Andrea Appleton

I <3 Yan

We’re getting excited about Botany!

Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!

Harvard has just under 6,800 foreign students enrolled. Every one of them would have to give up their dreams of an education in the US or transfer elsewhere, if Noem's attack on Harvard is upheld.

None of them have done anything wrong, they're just collateral damage to Trump.

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school

Working on nectaries or plant-pollinator interactions? Join us for this year's Harvard Plant Biology Initiative Symposium on 'Plant Rewards' on May6/7. We have an awesome lineup of speakers with free registration. We are also offering two ECR travel grants (due April 14): forms.gle/jhTnv8pbuBxX...

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species

Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves

www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

Being an REU intern years ago gave me so much more confidence going into my PhD and frankly changed my life financially as a student supporting myself through college. The current state of science is a joke www.science.org/content/arti...

Hydrangea aspera Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don (Hydrangeaceae) is a shrub indigenous to the mesic areas in Asia. In their study, Schenk et al. determined that Hydrangeaceae underwent three significant shifts toward increased diversification rates, although H. aspera was not part of the radiations. A similar pattern of three significant shifts toward increased diversification rates were also identified in Loasaceae. Although an ecological transition accompanied by a speciation rate increase was noted in a clade of Philadelphus (Hydrangeaceae), and a biogeographic transition occurred with an increased speciation shift in a clade of Deutzia (Hydrangeaceae), the only clade that exhibits a phylogenetic pattern consistent with ecological opportunity was Mentzelia section Bartonia (Loasaceae), which diversified in Mesoamerica where the two families originated. Photo by J. Schenk.

Comparative diversification analyses of #Hydrangeaceae & #Loasaceae reveal complex evolutionary history as species disperse out of Mesoamerica

New #AJBN research by @johnjschenk.bsky.social, Sarah Jacobs & Larry Hufford

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #Botany #plantscience #hydrangea #evolution

They are so cute 😭

Wow! Are those bits on the top trichomes??

She’s done! A glimpse into the tangled magic of the belowground world! ✨🌽

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