Join us in the Leach Lab! Research Assistant II (preferred MS) to study plant-microbe and plant-insect-microbe interactions. Check out the posting & apply by March 13: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/100227

Show Yesenia I Velez-Negron some #FollowFriday love 🔬

Great responses to this tweet. Personally, I use a few different tools (this is just a little list/thread) when I'm making infographics, posters, or more bespoke data visualizations that need those extra design details. 1/n

I randomly woke up today thinking about a grad student fellowship rejection I received in 2014.

Conference organizers: what are you doing to make sure your upcoming in-person conference will not be a super spreader event?

Poorly designed slides can destroy your presentation. Here are 9 must follow rules to create slides that pop and keep your audience engaged:🧵👇

This is what cell division of algae looks like: #biology by W. Egmond

Congratulations to Dr. Jacobs-Young on her confirmation to be Under Secretary of Dept. of Agriculture Research, Education and Economics! I am looking forward to working with her in this new role.

Ornamental plants have both ecological and mental health benefits! Thank you TEDxOhioStateUniversity and Ohio State Infectious Diseases Institute for helping me spread this message 🌸 Link: youtu.be/ppWbHjZRrYQ

USAJOBS - Job Announcement: Research Geneticist (Plants) - in the Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory at USDA ARS in Beltsville, MD: usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDet…

See the job announcement below for a permanent position studying the genetic diversity of tropical and subtropical perennial crops

Faculty are 25 times more likely to have a parent with a PhD. I just remembered that when I was a kid, our window AC unit leaked onto our carpet and a giant mushroom appeared overnight. If you're 1st gen and you also had a mushroom in your living room I see you.

At my lab's new location at USDA-ARS Foreign Diseases in Frederick, MD, we're looking to hire six new post-doctoral researchers to study invasive bacterial, fungal, oomycete and viral plant pathogens. Including three openings in my lab tinyurl.com/25272p8n

As a blind person QR code menus have made my life 1000% easier. Please, please keep them as an accessibility option even if you return to having paper menus. I can actually read menus now.

I feel thrilled to see our poster "Comparison of the defense responses in fruits and leaves of susceptible and tolerant cacao genotypes after infection by Phytophthora palmivora" was presented virtually @APSPlantHealth2022 The American Phytopathological Society in Pittsburg

I love working with RNA-Seq data because you'll generate a 10-panel plot that contains more information than the human mind can possibly comprehend and you'll just be like "okay this is Figure 4" and move on

Reminder from a HoH person: Folks who are d/Deaf or HoH do NOT need you to yell. In fact, it often makes you *harder* to understand. Comically over-enunciating is also bad! If you are trying to speak with a d/Deaf or HoH person you don't know well, try some of these:

Calling all microbial ecologists! A MSc in my previous lab is looking for a thesis committee member who can help guide on fungal microbiome analysis. I unfortunately cannot commit the time now. Remote and in person advisors (PA/NJ/NYC) can work too. Please RT!

I just noticed this (sharing for others who aren't aware): starting soon, APS Publications is consolidating all resource announcements to #PhytoFrontiers.