Noah Fahlgren

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The 2024 North American Plant Phenotyping Network annual conference will be held at Purdue University February 13-15.

Conference registration is now open. Note that a significant Early Bird discount ends on 12/1/2023, so be sure to register early.

To be considered for a talk, please submit your abstract or conference paper by October 30th, 2024.

https://www.plantphenotyping.org/conference-home

#NAPPN #PlantPhenotyping #RemoteSensing #PrecisionAgriculture #ComputerVision #MachineLearning

2024 Annual Conference — North American Plant Phenotyping Network

The 2024 NAPPN Annual Conference will be held at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. It will highlight the most recent advances in the field of Plant Phenomics. Join us for exciting scientific content, the NAPPN General Assembly meeting, hands on workshops, virtual tours, and more!

North American Plant Phenotyping Network

Looking to join a fantastic team working on a super cool project? Enthusiastic about plant-virus interactions and working on interesting research with applications beyond the lab?
Help us figure out how a single base pair change results in such a drastic phenotypic difference!
Apply here: https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=108968&clientkey=0386834D209CD1EA462A147F53A126FF

#DanforthCenter #cassava #CassavaMosaicDisease #PlantScienceJobs

Postdoctoral Associate

The Taylor and Bart labs at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are seeking to fill a joint postdoctoral research position....

Exciting announcement: @bleeptrack and I will create a 2.0 version of our open-source Git learning game https://ohmygit.org! 🎉

For the first time, you'll be able to play the game directly in your browser, using a *real Git* in a tiny Linux VM!

And for people whose first language isn't English, the game will come with other language versions!

Thanks to the @PrototypeFund for funding these often-requested features!

Oh My Git!

An open source game about learning Git

#PlantScience Research Weekly
https://plantae.org/plant-science-research-weekly-sept-1-2023/

* How flower development genes were discovered;
* Structure/function insights into PINs;
* Chloroplast protein atlas;
* Branched chain amino acids and drought tolerance;
* Time-of-day effects of cell-specific C4 gene expression;
* Plant-borne secondary metabolites on soil conditioning;
* PERU receptor for Phytophthora response;
* JGI plant gene atlas, data resources from 18 species.

Happy reading, happy September!

Plant Science Research Weekly: Sept. 1, 2023 | Plantae

Perspective: How flower development genes were identified using forward genetic screens in Arabidopsis thaliana If you weren’t around in the '80s, you missed some great times; the music, the fashion…

Plantae

Taxpayers have the right to have free and immediate access to research funded by their taxes.
Sec. 552 of the CJS bill shuts the door on #taxpayeraccess to research!

US taxpayers, call on your representatives to remove Sec. 552.

https://sparcopen.org/our-work/oppose-section-552-that-will-block-taxpayer-access-to-research/

Oppose Section 552 That Will Block Taxpayer Access to Research - SPARC

SPARC
This article on is an excellent deep dive on known AI harms, via profiles of women who should have been listened to long before everyone started talking about ChatGPT. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

Rolling Stone
Second article from me for @thespacebar: why you should NOT use Brave Browser. I've been meaning to write this for a long time but never got around to it. https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser
Stop using Brave Browser

Seriously.

The Spacebar

Open rank faculty position in "Microbiome Sciences" at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (one of my home departments)

https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05866

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor In-Residence/Professor (tenure track): Microbiome Sciences

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

Important article about the future of libraries from Karawynn Long https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries Short version: one of the worst companies in the world now owns OverDrive (the e-book service used by most North American libraries) and is about to start making it progressively more awful in order to squeeze more profit out of it.
The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries

Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

Nine Lives

Hiring a Lab Coordinator !

Short description: Management of root phenomics experiments at field and greenhouse sites.

Location: Tucson, AZ ... and yes, this implies drought studies

Start date: negotiable

Details: https://tinyurl.com/LabCoordinator

Laboratory Coordinator I (Extended Temporary Employment)

Assists in the coordination of programs and projects such as maintaining and executing experiments (requires weekend work).Coordinates operational act...