@klsywd
🐛 Postdoc studying caterpillar functional genomics in the Steinbrenner Lab (UW Seattle) 🍄 PhD Integrative Genetics & Genomics, UC Davis 🌱 Also interested in art, activism, scicomm, data viz, teaching 🏳️🌈 She/her
Yes!! Lavender lettuce 💜
Qiagen Miniprep kit buffers: P1, P2, N3, PB, PE, and EB
Whom of my followers has a favorite Qiagen Miniprep kit buffer? I'll share mine if you tell me yours 🤗
Was your NSF grant flagged for being "woke" ??
PS please see replies for a csv of the database, the original excel sheet is a nightmare...
🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you looking for a postdoc and have a background in plant genetics, molecular or developmental biology?🧬
Join Catherine Bellini's research group @umeaplantscicentre.bsky.social and work on adventitious root development.
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#PlantSciJobs #sciencejobs
Reddit posters say "if im being honest i worked so hard on the application that i can't even look at it knowing this without crying" and "we literally need a support group like i could not bring myself to get out of bed this morning. i'm so distraught." www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...
Imagine all the work that goes in to a scientific grant application just to have it all thrown away solely because you are part of a group that is underrepresented in science.
Please tell your representative:
1) I'm not just a teacher in your district, I'm essentially an entrepreneur running a small business.
2) I employ XX people at good wages, ranging from $Y-Z.
3) Blocking the operation of the NIH prevents this and damages our local economy
Congress update from @ismpmi.bsky.social! Concurrent sessions are now listed 🌱 #PlantScience #MicroSky 🦠 #MPMI
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Omg I saw Blood Brothers in Seattle recently and it was so fun
Heads up I got my nephew a rock tumbler which I thought he would love but apparently they are SUPER loud so he hasn't really used it much 😅
Delicious wrap with black eyed peas, avocado, and homemade saurkraut
Vigna unguiculata aka cowpea aka black eyed pea is not just a cool study organism but also a yummy legume for people! #Beans #LegumeLife @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social 😋
Fair! Have you heard of or tried a Taguchi array? Way to test multiple factors while minimizing experiments, here's a fun example with optimal boiling of eggs youtu.be/5oULEuOoRd0?...
DMSO is the sauce! It can lower the Tm though, are you adjusting annealing temp for those?
Moths can hear the clicking wails of a sad, dry, injured plant.
And they run the other way to lay their eggs. Totally wild to think how many things around us are communicating in ways we cannot even comprehend! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...
A figure comparing box plot and showing all data points. Group1: normally distributed data. Group2: bimodal data. Group3: Data with 3 modes.
Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated!
Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you?
#DataVisualization
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Highly recommend (long) read for anyone who's been leading a lab 10+ years!
Not for long, as bots are slowly taking over the site :(
7th #entomology #StarterPack is filling up!
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& 6 that are already filled!
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Nominate widely! 🐜🦋🪲🪰
Who's a human and who's a bot and how do you know??
New video from @hankgreen.bsky.social on disagreement bots on Bluesky youtu.be/rpOkrxxpTcE?...
@anapineda.bsky.social has some excellent resources and tricks on focusing priorities and cultivating productivity! I use her strategy of identifying my "golden" most productive hour or two in the day and blocking it in my calendar for those important tasks. www.ifocusandwrite.com/free-resources
Deadline Extension!📢📢 Submit your abstract by December 2nd to be considered as a speaker in the GRS! The GRS/GRC is a fabulous way to make expand your network (interaction web ?🤔). Join the incredible scientists who have already submitted applications - see you in CA 🌱🐛!
sound advice from @jennifermach.bsky.social
please pay attention all you writers out there!! No acronyms that don't save a word. No acronyms for terms not used more than 3 times. And really, just cut out the acronyms, they just make text harder to read and understand..
It's #GivingTuesday! Our goal is to increase our monthly donors.
Getting $5-10 a month from hundreds of people is how we've sustained our program for the last 8 years! Monthly donations keep us stable, so we can focus on what's important!
Will you join our support squad?
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Book cover for "Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day" by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
For journal club this week in the Steinbrenner lab, we are discussing Time Management! Really looking forward to it as this is something I've always struggled with (#ADHD) and is an important hidden skill to be successful in science. Thank you @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social !!
PlantPostdocs is an effective group of early-career researchers, sponsoring a number of informative, #PlantScience community-oriented events. Consider supporting them as 2024 draws to a close - gofund.me/82008389
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
"Magic is just science we don't understand yet"—and in this case, we actually *do* understand the 'magic' that allows this solution to automatically change colors to blend in. That and more of the best in Science and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack
#PlantScience
"It's hard to change your mind, which is why I simply never make up mine"
-Albert Einstein*
(*According to me in my dream last night 😅)
