Kristen Edgeworth

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

A) people recoil in horror when I tell them the amount of reviewing I do in a year

B) sometimes I do service because, if I didn't, a person with less power would be harmed (e.g., tenure)

C) women are treated very differently when we say no to these types of requests

humans are animals
we need animal models to understand ourselves
chatGPT isn’t going to cut it

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Loss of PIF7 attenuates shade and elevated temperature responses throughout the lifecycle in Pennycress Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) is under development to be grown as a winter annual intermediate oil seed bioenergy crop in the Midwest during typical fallow periods. Crucial work remains to domesticate ...

Something we have been working on. Built off the work of the unforgettable Dr. Joanne Chory. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Remote sensing of endogenous pigmentation by inducible synthetic circuits in grasses Plant synthetic biology holds great promise for engineering plants to meet future demands. Genetic circuits are being designed, built, and tested in plants to demonstrate proof of concept. However, de...

Some new tools for monocots, and the plasmids are available at Addgene! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

@cornellasap.bsky.social my McClintock letter in the Petersburg Observer! Research helps everyone, including farmers 👩‍🌾🚜🌽

Thank you so much!

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Had the adrenaline rush of giving my first (flash) talk at a conference during the #ICAR2025 seasonality & rhythms session!

Pictured: me unsure of where to look and gesturing emphatically

Not pictured: the panic that crossed my face when I realized I had no clue how to use the laser pointer

I am SO excited to talk about my dissertation work on the circadian regulation of triacylglycerol biosynthesis at #PlantBio2025!!

Image Text: Biochemistry 1: Specialized Metabolites. Sunday, July 27, 2025. 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM. Maneesh Lingwan, Kristen Edgeworth, Ciara O'Brien, Nitin Kamble and Nadia Mourad Silva. University of Texas at Austin | Danforth Plant Science Center | University of Texas at Austin | Texas A&M | University of Birmingham

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