I agree heartily with this article about the utility of a college education. 🌾🌿🧪🎓 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...

I know next to nothing about spiders, but this web caught my attention. Does anyone recognize it? Same Houston Forest, Texas.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1FqT... Amazingly awful

t's raining galls! Galls of the mealy gall wasp are falling out of the southern live oaks all over Houston. As you can see, a lot of them are damaged, as though something tried to eat the larva in the center chamber.

For the first time, renewable energy has OVERTAKEN coal in global electricity production!! BAD NEWS for the fossil fuel industry, BRILLIANT news for the planet! 🌍

Just wow! 🧪🌍🦑🐳🦭

Apparently RFK is going to announce that leucovorin can be a treatment for autism. It’s used as rescue drug for osteosarcoma treatment , and this action will likely push it into shortage.😠

Does anybody have, or know where to find high quality photos of crown gall in cross section? I need one for an invited review. Will be credited, of course. Thanks!🌿🌾🧪

Democrats should let the budget expire and the government close down. Given what's been done to our government, nobody will notice.

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁 We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Vaccinations Save Lives!

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Thought so.

Chemical ecology!

The WORST.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7909025... One of a genus of parasitic plant remarkably similar in appearance to the unrelated Dodder (Cuscuta sp.). The only way to tell them apart with any reliability is to wait until they flower. Goodale Sanctuary, West Coolup, WA

🧪 Would like to see this compared to ice core sample atmospheric data to get a sense for the accuracy of this method. I.e. as far as I know we have ice core sample data reaching back about 2M years. newatlas.com/environment/...

🧪🌾 Fascinating and discouraging report on the growth of false science reports: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

🧪 Great #scicomm article about trees, urban design and biomimicry theconversation.com/5-ingenious-...

Our latest pub on #Brassica #Genome #Evolution and the systematics of Tribe Brassiceae (broccoli, cabbages, canola, & more; aka "The dogs of the plant world") led by @shawnkthomas.bsky.social #PlantScience #Botany #PlantBiology #AgSky #AcademicSky #Crops 🌾🌱🧪 academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

🌾🧪🌿🎓🌏 www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hae...

Whoa!

This would be cool if true, but I'm not convinced by the results.

Claim of Microbe That Survives on Arsenic Is Retracted After 15 Years Science, a top research journal, said there was no evidence of misconduct by researchers whose finding attracted heavy attention and scrutiny in social media’s early days.🧪🌿🎓

Thanks to @lizneeley.bsky.social Earlier this week, the NIH announced the “disinvitation” of expert reviewers who were about to join advisory councils, in favor of politically-preferred alternates.

🌾🧪🌿🌏🎓😱In today's NYT "The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so."

@galling.bsky.social Artichoke gall- very pretty! Seen today in Norfolk #galls

I believe this is a young gall of the Diplolepis rosae, a wasp which causes a gall known as the Rose Bedeguar gall, Robin's pincushion or Mossy rose gall; seen here on a wild rose #WildWebsWednesday #RobinsPincushion #BedeguarGallWasp #InsectThursday #Galls

'Red bean' #galls of #sawfly Euura proxima on leaves of crack willow (Salix fragilis) at Ditchingham, Norfolk, England. Larvae feed on leaf tissue in safety of galls during summer, before pupating in soil when leaves fall in autumn. Adults emerge in spring only to mate and lay eggs in fresh leaves.

How is this "Plant Biology"???😡

How does this belong in "Plant Biology"????😡

How does this belong in "Plant Biology"??????😡

We need to throw the GOP out. They’ve just handed us the playbook.

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

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The $50 billion that NIH spends every year does more for Americans than Jeff Bezos could hope to dream of. Bezos is a smart guy, in the right place at the right time who built a delivery business. NIH and NSF are THE engines of American discovery and innovation. GTFO

Gall wasps (family Cynipidae) lay their eggs in plant tissue, triggering the plant to grow a gall—an abnormal structure that feeds and protects the developing larvae inside. #galls #cynipidwasps #wildlife #nature #california

‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies doi.org/10.1038/d415... A comment on this @cellpress.bsky.social paper: "A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

I used to think being a scientist meant chasing papers, grants, and tenure. Then I burned out. With the ugliest panic attack. Now I know the real impact includes much more than that. There’s more than one way to matter. You can bridge science with the world. #SciComm 🧪

Horrible news. www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

Horrible news. All 1800 NSF employees will be booted out of the NSF building, replaced by HUD www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

🌾🧪🌿Our latest #gall paper is out, in New Phytologist. We used RNAseq to locate the sources of undifferentiated cells this insect needs to form a gall on a grape leaf. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

All right. This is the last straw. This material does not belong in a "Plant Biology" feed. I've had it. Bye

🌾 Sorry, "Plant Biology"

Plants remember stress! The PlantMemo project, led by ‪@jurriaanton.bsky.social‬, has secured an ERC Advanced Grant for an exciting project decoding how stress “memories” boost plant resilience—paving the way for hardier crops. 🔗 www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #ERC

The virtual lack of science and inclusion of so many irrelevant, non-plant science posts leads me to stop following this feed. 😠