Champaign-Urbana people, you can help our community from your couch. Donate to local emergency shelters for women and children. Non-UIUC people, donate to your local shelters.

Here’s another great organization that will take your donation online.

Thank you The Plant Journal and Caroline Dowling, PhD for the nice summary of our perspective on multi scale modeling in plants. 🌱💻

Congratulations to Steve Long member Megan Matthews on her recent publication in PLOS Comp Biol: Modeling cross-regulatory influences on monolignol transcripts and proteins under single and combinatorial gene knockdowns in Populus trichocarpa. doi.org/10.1371/journa…

in silico Plants is delighted to gain recognition by #DOAJ as a trusted Open Access journal DOAJ #openaccess #plan_s DOAJ listing: academic.oup.com/insilicoplants more information: botany.one/2020/05/in-sil… @botanyone

Congrats to HHMI Professor Tracy Johnson (Tracy Johnson), who was named Dean of the UCLA Division of Life Sciences! newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/tracy…

Thanks for standing with all of us who are BLACK & recognizing that Black Lives Matter. I grew up in rural Kenya. Today, I am an entomologist & a food security advocate! It's tough to be a black woman scientist. Happy to celebrate our existence #BlackInNature #BlackLivesMatter

If you’re in STEM and you support #BlackLivesMatter, please retweet and like this! I’m trying to see something 🚀👩🏾‍🚀🛰

An #ILLINOIS professor discusses how to overcome our biases in the face of conflict. "We have such a long way to go, but we should not despair and think that no progress has been made. Everyone needs to remember that these biases exist in all of us.” bit.ly/371pEg3

Check out our new preprint on causal gene-gene relationships between roots and shoots in the plant N response.

Another new preprint from my group where Madara Dilhani teaches us about sorghum stem gene regulatory networks and how they diverge. Very cool stem biology!

Well, it finally happened. This #ICE International #StudentBan got me back into the “organizing effective lobbying action via twitter” game. Want to make sure our lovely international students can keep their visas? Here’s how to do it: THREAD. thehill.com/homenews/admin… 1/14

Really intriguing!

That’s one yummy looking tart, and also a link to a fun interview I did with Alisa Alering Science Node™ .

Great write-up about a great person!

Read this interview with the awesome @rlsdvm_epivet and then give her a follow!

Registration is open for the 5th Crops in silico Symposium & Hackathon June 8-10 at University of Illinois!🌿 ☑️Virtual event to improve collaboration on model integration for computer-simulated crops ☑️Keynote by Michael Pound of Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN Learn more➡️ cropsinsilico.org/2021-annual-me…

What effects does environmentally induced “stress” have on crops? Amy Marshall-Colon Amy Marshall-Colon University of Illinois works on this question and will soon join PhenoRob as a guest professor with a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award Humboldt-Stiftung. Read more: uni-bonn.de/news/086-2021?…

Join us in celebrating the #diversity of ideas at our annual meeting! 💡🎉 Watch the livestream (23 June, 5 p.m. CEST) with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Nobel Laureate and #Humboldtian Emmanuelle Charpentier or follow #ProgressDiversity. youtu.be/dO6Nq3QUG38

Ready to #ProgressDiversity at the AvH annual meeting today! Humboldt-Stiftung