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Calochortus gunnisonii, our Gunnison's Mariposa Lily, blooming at Deer Creek Canyon Park #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 23 🌿

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Today on a desert slope, I found frosted Christmas stars: a rare succulent (Apteranthes burchardii) that produces starbursts of blossom after it rains:

In the span of four days, we’ve built a coalition of over 80 lawmakers — including several Republicans — to stop the dismantling of NCAR. I’m grateful to them for their efforts as we work to secure language protecting NCAR in the upcoming CJS appropriations bill. We will not back down! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Electrifying development on EelTok @erinbiba.bsky.social

where we’re at this year for decoration 🌽🎄

Ahistorical nonsense & completely distorts what MSIs are and do 🙄

Cactus bloom

Understood the assignment.

Festive!

Now available! The NAASC 2025 Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awards Webinar featuring Natanella Illouz-Eliaz (early career recipient), Dawn Nagel, Nicholas Provart & Anna Stepanova (later career recipients). Congratulations to these community role models! youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY

“DID YOU KNOW THAT CHRISTMAS IS JUST ONE WEEK AWAY ?!?!”

NSF bio hour - NSF BIO lost 40% of its staff 😑

This handsome beast is the larva of the spurge hawkmoth (Hyles euphorbiae) of Europe, Asia & N. America. It feeds on Ephorbia spp., sequestering toxic diterpenes from its host. 📷: Wolfgang Ahlmer CCBY4. #Euphorbiaceae #Aposematism #TeamMoth #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

When you get called out on your lies immediately 💯💯💯💯💯💯🎯

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

We are failing our kids

Many herbivorous insects sequester plant toxins & use them for defense. They have aposematic (warning) coloration. The scarlet-bodied wasp moth, Cosmosoma myrodora, adult ♂ feeds on Eupatorium capillifolium to get pyrrolizidine alkaloids. 📷: M Keim #TeamMoth #Asteraceae #Aposematism #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Dunno who needs to hear this, but before your start writing your reviewer comments, eat a cookie. Only you can prevent rude reviews.

Interplay between petal identity and cell layer identity in petunia flowers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.691030v1

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

Nice cactus bloom from the #UCR botanic garden

Opuntia phaeacantha, our Tulip Pricklypear cactus, with bee 🐝 going head over heels north of Pueblo #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 12 🌿

Accidental photo 🤩

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

Alkali heliotrope 🤩

Seriously, a data center in the hottest part of the driest area of the state, using reclaimed wastewater for cooling. Sounds legit. 🤬

It's time to talk to you about my cat.

Out in @science.org this week: PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience #PlantSci

Hibiscus 🌺

An 8-nm precise map in live cells, which revealed #actin aster formation by #myosin V-driven transport of #formin. Happy to see this work now out! 😃 In collaboration with @kaksonen.bsky.social lab #yeast #pombe #cell_fusion @biology-unige.bsky.social

Wishing that all of our difficult choices were as delightful as choosing one spectacular image over another 🤩

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In nur 5 Jahren hat China den Automobilmarkt übernommen und ist uns parallel beim E-Auto davon gerast. Dass Kanzler Merz allen ernstes davon spricht, dass wir 2035 noch "hocheffiziente Verbrenner" verkaufen, macht es noch verrückter.

My postdoctoral mentor N. Ronald Morris passed away on Nov. 20, 2025. He was 92. I am forever grateful to his mentorship and his visionary use of Aspergillus nidulans as a genetic system to explore fundamental questions in cell biology. www.hillsboroughfuneralhome.com/obituaries/D...

#FrogFriday > BlackFriday - Here's a male Uakari Poison Frog (Ranitomeya uakarii) hauling two of its tadpoles to a location with permanent water, where they can continue development. Rainforest in the Rio Tahuayo drainage north of Iquitos, Peru. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿

If you see this quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

#Plantsgiving comes to a close at the in-laws. Once the coffee was served we finished at 60 species from 32 families. As usual, my fave get was annatto (Bixaceae) — which turned up in two ingredients lists this year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annatto

For sweetness and flavoring, Fruity Cheerios contain cane sugar and pear puree. There's also some sugar in my coffee creamer. Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, is another true grass, native to New Guinea. Pears, Pyrus communis, are in the rose and pear family, Rosaceae. #PlantsGiving

Fruit salad: pineapple another monocot (Ananas comosus) from S America, pomegranate (Punica granatum) from Iran and persimmons (Diospyros kaki) from China #PlantsGiving

Check out this paper!

Fresh bread: oats Avena sativa from the Middle East, wheat (the “staff of life”) Triticum aestivum from the Fertile Crescent, canola oil (from Brassica napus subspecies napus) from India, maple syrup (from Acer spp) from N America, (also including salt and yeast) #PlantsGiving

Classic Thanksgiving dish, cranberry relish with just three ingredients 1) cranberries Vaccinium macrocarpon from N America, 2) sugar from sugarcane Saccharum sp from New Guinea and 3) orange Citrus x sinesis from China/India 🤤 #PlantsGiving

Is everyone ready for #Plantsgiving?!?! Thank you @martinebotany.bsky.social for my favorite botanical tradition 🥹🌱

Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol... #mimuluspropaganda

Texas A&M said in a statement that officials are aware of the Committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure and Responsibility’s “non-binding findings” and that Williams has received the report and will review it “carefully before making a decision in the coming days and weeks.”

Artemisia californica, I think?

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.