Rachel Jabaily
@racheljabaily.bsky.social
Associate professor at Colorado College, plant evolutionary biologist, dog friend, working mom.
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TWO PhD positions at Uni Western Australia with Caitlin Moore studying #agrivoltaics & #microclimate. Funding available for int'l & domestic students. Closing soon–apply by Fri 31 Oct (Aus time).
#PlantScience
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researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
#PlantScience
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October 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
TWO PhD positions at Uni Western Australia with Caitlin Moore studying #agrivoltaics & #microclimate. Funding available for int'l & domestic students. Closing soon–apply by Fri 31 Oct (Aus time).
#PlantScience
researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
#PlantScience
researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
I love my PBS Passport app! It's great to watch and to listen to shows like a podcast. Ken Burns' The Roosevelts series is helping me focus on the bigger picture of our country, who we were, are, and can be. @pbs.org
September 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I love my PBS Passport app! It's great to watch and to listen to shows like a podcast. Ken Burns' The Roosevelts series is helping me focus on the bigger picture of our country, who we were, are, and can be. @pbs.org
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Today is #ADayforBSA!
🌿 Support the future of botany by donating to the BSA Endowment. Every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference and allows us to support students, our publications, and community-building conferences now and for years to come.
Donate now: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
🌿 Support the future of botany by donating to the BSA Endowment. Every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference and allows us to support students, our publications, and community-building conferences now and for years to come.
Donate now: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
August 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Today is #ADayforBSA!
🌿 Support the future of botany by donating to the BSA Endowment. Every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference and allows us to support students, our publications, and community-building conferences now and for years to come.
Donate now: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
🌿 Support the future of botany by donating to the BSA Endowment. Every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference and allows us to support students, our publications, and community-building conferences now and for years to come.
Donate now: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...
STEM professor colleagues, give this a read. We need to raise our own awareness to threats across all facets of higher Ed and support our colleagues and the core educational and scholarly mission of academia.
What it’s like to be a Middle East Studies Professor in fall 2025 - my new post surveys the field, and my colleagues.
Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up.
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Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up.
abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...
What it's like to be a Middle East Studies professor in 2025
Basically, it sucks.
Last week, Tuft's Dan Drezner and my GW colleague Dave Karpf published really good pieces on what it's like to be, respectively, a dean of international affairs and a professor o...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
STEM professor colleagues, give this a read. We need to raise our own awareness to threats across all facets of higher Ed and support our colleagues and the core educational and scholarly mission of academia.
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IT’S HERE!!!!!! My new book, *Sweet Taste of Empire* spotted in the wild!
@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩
August 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
IT’S HERE!!!!!! My new book, *Sweet Taste of Empire* spotted in the wild!
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Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”
Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...
Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight
“We did everything according to state law, everything was compliant,” said Patty Sheehan, the city’s first openly gay elected official. “FDOT never moves that quickly with anything.R…
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August 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”
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This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.
August 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.
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Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
jobs.colorado.edu
August 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
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Holy fricking A.
1. Sciences aren't remotely apolitical, from who gets to do research to which research projects are funded to how findings are interpreted.
2. Who is going to write the reports/papers without humanities?
3. Science is also a target!! Ask the CDC researchers who were shot at!
1. Sciences aren't remotely apolitical, from who gets to do research to which research projects are funded to how findings are interpreted.
2. Who is going to write the reports/papers without humanities?
3. Science is also a target!! Ask the CDC researchers who were shot at!
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
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August 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Holy fricking A.
1. Sciences aren't remotely apolitical, from who gets to do research to which research projects are funded to how findings are interpreted.
2. Who is going to write the reports/papers without humanities?
3. Science is also a target!! Ask the CDC researchers who were shot at!
1. Sciences aren't remotely apolitical, from who gets to do research to which research projects are funded to how findings are interpreted.
2. Who is going to write the reports/papers without humanities?
3. Science is also a target!! Ask the CDC researchers who were shot at!
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Did you see @racheljabaily.bsky.social new open educational resource "Biology of Plants" coloring textbook when you were at #Botany2025 ? No? WELL GO CHECK IT OUT: oercommons.org/courses/the-... Gorgeous illustrations by MGB Hurst 😍
The Biology of Plants Coloring Textbook
The Biology of Plants Coloring Textbook was created by Dr. Rachel S. Jabaily (Colorado College Dept. Organismal Biology & Ecology) and M.G.B. Hurst (Colorado College class of 2025) with a grant from t...
oercommons.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Did you see @racheljabaily.bsky.social new open educational resource "Biology of Plants" coloring textbook when you were at #Botany2025 ? No? WELL GO CHECK IT OUT: oercommons.org/courses/the-... Gorgeous illustrations by MGB Hurst 😍
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We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
August 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
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From this month's edition of The Onion.
August 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
From this month's edition of The Onion.
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Hey! New faculty! Your annual reminder to keep track of *everything* you do in some way or another. I just dump stuff into a Google doc, nothing fancy, but saves a ton of time when working on promotion & tenure docs.
(Ask me what I'm working on right now...!) 🧪
(Ask me what I'm working on right now...!) 🧪
August 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hey! New faculty! Your annual reminder to keep track of *everything* you do in some way or another. I just dump stuff into a Google doc, nothing fancy, but saves a ton of time when working on promotion & tenure docs.
(Ask me what I'm working on right now...!) 🧪
(Ask me what I'm working on right now...!) 🧪
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Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
August 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
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Even though #Botany2025 is over, the botany hasn’t stopped for the #LagoLab! Aislinn and I are spending a few days working at @mobotgarden.bsky.social with Charlotte Taylor and our beloved rubes. #Rubiaceae #Taxonomy #Classification #Phylogeny #WomenInSTEM
August 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Even though #Botany2025 is over, the botany hasn’t stopped for the #LagoLab! Aislinn and I are spending a few days working at @mobotgarden.bsky.social with Charlotte Taylor and our beloved rubes. #Rubiaceae #Taxonomy #Classification #Phylogeny #WomenInSTEM
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Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
August 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
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What’s the first thing I did after I got back home from #Botany2025?
Showed off that sweet bulbous @ijpsjournal.bsky.social journal cover to my mom, which prompted her to then read the article!
The bulbous propaganda spreads!!
✌️😎🧅 #PlantPeopleFTW
Showed off that sweet bulbous @ijpsjournal.bsky.social journal cover to my mom, which prompted her to then read the article!
The bulbous propaganda spreads!!
✌️😎🧅 #PlantPeopleFTW
August 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
What’s the first thing I did after I got back home from #Botany2025?
Showed off that sweet bulbous @ijpsjournal.bsky.social journal cover to my mom, which prompted her to then read the article!
The bulbous propaganda spreads!!
✌️😎🧅 #PlantPeopleFTW
Showed off that sweet bulbous @ijpsjournal.bsky.social journal cover to my mom, which prompted her to then read the article!
The bulbous propaganda spreads!!
✌️😎🧅 #PlantPeopleFTW
Happy mammal reunion day to all botanists returning from #Botany2025
August 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Happy mammal reunion day to all botanists returning from #Botany2025
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Leaving Palm Springs and #Botany2025 feeling inspired, as always, but perhaps more importantly, feeling incredibly grateful for the wonderfully supportive botanical community. Botanists really are the best folks around.
July 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Leaving Palm Springs and #Botany2025 feeling inspired, as always, but perhaps more importantly, feeling incredibly grateful for the wonderfully supportive botanical community. Botanists really are the best folks around.
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Thank you ben ❤️ it has been a blast working with you during my tenure as student rep! #botany2025
Huge shout-out to @botanyballer.bsky.social for his amazing service as a BSA student rep these past two years!
I’m really going to miss all the moments we shared working toward a better BSA experience for students.
You’ve made a lasting impact!
#Botany2025
I’m really going to miss all the moments we shared working toward a better BSA experience for students.
You’ve made a lasting impact!
#Botany2025
July 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Thank you ben ❤️ it has been a blast working with you during my tenure as student rep! #botany2025
Sometimes (especially late in the conference) 5 minute talks just hit the spot! Thorough enjoying Germinating Ideas/Lightening Talks at #Botany2025 Got to see my senior undergrad Magdalyn Rowley-Lange crush her CAM talk ...and we got to see dogs hunting invasive plants!
July 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Sometimes (especially late in the conference) 5 minute talks just hit the spot! Thorough enjoying Germinating Ideas/Lightening Talks at #Botany2025 Got to see my senior undergrad Magdalyn Rowley-Lange crush her CAM talk ...and we got to see dogs hunting invasive plants!
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Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California!
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Some members of the Nigerian plant community at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, California!
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
Always fun to meet new friends and listen to all the brilliant ideas and research work from everyone. Always sticking together!!!
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social @petfemspeaks.bsky.social @preshonnature.bsky.social
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What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab