Pam Ronald

innovativegenomics.org/news/novel-w.... Check out Flor and LingDong’s new paper!

Wowza! This sounds like a great project and team

Michigan, let's make history in nine days.

We're hiring! I'm looking for curious, enthusiastic scientists who love neuronal cell biology and are excited about building a new lab together! Postdoc and research technician positions are open. If this sounds like you, I'd love to hear from you! Please share! 💪

Nice!

Thanks, wonderful interview:“With plants, since they don't move…we tend to think of them as a backdrop, not as something that's building our world. Yet they're essentially regulating the climate, producing soil fertility, doing all these things without which our lives would be much more complicated”

💰 Registration, travel, lodging For trainees, cost is often a real barrier to attend conferences. Our $1500 scholarships remove that barrier. One trainee attending opens networks, mentorship, and opportunities that shape careers. Sponsor a scholarship: secure.qgiv.com/for/ksschola...

Great story about how a selfie uncovered a giant water lily on the brink of extinction - The Guardian

Blaming our scholars is apparently easier than funding science.

Postdoc opp; the Katherine Esau Fellowship @UC Davis funds 2–3 years of work on plant structure and function. Curious how plant structure shapes plant-microbe interactions? Get in touch! Due Nov 1, international applicants welcome. www-plb.ucdavis.edu/about/fellow...

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5f43... “Growing up in rural Ohio… I'd often fill my time with the results from searching "cool science videos" in the YouTube search bar, or, when those videos we particularly interesting, I'd attempt to recreate them in my backyard…” Congratulations Oscar!

Wow! The rice RALF7 peptide provides positional information for infection initiation for M. oryzae.

Sign me up!

Waxing gibbous almost full moon (or Harvest Moon) this evening above Fonts Point. Note the people in front of the moon (Photo: Sicco Rood).

longnow.org/people/caree.... Exciting opportunity

Your letters to your representatives are working: White House plan to increase control of NIH grants appears ‘dead’ - STAT

www.nature.com/articles/d41... Progress is slow but finally CRISPR edited crops are coming to Europe. Still, as this article explains, the rules include arbitrary and artificial constraint on which gene edits are “acceptable”.

Good. Restore those cancelled grants

Are you a postdoc or early-career scientist? The Keystone Symposia Fellows Program may be for you. Career development. SAB meetings with leaders in your field. 1:1 mentorship. A community of Fellows committed to each other's growth. Applications close in 2 weeks on Sept. 28.

🎓 Applications are now OPEN for the 2027 Fellows Program! Advance your career in science, gain mentorship, peer support and leadership skills. Open to postdocs and early-career scientists. Apply by Sept 28 🔗 hubs.la/Q04s8Tkx0

protectdemocracy.org/work/researc... “Our study on Alzheimer’s disease was designed to better understand how to identify and reduce the risk of dementia in communities who are at high risk of developing the disease…work that benefits everyone” said Prof Cohen U of Pittsburgh

www.nature.com/articles/d41.... If you are eligible, vote this fall for candidates that support the US scientific enterprise

Good news. Still, the article notes that additional reviews need to be completed by the Environmental Protection Agency before American chestnuts can be distributed to individuals or used for wider restoration projects. However, this recent decision will be immediately beneficial to researchers.

Happy 91st birthday to the extraordinary Sylvia Earle. Six decades exploring the ocean, descending into places few humans have ever seen, and fighting like hell for the living planet she loves. What a privilege to make her portrait. More: explorers.com/sylvia-earle @nationalacademies.org

I am currently searching for a postdoc to work on the evolution of adaptations, cold acclimation, and freezing tolerance in switchgrass. The position entails lab, growth facility, bioinformatics, and fieldwork. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

youtube.com/watch?v=OjbS.... Remember this? So great

“We mourn an exceptional artist, a true champion of kindness, and ambassador of science and public health” -Tedros Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I dont usually post on politics. But this… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... Humanists believe we have a duty to lead moral and ethical lives based on science and facts and reason.

Premiering tonight on @pbs.org, Resolve to Solve shares the story of how red seaweed is being used to reduce #methane emissions from cows, featuring IGI's Ermias Kebreab of @ucdavis.bsky.social! Preview here: www.pbs.org/video/cow-bu...

Yes

Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342

Not my usual 'cup of tea'. I preface this simply because I found Gina Kolata's article about ovarian cancer worth passing along for 2 reasons. 1st, we—my wife and I—are humans of a certain age. 2nd, the topic of cancer, scares the shit out of almost everyone. FYI. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...