Joseph Kleinkopf
@jkleinkopf.bsky.social
PhD candidate | Marx Lab | Alpine plants | he/him | jkleinkopf.github.io 🌼
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New #OER for biology teachers! We use *real data* from the RMBL phenology project to teach about changing plant phenology in warming mountain environments, R programming, and science writing. Please use and improve! qubeshub.org/publications...
@rmblscience.bsky.social @jkleinkopf.bsky.social
@rmblscience.bsky.social @jkleinkopf.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New #OER for biology teachers! We use *real data* from the RMBL phenology project to teach about changing plant phenology in warming mountain environments, R programming, and science writing. Please use and improve! qubeshub.org/publications...
@rmblscience.bsky.social @jkleinkopf.bsky.social
@rmblscience.bsky.social @jkleinkopf.bsky.social
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Legal representatives for murdered Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi filed complaints and demands for investigation with the International Criminal Court. After his death, Meta deleted his Instagram account, thereby destroying a critical historical record of the genocide.
UN, ICC Urged to Investigate Murder of Palestinian Journalist Saleh Aljafarawi
Meta deleted his Instagram account after his death, destroying a critical historical record of the genocide.
truthout.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Legal representatives for murdered Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi filed complaints and demands for investigation with the International Criminal Court. After his death, Meta deleted his Instagram account, thereby destroying a critical historical record of the genocide.
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There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition.
Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
September 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition.
Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
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Yet another study (Danish) has found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma & autoimmune diseases. In this study, they tracked 1 million kids over 21 years.
🧪🔗 en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...
🧪🔗 en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...
Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions
A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...
en.ssi.dk
July 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Yet another study (Danish) has found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma & autoimmune diseases. In this study, they tracked 1 million kids over 21 years.
🧪🔗 en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...
🧪🔗 en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...
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State of Washington, Shaded Relief - United States Department of the Interior - Geological Survey - Edition of 1964, Corrected 1968
3D Render
#ArcGISPro #b3d #WashingtonState #PNW #Seattle #PacificNorthwest
3D Render
#ArcGISPro #b3d #WashingtonState #PNW #Seattle #PacificNorthwest
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
State of Washington, Shaded Relief - United States Department of the Interior - Geological Survey - Edition of 1964, Corrected 1968
3D Render
#ArcGISPro #b3d #WashingtonState #PNW #Seattle #PacificNorthwest
3D Render
#ArcGISPro #b3d #WashingtonState #PNW #Seattle #PacificNorthwest
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Still coming off an alpine high from our trip last week in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness documenting alpine flora apart of Western N. America Alpine Plant Surveys. Highlights included this alpine poppy not documented in New Mexico for over a century! 🌱 @jkleinkopf.bsky.social @hannahmarx.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Still coming off an alpine high from our trip last week in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness documenting alpine flora apart of Western N. America Alpine Plant Surveys. Highlights included this alpine poppy not documented in New Mexico for over a century! 🌱 @jkleinkopf.bsky.social @hannahmarx.bsky.social
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If a 25 yo with a big social media footprint and the message “We deserve better leaders” is the equivalent of “a nuclear bomb”?
If that’s all it takes to derail your national party? One guy with a list?
Are you not concerned you’re making his point for him?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...
If that’s all it takes to derail your national party? One guy with a list?
Are you not concerned you’re making his point for him?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...
June 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If a 25 yo with a big social media footprint and the message “We deserve better leaders” is the equivalent of “a nuclear bomb”?
If that’s all it takes to derail your national party? One guy with a list?
Are you not concerned you’re making his point for him?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...
If that’s all it takes to derail your national party? One guy with a list?
Are you not concerned you’re making his point for him?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...
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This
Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap.
The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm.
Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.
The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm.
Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.
June 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This
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Ms.Rachel is showing more humanity than our politicians
May 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Ms.Rachel is showing more humanity than our politicians
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A coalition of 36 herbaria across the United States have teamed up to create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants ✨ ferns ✨ called the PteridoPortal.
Full story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/biol...
Paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Full story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/biol...
Paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A coalition of 36 herbaria across the United States have teamed up to create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants ✨ ferns ✨ called the PteridoPortal.
Full story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/biol...
Paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Full story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/biol...
Paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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“I don’t think we want trusting audiences. We want critical audiences, and we want to acknowledge that their desire to question, interrogate, and challenge are positive things, not negative.” —CNN's CEO Mark Thompson this week.
I think that's interesting and different, but not many agree with me.
I think that's interesting and different, but not many agree with me.
May 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“I don’t think we want trusting audiences. We want critical audiences, and we want to acknowledge that their desire to question, interrogate, and challenge are positive things, not negative.” —CNN's CEO Mark Thompson this week.
I think that's interesting and different, but not many agree with me.
I think that's interesting and different, but not many agree with me.
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Amazing study from Jill Anderson, Megan Demarche and colleagues, integrating species distribution models, reciprocal transplants, snow manipulation and more to test whether a montane plant can adapt to climate change. The sad answer: not without human intervention.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Amazing study from Jill Anderson, Megan Demarche and colleagues, integrating species distribution models, reciprocal transplants, snow manipulation and more to test whether a montane plant can adapt to climate change. The sad answer: not without human intervention.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance.
In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."
But this is unequivocal fact.
In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."
But this is unequivocal fact.
The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long
For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread
www.whitehouse.gov
April 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance.
In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."
But this is unequivocal fact.
In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."
But this is unequivocal fact.
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I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
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This paper came out earlier this year, but I'm reposting it here because it's been a massive labour of love, with over a decade of work (including 7 years of sampling and months of analyses during successive COVID lockdowns) having gone into this.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
September 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
This paper came out earlier this year, but I'm reposting it here because it's been a massive labour of love, with over a decade of work (including 7 years of sampling and months of analyses during successive COVID lockdowns) having gone into this.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Better late than never! Geology and climate drive alpine plant compositional variation in the Cascades of WA. A nice paper by Erik 😎 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Geology and climate drive alpine plant compositional variation among peaks in the Cascade Range of Washington
Alpine areas are host to diverse plant communities that support ecosystems through structural and floral resources and persist through specialized adaptations to harsh high-elevation conditions. An on...
journals.plos.org
April 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Better late than never! Geology and climate drive alpine plant compositional variation in the Cascades of WA. A nice paper by Erik 😎 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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OMG did y’all see this over at other place? Bunch of climate deniers wrote a “scientific paper” rebutting climate science basics (published in a BS fossil fuel industry front “journal”) and claimed *Grok* as the First Author.. BUT then, they were completely ripped to shreds by…Grok! Like a symphony👌🏻
March 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
OMG did y’all see this over at other place? Bunch of climate deniers wrote a “scientific paper” rebutting climate science basics (published in a BS fossil fuel industry front “journal”) and claimed *Grok* as the First Author.. BUT then, they were completely ripped to shreds by…Grok! Like a symphony👌🏻
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Sobering. When I talk to people about long-term bird population declines in N America, I mention that the main cause is habitat loss, not climate change - yet. But new research shows that climate change is causing bird declines even in otherwise pristine places. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why
Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Sobering. When I talk to people about long-term bird population declines in N America, I mention that the main cause is habitat loss, not climate change - yet. But new research shows that climate change is causing bird declines even in otherwise pristine places. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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!["I'm not a scientist" is a phrase that has been often used by American politicians, primarily Republicans,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] when asked about a scientific subject, such as global warming,[1] or the age of the Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreifun36abhamu7uhha7pjq5egxkq2wdt2bfhfewq6kdsex2vvwzxwe@jpeg)
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I got to visit CU Boulder today for collections visits.
I definitely needed to clear off this Monument and get a picture of it. 🧪
I definitely needed to clear off this Monument and get a picture of it. 🧪
January 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I got to visit CU Boulder today for collections visits.
I definitely needed to clear off this Monument and get a picture of it. 🧪
I definitely needed to clear off this Monument and get a picture of it. 🧪
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Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby
app.watchduty.org
January 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
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New HiSSE model just dropped! We show that gains and losses of single chromosomes sometimes (but not always!) increases speciation in sedges. Plant evolution is complex and messy, but advances in macroevolutionary models are slowly allowing us to catch up.
New study by @tribblelab.bsky.social @jimarcor.bsky.social @marcialescudero.bsky.social Michael May, Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and myself just out:
Introduces a novel HiSSE chromosome model and demonstrates the importance of chrom. evol. in #sedge diversity.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Introduces a novel HiSSE chromosome model and demonstrates the importance of chrom. evol. in #sedge diversity.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 26, 2024 at 6:15 PM
New HiSSE model just dropped! We show that gains and losses of single chromosomes sometimes (but not always!) increases speciation in sedges. Plant evolution is complex and messy, but advances in macroevolutionary models are slowly allowing us to catch up.
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Accusations of antisemitism for wearing a keffiyeh conflates cultural identity with hatred & trivializes real antisemitism. It also fuels anti-Arab/Palestinian prejudice.
Posts like this undermine efforts to combat antisemitism by diluting its seriousness & fueling confusion of its definition.
Posts like this undermine efforts to combat antisemitism by diluting its seriousness & fueling confusion of its definition.
January 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Accusations of antisemitism for wearing a keffiyeh conflates cultural identity with hatred & trivializes real antisemitism. It also fuels anti-Arab/Palestinian prejudice.
Posts like this undermine efforts to combat antisemitism by diluting its seriousness & fueling confusion of its definition.
Posts like this undermine efforts to combat antisemitism by diluting its seriousness & fueling confusion of its definition.