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Carolyn Rasmussen
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Prof of Plant Cell Biology at UC Riverside. Views are my own. She/her
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samaj-lab.bsky.social
very nice 😃 here is link to the paper showing triple marked nuclei, nucleoli and microtubules in barley:
doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Spatial organization and dynamics of chromosomes and microtubules during barley mitosis
We studied 3D chromosome organization and nuclear and microtubule dynamics in the live root apical meristems using a newly developed series of barley (Hordeum vulgare) translational fusion fluorescen...
doi.org
October 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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janephuong.bsky.social
#WaterWednesday
Reflection of cloud at a wetland.
October 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Earlier this year the scientific community successfully fought back on dramatic changes in Federal funding proposed by the Trump Administration.Now another RFI is proposing substantial changes that would damage peer review. This letter from SDB President Helen McNeill lays out the issue clearly 1/n
Dear SDB Members, I am writing you now to ask everyone to respond to a proposed change to the way that grant review information at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is communicated to grant applicants, institutions, and NIH program staff. This is your opportunity to provide feedback on the process that selects our grants for funding. The proposed change means that individuals, institutes and NIH staff will no longer receive the final overall impact score or percentile score that reflects the scientific opinion of a panel of experts. Currently, three reviewers provide their detailed opinion of a grant, and then the entire panel asks questions, can examine figures, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a grant, and then members all independently score. The final overall impact score reflects this discussion and careful consideration of the entire scientific panel. The proposed change is to now simply divide the scored grants into three categories: Scored applications would be grouped into three broad categories - “Most Competitive (top 25%),” “Competitive (26%-50%),” and “Not Discussed”. The motivation for the change is that decisions would now focus on the comments of reviewers, not the score of the grant to determine which grants to support. However, the current mechanism allows for scores and comments to be considered. Thus, removing the score component from NIH staff makes selection of which grants to fund more burdensome for NIH staff. The loss of detailed scores will also make it more difficult for researchers to assess how competitive an application was and determine whether to revise and resubmit it. An application ranked top 2% and one ranked 24th% would receive the same label, even if the scientific panel viewed them quite differently. Meanwhile, applications ranked 25th%and 26th% would be placed in different categories because of a tiny difference that NIH itself says should not be treated as meaningful. The proposal would erase potentially important differences while creating arbitrary new dividing lines. This is a dramatic loss of transparency in the scientific review process. Under the new plan, principal investigator(s), applicant institutions, NIH program staff, ICO leadership, and the relevant NIH Advisory Council will no longer have access to the final overall score. NIH is explicitly asking for input on this particular question. This is a Request for Information (RFI), not simply an announcement of a policy that has already been finalized. NIH says comments will be used to inform the final recommendation, including implementation and communication. Please comment here: https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=6a2b1c22c3fcfda46e0badd2 Deadline for response receipt is October 13, 2026, 11:59 PM ET.
October 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
carolynplants.bsky.social
This looks useful for Arabidopsis imaging 👀 doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.20.745988
Root cells with nuclei, plasma membrane and microtubules outlined in blue, magenta and yellow
October 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
carolynplants.bsky.social
What on earth
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
October 6, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Ms. belted kingfisher hanging out over a canal this morning. 🪶
Dark blue and white bird sitting on a rail that says "Plum" on it.
October 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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dongmei960.bsky.social
Dahlia

#photography #flowers #plants #blossom
#BloomScrolling
October 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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frwildflowers.bsky.social
Lecidea atrobrunnea (Brown Tile Lichen) I think growing on granite last Saturday. Or perhaps Lecidea fuscoatra? 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🌿
Brown and black lichen
October 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
carolynplants.bsky.social
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.
Sunset oranges blues and yellows with some houses and palm trees
October 3, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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bmaher.bsky.social
Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize? Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?
Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social
I always miss out on the okra flowers so today was a nice treat. I didn't know they'd be this pretty! 🌱
okra flower. pretty white petals with a dark red center.
October 3, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Think I'm gonna try growing seedbox next year! Just look at this autumnal cuboid weirdo.
Seedbox, Ludwigia alternifolia. Focus is on one of the two eponymous cubic seed pods on a forked stem, which projects above long, bright red-orange foliage. The pods have a little hole in the center of the top face of the cube.
October 2, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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jcellsci.bsky.social
Cutting corn-ers: @stephanieemartinez.bsky.social and
@carolynplants.bsky.social discover that KATANIN p60 guides asymmetric division plane positioning in maize.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Figure showing that PPBs are incompletely formed in p60 mutants.
September 28, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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jcellsci.bsky.social
Read more about this research in our ‘First person’ interview with Stephanie Martinez @stephanieemartinez.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Stephanie Martinez
September 28, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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mariemina2010.bsky.social
#Stunday
#ColorADay #OrangeSun
#Dahlia #Bloomscrolling
Close-up of a fully blooming dahlia in bright orange and pink tones. The outer petals are wide, pointed and strongly orange, with a bright yellow towards the middle. The center of the flower consists of densely packed, still unopened petals in a dark magenta pink. Green leaves and reddish plant stems can be seen in the background. Nahaufnahme einer voll aufgeblühten Dahlie in leuchtenden Orange- und Pinktönen. Die äußeren Blütenblätter sind breit, spitz zulaufend und kräftig orange, wobei sie zur Mitte hin in ein helles Gelb übergehen. Das Zentrum der Blüte besteht aus dicht gedrängten, noch ungeöffneten Blütenblättern in einem dunklen Magenta-Pink. Im Hintergrund sind grüne Blätter und rötliche Pflanzenstängel zu sehen.
September 27, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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kenchanmane.bsky.social
2026 Harvest wrapped up 🌽
Great day in the field #Kenchanmane-Raju lab and #RasmussenLab @carolynplants.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social
Rasmussen and Kenchanmane-Raju lab members in front of the maize field at Riverside CA
September 23, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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surtlab.bsky.social
My Uni has had serious money issues for past 5+ years. the kind that mean my Dept has lost 14 faculty in that time and next replacement hire scheduled for 2030 (not joking)

The University President just sent an email that he’s hiring a new “Special Advisor to the President” to help solve problem
September 23, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
The University of California system contains 6 of the top fifteen public universities in the US, including the top two. This rests on a long-ago vision that public education is a good thing and worth a lot of funding by the taxpayers of California.

www.usnews.com/best-college...
www.usnews.com
September 22, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 16d
6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
A check for $150,000 to 1820 PAC, a pro-Collins super PAC, from the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers.
September 22, 2026 at 6:19 PM
carolynplants.bsky.social
Check out this summary of our recent paper in JCS journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
September 22, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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dudinlab.bsky.social
Must admit, ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreamt of seeing microscopy images of #protists in @lemonde.fr
Today, protists are everywhere, and several images were taken by the team. And seeing #ichthyosporeans there too?! 🥹
One step closer to showcasing the beauty of the invisible microbial world. 🔬✨
September 21, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
Cabbage fractals
The cross-section of a red cabbage. It looks like a mandala with lots of triangles Another one. This one is more wiggly
September 20, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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socalleslie.bsky.social
Black throated magpie jay in the Tijuana River Valley here in San Diego. 🪶
Black throated magpie jay on the grass
September 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM
carolynplants.bsky.social
Datura #nativeplants
Enormous white flower
September 20, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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chenxinli2.bsky.social
Single cell transcriptome reveals the molecular pathways of MADS-box genes in maize ovule development

From: academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
Single cell transcriptome reveals the molecular pathways of MADS-box genes in maize ovule development
Abstract. Flowers are the reproductive structures of flowering plants, involved in seed production. A mature flower has four whorls of specialized organs t
academic.oup.com
September 20, 2026 at 2:27 PM