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
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...
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...!
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!
and @kathleenrhoades.com is on it!
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
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)
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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.
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.