is it just me or if you spend 2 seconds thinking about systemic racism in academia, you quickly realize that we would need to pay grad students and post-docs much much more? #ShutDownSTEM

Put down that paper for the day. Put down your data analysis for the day. Put down your experiments for the day. Postpone your academic achievement tweets. Use this time to LISTEN and LEARN about systemic racism in academia. #ShutDownSTEM #ShutDownAcademia

Read this entire thread. Great perspective. #Strike4BlackLives #ShutDownSTEM

Two days left to submit abstracts for Plant Health 2020 Online! apsnet.org/meetings/annua…

Excited to have this opportunity... but the submission system is really temperamental. Beware - pages would fail to load, progress gets erased, and somehow I've now reached the poster upload page without entering abstract text or payment info. 🤔😐🙃

Just spent all day tetris-ing figures and text onto my #planthealth2020 poster. Pretty proud of how it turned out, it's submitted, and now I should sleep... But maybe first a brownie? Seriously, though - so stoked for that meeting and #PlantBio20

Unexpected quality of life improvement from attending a virtual conference: I can turn my laptop sideways to read sideways labels

Really enjoying #PlantBio20 thus far. I can think of one improvement that could be made, though - a little bit more time between talks would be fantastic for people writing questions and to allow the audience to mentally transition from topic to topic.

As someone who switched from the Pseudomonas-Arabidopsis pathosystem to ipomovirus-cassava, the plant virology posters and sessions at #planthealth2020 have been a scientific wonderland for me.

😂 check out my grad school recap video! My nerves weren’t in shape to do this a year ago—so we just gotta take this 2-year recap 🤪 Lmk what you think! youtu.be/WM1Njs4ggwI

Voting. Got out to vote 6ish like I usually do. Instead of less than a dozen at the poll, easily many dozens in line. Democracy in action♥️

George Floyd will never again play games with his daughter, Gianna. He’ll never go on walks through the park with his fiancée, Courteney. He will never play basketball with his brother, Philonise. True justice would mean George Floyd was never killed in the first place.

Three dope EC Black scientists at the Danforth Center wrote a letter to The Plant Cell to share our experiences in academia & suggestions to improve the culture for Black scientists to thrive. I enjoyed writing this with Kiona & Taylor M Harris! 🥳💪🏾 academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…

Now that I have 100K followers, I want to talk about #OvarianCancer. Specifically my gritty story. The goal is awareness. I hope you find this narrative informative.

I love the associated picture and story. Great lesson on survivorship/selection bias. gordonlee.com/armour-wwii-bo…

Bart Lab is looking for a post doc to study the plant microbiome as part of Danforth Center 's SINC initiative danforthcenter.org/our-work/resea…. Come join us! Becky Bart is a great mentor and person, and we're a tight-knit group of collaboration minded individuals!

Thanks to everyone Danforth Center and in the Bart and Carrington labs for a successful @PlantTechJam! What did we learn? Plants get sick and microbes are fun.

44 days. That’s all the time we have left until Election Day. Kamala Harris has the vision, strength, and compassion to lead this country forward. Make your voice heard—make a plan to vote early, vote by mail, or head to the polls. go.kamalaharris.com