Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past.
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Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past.
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🌾 We have an open postdoc position in Plant Genomics in our group at HHU Düsseldorf!
If you enjoy computational biology, asking big questions, and the satisfaction of code working on the first try, check out schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Mar. 31 | 3-year postdoc | German skills required
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This review synthesizes insights into cytonuclear incompatibility in plant hybrids and allopolyploids, highlighting maternal bias, evolutionary consequences, and applications such as cytoplasmic male sterility in seed production.
Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.
Happy Mardi Gras y’all!!!! From the Ferris Lab with 💗
I keep hearing from people all over the country who want to know - how can I help?
I put together a step by step list that starts with getting your first whistle and takes you all the way to recruiting your own band of whistlers!
www.riotgrrrlrevolution.org/help
Brilliant piece, and a public service to put these foul and upsetting pieces together.
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏
#IAmABotanist 🌱
A four panel comic. In panel 1, there are three beautiful blooming roses, and the text says "Roses are red..." In panel 2, there are some lovely violets budding and blooming, and the text says "Violets are blue..." In panel 3, there are some terrifying red and flesh colored plants with toothy maws and the text says "Hydnora are leafless, bizarrely fleshy, and incapable of producing chlorophyl..." and in panel 4 there are some cute hearts and the text says "And so are you. Happy Valentine's Day"
Botany valentine. Another oldie.
The student walkouts against ICE are a big deal (and really should be getting ore attention) open.substack.com/pub/educatio...
Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism
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It also points out how the cultural ignorance of much of our pundit & MSM class fails. 135 million Americans watched an important & controversial cultural event & many journalists are 1)ill-equipped to explain its significance or 2) too arrogant to know that would need assistance in unpacking it.
Staff at the Center for Victims of Torture said that some conditions their clients face in the United States would qualify them for their services had they happened overseas. That includes clients who were recently detained by federal agents.
a sticker measuring about 4.25 inches tall, with a woman surrounded by flowers and holding hands up to her face, in a stained glass window. Underneath it says in a gothy font "Plant Native Plants"
Oh shiiiiit native plant stickers are here and ready to ship!
You can get 'em at SquidFacts.net
In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth let’s learn more about Marie Taylor, a plant biologist and chair of Howard University’s Botany Department. Love her focus on photomorphogensis and using light microscopy on living plants! 🌱 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_T...
If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.
NEW: As he released 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, Judge Biery warned of vast lawlessness and inhumanity in the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. He said courts amounted to “a judicial finger in the dike.”
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
A pile of valentines, including a gulper eel saying "you make my jaw drop", a grimalditeuthis saying "I find you a-LURE-ing" a whale skeleton at the bottom of the ocean with snailfish and two octopuses making heart arms under the words "I've whale-fallen for you", and an anglerfish saying "You're my light in the darkness", and then two packs of cards that are all nice and tied up
Hey cuties. Everything sucks ass. Get some valentines and send them to your friends.
I'm sad. You're sad. They're probably sad.
Send them a valentine.
It keeps Skype a Scientist running, which hey, is very good too.
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INCREDIBLE resource here.
"Movements and campaigns are won not by overpowering one’s active opposition, but by shifting each group one notch around the spectrum (passive allies into active allies, neutrals into passive allies, and passive opponents into neutrals),.."
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“If (Taylor Rehmet) were to lose by six points, that’d be worth talking about,” one political expert told me ahead of last night's race. “And if Rehmet were to win? You’d say, ‘Holy shit.’”
Rehmet won by 14 points.
Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.
10/10 ICE protest sign
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
“This Is a Warning”: ICE Agents Follow Protesters Home newrepublic.com/post/205759/... via @newrepublic.com
Beloved fellow academics, please don't fall for the Let's All Worship Overwork signals that have been going around for the last couple of weeks
"But tech bros do it! Haruki Murakami does it!"
1) let's ask how---ie, who's making dinner? hmmmm
and
2) the ideas don't get better when you overwork
Former PhD candidate, current post-doc at Iowa State, Bolivar Aponte Rolon submitted a preprint of his second chapter last week!!! Way to go Boli!
Check it out to learn more about leaf endophyte communities in three closely related Mimulus: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Mimuluspropaganda
