bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... new paper on the evolution of desiccation tolerance in land plants. it was a fun project with two of my fav young scientists @bryophyter.bsky.social @youngeukaryote.bsky.social

Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of desiccation tolerance in land plants

Desiccation tolerance (DT), the ability to survive near-complete cellular dehydration, is widespread in diaspores but rare in the vegetative tissues of land plants. The patchy and punctuated phylogen...

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So: In 2017, Congress made this happen: NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still: 💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets. 📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.

And the hits keep coming. NSF just cancelled the Louise Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation grant at the CSU. Since its inception in 1993, CSU-LSAMP has served ~30,000 @calstate.bsky.social students (2000/yr), working to increase graduation rates & broaden participation in STEM careers. 🧪

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Sarah Brown@brownepoints.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: DeSantis directed the University of Florida to cancel a nearly-complete search for its next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — because the governor believed the finalists were not in alignment with the state's opposition to DEI

This was an incredible, international, tree-of-life spanning collaborative effort led by @roseamarks.bsky.social. I had fun and it was great model for how we can start to reach across disciplinary barriers and silos. @naturecomms.bsky.social #interdisciplinary

Department of Biology | San Francisco State University@sfstatebio.bsky.social · last yr.

Life without water? A few organisms manage it. A new paper by Assistant Professor Jenna Ekwealor and co-authors in Nature Communications explores desiccation tolerance. Read more here! 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biology #desiccation #biotech #conservation

our perspective on desiccation tolerance research is out in @naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications - Nature Communications

Desiccation tolerance is an extreme adaptation to water limitation. Here the authors envisage a roadmap to advance desiccation tolerance research, highlight key knowledge gaps, call for standardizatio...

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Congratulations to future @sfstatebio.bsky.social students attending #ExploreSFState today! Welcome to #SFSU!! Happy to highlight our microbiology labs, organismal bio labs, neuroscience labs, seawater core facility, human anatomy lab, and greenhouse!!

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

Here is a short video about the work that is still being done at SFSU but that will soon grind to a halt. In this video are my amazing colleagues in the chem and bio departments and two impressive students (one of them was in my lab). @sfsu.bsky.social @sfstatebio.bsky.social vimeo.com/996323996

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This is "Student Enrichment Opportunities Office" by SEO Office - SFSU on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Pleuni Pennings@pleunipennings.bsky.social · last yr.

So many students in my lab and my department have been supported by the NIH MARC and U-RISE training grants! These grants help students who are interested in research, but who cannot afford to volunteer their time to get extensive research experience. @sfsu.bsky.social @sfstatebio.bsky.social 😢😡

The latest NIH grant chaos: NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country. These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers. MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.

Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · last yr.

New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!

Thanks to the amazing generosity of our donors, we’ve surpassed our initial goal! We’d love to keep the momentum going, and every extra dollar we can raise goes directly to support more students, more research and more ways to transform lives. Please consider a gift to reach our next goal of $4000!

There’s still time to donate to #GatorsGiveDay! www.givecampus.com/0ng63u Your support will allow students to do class experiments like this one we did in the greenhouse with the Three Sisters (corn 🌽, beans 🫛, and squash 🎃). @sfstatebio.bsky.social

@lizneeley.bsky.social is publishing a weekly newsletter to track the ongoing attacks in science and higher ed. If you want to keep abreast without drowning in the news, I recommend it: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Making Sense of It All

Hi! I’m Liz Neeley and I’m glad you’re here. Making Sense of It All is an outlet for my work at Liminal, which focuses on sensemaking in a noisy and complicated world. I built Liminal as an antidote t...

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Liz Neeley@lizneeley.bsky.social · 2y ago

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities

Against Anticipatory Obedience: www.aaup.org/report/again...