Michelle Facette
@mfacette.bsky.social
Plant biologist at UMass Amherst.
Researcher in Plant Resilience - Wageningen www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/r... Within the plant health team, you will be responsible for coordinating and carrying out trials involving plant diseases and pests in the laboratory and greenhouse. #BotanyJobs
Researcher in Plant Resilience
Ready to make a real difference in sustainable horticulture? As a higher professional education (HBO) researcher in plant resilience, you will contribute to research into new solutions for the…
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Exciting news! 📢 For the first time ever, the 9th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (IPPS9) is coming to Africa! 🇬🇭 🗓️ Oct 12–16, 2026📍 Accra, Ghana🤝 Hosted by WACCI & IPPN Stay updated: ipps9.org #IPPS9 #PlantScience #FoodSecurity
Don’t forget the basic research that made it all possible. Ozempuc originally comes from discoveries from Gila monster venom. Let’s stop the attacks on basic research, and enable the discoveries of the future. SamForNJ.org
Generic Democrat for Maine Stan Account@birdlawenthusiast.bsky.social · 4mo agoBig pharma gave us the vaccine that allowed people to get their lives back. Big pharma gave us ozempic which is helping people live longer healthier lies. Big pharma gave us PrEp, which has severely curtailed HIV risk. Like yes its money hungry and shitty sometimes. But also drugs are dope
🚨Happening Tomorrow 🚨 Plant Science Postdocs, Senior Grad Students, and ECRs: don't forget to join us next TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET for our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social webinar "What's new with NSF?" 🌾 🧪 🌱 Registration: tinyurl.com/PlantPostdocsApril14
I am hiring a new postdoc to work on an ecosystem modeling project with colleagues in hydrology, computer science, and the social sciences, including @mojisadegh.bsky.social If you want to do impactful work to understand the forest-water relationship, apply: www.hurteaulab.org/blog/ecosyst...
Ecosystem modeling postdoc
The Earth Systems Ecology Lab ( www.hurteaulab.org ) at the University of New Mexico is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with a strong background in ecosystem modeling or spatial data analysis to....
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🍃 Join @annbot.bsky.social Special Issue celebrating 60 years of discovery in C4 photosynthesis, edited by Rowan Sage & guest editors Marj Lundgren, Robert Sharwood & Luke Dunning. (1/4) @marjorielundgren.bsky.social @luketdunning.bsky.social #C4Photosynthesis #PlantScience #CropScience
"Postdoctoral and Ph.D. Positions, Plant Molecular Cell Biology at Louisiana State University, Wang Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20260407_LSU.pdf #PlantSciJobs
This is nothing less than a breakthrough. What a phantastic paper. So happy to see it out after five years. The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNAS
Most plant tissues are symplasms in which cells are connected by plasmodesmata, membrane-lined cytosplasmic bridges that enable diffusive and/or ad...
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Bumping this and flagging some corny folks - anyone know the best place for PH207 seeds (and if there are RILs or NILs)? @jefowlerjr.bsky.social @jrossibarra.bsky.social @carolynplants.bsky.social @maizegdb.bsky.social @maizezynskihi.bsky.social
Michelle Facette@mfacette.bsky.social · 5mo agoOkay maize folks- does anyone know if there are genetic resources for PH207 - specifically RIL or NIL lines? (And is GRIN the best place to get the PH207 parental line?)
Exciting news to share today! My grad student @ohazel.bsky.social Olivia received Linda Matsuuchi award! 🎉🍀🔬 She is the only grad student within the entire Faculty of Science from UBC @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social received the award this year! www.ashraflab.com/mentees-succ...
Okay maize folks- does anyone know if there are genetic resources for PH207 - specifically RIL or NIL lines? (And is GRIN the best place to get the PH207 parental line?)
Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5mo agoIs there a version of the chart follow the dollar-value of the grants? Is it fewer-bigger grants or simply - as I would guess - straight up less money going out the door?
This is a hill I will absolutely die on.
Robert McNees@mcnees.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt is pretty simple. If you are a professor you have power and influence over any student. Some of it you are aware of (or should be) and some of it may not be apparent. Because of this, it is wrong to date a student, even if they are willing or think there’s no coercion.
“We can’t stop heatwaves or snow storms,” said UBC botanist Dr. Arif Ashraf. “So we’re pinpointing genes that can help the plants recover from these events and still produce in time for harvest.” @ubcbotany.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social science.ubc.ca/news/2026-03...
Plants pause, play and fast forward growth depending on types of climate stress
Plants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to produce food, according to a new study.
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Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.
Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman ▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie... ▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...
“A program with a 0.5% success rate is not elite. It’s wasteful. Thousands of highly trained scientists will sink dozens of hours into writing proposals with vanishing odds of success. This is not just inefficient — it’s disrespectful of scientific labour.” Very well said @kamounlab.bsky.social!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 8mo agoI just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building. medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
I am pleased to share this paper. A beautiful and useful collaboration between a group of researchers and lecturers who care about plant Science education. Thank you to all that contributed! Check it out! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Andrea Paterlini (he/him)@apaterlini.bsky.social · 9mo agoVery excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!
Maria Stager@mstager.bsky.social · 9mo agoJust a few days left to apply to our TT position in Plant Physiology in the Dept. of Biology @UMassAmherst! Join a great group of plant scientists (and physiologists 😉) AND fall in love with small town New England! Please repost. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Hey plant developmental biologists! Want to do great science with a great guy in a great place? @oconnord.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to join his lab at Colorado State: oconnorlab.colostate.edu/wp-content/u... #devbio #plantscience #botany #bioimaging #microscopy
Brilliant use of gfp-tagged transposons & automated scoring of kernels, combined with differential style-lengths along maize ear, to screen for genes underlying pollen competition in maize. Diana gave a banger of a presentation on this in #Zeavolution this morning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My department is hiring a herbarium manager: www.schooljobs.com/careers/uvu/... It's a great place to work with a close knit botany group 🙂
Herbarium Manager - Biology
The Department of Biology invites applications for a full-time Herbarium Manager position to begin as soon as September 2025. We seek an exceptional candidate with expertise in plant systematics, taxo...
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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For no reason at all, my brain has started parsing "Bluesky" as "Blues-key". I kinda like it.
"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture" Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed. Please share widely. academic.oup.com/database/art...
A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agriculture
Abstract. Advances in agricultural genetic, genomic, and breeding (GGB) technologies generate increasingly large and complex datasets that need to be adequ
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I’m so happy to share my official tenure!! Super grateful to my amazing research team (past & present), all the letter writers, my mentors, and the cheerleaders who helped me achieve this career goal 💯🌽🍾🤓 www.provost.iastate.edu/faculty-succ...
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An important consequence of the analysis by Paajanen et al is that the 'cell-to-cell mobile RNA' user-defined description listed under Gene Ontology by TAIR is a classification based on flawed analyses. Be careful! #PlantScience
Christine Faulkner@pdchristine.bsky.social · last yr.We need to talk about mobile RNAs... SNP-based analysis of transcriptomic datasets are subject to technical noise, incomplete genome assemblies and pseudoheterozygosity so it seems like we don't know as much as we thought we knew. #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social
