J Friesner
@jfriesner.bsky.social
Plant science supporting, Arabidopsis, community, manatees, vegetarian, trying to be kind to others
Big festival after the march in the small-ish town of Corvallis, Oregon! It ended with a dance party… many people are still on the streets with their signs- 3 hours later!
October 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Big festival after the march in the small-ish town of Corvallis, Oregon! It ended with a dance party… many people are still on the streets with their signs- 3 hours later!
@radiolab.bsky.social I loved Soren’s reframing & it happens to provide clarity on something I’ve been trying to articulate:
Jane Goodall:
“I don’t like to talk about animal rights. I prefer to talk about human responsibilities.”
Me: “what are OUR responsibilities to each other? To our community?”🥰
Jane Goodall:
“I don’t like to talk about animal rights. I prefer to talk about human responsibilities.”
Me: “what are OUR responsibilities to each other? To our community?”🥰
October 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
@radiolab.bsky.social I loved Soren’s reframing & it happens to provide clarity on something I’ve been trying to articulate:
Jane Goodall:
“I don’t like to talk about animal rights. I prefer to talk about human responsibilities.”
Me: “what are OUR responsibilities to each other? To our community?”🥰
Jane Goodall:
“I don’t like to talk about animal rights. I prefer to talk about human responsibilities.”
Me: “what are OUR responsibilities to each other? To our community?”🥰
Ready for today’s march for Democracy!
(With a nod to my neighbors to the North in Portland! 🐸🥰)
(With a nod to my neighbors to the North in Portland! 🐸🥰)
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Ready for today’s march for Democracy!
(With a nod to my neighbors to the North in Portland! 🐸🥰)
(With a nod to my neighbors to the North in Portland! 🐸🥰)
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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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⏰ Don’t forget – applications for the JXB 2026 Editorial Internships closes next Tuesday (30 Sept)! 🌱✍️
⚠️ Don’t leave it to last minute – the application takes some work:
📄 CV
📝 Cover letter
🔍 Commentary (Insight style, max 1500 words, based on a JXB paper ≥ July 2024)
Apply now: bit.ly/jxbinterns
⚠️ Don’t leave it to last minute – the application takes some work:
📄 CV
📝 Cover letter
🔍 Commentary (Insight style, max 1500 words, based on a JXB paper ≥ July 2024)
Apply now: bit.ly/jxbinterns
🚨 Calling all #PlantScience ECRs! 🚨
JXB is now inviting applications for its 2026 Editorial Internships 🌱✍️ 🧪
✨ You’ll gain:
🌿 Behind-the-scenes publishing experience
📝 Write commentary pieces
🤝 Join our 2026 Editorial Board meeting 👩💻
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept
👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns @sebiology.bsky.social
JXB is now inviting applications for its 2026 Editorial Internships 🌱✍️ 🧪
✨ You’ll gain:
🌿 Behind-the-scenes publishing experience
📝 Write commentary pieces
🤝 Join our 2026 Editorial Board meeting 👩💻
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept
👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns @sebiology.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
⏰ Don’t forget – applications for the JXB 2026 Editorial Internships closes next Tuesday (30 Sept)! 🌱✍️
⚠️ Don’t leave it to last minute – the application takes some work:
📄 CV
📝 Cover letter
🔍 Commentary (Insight style, max 1500 words, based on a JXB paper ≥ July 2024)
Apply now: bit.ly/jxbinterns
⚠️ Don’t leave it to last minute – the application takes some work:
📄 CV
📝 Cover letter
🔍 Commentary (Insight style, max 1500 words, based on a JXB paper ≥ July 2024)
Apply now: bit.ly/jxbinterns
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Engineering flowers as a means for public outreach and art!
Dr. @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social reimagines Arabidopsis with new colors and shapes, blending plant biology, synthetic biology and creative arts!
Hear him speak at SB 8.0 at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! jamboree.igem.org/2025/program...
Dr. @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social reimagines Arabidopsis with new colors and shapes, blending plant biology, synthetic biology and creative arts!
Hear him speak at SB 8.0 at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! jamboree.igem.org/2025/program...
September 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Engineering flowers as a means for public outreach and art!
Dr. @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social reimagines Arabidopsis with new colors and shapes, blending plant biology, synthetic biology and creative arts!
Hear him speak at SB 8.0 at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! jamboree.igem.org/2025/program...
Dr. @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social reimagines Arabidopsis with new colors and shapes, blending plant biology, synthetic biology and creative arts!
Hear him speak at SB 8.0 at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! jamboree.igem.org/2025/program...
I’m officially starting the call for this movie to play EVERYWHERE in 2026- in honor of the USA’s 250th anniversary (and the film’s 20th) It was amazingly prescient
youtu.be/6lai9QhBibk?...
youtu.be/6lai9QhBibk?...
Idiocracy (2006) Trailer | Luke Wilson | Dax Shepard
YouTube video by Film Trailer Channel
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I’m officially starting the call for this movie to play EVERYWHERE in 2026- in honor of the USA’s 250th anniversary (and the film’s 20th) It was amazingly prescient
youtu.be/6lai9QhBibk?...
youtu.be/6lai9QhBibk?...
we should refer to him from here on out as Gavin “Big Balls” Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov
September 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
we should refer to him from here on out as Gavin “Big Balls” Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov
The GOP are the biggest cheaters. Fact check here: independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx
August 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The GOP are the biggest cheaters. Fact check here: independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx
Ruby heard me discussing taking a walk before it hit 90° and wanted to register her interest in participating 🤣
July 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ruby heard me discussing taking a walk before it hit 90° and wanted to register her interest in participating 🤣
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📜 In defense of funding foundational plant science
🧑🔬 @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
#️⃣ #PlantScience
🧑🔬 @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
#️⃣ #PlantScience
In defense of funding foundational plant science
Abstract. Plants are essential for life as we know it on Earth. They oxygenate the atmosphere, regulate the climate, and comprise much of the primary produ
academic.oup.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
📜 In defense of funding foundational plant science
🧑🔬 @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
#️⃣ #PlantScience
🧑🔬 @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
#️⃣ #PlantScience
Lots of fun to make this and work with Catherine, Adrienne, and Arif!
📜 A Timeline of Discovery and Innovation in Arabidopsis
🧑🔬 Catherine Freed, @jfriesner.bsky.social, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #FoundationalScience #FoundationalPlantScience #Arabidopsis #PlantSciHis
🧑🔬 Catherine Freed, @jfriesner.bsky.social, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #FoundationalScience #FoundationalPlantScience #Arabidopsis #PlantSciHis
A Timeline of Discovery and Innovation in Arabidopsis
Catherine Freed, Arif Ashraf, Nancy A Eckardt, Adrienne H K Roeder, Joanna Friesner; A Timeline of Discovery and Innovation in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell,
academic.oup.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Lots of fun to make this and work with Catherine, Adrienne, and Arif!
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Registration is open for JXB's 75th Anniversary Symposium
🌱
We have plenty of speaker slots for ECRs & lots of opportunity to network
🌳
There's a conference dinner at The Caves & workshops for ECRs
🌾
Sign up now to join us in Edinburgh in September, places are limited: bit.ly/JXB75
#plantscience 🧪
🌱
We have plenty of speaker slots for ECRs & lots of opportunity to network
🌳
There's a conference dinner at The Caves & workshops for ECRs
🌾
Sign up now to join us in Edinburgh in September, places are limited: bit.ly/JXB75
#plantscience 🧪
March 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Registration is open for JXB's 75th Anniversary Symposium
🌱
We have plenty of speaker slots for ECRs & lots of opportunity to network
🌳
There's a conference dinner at The Caves & workshops for ECRs
🌾
Sign up now to join us in Edinburgh in September, places are limited: bit.ly/JXB75
#plantscience 🧪
🌱
We have plenty of speaker slots for ECRs & lots of opportunity to network
🌳
There's a conference dinner at The Caves & workshops for ECRs
🌾
Sign up now to join us in Edinburgh in September, places are limited: bit.ly/JXB75
#plantscience 🧪
Maybe why they’re dismantling US Universities ?
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Maybe why they’re dismantling US Universities ?
😵
I don’t think it should be surprising to anyone. R01s will do anything to have their funding.
This is just the worst week. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
March 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
😵
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Here is UW - Madison's budget. Our <largest> funder is the federal government. 25%. It used to be the state. Either way, the university in its current form ceases to exist if these federal cuts really happen. But The. Public. Doesn't. Know. This. And our leaders are absent from the public debate.
March 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...
Bringing expansion microscopy to plants
Biologist Kevin Cox, in Arts & Sciences, has discovered a low-cost way to more easily study the detailed makeup of plant cells. The ultimate goal is to help grow better crops, improving food security.
source.washu.edu
March 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...
This suppression of first amendment rights by the U.S. government is utterly shocking
This is truly depraved. The goal is to force universities into even more extreme violence against protesters and suppression of free speech.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
March 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This suppression of first amendment rights by the U.S. government is utterly shocking
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Reading an internal NIH guidance memo which basically says since we’re probably going to be shutting down labs with little or no notice just be sure to remember about the whole disposing of biohazard materials the right way thing. ☣️ 😬🤡
March 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reading an internal NIH guidance memo which basically says since we’re probably going to be shutting down labs with little or no notice just be sure to remember about the whole disposing of biohazard materials the right way thing. ☣️ 😬🤡
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i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing
March 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing
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Finally some truth about what the impact of institutional silence is as DEI is mothballed. "I see the University for what it is: a place of incredible power and prestige more concerned with public image than the well-being of affected faculty, staff, postdocs and students..."
disq.us/t/4tb43sv
disq.us/t/4tb43sv
From the Community | I am more than a researcher, but Stanford doesn’t care
Assistant Professor Elliot White Jr. denounces the University's faint response to political threats against DEI, especially compared to the robust support its research initiatives in the wake of NIH f...
stanforddaily.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Finally some truth about what the impact of institutional silence is as DEI is mothballed. "I see the University for what it is: a place of incredible power and prestige more concerned with public image than the well-being of affected faculty, staff, postdocs and students..."
disq.us/t/4tb43sv
disq.us/t/4tb43sv
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Registration is now open for the #CSPB #SCBV 2025 Annual Meeting CSPB2025.ca for all details and information. The meeting will be hosted in Halifax, NS this year from Aug 9 - 12. We can’t wait to see you there! #scienceconference #plantscience #conference
March 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Registration is now open for the #CSPB #SCBV 2025 Annual Meeting CSPB2025.ca for all details and information. The meeting will be hosted in Halifax, NS this year from Aug 9 - 12. We can’t wait to see you there! #scienceconference #plantscience #conference