Richard Hilleary
@drdickhilleary.bsky.social
Impact of climate change on plant signal transduction | plantcalciumsignaling.com | Cat Dad | He/Him
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Come work with us!!
We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!
We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!
Just a few days left to apply to our TT position in Plant Physiology in the Dept. of Biology @UMassAmherst! Join a great group of plant scientists (and physiologists 😉) AND fall in love with small town New England! Please repost. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Come work with us!!
We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!
We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!
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Please help, folks.
That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away.
The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.
That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away.
The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.
Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.
alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Please help, folks.
That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away.
The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.
That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away.
The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.
Arkadipta Bakshi is recruiting PhD students for his new lab at Wake Forest. Arko is great to work with - check out his lab website for more info! www.arkadiptabakshilab.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Arkadipta Bakshi is recruiting PhD students for his new lab at Wake Forest. Arko is great to work with - check out his lab website for more info! www.arkadiptabakshilab.com
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Drawing your attention to an effort to convince NSF to re-open this year's GRFP competition to second year PhD students. Please consider signing or sharing the petition asking NSF to broaden the application eligibility to what it has been previously. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
October 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Drawing your attention to an effort to convince NSF to re-open this year's GRFP competition to second year PhD students. Please consider signing or sharing the petition asking NSF to broaden the application eligibility to what it has been previously. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
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U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to boost opportunities for domestic scientists by making it prohibitively expensive for universities to hire international faculty and staff. https://scim.ag/3Klmxai
Trump visa policy requires universities to pay huge fee to hire foreign scholars
U.S. employers to pay $100,000 for every new H-1B visa
scim.ag
September 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to boost opportunities for domestic scientists by making it prohibitively expensive for universities to hire international faculty and staff. https://scim.ag/3Klmxai
It seems shameful to just let these sit in my phone. Baby moose, meet Lola!
July 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It seems shameful to just let these sit in my phone. Baby moose, meet Lola!
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David Brooks, a conservative columnist speaks about the amount of people who have died directly as a result of cuts to USAID by Doge.
Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts.
It’s only been four months.
Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts.
It’s only been four months.
June 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
David Brooks, a conservative columnist speaks about the amount of people who have died directly as a result of cuts to USAID by Doge.
Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts.
It’s only been four months.
Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts.
It’s only been four months.
www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024...
I saw him jogging on Duke campus around 545am this morning and thought I’d lost my mind - apparently he’s a student here! WTF Dook!?
I saw him jogging on Duke campus around 545am this morning and thought I’d lost my mind - apparently he’s a student here! WTF Dook!?
Incoming Duke Law student Jefferson Griffin sues NCSBE over election data disclosure delays in NC Supreme Court race
In a North Carolina Supreme Court race with over five million ballots counted, a Duke Law student trails by just 623 votes. Now, he’s suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
www.dukechronicle.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024...
I saw him jogging on Duke campus around 545am this morning and thought I’d lost my mind - apparently he’s a student here! WTF Dook!?
I saw him jogging on Duke campus around 545am this morning and thought I’d lost my mind - apparently he’s a student here! WTF Dook!?
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Big 10 finally strategizing. The thought: a mutual defense compact
statenews.com/article/2025...
#academicsky
statenews.com/article/2025...
#academicsky
MSU faculty join call for Big Ten 'mutual defense compact' against Trump administration - The State News
Under the compact, participating institutions would “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund” that would “provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution un...
statenews.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Big 10 finally strategizing. The thought: a mutual defense compact
statenews.com/article/2025...
#academicsky
statenews.com/article/2025...
#academicsky
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Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour
Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@davidpakman.bsky.social One copy left at the Durham, NC Barnes & Noble - looking forward to this read!
April 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
@davidpakman.bsky.social One copy left at the Durham, NC Barnes & Noble - looking forward to this read!
Does anyone have a recommendation for a new set of vectors for inducible gene expression in plants? I’ve noticed the ones I’ve been using can be a bit leaky. Thanks! #PlantScience
April 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Does anyone have a recommendation for a new set of vectors for inducible gene expression in plants? I’ve noticed the ones I’ve been using can be a bit leaky. Thanks! #PlantScience
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Are we winning yet?
April 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Are we winning yet?
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Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada
Visit the post for more.
www.normanfinkelstein.com
March 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
Agreed. The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to resist.
If we don’t march by the millions we’re not going to have a country.
March 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Agreed. The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to resist.
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If we don’t march by the millions we’re not going to have a country.
March 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If we don’t march by the millions we’re not going to have a country.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Hear perspectives on the best path forward for our community amid the turbulence due to policy decisions enacted by the Trump administration. A listening session will be held on March 18, 2025, at 1 pm EST.
Hear perspectives on the best path forward for our community amid the turbulence due to policy decisions enacted by the Trump administration. A listening session will be held on March 18, 2025, at 1 pm EST.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ASPB Board of Directors Town Hall/Listening Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
ASPB Past-President Leeann Thornton recently shared that the ASPB Board of Directors is organizing a listening session to sit down virtually with ASPB members and members of the plant science communit...
us06web.zoom.us
March 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Hear perspectives on the best path forward for our community amid the turbulence due to policy decisions enacted by the Trump administration. A listening session will be held on March 18, 2025, at 1 pm EST.
Hear perspectives on the best path forward for our community amid the turbulence due to policy decisions enacted by the Trump administration. A listening session will be held on March 18, 2025, at 1 pm EST.
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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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The pressure to publish in high-impact journals is often at the expense of other scholarly activities
https://go.nature.com/3XihhIf
https://go.nature.com/3XihhIf
Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia
A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.
go.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The pressure to publish in high-impact journals is often at the expense of other scholarly activities
https://go.nature.com/3XihhIf
https://go.nature.com/3XihhIf
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My department is hiring! Looking for an Assistant Professor of Biology (Botanist/Plant Ecologist) in the Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences at West Texas A&M University.
If you have any questions feel free to DM me.
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WTAMU_...
If you have any questions feel free to DM me.
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WTAMU_...
Assistant Professor of Biology
Job TitleAssistant Professor of Biology Agency West Texas A&M University Department Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationCanyon, Texas Job TypeF...
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
My department is hiring! Looking for an Assistant Professor of Biology (Botanist/Plant Ecologist) in the Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences at West Texas A&M University.
If you have any questions feel free to DM me.
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WTAMU_...
If you have any questions feel free to DM me.
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WTAMU_...
#standupforscience2025 Great turnout and great signs in Raleigh, NC
March 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
#standupforscience2025 Great turnout and great signs in Raleigh, NC
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'Yale University announced a reduction in spending on faculty pay rises, staff hiring and campus construction. It joined Stanford University, Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have all enacted hiring freezes in recent weeks.'
‘Terrifying’ long-term threat to global research from US cuts
Yale University joins several other leading research institutions in pausing hiring or spending
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
'Yale University announced a reduction in spending on faculty pay rises, staff hiring and campus construction. It joined Stanford University, Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have all enacted hiring freezes in recent weeks.'
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greetings from berlin... 👋
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social @nabroderick.bsky.social @deniswirtz.bsky.social @contaminatedsci.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social @mcsymbiont.bsky.social @spribille.bsky.social @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social and many more...
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social @nabroderick.bsky.social @deniswirtz.bsky.social @contaminatedsci.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social @mcsymbiont.bsky.social @spribille.bsky.social @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social and many more...
#StandUpForScience👩🔬👨🔬📢Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, including our managing director, show solidarity with our colleagues in the US who are protesting against the attacks of the current US administration.
@standupforscience.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
@standupforscience.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
March 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
greetings from berlin... 👋
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social @nabroderick.bsky.social @deniswirtz.bsky.social @contaminatedsci.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social @mcsymbiont.bsky.social @spribille.bsky.social @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social and many more...
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social @nabroderick.bsky.social @deniswirtz.bsky.social @contaminatedsci.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social @mcsymbiont.bsky.social @spribille.bsky.social @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social and many more...