Fibonacci Sequence in Plants Visual Guide! 🧵 The golden ratio (~1.618) and Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13..) are said to be found throughout the universe. While many of these claims are false, the golden ratio and Fibonacci sequence appear in plant structures

Today is the day! August 27, 1895 was the first BSA Council meeting that started the Botanical Society of America community. Support the #DayforBSA, give to the endowment and ensure the mission of your scientific society is sustained long into the future. day-for-bsa.botany.org/2024 #iamabotanist

Honestly this is the highest compliment one can pay me. Knowing my original protocols, or mods to existing ones to make them more accessible, actually help people gives me fuel to keep going. All my work is open. Please use!

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

Revising something with my student today and when I said on slack “Great! I like this version!” And he replied “major slay”. Well that’s very demure very mindful I guess lol. Tell me you have a Gen Z student without telling me you have a Gen Z student 😂

TODAY, 9pm EDT⏰ Don't miss this Multilingual Seminar Series episode: bit.ly/3WOSJW3 闵娅 (Min Ya | Minya), PhD, DJ Pan, Kan Wang, Jing Zhang & Jia Cheng will have a discussion in Mandarin on navigating the North American scientific community! They'll provide useful tips & resources.

Magnolia is known for their stunning flowers but the fruits/seeds are fun too! Once the fruits dry & crack open, the bright red seeds will hang down through a thread of thickened xylems, dangle dangle dangle to attract birds (and botanically curious you). #plantjoy #iamabotanist

Now that we're entering faculty job season, I want to reshare my ✨job search advice doc✨. It compiles all the super helpful advice I received from mentors & includes my own experiences on the market. Best of luck out there, everyone - you got this! 💪 helpimascientist.com/wp-content/upl…

Check out our latest methods article detailing the approach for live imaging and analyzing cell growth in deeper, inaccessible layers of Arabidopsis tissues, using sepals as the reference organ Roeder lab frontiersin.org/journals/plant…

🌱 The GRFP workshop hosted by BSA's Early Career Committee is back! Mentors: Help students with application reviews. Students: Improve your GRFP application with expert feedback. Apply by 9/9! Mentors: tinyurl.com/GRFPmentor2024 Students: tinyurl.com/GRFP2024BSA #IamaBotanist

Check out this cool fluorescent bacterial culture, originally isolated from pitcher plants! One of many in our lab’s current community coexistence experiment. #bittlestonlab #pitcherplants #microbes

Fascinating thread but also fascinating to see Aquilegia with homeotic mutations showing in beautiful paintings from the 16-17th!

False rings, or inter annual bands, are always a challenge but it’s cool when they show up across samples. What starts as a challenge then becomes a marker you look for to help crossdate. Pretty neat!

We are hosting a GRFP workshop and we need help from the community! Students who received GRFP - you can be a mentor too! Sign up and use your experience and expertise to help more students to get supported! 🤗🌱

Damn what a beautiful figure!! Sincerely from a plant person.

Always love the dramatic effect of Tacca species! Tacca integrifolia here with the two bit white bracts do really look like a bat 🦇

First image of a tardigrade (1773). Also known as water bears or moss piglets, they're around 1mm in length, and can survive extreme temperatures, pressures, radiation, and reanimate after long periods without oxygen. And even handle outer space: publicdomainreview.org/collection/tar…

#Stapelianthus insignis #Apocynaceae succulent plant restricted to SW #Madagascar growing in the dry spiny forest

🚨 Join us for the upcoming ASPB webinar on Friday, September 13 at 12 pm Eastern time, hosted by ASPB’s Early Career Plant Scientists Section (ASPB Early Career Plant Scientists Section). Free registration at buff.ly/4ejEJe8 #plantscience

OMFG IT WORKS?!?! tsPurple + 6xHis tag eluted in water Added 20uL of 100mg/mL silicon dioxide to 200uL of protein sample. Vortexed and incubated 5mins at room temp against empty sand control. Will do a better experiment tomorrow. WOW Sand link: a.co/d/09XCT0C