BIG version update of our _deepbiosphere_ model in bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110… a deep learning network to predict thousands of plant species at high resolution! All led by Lauren E. Gillespie! @CarnegieScience Carnegie Plants Carnegie Ecology Stanford University Stanford AI Lab 👇

Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold. Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers go.nature.com/3Qtd4hI

we edited a collection of articles in Frontiers - Plant Science highlighting Women in Biotechnology. check out the collection and our editorial here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Last year, when we surveyed current and previous NSF PRFB Fellows, several respondents talked about how the lack of employee status many Fellows experience directly exacerbates these exact challenges. - 1/5

The “postdoc” is an antiquated concept and should just be replaced with real jobs with real benefits and retirement packages. For God’s sake, the folks have PhDs… they’ve paid their dues.

Calling all grad students! The BSA Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology is now open for applications! Up to $10,000 to support Ph.D. research. Deadline: Feb 1, 2024. Apply now: botany.org/home/awards/aw… #BSAGraduateStudents #BSAawards

The HudsonAlpha U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER-funded American Campus Tree Genomes (ACTG) project publishes it's 2nd PacBio genome where students assembled, annotated, and released the WA-38 "Cosmic Crisp(R)" genome - led by Huiting Zhang Huiting Zhang. Democratizing genomics for all!

Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium chng.it/tX6R5JgD via Change.org

Herbaria In Peril, by Dr. Cassandra Quave🌿⚕️ open.substack.com/pub/naturespha…

Excited about our @bioRxiv paper led by postdoc Megan Ruffley, PhD in our lab & Uli Lutz | ulrich-lutz.bsky.social from WeigelLab @PlantEvolution , using CRISPR on 50 Arabidopsis wild type populations to test our previous observation that under dry/hot climates there is a conflict between favoring

I’m thrilled to announce that my paper with Moi Expósito-Alonso (#MOILAB) and Megan Ruffley, PhD tracking rapid plant species changes with deep learning is live at PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Valley Fire as seen during takeoff this morning!