White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt getting schooled by a reporter in her bogus press conference with Tulsi Gabbard about their fake "scandal" about Obama (who has presidential immunity) is glorious.

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1/ Resilin is a disordered, elastomeric protein used by insects to store and release mechanical energy.
Its resilience (~97%) makes it one of the most efficient biological springs known. Properties arise from sequence-level disorder + sparse crosslinking—not crystallinity.
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We figured out how much water is in all of Earth’s plants and how long it takes water to flow through them.

Answer: 786 km3 and 5-18 days.

@NatureWaterJnl @koen_hufkens @sciencebyAJ

We’re hiring a tenure-track faculty in Vegetable Crop Physiology @CornellCALS
School of Integrative Plant Science. To apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29207 Application deadline: 2024/02/28. Please share widely! @ChristineSmart6 @LynnSosnoskie @shiversherlock @kaitlinmgold

The @FeedtheFuture Innovation Lab for @CropImprovement has been awarded a 2nd five-year, $25M grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (@USAID) to continue advancing its mission of improving global food security & agricultural resilience. news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/1…

We’re hiring a tenure-track faculty in Plant Microbiome & Plant Health in a Changing Climate @CornellCALS
School of Integrative Plant Science. To apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28742 Application deadline: 2024/12/10. Please share widely! @AdamBogdanove @ChristineSmart6

We’re hiring a tenure-track faculty in Bioresource Soil Science and Mgmt @CornellCALS
School of Integrative Plant Science. To apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28150 Application deadline: 2024/12/15. Please share widely!
@RoseLabCornell @JLehmannCornell @ChristineSmart6

Excited to announce an MBG faculty search for two assistant professor positions in collaboration with the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, @weillinstitute.
Please share and apply!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28336

Please RT! The Gold Lab at @CornellAgriTech is hiring a lab/project manager to join our interdisciplinary team of plant pathologists, computer scientists, engineers, and remote sensing scientists. Apply by *Sept 16th* for full consideration:
tinyurl.com/goldlabmanager…

Two weeks left to apply for the Plant Synthetic Biology Assistant Professor position at Cornell (Sept 3rd deadline)! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27851

We’re hiring a tenured/tenure-track Synthetic Biologist @CornellCALS School of Integrative Plant Science. To apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27851 Application deadline: 2024/09/03. Please share widely! @ASPB @RoederLab @lau_gunn @Margare41291282 @RoseLabCornell

We’re hiring a tenure-track Controlled Environment Agriculture Crop Physiologist @CornellCALS
School of Integrative Plant Science. To apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27731 Application deadline: 2024/09/05. Please share widely! @UrbanEcosystems @ASHS_Hort @ASPB

During @FAODG's visit to @Cornell, he met with @BenHoulton and other faculty members from @CornellCALS, the School of Integrative Plant Science, and @CornellGlobal, where he learnt about their research programs and work to help transform agrifood systems and protect #PlantHealth.

Congratulations Johannes Lehmann of @CornellCALS, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS161 #soilscience

Congratulations to the wonderful 🍾🍾awardees from the School of Integrative Plant Science at the ⁦@CornellCALS⁩ Annual Faculty and Staff Awards!! Hale Tufan and Keith Payne also included but not in the photo. Proud to celebrate you all!🍾🎉

Dorota Szlek, a PhD candidate in fiber science, is designing a sustainable future by electrospinning lignin into useful fibers. Her research utilizing biowaste has the potential to replace plastics in medical products and water filtration.

🍒New tools help us understand🍐the complex world of #fruit🍈#evolution🥭in this remarkable new study from Xiang et al.🍇
🥝doi.org/10.1111/jipb.1… 🫐@wileyplantsci #JIPB #PlantSci #angiosperm🍎#ovary #NuclearPhylogeny #phylogeny

CHESS receives $20M from NSF for new X-ray beamline news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…

Very excited to see this new opportunity to advance the application of precision X-ray studies of agriculture, biology and environmental sciences at @Cornell and @CornellCALS ! Congratulations on a wonderful collaborative initiative.

We’re hiring a tenured/tenure-track Urban Plant Ecologist at @CornellCALS School of Integrative Plant Science. To apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27059 Application deadline: 2024/03/10. Please share widely! @UrbanEcosystems @Becologists @ESALatAmCarib