The Atlanta Hawks were the second best team in the playoffs this year. The transitive property of sports is never wrong.

Great news! Plant scientist Dr. May Zelensky recently bred a corn line that matures around this time of year. In the coming years I'm really looking forward to May's Maize Maze Mays.

Why yes, much data. Many insights. #ggplotfail

Birds

The worst part about finishing a book is deciding which book to read next. I have decision paralysis

En route to San Diego for #PAG33 with several of my Bayer Crop Science colleagues. I'm excited to see what the genomics community has cooked up over the last year. Don't miss the Bayer-sponsored session on Monday! We have a great lineup of internal and external speakers

A haiku about my 10 week old son's favorite thing in the world: "Watching you always Calms me down when I am sad Love you, ceiling fan"

Got an advertisement for a travel credit card in the mail and uh... The editor must have missed this one

Google's AI summary has been mostly helpful with small coding questions but I did run into my first"ghost function" that definitely doesn't exist

I will NOT be voting for Mamdami today! Firstly because his name is spelled Mamdani. Secondly because I'm not a resident of NYC, but I would if I could. I'm excited to get out and vote in my local elections today though, and you should be too.

In my last week of paternity leave and I opened my work laptop to take a peak. 222 emails and 80 teams messages. Not too bad I guess?

I'm no historian, but a deal for one country to extract natural resources from another country sounds a lot like colonialism

A short thread about how the VeRy EffIciEnT DOGE has affected me and my husband personally: Indy was unlawfully fired. - February Indy was rehired, placed on administrative leave, due to judges in California and NY recognizing what DOGE is doing is unlawful. - Mar

Most birds have a fight or flight response. He forgot we’re flightless birds.

Millions of people and so many amazing signs. #Handsoff2025

The penguin humor is really doing it for me lately, a lone bright spot

Rug hanging in the Airbnb I'm staying at. I call it "recurrent whole-genome followed by tandem duplication"

"A person once received treatment at a hospital when they didn't need it, MASSIVE FRAUD!! So we've decided to fire all nurses and cut funding to hospitals by 548%"

I was slightly favoring the Chiefs for Sunday, then I remembered Harrison Butlicker existed. #FlyEaglesFly

Join us on Wednesday, February 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have @cherrityg.bsky.social on apomixis and polyploidy in Malus and Christoph Rosche on herbarium specimens and invasive Centaurea! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

"The CDC is an agency filled with hard working dedicated public health servants. They wake up every single day working to keep us safe."

Downloaded the B73 genome for the first time, am I a Maize biologist yet? My dog thinks he's one at least

Made "Coconut Red Curry Sauce and Noodles" I saw on Worst Cooks in America. The reviews said it was a bit bland so I doubled the amount of red curry paste. Its also the first time I've cooked with tofu. Overall id give it a 7/10

Another year, another successful trip to #PAG32. Attended several talks that will affect the way I carry out my work for the better. Meeting old friends and making new ones also brings me joy. Though I had a lot of fun, I can't wait to see my dog again 😭. Until next year ✌️

Stop by the Bayer booth at #PAG32 and try to solve the Bayer puzzle hunt for a chance at some sweet botanical legos

I'm excited to attend #PAG32 along with several Bayer Crop Science colleagues. Stop by our booth #318 to chat about Health for All, Hunger for None. I would love to chat about anything Eukaryotic genome assembly/annotation, gene regulation, and disease resistance.

Had enough doom scrolling for the day so I muted "T**mp" and "Zuc**rb**g" and "Me*a", now my discover feed only has 5 posts on it

Lunar halo tonight outside of Pittsburgh. Moonlight reflecting off of ice crystals in cirrus clouds (according to Google). Cool effect I would guess I've seen before but it feels like the first time.

Now soliciting advice for sending viable (seed) material to international collaborators and receiving non-viable (dried leaves) material from international collaborators (Czech Republic). The USDA’s website is a tad overwhelming and I’d love to chat with someone with experience! Please help!! 🍎

And on the 8th day, he conquered the last of the thanksgiving leftovers

Check out a great writeup of @scarey.bsky.social Amborella sex chromosome genome assembly manuscript www.hudsonalpha.org/the-amborell... Manuscript doi: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Jess is out of town, so let's check in on Brooks once an hour and see how he's holding up without her. 10am; forlorn. Sitting in the corner of her office on an oversized chair reupholstered just for him (so Brooks believes)

*writes shitty comment in manuscript review* *Takes deep breath* *Removes shitty comment* It wasn't that hard

Escaped into the wilderness this weekend hiking the Appalachian Approach trail and the first few miles of the AT to Long Creek Falls. Favorite part was the morning hike to Springer Mountain (AT southern terminus) in dense fog with frosted vegetation

Repotted these the other day. The smaller one is a Brugmansia (trumpet flower) cutting that's probably not going to make it. The other is a rapidly growing Euphorbia that I hope can grow taller than me someday?

I saw Prof. Chory give a wonderful keynote at ASPB in 2018. Everyone I spoke with there that knew her glowed about how kind Joanne was and how much Joanne has helped their careers. Thats how you impact science beyond your own research questions. Be more like Joanne

Welcome plant people! Thanks to whoever added me to the Botanist starter pack. I'd hesitate to call myself a botanist but I am all about plants and plant genomics so I'll do my best to contribute plant content 🌿🌻 . Here's the start of what I hope to be a full sleeve of things I've worked on

Hearing a near 80 year old call oil "liquid gold" knowing damn well they ain't gonna be around for the "find out" phase is a real kick in the balls

A message just popped up on my printer saying I need to replace the cyan cartridge - completely out of the blue!

Humpty is always watching

Good morning! #birds

Some days you think, "I'm not a boring adult, I'm still fun", then other days the most exciting part of the day is a new chainsaw chain arriving

Those paws

I think I'm actually going to post to social media for once in my life. I like it here. Internet scrolling is funny again