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Jesse Lasky

@laskyjr.bsky.social

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Evolution and ecology of plants. He/him.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 2d

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

www.nytimes.com

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · 2d

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

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ashley juavinett @analog-ashley.bsky.social · 3d

Maaaaaany graduate students at CSHL have stories. I'll send them your way.

I tweeted once about him and was immediately called out by our PR. They sat me down and told me they knew he was problematic but that he brought in too much donor money for us to say anything bad about him.

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 3d

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

Jesse Lasky @laskyjr.bsky.social · 4d

This post from Sudanese crop scientist Tilal Abdelhalim describes amazing efforts to generate resources for research to combat the devastating parasitic plant Striga
www.linkedin.com/posts/tilal-...

#lasky #joel #sudan #sorghum #striga #cimmyt #easternsorghummilletnetwork #resilientscience #pennstate #coloradostateuniversity #foodsecurity #plantgenetics #africascience #hopethroughscience | Tilal ...

🌾 Sudan: The Cradle of Sorghum and Striga Science, Resilience in Action🌾 Amidst ongoing conflict and immense challenges, my team (Aisha abdalhady, Shama Abdo, and Manhal Gobara) and I have surveyed o...

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kate @thekatriarch.bsky.social · 4d

According to a person familiar with jury lunches

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4d

Seriously though, this comes from a beautiful photo essay of a strange and troubling subject. I highly recommend it.

View from the border: the wall dividing the US and Mexico – in pictures — Guardian US

The structure, variously known as the border fence or border wall, is not continuous and only covers sections of the almost 2,000-mile boundary between the two countries. It consists of a series of ob...

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 5d

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts

Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

www.bu.edu

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Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 6d

How time, climate, and storage shape DNA survival in herbarium specimens - and why plants from the tropics face tougher odds 🌿🧬
#AncientDNA
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 6d

Population genomic structure of sorghum landraces across landscape, environment and culture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.02.686151v1

Reposted by Jesse M. Shapiro, Jesse R. Lasky, Chhaya M. Werner , and 2 more Jesse M. Shapiro, Jesse R. Lasky, Chhaya M. Werner, Haley A. Branch, Benjamin Larue

Rachel Germain @gerlame.bsky.social · 7d

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

Please share far and wide 🚀

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities

Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...

biodiversity.ubc.ca

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 8d

Millions of specimens, centuries of history — all coming to life online 🌿✨

After nearly four years of dedicated work, our digitisation project is entering its final stretch — and we’re gearing up for an amazing finish by March 2026.

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 11d

TWO curatorial positions at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada. Curator of Birds, and Curator of Plants and Sustainability... please pass the word and amplify!

royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...

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royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...

Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page

Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.

royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com

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Zoe Joly-Lopez @zoejolylopez.bsky.social · 11d

Launching a new @genomejournal.bsky.social special collection “Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential”.

☘️ Short studies with big impact!
👍ECRs encouraged to submit
🧬 Open Access, No publication fees
➡️Deadline: July 31, 2026

Reach out to me or @oli-wilkins.bsky.social

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Natalie Wright, Ph.D. @coereba.bsky.social · 12d

It’s amazing to me how many people who have never taught think LLMs will replace professors/teachers. Even if they didn’t get basic stuff wrong regularly, at least half of teaching is building relationships, human connections.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12d

Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.

All on the taxpayer’s dime.
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Jesse Lasky @laskyjr.bsky.social · 12d

Fun to read John Parkinson's (1640) thoughts on dodder with my class at Penn State Special Collections.
As all parasitic plant fans know, dodder has many Vertues @parasiticplants.bsky.social

Text about dodder from John Parkinson's 1640 book.

Text and images about dodder from John Parkinson's 1640 book.

Jesse Lasky @laskyjr.bsky.social · 12d

Answer is: No
www.chronicle.com/article/we-a...

Can a Conservative Provost ‘Depoliticize’ UT Austin — and Save Academic Freedom, Too?

William Inboden on Trump’s compact, higher ed’s broken social contract, and red-state reform.

www.chronicle.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13d

these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

www.independent.co.uk

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14d

Nope! I didn't do this. Not at all. Not in the book, not anywhere.

Kruse supports this with evidence from over 500 congressional speeches invoking "one nation under God" between 1952 and 1960, mostly by Republicans tying faith to opposition against social welfare programs.

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Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 16d

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 18d

It’s a very exciting day at Rutgers today! The 100th anniversary of the Chrysler Herbarium! Thanks to @drgentian.bsky.social and Megan King for organizing, training so many students/botanists, and taking such good care of the collections! It’s been really fun to learn from you over the years!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19d

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 19d

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.

The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

That includes any race-based scholarships and programs, including any promotion of external scholarships that consider race, and DEI trainings and workshops. Institutions were also told they should no longer prioritize “underrepresented groups” for admissions or hiring, and they must prohibit transgender students from playing on sports teams and using facilities designated for women and girls.

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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 20d

Myself and Alastair Wilson wrote an updated version of our 2016 primer to quantitative genetics in the wild: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Happy to share a copy if interested. It is also on research gate

Quantitative Genetics in Natural Populations

Phenotypes evolve under natural selection if, and only if, they are genetically variable. While evolutionary ecologists have long studied natural sele…

www.sciencedirect.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20d

Before the election, my MAGA focus group said their top priorities were releasing the Epstein files and getting the US out of foreign entanglements. Today, they say their priorities are hiding the Epstein files and using the military to sink Venezuelan boats that might be running drugs to Africa.

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Martin Turcotte @exp-evoeco.bsky.social · 21d

#PhD Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication?

Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social
and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids

Details: shorturl.at/nQ8UW

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Q: You talked about the Hudson River Tunnel in NYC. Is the funding terminated?

TRUMP: Right now there is no funding. Because it's up to me

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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 23d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24d

sora posting

A sora (small rail) with bright yellow beak is moving stealthily through the reeds.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24d

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

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