I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Merry Xmas to all! 🎄

The cutest Xmas gift from one of my lab mates! A great addition to my ever growing lab Lego collection. 🎄🎁🎅🏻

Out First Release in @science.org Insight into how auxin and ethylene determine whether cucumbers make male or female flowers: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Plantscience

Now that we're all on the same wavelength... New findings by Shi et al. 💡illuminate💡the pathway through which blue #light influences the #circadian #clock via the CRY2–PRR5 module😉 ⏰ doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantScience #development #Arabidopsis #cryptochrome

Good night, lab. 🫶🏼

Today's sidewalk chalk message Kavanaugh Stops What if ICE was stopping cars and busting out windows with rifle butts because the people inside "looked Jewish"

Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.

Devastating to watch what's happening to higher ed.

Good night lab. 🫶🏼

How do plants elongate in shade? This morning @scourbier.bsky.social (from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social) revealed how shade boosts TOR activity and how TOR and auxin signalling tightly interact to drive hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis. A talk that filled the room! 📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15 #PlantScience

This absolute unity of a flower blooming out of a very small, recently transplanted, Xmas cactus.

Countdown: there are only 9 days left ... if you want to join Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef Registration + abstract submission end on 🗓️ 23rd November 2025 www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

#auxin and autophagy

Yesterday I was discussing the intractibility of glioblastoma with a neuroscience colleague--this could be transformative 🧪

I can't believe you are officially a teenager! It has been a wild ride watching you grow and find your voice. I love spending time with you, be it waiting at the dentist, driving to school, or helping with school work. Love you! 🫶🏼 🐉

Analysis: Last year's COVID vaccines protected well against severe illness www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ana...

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social friends who live near you in Philly would appreciate any efforts to call attention to this petition to save a local garden c.org/jjB2HJHkG8

If you’re fed up with MacOS, here’s a really nice Linux version that runs on recent Macs. Super easy installation. Run in terminal: curl alx.sh | sh

Preposterous

When the sweetest student leaves you a treat at the end of a long, tiresome Friday. 🫶🏼 Thanks Lily!

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are! #plantscience 🧪 "DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

Sir. Respectfully. The USDA hasn't issued grant decisions since January 2025. How exactly are we, the scientists making these advances, being supported?

SlATG8f enhances tomato thermotolerance and fruit quality via autophagy and HS pathways https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678159v1

Today I passed my qualifying exam. I couldn't have done without the support of my mentors, lab mates, and my family.

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Cure society, not autism. 💜

If you’re local, come check out House of Faber & Friends (@fourteenacross.bsky.social, @momebie.bsky.social, and me) at the Watertown Arts Market next weekend (Aug. 9) at Arsenal Park! We’ve got handmade hats, tote bags, jewelry, sunglasses, poetry, and art prints! 🐙🪴👻

Scientists & grad students: Want to inspire the next generation? Join Letters to a Pre-Scientist! Write a few letters to a curious middle schooler & show them what science can be. It’s low commitment, high impact 💌🔬 Sign up: tinyurl.com/LPS-25

Happy bday to my beautiful friend and lab mate! Thanks for keeping me company through so many hours of greenhouse cleaning and LCMS.

Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.

“This year the NSF has awarded only $32 million, representing a 72 percent reduction. By this metric, mathematics is one of the most deeply affected subjects, second only to physics, which has seen an 85 percent reduction.“

The Beagle has landed.

Optimized LC-MS method for simultaneous polyamine profiling and ADC/ODC activity quantification and evidence that ADCs are indispensable for flower development in tomato https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663906v1

Garden day find.

Can you tell I belong to a plant lab?

Waiting at the vet to find out how much the 4th of July fireworks will cost me.

It’s been said many times, but we must continue to repeat it: You may not believe in Climate Change, but your insurance company does.

And here are we are spending more money on concentration camps and human trafficking than on NIH, NSF, or USDA. 😡😡😡

Dear colleagues, now more than ever, we need to be ready to defend scientific research. Practice your speech to your family. Any perspective could be effective: health, agriculture, energy, education, environment, entertainment… anything. Help them understand how science has helped them personally.

Plant Science Research Weekly June 27 2025 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Special issues: Plants and Heat, Crops Under Stress; Review: Differences in sodium and potassium transport in Arabidopsis and crops; Suppression of lateral root formation in air gaps by IAA3 multimerization (1/3)

Thank you, Penn State for a wonderful symposium. Dr. Kao and colleagues, i can't thank you enough for your kindness and for all the learning opportunities you have offered these three days.

Caught in the act

Beautiful campus. Amazing conference.

Yay love to see its cones! Also I actually made an article on ginkgo trees if you want to learn more about them 💚🌿🍃🌱🦖 open.substack.com/pub/caidenmu...

I just think if your fine print is longer than your actual ad, it probably shouldn’t be legal to advertise your product.

Interesting - bik1 T-DNA mutants are smaller, have high levels of SA (autoimmune phenotype), but CRISPR mutants do not have more severe compromised defense. #plantimmunity #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NIH APPLICANTS: Your application will be WITHDRAWN BEFORE REVIEW if you have an international collaboration and do not include a Foreign Justification. Normally this could be provided after review as JIT but NOT ANYMORE. You have been warned.

Today has been an easy day. Staying at a #7.

doi.org/10.1101/2025... #PlantScience