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Tom Buckley
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Dad, husband, plant ecophysiologist (UC Davis), cyclist. Californian, Virginian, Utahn, Canberran, New South Welshman, Tasmanian, and deifier of wombats.
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Today we pause to honour all who sacrificed their lives in war, all who served and returned, and the families and communities who carry that legacy. We will remember them. #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Unbelievable! How can this crap still be published?
Reverse Image Forensics Challenge: Try to find a unique area in Figure 9 of this recent Scientific Reports paper: 10.1038/s41598-025-17456-6 [Aug 2025] - Annotated by ImageTwin.ai
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
www.schornacklab.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Hi @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social! If you vote for this horrible deal, I will spend the next 4 years making sure you are both primaried and retired from the US Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
OMG my MSP friends @kellybarnhill.bsky.social @maryheskel.bsky.social I need one of these and I will pay anything
"Hennepin County Library is honoring one of Minnesota’s most iconic artists with a limited-edition Prince library card, available while supplies last at all 41 Hennepin County Library locations" www.hclib.org/prince?fbcli...
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.

Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Kelly Barnhill's THE CRANE HUSBAND has such a gorgeous cover, I can't get over it

(the book is also very, very good)
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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FRED HICKEY: “.. GenAI is probably the most over-hyped technology I’ve ever witnessed in my 45 years of following tech stocks.”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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New York state legislators should strip land grant status from this university.
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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I'll add one key thing: Several graduate programs in the US across various disciplines won't admit students in Fall 2026. Before reaching out to faculty, please check the program's website to check that they are, in fact, accepting students in Fall 2026.
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.

Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees

> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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📢New paper in @aobp.bsky.social led by LEMONTREE PhD Student Jan Lankhorst: Nutrient availability increases photosynthetic capacity without altering the cost of resource use for photosynthesis. Check it out👇
doi.org/10.1093/aobp...
@eaperkowski.bsky.social et al.
Nutrient availability increases photosynthetic capacity without altering the cost of resource use for photosynthesis
Abstract. Eco-Evolutionary Optimality (EEO) theory predicts that plants maximize resource investment in photosynthetic capacity at the lowest costs of acqu
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty.

This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.

➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I mean, NYT is f'd but not stupid. This was a choice. We need to ask why.

They clearly think their bottom line will benefit more from the exposure created by this inane headline than it will lose from lost subscriptions and visits.

Let's prove them wrong.
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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This is correct, with one important caveat - most decisions on funding, admin, publishing, career, are made (and can be derailed) by people who by definition benefited the most from these metrics and incentives, and stand to lose the most by changing them.
Academics set their metrics and incentives. And that defines everything. Including the future of scientific publishing.

And if at any point, one feels that incentives are being defined from outside, that's what needs to be fought against.

But the power of change lies within.
November 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2
A new major Windows 11 release means a new guide for cleaning up the OS.
arstechnica.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM