 18.5% ('26) 499/2036 25% ('24) ☹️ Eng: 914/2599 35% ('26) 532/2036 26% ('24) Comp sci: 261/2599 10% ('26) 151/2036 7% ('24) 🧪

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

AI can't pay my grad students or postdocs. AI can't do our experiments, collect really any of our data, make our lab reagents, fix our broken machines as they age. I'm just so, so tired of this.

and @kathleenrhoades.com is on it!

Kathleen Rhoades@kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 7mo ago

finally had some time to fiddle with this

Today's accomplishment: needed to convert HOMER motif files to MEME motif files, wrote a script to do it and put it on GitHub for everyone doing motif-y things to use! Find it here: github.com/achpardo/hom... and let me know how it works for you!

GitHub - achpardo/homer_to_meme: Script to convert HOMER .motif files to MEME-format motif files (Python).

Script to convert HOMER .motif files to MEME-format motif files (Python). - achpardo/homer_to_meme

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How comparable are plant drought studies, really? In a new @plantphys.bsky.social paper, a team of Plant Resilience Institute scientists, led by @bobvanburen.bsky.social, reanalyze hundreds of drought gene expression datasets and introduce new ML tools. #PlantScience 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/plph...

If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award. Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026. Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior

What a gift! What a beautiful gift to be required to plan for good things in the long-term. That's all. I think that's all I have for now.

Looking for something to do next today at #PAG33? Stop by Plant Gene Expression Analysis, starting at 4:00PM in Pacific F-G!

Karolina Heyduk@kheyduk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#PAG33 friends, go check out postdoc in the lab Anna Pardo's talk on Monday at 4:20pm in the Plant Gene Expression Analysis Workshop. She's talking about a huge time course RNA-seq dataset from a homoploid Yucca hybrid that uses both C3 + CAM photosynthesis! @annapardo-phd.bsky.social Yucca tax:

Very excited for this workshop!

Alan Yocca@aeyocca.bsky.social · 10mo ago

En route to San Diego for #PAG33 with several of my Bayer Crop Science colleagues. I'm excited to see what the genomics community has cooked up over the last year. Don't miss the Bayer-sponsored session on Monday! We have a great lineup of internal and external speakers

Heading to #PAG33 to present 'regulation of environment responses' in 'Plant Epigenetics for Crop Improvement' session on Mon, 01/12. Shout-out to Yuvraj & Minnie for driving comparative genomics, epigenomics & single-cell work! We are also looking for a postdoc to join our group! Details below 👇

#PAG33 friends, go check out postdoc in the lab Anna Pardo's talk on Monday at 4:20pm in the Plant Gene Expression Analysis Workshop. She's talking about a huge time course RNA-seq dataset from a homoploid Yucca hybrid that uses both C3 + CAM photosynthesis! @annapardo-phd.bsky.social Yucca tax:

okay had to take the dog out. CONTINUING. Point 2: what do you want your audience to learn / what does your audience want to learn? Sometimes those are two different things.

Mistake I often make is worrying about the two or three most knowledgeable people in the audience and what will they think. Have to remind myself that if I present just to them I lose the other 95%.

My favorite bit of science writing advice is "Assume your audience is smart but doesn't have the vocabulary yet." I've had a ton of success with this approach! And when you treat people like they're smart but just need some definitions they often feel empowered to ask really interesting questions

@annapardo-phd.bsky.social is a computational biologist who studies plant genomics and abiotic stress responses. Her recent work in #G3journal identified genes related to common stress physiology responses as well as stress-related transcription factors. 9/19🧵

The latest issue of #G3journal features a curated database of stress-responsive genes in maize across stressors from @annapardo-phd.bsky.social, @bobvanburen.bsky.social, and colleagues generated via meta-analysis of public #transcriptomic data. Learn more about this resource here: buff.ly/znaNWQg

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...

Weird wet weather has Joshua trees flowering early — or late? Help the Yoder Lab map this “bonus bloom” to understand why

A flowering tree in Yucca Valley, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor wanderingmojave on December 9. A tree with lots of flowers in Tehachapi, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor tina9294 o…

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Latest in #G3journal: @annapardo-phd.bsky.social, Jeremy Pardo, @bobvanburen.bsky.social curated core stress-responsive genes in maize across stressors through meta-analysis of public RNA-seq data, generating a valuable resource for understanding stress tolerance mechanisms in maize. buff.ly/AfhRWHX

Update: I will be speaking in the Plant Gene Expression Analysis workshop on Monday, Jan. 12! If you'll be at PAG this year, come hear about gene expression and faculatative CAM in a homoploid hybrid Yucca!

Anna Pardo, Ph.D.@annapardo-phd.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you organizing a talk session at PAG 33? I would love to speak about my postdoc work on the genomics of variable facultative CAM photosynthesis in a hybrid Yucca species! Possible workshop topics include: hybrid genomics, abiotic stress, non-model species. Please DM me if you're interested!

So proud that my first PhD chapter is now out in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... Brief story in the thread below! ⬇️

Stress-responsive transcription factor families are key components of the core abiotic stress response in maize

Abstract. Abiotic stresses, including drought, salt, heat, cold, flooding, and low nitrogen, are harmful to agriculture and increasing in frequency due to

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You've probably heard how a high percentage of #Nobel laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds. @jennaahart.bsky.social ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

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Are you organizing a talk session at PAG 33? I would love to speak about my postdoc work on the genomics of variable facultative CAM photosynthesis in a hybrid Yucca species! Possible workshop topics include: hybrid genomics, abiotic stress, non-model species. Please DM me if you're interested!

Are you organizing a talk session at PAG 33? I would love to speak about my postdoc work on the genomics of variable facultative CAM photosynthesis in a hybrid Yucca species! Possible workshop topics include: hybrid genomics, abiotic stress, non-model species. Please DM me if you're interested!

Interested in giving a talk at the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG 33) in San Diego? Together with several colleagues, we are arranging 5 interconnected sessions. To submit an abstract, please fill out this Google Form before Oct 12th, 2025: forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...