This is from 2021 but I think it is important for you scientists out there with longer hair than me to be reminded of this distinguished scientific club. Froylan Sosa joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) improbable.com/2021/02/23/f...

Cold at Payne's Prairie today but still lots of wildlife

Snow flurry in Gainesville, Florida this afternoon.

“He was the governor for all the people. And going into the Senate, I feel that he’ll be a Senator for all of the people.” The former North Carolina governor may not be the future of the Democratic Party, but he might just help Democrats flip a critical seat.

Cold day at #paynesprairie today but even a few gators were out. The Prairie is very dry. Here is a bundled up heron and shy whitetail. #wildflorida

Bumper sticker seen in #Gainesville Florida. #funnysigns

Look who came to the @ufifas-ffgs.bsky.social Animal Sciences Christmas Party.

One of the joys of living in Florida....wildlife everywhere. #wildflorida.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Hansen lab. Designed with the help of @BioRender

Just in time for #Christmas, another batch of Cripple Creek Cumquat Reserve, since 2012.

Quoted in the #Atlantic, Paul Offit of Children's Hosp. of Phila. said "I don't think there is any way to regain that trust [in vaccines] other than to have the viruses do the education & the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost".

Seen in #northplatte ne.

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What gives people power???

University of Florida Dept of Animal Sciences is looking for a Beef Program Manager -- see explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... for more details.

🌟 Editor Spotlight: John Roche 🌟 John serves as chief science advisor to New Zealand's Prime Minister & #JDSCommunications editor. Learn more about his thoughts on championing storytelling in science, community in publishing, and the wonder of cows 👉 https://ow.ly/oM7W50Xs2nI#JDSCommunications

Red Meat Intake did not influence IL-6, TNF-α, leptin, or adiponectin. Among 10 OBS, no associations were shown between RMI and these biomarkers Red meat intake and its influences on inflammation and immune function biomarkers in human adults www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations Dr. Arslan Tariq @arslantariq45.bsky.social for successfully defending his PhD dissertation today. Here he is with his committee: Ricardo Chebel, Klibs Galvao, John Bromfield (advisor) & me. In the back is what used to be Slick-Gator El Jefe. @AMCB_UF @uf_ansci @UF_IFAS

Seen at bike race my son-in-law was in at Milledgeville Georgia.

Happy #Halloween from the UF Animal Sciences Halloween party. Culturing dinosaur embryos are (l-r): Pebbles (Sophia Obessa), Gazoo (Camila Cuellar), Wilma (Dani Heredia), Fred, Betty (Lorena Valdes) & a very tall Barney (Nick Kertz). In front: Dino (Boss). Yabba Dabba Do...

"The scientific hegemony the USA had for decades has gone...the percentage of papers with a Chinese author [i]n 2025 is 23%, the USA 11%...transition to open access is only possible if Chinese researchers change their publishing habits" newsletter.journalology.com/p/the-rise-o...

Here is my lab as of April 2025 and my lab as seen by Artificial Intelligence

🧪 The final version of my new selection index paper is out in Journal of Dairy Science. If you read the pre-print, this corrects the erroneous Figure 1. I'm not sure if I've actually answered the question posed in the title, but perhaps it's a start. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Even cows like Irish Traditional Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_va...

Here is the first paper from our lab highlighted on Bluesky! Nothing like one-carbon metabolism to get the juices flowing! This work was led by by Masroor Sagheer. Consequences of varying methionine concentrations on development of the bovine embryo in vitro† url: academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

We have these in our department, in a display case

April 24, 1924: Agriculture Secretary Henry C. Wallace with models of cows presented to him by the National Holstein Cattle Breeders’ Association.

How now (SLICK1) cow? Exciting study on genetic introgression of SLICK1 allele from Senepol cattle into the Holstein breed for enhanced thermotolerance. 1/2

I'm sure the president, famously known for his obsession with crowd sizes, will be fuming about the turnout of this year's #NoKings.

Happy to be here where the skies are blue.