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Molly Edwards, PhD

@science-irl.bsky.social

▶️ #scicomm as Science IRL 🎥 video producer 🌸 PhD in flowers linktr.ee/science_irl

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Molly Edwards, PhD@science-irl.bsky.social · 2d ago

This was such a botanical blast! Thanks for having me, and if we didn't get a chance to meet I'll be around the rest of #Botany2026 and would love to chat! #plantpeopleFTW

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Careers in Botany Panel fills up every year, and #Botany2026 is no exception. The panel is at capacity, but we want to introduce the ten botanists giving their time to talk with students and postdocs about how they built their careers. Sunday, Aug 2, 3:30 to 5:00 pm

Promotional graphic for the Botany 2026 Careers in Botany Panel, Sunday, August 2, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, in Tucson Salons E-F. Ten panelist photos are arranged in a grid of two rows. Top row, left to right: Dr. Dustin Wolkis, a bearded man in a patterned shirt standing among tropical foliage; Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, a woman in a colorful floral-print blouse; Dr. Felipe Zapata, a man in a dark jacket in front of a brick building; Dr. Molly Edwards, a woman in a mustard-yellow dress standing beside a tall blooming corpse flower; and Dr. Ross McCauley, a man in a red shirt and cap standing in tall green vegetation. Bottom row, left to right: Dr. Jessamine Finch, a woman in a green shirt among leafy branches; Annica Wu, a woman with long dark hair standing beneath a fruiting tree; Dr. Israel Borokini, a man in a denim jacket and light blue shirt; Dr. Courtney Murren, a person in a white knit hat holding a field notebook in a grassy pine savanna; and Marlene Hahn, a woman in an olive-green shirt. At the bottom left is the Botany 2026 logo, a circular illustration of a Sonoran Desert landscape with saguaro and barrel cacti, reading "Biodiversity at the Boundaries, Botany 2026, August 1-5, Tucson, Arizona." Text at the bottom right reads: "The Careers in Botany Panel is an annual event where panelists introduce students and postdocs to the range of career paths available in botany, spanning academia, conservation, government agencies, and industry."
Dr Kathleen Millen@neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨 Heads up. Time to keep submitting comments. NSF is planning to comply in advance to OMB proposed grant policies. Comment by Aug 24. You should be an expert on this now!!

Dr. K. Lotterhos@drk-lo.bsky.social · 3w ago

OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last mo.

this is what is insane abt this case and these sentences. this isn't a sandwich throw. real violence happened here. a cop got shot. but by framing the protest as a conspiracy people who literally were uninvolved in the violence got de facto life sentences

Josh Kovensky@joshkovensky.bsky.social · last mo.

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

anil oza@aniloza.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...

NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds

A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.

statnews.com

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra@jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So no publication fees, no conferences, no international collab, and we can terminate or reject your grant anytime for any reason. This might have some impact on how science works, folks. And maybe just maybe not a positive one.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n