Karolina Heyduk
@kheyduk.bsky.social
Assistant Prof UConn EEB | CAM photosynthesis keeps me up at night | made of cookies | She/her. Views my own.
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After a >1 yr hiatus, the #fern tree of life (FTOL) #phylogeny is back with another update! 🌿 🌏 🧬
For the first time including >1,000 whole plastomes and >6,000 fern species!
Available at fernphy.github.io/downloads.html
For the first time including >1,000 whole plastomes and >6,000 fern species!
Available at fernphy.github.io/downloads.html
Downloads – Fern Tree of Life
Current and past versions of FTOL available for download
fernphy.github.io
February 3, 2026 at 8:20 AM
After a >1 yr hiatus, the #fern tree of life (FTOL) #phylogeny is back with another update! 🌿 🌏 🧬
For the first time including >1,000 whole plastomes and >6,000 fern species!
Available at fernphy.github.io/downloads.html
For the first time including >1,000 whole plastomes and >6,000 fern species!
Available at fernphy.github.io/downloads.html
Man everything on instagram is 3000% funnier at 11:30 pm on a Monday night.
February 3, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Man everything on instagram is 3000% funnier at 11:30 pm on a Monday night.
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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
February 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
everything is bad but the shortbread I made is super good so there's that.
February 2, 2026 at 12:52 AM
everything is bad but the shortbread I made is super good so there's that.
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Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota
Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas
www.standwithminnesota.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
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4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
www.salemreporter.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
Write a couple hundred words about myself? No thanks, I'd rather clear snow from the grass for no reason.
January 31, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Write a couple hundred words about myself? No thanks, I'd rather clear snow from the grass for no reason.
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ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Rice students create nationwide ICE tracker to monitor immigration enforcement
The students had been teaching weekly children's classes as volunteers. One day, the kids stopped showing up.
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:50 PM
ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”
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These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent
lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember
www.jlundyforsd65.com
lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember
www.jlundyforsd65.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
Please if you know of others being returned without review let us know! No clear pattern that I can tell.
Fwiw my student sent an appeal to email listed in rejection message and got a (form) response that their app was being further evaluated.
Fwiw my student sent an appeal to email listed in rejection message and got a (form) response that their app was being further evaluated.
A number of our students got the following comment back on a rejection for the NSF GFRP. They are in an eligible STEM field. Is this something people in other places are getting too? Is it a quirk or targeted?
January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Please if you know of others being returned without review let us know! No clear pattern that I can tell.
Fwiw my student sent an appeal to email listed in rejection message and got a (form) response that their app was being further evaluated.
Fwiw my student sent an appeal to email listed in rejection message and got a (form) response that their app was being further evaluated.
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Calling all OrthoFinder users!
We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny.
GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
github.com/lauriebelch/...
(1/10)
We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny.
GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
github.com/lauriebelch/...
(1/10)
www.biorxiv.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Calling all OrthoFinder users!
We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny.
GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
github.com/lauriebelch/...
(1/10)
We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny.
GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
github.com/lauriebelch/...
(1/10)
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A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record:
“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
wooooow
January 28, 2026 at 10:56 PM
A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record:
“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
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This is ... interesting, considering I got not one but two emails from NSF soliciting ecologists as GRFP reviewers
We just had the same thing! I came on here to hopefully get info.
Her topic is Ecology, which is clearly listed?
Her topic is Ecology, which is clearly listed?
January 27, 2026 at 8:35 PM
This is ... interesting, considering I got not one but two emails from NSF soliciting ecologists as GRFP reviewers
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Anyone dealt with challenging an "Ineligible" determination on a GRFP proposal?
A student's proposed was DQ'ed stating: "Applicants must select research in eligible STEM or STEM education fields."
However, Ecology is clearly listed in the solicitation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Any wisdom?
A student's proposed was DQ'ed stating: "Applicants must select research in eligible STEM or STEM education fields."
However, Ecology is clearly listed in the solicitation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Any wisdom?
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
January 27, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Anyone dealt with challenging an "Ineligible" determination on a GRFP proposal?
A student's proposed was DQ'ed stating: "Applicants must select research in eligible STEM or STEM education fields."
However, Ecology is clearly listed in the solicitation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Any wisdom?
A student's proposed was DQ'ed stating: "Applicants must select research in eligible STEM or STEM education fields."
However, Ecology is clearly listed in the solicitation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Any wisdom?
Grad student in lab just had their GRFP returned without review. But their proposal is not on ag/crops/health. What gives?? 😡
January 27, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Grad student in lab just had their GRFP returned without review. But their proposal is not on ag/crops/health. What gives?? 😡
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Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution!
friedmanlab.ca
friedmanlab.ca
Friedman Lab
Visit the post for more.
friedmanlab.ca
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution!
friedmanlab.ca
friedmanlab.ca
Hey, anyone I know every apply to an Institute of Library & Museum Sciences grant for museums (bot gardens, nat hist collections esp)? Would love to see an application example!
January 26, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Hey, anyone I know every apply to an Institute of Library & Museum Sciences grant for museums (bot gardens, nat hist collections esp)? Would love to see an application example!
I snow blowed 20" of snow off a quarter mile driveway and I am now jello. Bye.
January 26, 2026 at 6:27 PM
I snow blowed 20" of snow off a quarter mile driveway and I am now jello. Bye.
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I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
Ok. I'm calling it. This is too much snow.
January 26, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Ok. I'm calling it. This is too much snow.
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ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month.
Statement from Standing Rock:
Statement from Standing Rock:
January 25, 2026 at 9:03 PM
ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month.
Statement from Standing Rock:
Statement from Standing Rock:
A what now?
KARL: He was an ICU use who worked for the VA and there's no evidence he brandished the gun whatsoever
BESSENT: But he brought a gun
KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment
BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
BESSENT: But he brought a gun
KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment
BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
January 25, 2026 at 5:16 PM
A what now?
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Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.
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I don’t think we should be using words like “innocent” or “US citizen” or “bystander” or things like that because — what if someone was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record? Would they deserve this? No one deserves to be executed on the street in cold blood.
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I don’t think we should be using words like “innocent” or “US citizen” or “bystander” or things like that because — what if someone was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record? Would they deserve this? No one deserves to be executed on the street in cold blood.