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Assistant Prof UConn EEB | CAM photosynthesis keeps me up at night | made of cookies | She/her. Views my own.
@kheyduk.bsky.socialI made a wood shed! With lots of help from @emcassey.bsky.social because I am short and only have two hands. Don't look too hard to see if it's plumb (it is not).
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@kheyduk.bsky.social(Also extremely possible I missed it in previous years!)
@kheyduk.bsky.socialGRFP letter writers, this bit in the solicitation for reference letters seems new for this year: "comment on the applicant's potential for contributing to a globally-engaged United States science and engineering workforce" FYI!
@aobp.bsky.socialReposted by @kheyduk.bsky.social🧬New article on genomic diversity in the coastal shrub Scaevola taccada, asking how genetic variation is structured across protected & human-dominated areas, & what roles selection, gene flow, & drift play.
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@kheyduk.bsky.socialIt's all so painfully stupid.
@kheyduk.bsky.socialLol. No way. Who would have known?!
@noamross.netReposted by @kheyduk.bsky.socialTrump announced $100M to train U.S. citizen scientists only. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
These are not new funds. NSF underspent its education funds by $100M this past year.
Of course, it pales in comparison to the $560M lost due to terminated NSF education grants: grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪
@sarahhird.bsky.socialReposted by @kheyduk.bsky.socialThat time I put almost all the chipmunk species in the western USA on one map. Did you know there’s 1 species of chipmunk in Asia, 1 in eastern USA & >20 in western USA? (I’m not the crazy one here. The chipmunks are the crazy ones.)
@newphyt.bsky.socialReposted by @kheyduk.bsky.socialFloral bilateral symmetry: one axis, many details
#TansleyInsight by Ya Min (闵娅) @minyaaa.bsky.social
@kheyduk.bsky.socialReally over bad actors in science this week. Get your shit together friends. 😵💫
@dangaristo.bsky.socialReposted by @kheyduk.bsky.socialNEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
@kheyduk.bsky.socialI complain but I think our frost date is mid October. So only a week early 🤷♀️
@kheyduk.bsky.socialLol happy "bring all the plant friends in because of an early frost" day to all.
@kheyduk.bsky.socialHah sorry!
@kheyduk.bsky.socialPicked up metal roof panels for our wood shed and received delivery of a powerful snowblower, so you're welcome in advance for the warm, snowless winter we are guaranteed to have in NE.
@auditorynerves.bsky.socialReposted by @kheyduk.bsky.socialCan you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize? 🧪🔬🧬⚛️
Since the Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901, few women have been recognized in the categories of physics, chemistry & physiology or medicine.
Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates here:
@donmoyn.bsky.socialReposted by @kheyduk.bsky.socialUnless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
@atrupar.comReposted by @kheyduk.bsky.socialI recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
