Nina Bravo
@bmnina.bsky.social
Hot flashes and tomatoes. WFU, Muday Lab Discord: none_11 Threads: bmnina #NotAnEcologist #womeninstem #cultsurvivor
Devastating to watch what's happening to higher ed.
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Devastating to watch what's happening to higher ed.
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How do plants elongate in shade? This morning @scourbier.bsky.social (from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social) revealed how shade boosts TOR activity and how TOR and auxin signalling tightly interact to drive hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis. A talk that filled the room!
📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
How do plants elongate in shade? This morning @scourbier.bsky.social (from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social) revealed how shade boosts TOR activity and how TOR and auxin signalling tightly interact to drive hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis. A talk that filled the room!
📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
This absolute unity of a flower blooming out of a very small, recently transplanted, Xmas cactus.
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This absolute unity of a flower blooming out of a very small, recently transplanted, Xmas cactus.
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Countdown: there are only 9 days left ... if you want to join
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Countdown: there are only 9 days left ... if you want to join
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
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#auxin and autophagy
🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨
We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#auxin and autophagy
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Yesterday I was discussing the intractibility of glioblastoma with a neuroscience colleague--this could be transformative 🧪
An extraordinary result for ipilimumab immunotherapy given as a first line therapy for glioblastoma
share.google/485XFZxmBm26...
share.google/485XFZxmBm26...
Dad’s aggressive brain cancer vanishes after taking new drug
The NHS is now looking for patients with glioblastoma to take part in a new drug trial
share.google
November 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Yesterday I was discussing the intractibility of glioblastoma with a neuroscience colleague--this could be transformative 🧪
I can't believe you are officially a teenager! It has been a wild ride watching you grow and find your voice. I love spending time with you, be it waiting at the dentist, driving to school, or helping with school work. Love you! 🫶🏼 🐉
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I can't believe you are officially a teenager! It has been a wild ride watching you grow and find your voice. I love spending time with you, be it waiting at the dentist, driving to school, or helping with school work. Love you! 🫶🏼 🐉
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Analysis: Last year's COVID vaccines protected well against severe illness www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ana...
Analysis: Last year's COVID vaccines protected well against severe illness
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Analysis: Last year's COVID vaccines protected well against severe illness www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ana...
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@sarahmackattack.bsky.social friends who live near you in Philly would appreciate any efforts to call attention to this petition to save a local garden c.org/jjB2HJHkG8
This campaign needs you now
Preserve Spooky Garden
c.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social friends who live near you in Philly would appreciate any efforts to call attention to this petition to save a local garden c.org/jjB2HJHkG8
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If you’re fed up with MacOS, here’s a really nice Linux version that runs on recent Macs. Super easy installation.
Run in terminal:
curl alx.sh | sh
Run in terminal:
curl alx.sh | sh
October 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you’re fed up with MacOS, here’s a really nice Linux version that runs on recent Macs. Super easy installation.
Run in terminal:
curl alx.sh | sh
Run in terminal:
curl alx.sh | sh
Preposterous
Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats
A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.
www.dispatch.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Preposterous
When the sweetest student leaves you a treat at the end of a long, tiresome Friday. 🫶🏼 Thanks Lily!
October 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
When the sweetest student leaves you a treat at the end of a long, tiresome Friday. 🫶🏼 Thanks Lily!
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I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."
🍀🔬
MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."
Sir. Respectfully. The USDA hasn't issued grant decisions since January 2025. How exactly are we, the scientists making these advances, being supported?
October 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sir. Respectfully. The USDA hasn't issued grant decisions since January 2025. How exactly are we, the scientists making these advances, being supported?
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SlATG8f enhances tomato thermotolerance and fruit quality via autophagy and HS pathways https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678159v1
September 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
SlATG8f enhances tomato thermotolerance and fruit quality via autophagy and HS pathways https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678159v1
Today I passed my qualifying exam. I couldn't have done without the support of my mentors, lab mates, and my family.
September 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Today I passed my qualifying exam. I couldn't have done without the support of my mentors, lab mates, and my family.
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Cure society, not autism. 💜
September 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Cure society, not autism. 💜
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If you’re local, come check out House of Faber & Friends (@fourteenacross.bsky.social, @momebie.bsky.social, and me) at the Watertown Arts Market next weekend (Aug. 9) at Arsenal Park! We’ve got handmade hats, tote bags, jewelry, sunglasses, poetry, and art prints!
🐙🪴👻
🐙🪴👻
August 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If you’re local, come check out House of Faber & Friends (@fourteenacross.bsky.social, @momebie.bsky.social, and me) at the Watertown Arts Market next weekend (Aug. 9) at Arsenal Park! We’ve got handmade hats, tote bags, jewelry, sunglasses, poetry, and art prints!
🐙🪴👻
🐙🪴👻
Scientists & grad students: Want to inspire the next generation? Join Letters to a Pre-Scientist! Write a few letters to a curious middle schooler & show them what science can be. It’s low commitment, high impact 💌🔬 Sign up: tinyurl.com/LPS-25
July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Scientists & grad students: Want to inspire the next generation? Join Letters to a Pre-Scientist! Write a few letters to a curious middle schooler & show them what science can be. It’s low commitment, high impact 💌🔬 Sign up: tinyurl.com/LPS-25
Happy bday to my beautiful friend and lab mate! Thanks for keeping me company through so many hours of greenhouse cleaning and LCMS.
July 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Happy bday to my beautiful friend and lab mate! Thanks for keeping me company through so many hours of greenhouse cleaning and LCMS.
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Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.
July 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.
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“This year the NSF has awarded only $32 million, representing a 72 percent reduction. By this metric, mathematics is one of the most deeply affected subjects, second only to physics, which has seen an 85 percent reduction.“
🥲 The cost to future society will be much more than the dollars they think they’re saving #mathsky www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
Math Is Quietly in Crisis over NSF Funding Cuts
A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.
www.scientificamerican.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“This year the NSF has awarded only $32 million, representing a 72 percent reduction. By this metric, mathematics is one of the most deeply affected subjects, second only to physics, which has seen an 85 percent reduction.“
The Beagle has landed.
July 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Beagle has landed.