Here, we explore the protein-protein interactions between monoterpene indole alkaloid biosynthetic enzymes. This work was the result of strong effort by Chloe Langley, who Allwin McDonald and I had the privilege to work with. Congrats to the team! ACS Chemical Biology pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

What a wonderful interview with Greg Ketter -- someone who clearly deeply cares about community and books -- and great questions from @zachrabiroff.com!

“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis

Looking for an architectural illustrator (paid work) -- someone with a basic ability to sketch out low-detail building types, simple sections, site plans, diagrams, and so on. Drop a link to your website/portfolio if interested. Including some general vibe examples.

According to Tacoma, WA area Redditors, this was the work of ILWU Local 91 in Oakland, CA

Please forward this REU opportunity (paid summer internship) to undergraduates interested in plant biology and related fields etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o...

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

Hey, anyone I know every apply to an Institute of Library & Museum Sciences grant for museums (bot gardens, nat hist collections esp)? Would love to see an application example!

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

Lecture alert! Wed. Feb 25th, I'll be giving a talk I've been working on for many months: "The Magic Hype: Andy Warhol and Trans Visibility in the 1970s" at the Dia Foundation in Chelsea. In coordination, Dia will have three days of screenings of Warhol films. diaart.org/program/cale...

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

I'm on the Green Line towards downtown Minneapolis ICE OUT protest. The train filled immediately. Even 20 stops away from our destination we reached capacity. People are cheering at every stop when they see people waiting to board because we are all starting to realize how big this is.

Another example of o2 controlling endosperm starch. Endosperm starch _also_ modifies o2 mutant hardness in flint corn. Replicated across many labs and decades: the physical interplay between storage structures determines kernel structural properties. Beautiful endosperm always a joy.

A neighbor to the South Shore building said they suspected this may be the case, back in November when the then-tenants announced they were unionizing. “This is an attempt at gentrification. Point-blank, period,” they said.

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Ceci n'est pas une food replicator.

I have to reiterate that this is an excellent example of why anti-vaxxers are a danger to every single person in the community. They believe their “medical freedom” supersedes your freedom from contracting infectious disease. And with RFK Jr. at the helm, they are right, so take precautions.

The most common origin for the Montreal-style bagel is Chaim Seligman who is said to have brought the bagel to Montreal where he had a bakery next to Schwartz's Deli around 1900. Each day, he put his bagels in a pushcart and walked around the neighbourhood selling them. 🧵 5/8

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

It’s actually three guys but they’re all Peter Sellers

One of Freundlich's sculptures was made the primary promotional image for the Nazi Party's Degenerate Art Exhibiton in 1937, a period during which his entire scene was villainized and persecuted by the Third Reich. Freundlich would be killed at the Majdanek concentration camp a few years later.

Spotted beebalm (Lamiaceae: Monarda punctata) can be found throughout much of eastern North America, often in sandy soil. The large white bracts that surround the smaller flowers attract many pollinators, especially wasps. Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana, 11 Aug 2012.

"This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions, or whether instead, monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation." A summary if/then/else that applies broadly across science, policy, and rule of law.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

This was the 2025 harvest from my mini-maize experiment. These were the largest cobs out of an F2 population constructed by crossing Fast-Flowering-Mini-Maize Line-A (FFMM-A) and Blue Jade Sweetcorn.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

In the latest on Unprofessoring, I argue that I--and we--need ways to talk about the sensations of thinking and learning! unprofessoring.substack.com/p/towards-a-...

We put out a call for #ICEOutForGood vigils 24 hours ago. There are now more than 1000 events taking place across the country this weekend. Find yours: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

My wife, a Minneapolis native, reminding me it's dead of night in Minnesota in January, below freezing, and there's thousands of people outside

Fellow biologists, this is a poem that discovers the tonal beauty of the word "ribosome"

“We did our absolute best to get the best possible outcome from these products.” but “The biggest surprise of anything is that nothing worked anywhere,” says Naeve. “Even among cynical people like me, that was really shocking.” Me too. blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu/2026/01/do-b...

surprise face /s

The defense-inducing compound N-hydroxy pipecolic acid is a major substrate for the methyltransferase PbBSMT of Plasmodiophora brassicae academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Our new year starts of course with new preprint on brassinosteroid signaling tinyurl.com/nhzcfkxd. We re-analyzed the function of Kelch phosphatases, which were previously characterized as protein tyrosine phosphatases that dephosphorylate the critical pTyr200 in the GSK3 kinase BIN2. (1/6)

Acclaimed banjoist Béla Fleck is pulling out of three Kennedy Center concerts, joining a growing number of musicians canceling events after the board voted to add President Trump’s name to the venue.

Tarr's films were long, dark, and often abstract explorations of everyday life and politics. n.pr/4pqwEcG

This is wrong two times. (Is what a total nerd plant person would say if he just finally couldn’t help himself.) #iamabotanist #SICB2026

My department (EEOB at Iowa State) is hiring! See isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year. So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)

In which I host this week's episode of @99pi.org :o

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

You can't get anything out if you won't put anything in. youtu.be/7IfIA7OVywE?...