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An ancient origin of the naked grains of maize | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Targeted MYC2 stabilization confers citrus Huanglongbing resistance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A natural defense against plant disease | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Is Indonesia’s planned rice megaproject doomed to fail? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Greatness is in the agency of others (alliances). We are becoming less great.

A gift from good friend Esaú de la Vega, from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala, 🇲🇽

Pleased to share a new article from my Phd student Jorge Ruiz-Arocho that examines how #cropdomestication and #nitrogen #fertilization affects #leaf traits for #maize, #beans, and #squash. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Spraying insecticides is expensive and messy with all the mud and stuff. Why not add insecticide to the water in the paddy fields? We mean, what could go wrong, right? 1960s International Rice Research Institute

A clear signal of reduced genetic diversity in invasive western corn rootworm populations associated with slightly reduced genetic loads, marginal evidence of purging for deleterious mutations, and in one pop moderately deleterious variants weakly purged evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

PhD position on the domestication of common beans and its coevolution with rhizobia through studying ancient and modern genomes. At U. Copenhagen with Jazmín Ramos Madrigal. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

Increased use of the #herbicide #glyphosate has been associated with low baby birth rate and earlier birth age. www.science.org/content/arti....

“If the White House follows through [with its promises to deport undocumented workers], economists project a broad drag on the economy — and it could cost Social Security roughly $20 billion in cash flow annually, according to actuaries at the Social Security Administration

"Agriculture comprises about 10 percent of Kern County’s gross domestic product and undocumented workers may comprise half of the workforce, he said. And the Central Valley provides about a quarter of the United States’ food." calmatters.org/economy/2025...

Postdoc jobs in the Gaut lab! Brandon isn't on here, so I can be frank: he is fantastic. I did my postdoc with him and he is not only an amazing scientist but one of my favorite humans. I would have happily stayed in his lab forever if that was feasible. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08999 #plantscijobs

Hi #agroecology folks, I am collecting readings for my spring class. Crowd-sourcing the list for the first time! I would appreciate peer-reviewed articles that: -have been published in the last two years - introduce #novel ideas that have the potential to advance #sustainable #agriculture. Thanks!

Excellent Rxs: “With corporations engaged in shameless greenwashing, the Trump administration poised for environmental plunder and oil companies undercutting environmental awareness, nonprofit news devoted to coverage of climate and biodiversity deserve our attention and dollars—now more than ever”

Is @DHL #DHL aware of this?

Looks like the deer herd at my mom's has grown since my last visit. If you look closely, you can see that it now includes what clearly is an elite inbred deer, as evident by its small size at maturity. #mexicanwildlifeisawesome #deergenetics

How extreme was the weather this year? Is a question we, @wwattribution.bsky.social , get asked every year. Looking back at the events we studied in detail & some new stats, we try to give an answer www.worldweatherattribution.org/when-risks-b... - in short: it was pretty bad, but things can change!

tidyplots is an R package to generate publication-ready plots for scientific papers tidyplots.org/ #rstats

Single-blind #peerreview leads to more positive outcomes if you are: - male - White - in the US or North America - well-published or known in your field - affiliated with a prestigious institution Can we please make double-blind the gold standard now? 🧪 #academicsky #SciPub

Great article on cuetlaxochitl, including how it got the name "Poinsettia", Spanish co-opting of it for Christmas traditions, and the modern horticultural industry. (by the Drs. Ellstrand -- my wonderful grad advisor Norm and his son Nathan!) time.com/7202847/poin...

"Immigration to the United States in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. Net international migration accounted for 84% of the nation’s 3.3 million-person increase between 2023 and 2024"

These artifacts from Santa Elina are roughly 27,000 years old — more than 10,000 years before scientists once thought that humans arrived in the Americas. abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews....

Evidently, I forgot to switch off my Bat signal...

This scene from ca. 2000 years ago reveals for the first time and forever that maize 🌽 (and some cacti) in the Old World predates Columbus

Who here agrees?

The Dept of #Agriculture, #Landscape, and #Environment is hiring an Assistant Professor in #Soil #Ecology. At the University of Vermont Review of applications will begin on Jan 6, 2025.

The study reveals recurrent movements northward from different parts of Mexico, likely culminating in at least two dispersals from the US Southwest across the Great Plains to the Ozarks and beyond. [An Ozark] population shows a close affinity with the lineage that became the Northern Flints.

Please repost! University of Vermont seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor if #Soil #Ecology to start in Aug 2025. www.uvmjobs.com/postings/77192 #soilecology #soilbiology #soilhealth

Breakfast this morning at one of my favorite tia's house 🥰

In heaven, collecting bugs and teosinte