Shittu Ọláńrewájú 🇳🇬 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

A hungry population is an unproductive population. #sdg2 #foodsecurity #zero hunger

#plant pathology #trackandfield athlete

[ScientistsOnHold @ScientistOnHold]

Why is no one speaking out for #F1 /#NIW applicants who built their futures, careers, and lives around the rules that were in place when they planned and filed their applications?
The silence is deafening. Watching big tech companies mobilize only when H-1B visas are at risk is both deeply discouraging and profoundly disappointing.
#ScientistsInLimbo

[Max Akonde, Ph.D. @EpiAkonde]

I just got off the phone with my Nigerian friend. The consequences of the Visa ban imposed under President Trump are far more reaching than I initially thought. In total, 75 countries are facing some ban of some shape or form with 19 full ban. Out of the 75, 25 are African countries of which Nigeria is one.

Now my friend just finished his PhD and under the “normal” dispensation could apply for optional practical training (OPT) and get it approved within 3 months which allow him to stay and work for 1 year and could be extended for additional 2 years because he is in a stem field. Under the current visa ban, he cannot get his OPT processed within 3 months. He is on an indefinite wait and without the OPT, he cannot work. So he either leaves the country and forfeit the OPT or stay without job. That’s the hardest point you can be in the US where you don’t get a pause on bills or a friend or family to borrow money to hold body.

And just thinking through this, I find that many internationals may be in a similar or worse situation. For medical doctors who came on J1 or H1B, you’re expected to transition into permanent residency after your training. J1 and H1B only commits you to your facility of training for the period of the training especially for the J1. Now after 3 years in residency, if you’re from an affected country, you cannot be processed for any other immigration benefits. The is worse because if you did not start the permanent residency application and gotten the first part approved before the executive order, there is no where to turn; not even the indefinite wait. So you will have to leave the US within 60 days on completing your residency

This is such a tragedy for everyone including some of the US industries such as the healthcare sector that will be losing thousands of the US trained physicians. I see most of these physicians moving to Canada, Australia or New Zealand where they would not be required to take further testing before practicing. But that in itself will take them months if not years to apply for appropriate immigration benefits.

To what end….?

[Shittu Ọláńrewájú 🇳🇬 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 @horlarns]

@IffyClassic @Michael_Cheq_U @EpiAkonde Initial and extension OPT are affected...

[Shittu Ọláńrewájú 🇳🇬 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 @horlarns]

@rainnie_q If she can reproduce her Eugene 2022 starts, she will dip under 12 flat. Her top end is currently the best out of all the ladies.

[Shittu Ọláńrewájú 🇳🇬 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 @horlarns]

@rainnie_q **I couldn't select

[Shittu Ọláńrewájú 🇳🇬 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 @horlarns]

@rainnie_q Very unpredictable...That's the only event i could select my Tokyo top.
I mean we have at least 7 athletes that can run sub 12.3...

Fingers crossed on what happens today..

[Rainnie @rainnie_q]

In an article published in the Guardian, AFN has shown their displeasure with Favour Ofili for calling on the public to hold them responsible for the disappearance of her name in the 100m at the Olympics.

Let's set some record straight!

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[Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis @LGAustinDavis]

It was great to stop by Penn State’s Ag Progress Days, hosted by @agsciences —Pennsylvania’s largest outdoor agricultural exposition. Agriculture is the #1 industry here in PA, which is why our administration has invested $13M in the PA Farm Bill.

Let’s Work!

[Shittu Ọláńrewájú 🇳🇬 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 @horlarns]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Making of Champions @MakingOfChamps]

It's now 2⃣ - 0⃣

Na to plaster Tobi Amusan all over the TL... we are going to #Paris2024 Olympics to take over.

Repost to show @Evaglobal01 some love, she dey carry Naija for back like say tomorrow no dey!

Tell everyone around you, that Tobi Express has been cleared ☺️☺️.

[Vini Garnica @agprophet_]

Paul Esker presented some cool work investigating agronomic effects on soybean yield using causal inference and machine learning at #IEW13

[Travis Miller @travismillerx13]

🥇Big Ten 60m Champ!

Cheickna Traore lowers his PB and Penn State school record to 6.54 in the final.

[Ram Neupane, Ph.D. @RC_Neupane]

Global gallery is open to all Penn State students, faculty, and Staffs interested in issues telated to international agriculture. @agsciences @PennStateINTAD @AgSciGlobal
https://t.co/YvldmEWXQc

[Shittu Ọláńrewájú 🇳🇬 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 @horlarns]

@IkejaElectric @tm_babatunde No light in Oloruntosin street mushin for more than 4 weeks now. So sad you guys make us spend the holiday in darkness.

[Abbeah Navasca @LadyFusaria]

Had an amazing time with #gradstudents and #postdocs during ScabNet Social Night @USWBSI! Guess who’s the winning or losing team! 😅 #FHB

[Ram Neupane, Ph.D. @RC_Neupane]

So stoked to share my PhD research with non-scientists at @World_FoodForum flagship event. It was an interesting learning experience that helped me to gain valuable insights into different perspectives of agriculture and food security. @psuPPEM @PennStateGlobal @agsciences

[Ram Neupane, Ph.D. @RC_Neupane]

Presented a talk on my research to the department @psuPPEM. I am exploring diversity and copper tolerance of bacterial pathogens of onion. And for my Int'l ag thesis component, I am studying wastewater irrigation in Nepal employing system thinking approach.
#phdlife #Plant_health

[Penn State @penn_state]

It’s time!!!

[Abbeah Navasca @LadyFusaria]

Delighted to meet @FFARFellows at #PlantHealth2023! @McLaughlin_EPP @EliasZuchelli @horlarns @MPrietoTorres #5thcohort #6thcohort

[African Phytopathology Group @phytopathafrica]

Faces of some of our division attendees at the ongoing @plantdisease #PlantHealth2023 meeting.
Watch out for their posters sessions and presentations.