Imeña Valdes
@imenarv.bsky.social
plant and pollinator enthusiast | MS in Plant Biology & Conservation (she/her)
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Hey undergrads! Apply for Caltech’s 10-week WAVE Fellows program.
-$6K stipend + housing + $1K travel/dining
-Apply by Jan 9, 2026:
sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
-Info sessions in November: sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
-$6K stipend + housing + $1K travel/dining
-Apply by Jan 9, 2026:
sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
-Info sessions in November: sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
WAVE Fellows
The 2026 WAVE Fellows award is $6,000 for the ten-week period, plus on-campus housing, and a dining and travel supplement of ~$1000. Caltech housing is available and we strongly encourage all Fellows to live on campus. The 2026 WAVE Fellows program dates are June 15 through August 21.
sfp.caltech.edu
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hey undergrads! Apply for Caltech’s 10-week WAVE Fellows program.
-$6K stipend + housing + $1K travel/dining
-Apply by Jan 9, 2026:
sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
-Info sessions in November: sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
-$6K stipend + housing + $1K travel/dining
-Apply by Jan 9, 2026:
sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
-Info sessions in November: sfp.caltech.edu/undergraduat...
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ROOT & SHOOT 2026 travel awards are open for SACNAS, MANRRS, or AISES student/mentor pairs. Up to $3,000 per pair (US) / $4,000 (intl) to attend select plant-science conferences.
Apply by Dec 5, 2025.
Details & application:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Apply by Dec 5, 2025.
Details & application:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
NSF Research Coordination Network: ROOT & SHOOT. 2026 travel award application for members of SACNAS, MANRRS, or AISES
The NSF-funded LEAPS: RCN: ROOT & SHOOT (Rooting Out Oppression Together and SHaring Our Outcomes Transparently) aims to strengthen plant science to become more welcoming to all. Part of this mission ...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
ROOT & SHOOT 2026 travel awards are open for SACNAS, MANRRS, or AISES student/mentor pairs. Up to $3,000 per pair (US) / $4,000 (intl) to attend select plant-science conferences.
Apply by Dec 5, 2025.
Details & application:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Apply by Dec 5, 2025.
Details & application:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Is there anyone who got a master's degree, took some time to work, and then went to get their PhD? I have questions for you 🤓
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Is there anyone who got a master's degree, took some time to work, and then went to get their PhD? I have questions for you 🤓
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
September 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
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Mentors needed for BSA’s GRFP Workshop! 🌱
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants.
Learn how you can help!
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants.
Learn how you can help!
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
September 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Mentors needed for BSA’s GRFP Workshop! 🌱
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants.
Learn how you can help!
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop for Plant Researchers is returning in 2025. With NSF’s 2026 GRFP deadline set for Oct 27, we’re looking for mentors to guide student applicants.
Learn how you can help!
mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
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Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe.
Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...
Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...
Plant cells are totipotent, meaning individual cells have the potential to develop into a full organism, a property unique to the zygote for animals. However, in most species for most cells, plant cells are not spontaneously totipotent, since they must be treated with specific hormone combinations to unlock their totipotency. Species within the Kalanchoe genus is unique as they spontaneously develop foliar embryos that are fully realized plantlets with shoot and root from notches along the edges of leaves. We speculate that the progenitor cells that give rise to these foliar embryos are totipotent, and we are using single cell techniques to identify & characterize them. In addition to being a fundamental process for plant biology, we foresee unlocking totipotency has many biotechnological applications, such as faciliating genetic transformation and the development of synthetic organs of biomanufacturing.
cxli233.github.io
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe.
Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...
Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...
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MSU is great place to do plant science research. My lab will be a great place to develop new expertise in genomics and plant molecular biology.
Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Please email me if you have any questions.
Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Please email me if you have any questions.
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary
The Li lab in the Department of Plant Biology is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate to work on project(s) in plant molecular biology, biochemistry, and/or genomics. The idea...
careers.msu.edu
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
MSU is great place to do plant science research. My lab will be a great place to develop new expertise in genomics and plant molecular biology.
Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Please email me if you have any questions.
Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Please email me if you have any questions.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Applications for the 2026 Pivot to Plants Fellows Program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are now open.
Location: St. Louis, MO
Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026
Estimated Stipend: $37,275
Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Location: St. Louis, MO
Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026
Estimated Stipend: $37,275
Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center
The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.
www.danforthcenter.org
September 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Applications for the 2026 Pivot to Plants Fellows Program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are now open.
Location: St. Louis, MO
Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026
Estimated Stipend: $37,275
Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Location: St. Louis, MO
Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026
Estimated Stipend: $37,275
Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Join Pollinator Partnership on Sept. 25th and 26th at The Plant for the Pollinator Steward Certification workshop! We'll have great presentations, an in-depth tour of the facility, and plenty of chances to network with other Chicagoland farmers/gardeners. Go register at tinyurl.com/ILPSC-Fall25! 🐝 🌻
August 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Join Pollinator Partnership on Sept. 25th and 26th at The Plant for the Pollinator Steward Certification workshop! We'll have great presentations, an in-depth tour of the facility, and plenty of chances to network with other Chicagoland farmers/gardeners. Go register at tinyurl.com/ILPSC-Fall25! 🐝 🌻
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Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
August 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
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Today is 'A Day for BSA!' Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of BSA supporting the botanical sciences!
🌱 Visit: www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025
🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!
🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA
🌱 Visit: www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025
🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!
🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA
August 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today is 'A Day for BSA!' Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of BSA supporting the botanical sciences!
🌱 Visit: www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025
🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!
🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA
🌱 Visit: www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025
🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!
🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA
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Botanists! I'm in the market for a new pole pruner (from vendors Grainger, Amazon or Forestry Suppliers)...easy to use for someone who is 5' (not too heavy, single pole not too tall). Any recommendations??? Gracias!
August 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Botanists! I'm in the market for a new pole pruner (from vendors Grainger, Amazon or Forestry Suppliers)...easy to use for someone who is 5' (not too heavy, single pole not too tall). Any recommendations??? Gracias!
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Well, this is a big deal in my neck of the woods. If you typically applied to NSF EDU AISL, CSforAll, DRK-12, TD, or CORE, this is your new opportunity. Proposals accepted at any time. Expected awards up to $750k for up to 3 years. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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August 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Well, this is a big deal in my neck of the woods. If you typically applied to NSF EDU AISL, CSforAll, DRK-12, TD, or CORE, this is your new opportunity. Proposals accepted at any time. Expected awards up to $750k for up to 3 years. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium!
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu
August 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium!
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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Let me be the (perhaps) the first to promote this job on bsky. BRIT is a super important herbarium run by some of the nicest folks I've met in Botany. I'd love to have another great colleague in this neck of the woods...
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
Research Botanist
...
www.paycomonline.net
August 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Let me be the (perhaps) the first to promote this job on bsky. BRIT is a super important herbarium run by some of the nicest folks I've met in Botany. I'd love to have another great colleague in this neck of the woods...
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
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Great opportunity! #PlantScience
PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor.
Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience
"Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science"
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
I know folks who should apply to this!
PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor.
Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience
"Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science"
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
I know folks who should apply to this!
PLOS Biology Associate Editor- FTC
UK-Remote
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io
August 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great opportunity! #PlantScience
PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor.
Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience
"Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science"
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
I know folks who should apply to this!
PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor.
Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience
"Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science"
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
I know folks who should apply to this!
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Celebrate 130+ years of BSA supporting the botanical sciences! Join us for the 2nd annual 'A Day for BSA' on Aug 27, 2025. www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025
🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!
🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA
🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!
🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA
A Day for BSA 2025
day-for-bsa.botany.org
August 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Celebrate 130+ years of BSA supporting the botanical sciences! Join us for the 2nd annual 'A Day for BSA' on Aug 27, 2025. www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025
🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!
🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA
🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!
🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA
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MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu
August 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!
We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
August 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!
We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
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Does anyone have any experience transferring existing iNaturalist observations to projects like BeeSpotter and BumbleBeeWatch? I want to do the #WildBeesForSheila but uploading 300 bee observations to two other websites sounds like a hassle
August 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Does anyone have any experience transferring existing iNaturalist observations to projects like BeeSpotter and BumbleBeeWatch? I want to do the #WildBeesForSheila but uploading 300 bee observations to two other websites sounds like a hassle
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collective bluesky brain: is there anyone interested in helping me with a project involving protein evolution and secondary metabolism in plants? 🌱🌾
August 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
collective bluesky brain: is there anyone interested in helping me with a project involving protein evolution and secondary metabolism in plants? 🌱🌾
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1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology?
2) Are you in the US?
3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?
4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?
If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
2) Are you in the US?
3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?
4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?
If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
August 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology?
2) Are you in the US?
3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?
4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?
If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
2) Are you in the US?
3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?
4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?
If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
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Did you see Catrina Adams' #Botany2025 plenary talk on #PlantingScience last night?
She shared so much fantastic info on the program---if you'd like to read more about the program, check out this new Plant Science Bulletin article!
issuu.com/botanicalsoc... #botany #plantscience #plantpeopleftw
She shared so much fantastic info on the program---if you'd like to read more about the program, check out this new Plant Science Bulletin article!
issuu.com/botanicalsoc... #botany #plantscience #plantpeopleftw
July 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Did you see Catrina Adams' #Botany2025 plenary talk on #PlantingScience last night?
She shared so much fantastic info on the program---if you'd like to read more about the program, check out this new Plant Science Bulletin article!
issuu.com/botanicalsoc... #botany #plantscience #plantpeopleftw
She shared so much fantastic info on the program---if you'd like to read more about the program, check out this new Plant Science Bulletin article!
issuu.com/botanicalsoc... #botany #plantscience #plantpeopleftw