Kathleen Pryer
@KathleenPryer
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Duke professor who named a genus of ferns in honor of Lady Gaga. Go ferns, go Gaga! I sooo love cats!
Duke University, Durham NC
Joined September 2012
@DukeChronicle @DukeU @DukeBiology "The mere announcement of the probable dismantling of the century-old Duke University Herbarium collection has caused outrage in the research community". Nature Plants Editorial, June 2025. https://t.co/TiYxioaiqg
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Duke University is eliminating its herbarium, the second largest private collection in the western hemisphere. https://t.co/WEunOJfqcy
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Paper promises, priceless losses: The closure of Duke’s herbarium
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Like its reliance on carbon offsets rather than real emissions reductions, Duke’s closure of the herbarium signals a troubling trend of focusing on sustainability commitments that look good on paper...
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Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. https://t.co/UhmKeo3RrD
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Nature - US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Plant libraries hold essential clues about climate change, but they're vulnerable to funding cuts
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Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question...
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Plant libraries hold essential clues about climate change, but they're vulnerable to funding cuts
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Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question...
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Duke’s administration should speak publicly about the University’s vital interests
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President Trump’s unfolding policies linked to the Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE), when fully implemented, will cause severe harm to Duke and every other university that receives federal...
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Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute | Science | AAAS
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“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned
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Paper promises, priceless losses: The closure of Duke’s herbarium
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Like its reliance on carbon offsets rather than real emissions reductions, Duke’s closure of the herbarium signals a troubling trend of focusing on sustainability commitments that look good on paper...
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Harvard vs Duke: A study in contrasting views on biodiversity research
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@KathleenPryer Those quotes just eating at me. Yes, we do have to hire faculty that do collections-based research in order to keep collections going. But how is that such a limitation?! Ecologists use collections, evolutionary biologists use collections, geneticists use collections...
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This is the ad that triggered Trump operative Charlie Kirk. It would be a real shame if it went viral
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