Oh... You don't store your cut flowers in scientific glassware? #lablife

I may have sustained a small ice burn in the process (😬) but look how frost-free our -80 is now 😁 that's my achievement for the day #postdoclife

Have you ever seen such a bedraggled bumblebee? 🥹 Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf #InsectThursday #petsofhhu #bees

I found this strange (to my Australian eyes) spidey on my balcony, then a few days later the same type of spider hiding in an apple orchard. What is it? And why are its legs alternating lengths?

You might think of #SciCom as a formal, deliberate act. Actually, it can be as "simple" as explaining what you do to your friends/family/kids. In this #blog I talk about the challenges of explaining science to non-scientists Academic Mom, PhD PhD Voice - Independently Run #postdoc leafingthroughbiology.wordpress.com/2023/09/05/yes…

Saw this poster at the Plants and People conference at MPI in Golm last Wednesday and really loved it. It’s how I imagine effective communication between scientists and the general public. Great work Vicky Howe 👏🏼

“The poster that starts the most conversations wins, not the poster that has the most information.” - The Better Posters book, page 26

Super excited to be included in the line up of The Plant Cell AFEs for 2024. Summarising entire articles into a 600 word highlight will be a good way to hone my #SciCom skills 😄 looking forward to the challenge and working with the team!

This is exactly what you don't want to see when you sequence the plasmid you former student cloned and proceeded to use in their thesis 🥲🥲🥲 A PSA to ALWAYS SEQUENCE PLASMIDS PEOPLE GIVE YOU (AKA don't trust anyone) #PostDocLife

It's normal to be excited by the appearance of a new tape dispenser in the lab, right? Look at all the *colours* 🌈🤩

I did not expect to see the November sun today Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Happy Friday!

Who does this???

For a summary of an interesting paper revealing one way plants can respond to unexpected cold snaps, see my latest IN BRIEF (clue: it involves temperature-sensitive changes in protein localisation 😉)

Did you know that side-shoots must be manually removed from commercial cucumber vines? This IN BRIEF The Plant Cell summarises a study of genes controlling cucumber tendrils and branching and their potential to increase agricultural productivity academic.oup.com/plcell/article… #PlantSci

IN BRIEF: The quest to find TLC: Tendril-less cucumbers, that is (Vicky Howe) buff.ly/4bqcKbs Vicky Howe ASPB #PlantSci

IN BRIEF: From the archives: Targeting proteins to plasmodesmata, germination in the desert, and functional diversity of KNOX proteins (Vicky Howe) buff.ly/4aojWni Vicky Howe ASPB #PlantSci

Applications for the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor program (volunteer positions) are being accepted between now and October 15, 2024. Who should apply? Late-stage PhD students & postdocs who want to expand their horizons and skillsets. More ➡️ blog.aspb.org/plant-physiolo…

"Don't stir using the pH probe" must be one of the most ignored lab instructions ever. If you've done it then own up and raise your hand .........🙋

IN BRIEF: Shedding light on photomorphogenesis (Vicky Howe) buff.ly/3zVcCTQ Vicky Howe ASPB #PlantSci