People have witnessed masting since time immemorial; after all, it's pretty obvious when you're tripping over nuts strewn all over the path some years and you find barely one or two in others.

#Lignin biosynthesis is critical for producing the sharp tips in plant thorns and prickles. Using a CRISPR-based mutant screen of 20 candidate genes, a set of transcription factors, including MYB62, that regulate lignin deposition in the tips of Citrus thorns. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Metro Atlanta’s water smells, tastes weird again. Blame fall and Lake Lanier. www.ajc.com/news/2025/11...

Check out our new YouTube channel for UGA Extension video products. There's a little something for everyone online here. youtube.com/@ugaextensio...

To my knowledge, I've never passed through "Hope You Like It" Georgia, but the name alone makes me want to visit the next time I'm in the Stateboro area. Perhaps my new favorite unusual place name -- next to our local Experiment, GA 😉 Hopeulikit, Georgia - Wikipedia share.google/Iox6AiA6aXU0...

A viral lie about spiders is really bugging cranberry farmers www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/11...

With @aconga.bsky.social we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jeffgroh.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae : www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Mississippi state legislature begs to differ. 😏

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world www.nature.com/articles/d41... Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

The human body holds several effective hiding spots that some of the world's nastiest viruses have discovered — like the eyes and the testes - that are beyond the reach of the immune system. It's here that submicroscopic viral RNA can safely linger. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Cancer Drug Made 20,000 Times More Potent in Breakthrough https://www.newsweek.com/cancer-drug-made-20000-times-more-potent-in-breakthrough-10989841 More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Independently evolved supergenes control colony social organization and queen reproductive strategies in several ant lineages. Sigeman et al. uncover a novel 9 Mb supergene controlling queen size and social organization in Myrmica ruginodis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf255 #evobio #molbio #ants

How does a single cuckoo species evolve eggs that mimic those of many different hosts? In a new Science study, researchers report genomic data that reveal a complex geographic mosaic of cuckoo-host coevolution. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4nEZIfY

How a humble weed became a superstar of biology Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... #Botany #PlantScience

A microneedle patch containing bacteria-killing viruses can eliminate bacteria that cause food poisoning from a variety of foods. https://scim.ag/43ctbX5

This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.

Researchers Discover 'Death Ball' Sponge and Dozens of Other Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures in the Southern Ocean - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r... @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

Superb article; I learned about populist ressentiment (i.e. MAGA's perpetual grievance and desire to hurt their fellow citizens) and the danger it poses to democracy. Tom proposes smart solutions to turn things around and restore democracy and serious, adult governance. Thanks for the gift 🎁 link.

From @theathletic.com: How can you tell when you’ve just been part of the greatest World Series game of your lifetime? Game 7 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays kept us riveted from start to finish. Nobody is going to forget this one. nyti.ms/3JI4ZVV

Truly sorry to the suburbs but I’d love to see this thing shuttle Atlantans around Atlanta better

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 Turbo-charging crop improvement: harnessing multiplex editing for polygenic trait engineering and beyond ✍️ Kangquan Yin and Chung-Jui Tsai 📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70527 This is the last review of our SI Plant engineering: advances, bottlenecks, and promise: bsky.app/profile/thep...

A wheat NLR conferring broad-spectrum resistance against powdery mildew by recognizing two structurally diverse AVR effectors. Interested? Check out our newest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Flavanol's astringency affects brain + body www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Astringency is a dry, puckering sensation in the mouth caused by plant-derived polyphenols. Polyphenols, incl. flavanols, are well known for risk reduction in cardiovascular diseases medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. A feature in Nature explores how harnessing this molecular cross talk could help create better crops. #plantscience 🧪

📣 Now announcing the journal publication 📄 of our work in @newphyt.bsky.social on how Verticillium undermines the plant's 🌱 "cry for help": terrific work by @antonkraege.bsky.social & @wolki95.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

During the festive period, we use an amazing variety of tree products, ranging from Christmas trees to frankincense. At Our Trees, we will be discussing many of these materials. One that we use a lot of without knowing it is gum arabic, harvested from wild trees and used in a lot of prepared foods.

Success. Nearly 259 Foldscope deployed in hands of unsuspecting candy crazy kids. Halloween is always more colorful with the microscopes - specially in a few weeks they could look at the micro-fauna of the teeth with so much sugar consumption.

HAPPY PHILOSO-WEEN 🎃👻 #philsky #academicsky #edusky ALT TEXT...

“If the Trump administration continues to violate the law…” @neguse.house.gov Yes. This is the key point. Congress is standing up in this shutdown to stop the Trump and Vought lawlessness. We cannot have a functioning government if the exec branch is willing to break the law.

What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.

The buzzword at Educause this year was "consolidation". Colleges are "shopping their closets" one ed tech leader told me in an effort to find efficiencies and cost savings in their digital ecosystems. Here's my full report www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

New antivenom is a ‘potential game changer’ for snakebites www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

One way to think about the tariffs is as a means for Trump (and his family) to establish leverage over other countries, which he can use to enrich himself and establish a separate base of power from Congress.

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.