Western SARE announces 2 new Calls for Proposals releases - Sabbatical Research & Education and the Graduate Student Research & Education grant programs. Due March 5, 2026. Reminder: 4 other grant programs due Nov 20, 2025. All Calls: https://ow.ly/BhcQ50XnZTx photo: Vo von Sehlen

The Western IPM Center's 2026 Request for Applications is now available! Get the details and read other news -- like a new feature story about organic cotton in AZ and a call for more integrated pest management investment from the IPM Institute -- in our October newsletter. icont.ac/5188D

Here are two great videos to get started with the renv package:

1. youtu.be/Oen9xhEh8PY?...
2. youtu.be/yc7ZB4F_dc0?...

Thanks @albertrapp.bsky.social and @patschloss.bsky.social!

Shout out to the #rstats {performance} package. Its check_model() function is super helpful for model evaluation.

#statistics #STEM

My help is being too helpful

Kochia is up! It's officially field season

A rearranged Amaranthus palmeri extrachromosomal circular DNA confers resistance to glyphosate and glufosinate

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Bur buttercup is amazing! By the time you see it, its flowering already.

My department (Plant Science) at Penn State has three assistant professor searches ongoing. Please share!

Controlled env ag: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Turfgrass science: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Landscape sustainability: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Hi! I’m Erik and I’ll be helping with the moderation of the Science 🧪 feed by adding biologists whose field isn’t covered by any of the other moderators.

Please reply to this post with a link to a lab/google scholar/research gate/ORCID/etc page, to be added to the feed!

This is my favorite Extension call this year. His neighbor sprayed his beets with paraquat.