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Judith Kolkman
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Handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students.

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November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️
🔊 Valentyna Klymiuk, College of Agriculture & Bioresources Uni of Saskatchewan
📜 Wheat Pre-Breeding: Showcasing Opportunities for Barley Improvement
⏰ Thursday 27th November 2025 14:00 BST
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November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪
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Canada’s new budget aims to lure U.S. researchers to relocate
Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared
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November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Judith Kolkman
wheatinitiative.bsky.social
📅 Mark your calendars: "One Hour NUE" Webinar New Date: 14 November 2025, 10:00–11:00 AM CET
Speaker: Clint Della Bosca
🔗 Register Here: www.wheatinitiative.org/new-events/o...

#WheatInitiative #NutrientEfficiency #WheatConnect
New Time! ONE HOUR NUE - The Virtual Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE) Meeting — Wheat initiative
The Chairs of our Expert Working Group on Nutrient Use Efficiency apologize for the inconvenience with the last webinar and are pleased to announce a web conference affiliated with the group will…
www.wheatinitiative.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reposted by Judith Kolkman
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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October 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Reposted by Judith Kolkman
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Shape the future of #PlantScience! BTI, affiliated with Cornell, seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor to drive discovery in plant biology. Review of applications begins November. Apply: recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...
Hiring announcement graphic for an Assistant Professor position at the Boyce Thompson Institute. The image shows a greenhouse and brick building under a blue sky, with text reading ‘Assistant Professor’ at the top and a hand holding a sign that says ‘We’re Hiring’ in the foreground. The BTI logo is visible in the corner.
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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intbarleyhub.bsky.social
Registration to the 4th International Barley Mutant 🧬Workshop #IBMW26 has opened. More info ibmw26.wordpress.com
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September 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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"Talent and grit matter, but so do structure, transparency, and care." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4nCiPYg
An illustration of a person standing at the top of stairs that end, with text: To increase diversity in STEM, a foot in the door isn’t enough. We need better support.
September 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by Judith Kolkman
intbarleyhub.bsky.social
On the origin of the late-flowering ppd-H1 allele in barley
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On the origin of the late-flowering ppd-H1 allele in barley - Theoretical and Applied Genetics
To breed for climate resilient crops, an understanding of the genetic and environmental factors influencing adaptation is critical. Barley provides a model species to study adaptation to climate chang...
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September 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Reposted by Judith Kolkman
sustainablefarming.bsky.social
Corn sweat is more noticeable this year from heat and late planting.

Scientists and farmers agree high heat, humidity and a rainy spring combined to make this corn sweat one to remember.
A perfect storm: Corn Sweat more noticeable this year from heat and late planting
Corn sweat is an annual phenomenon in the Midwest, but for some folks -- it feels unlike any other year. That’s because a number of outside factors could be impacting the heaviness of the moisture fro...
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July 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Judith Kolkman
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🎉 Our new paper "Gender and racial diversity socialization in science" @natcomputsci.nature.com with @weihuali.bsky.social, H Zheng and @jenniebrand.bsky.social studies how early-career experiences with diversity drive more diverse teams later in a career 👉 /1
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"Gender and racial diversity socialization in science", a new published article by Weihua Li, Hongwei Zheng, Jennie E. Brand, and Aaron Clauset. Abstract: Scientific collaboration networks are a form of unequally distributed social capital that shapes both researcher job placement and long-term research productivity and prominence. However, the role of collaboration networks in shaping the gender and racial diversity of the scientific workforce remains unclear. Here we propose a computational null model to investigate the degree to which early-career scientific collaborators with representationally diverse cohorts of scholars are associated with forming or participating in more diverse research groups as established researchers. When testing this hypothesis using two large-scale, longitudinal datasets on scientific collaborations, we find that the gender and racial diversity in a researcher’s early-career collaboration environment is strongly associated with the diversity of their collaborators in their established period. This diversity-association effect is particularly prominent for men. Coupled with gender and racial homophily between advisors and advisees, collaborator diversity represents a generational effect that partly explains why changes in representation within the scientific workforce tend to happen very slowly.
April 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Reposted by Judith Kolkman
wheatinitiative.bsky.social
We are delighted to share our Expert Working Groups March webinar! Dr. Meriem Aoun's, (Oklahoma State University, USA) talk is titled "Stripe rust resistance in hard winter wheat."
Find all info here:
www.wheatinitiative.org/new-events/m...
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February 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Register today!
- ONE HOUR NUE - is this Friday; February 28, 2025; 13:00-14:00h CET
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https://buff.ly/3XgYvAO
A big thank you to Chair and Co-Chairs of our Expert Working Group: Jean-Pierre COHAN, Jairo PALTA, Ivan ORTIZ-MONASTERIO for organising this!
- ONE HOUR NUE - The Virtual Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE) Meeting — Wheat initiative
The Expert Working Group on Nutrient Use Efficiency are pleased to announce the first web conference affiliated with the group will be organised in February 28th 2025 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (CET)…
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February 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Save the date for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference, taking place Sept 12-14, 2025 in Lansing, MI! 🌱 Organized by 10 universities around the Great Lakes, #GLPSC2025 will push the boundaries of #plantscience, promote collaborations, and empower the next generation of plant science leaders!
A graphic promoting GLPSC 2025 with a background image of blurred leaves in the background and an outline of the Great Lakes. The text says, "1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference. Save the date! September 12-14, 2025, the Lansing Center, Lansing, MI. Organized by 10 universities around the Great Lakes to push the boundaries of plant science, promote collaborations, and empower the next-generation plant science leaders. Hosted by Michigan State University." The logos of the following participating institutions are at the bottom: Michigan State University, Purdue University, Illinois University, Indiana University, University of Toronto, University of Guelph, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio State University, University of Chicago, and the MSU Plant Resilience Institute.
February 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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maudtenaillon.bsky.social
🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project!

🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean

Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/]
📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/]

Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject
February 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Not all fungal cultures are alike. Some just like to show off a little.
February 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Reposted by Judith Kolkman
wheatinitiative.bsky.social
Our #Wheat Pathogens Expert Working Group has a February #webinar up!!! 11th of FEB: “Suppression of resistance genes transferred between ploidy levels” by Colin Hiebert
Have a look here!
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January 31, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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with a proper link to the paper...
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January 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Barley plants can "smell" whether their neighbors are resistant or susceptible to Blumeria hordei. I know barley plants have ears, but noses as well? #barley #ears #noses
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Blumeria hordei affects volatile emission of susceptible and resistant barley plants and modifies the defense response of recipient plants
The barley powdery mildew disease caused by the biotrophic fungus Blumeria hordei (Bh) poses enormous risks to crop production due to yield and quality losses. Plants and fungi can produce and releas...
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December 9, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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As US craft beer industry goes flat, NYS bubbles with optimism | Cornell Chronicle
In 2023, craft beer production in the U.S. declined by 1%, which is the worst on record since the Brewers Association began tracking the industry in the late 1970s. New York fared better.
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November 21, 2024 at 9:36 PM