We’ve published 4 new #openaccess items in ‘Plant Perspectives’: poems by Evgenia Emets and Christopher Konrad; Isabella Clarke's narrative non-fiction ‘Conversations with Trees’; and Merve Ünsal's commentary about her audio work, ‘Into the Wind’. whp-journals.co.uk/PP/forthcoming… #envhum

My latest essay—Everyday Monsoons—is out and illustrated by Sarah Kaizar in Distillations (Science History Institute). It’s an fairly experimental piece, a new kind of writing for me, so I’m thrilled for any and all feedback. sciencehistory.org/stories/magazi…

I don’t like that people in academia make their work inaccessible by not using plain everyday English. Over 50%of adults in America cannot read over a 4th grade level. You’re writing about certain groups and their spaces but they can’t understand your work. It’s also ableist.

New version (with the right family for sunflower...)

If you want to use it for a lesson, link to high res picture:
github.com/BjnNowak/TidyT…

#RStats code to create the treemap (edited with Figma):
github.com/BjnNowak/TidyT…

I can hardly believe the day has come, but I'll be defending my dissertation this Friday (May 3rd) at 11 AM MDT. I'm excited to share all the work I've been doing on gene flow in island birds (and beyond)! Send me a message if you want a zoom link.

Wake up, honey: new phylogeny of flowering plants just dropped!

Over 9K species, 58% of genera, and all 416 families inferred using Angiosperms353! Out now in Nature - congrats to the Kew Science team and SO MANY collaborators!

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited for the pretty version of this primer on fitness to be out, led by Susana Wadgymar 🌿🔬 w co-authors Emily Josephs Megan DeMarche Jill T. Anderson. Partly motivated by the need for an intro text about how individual-level fitness is related to pop growth rate journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Defining fitness in evolutionary ecology

A primer for learners at all career stages! w/Seema Sheth Emily Josephs Megan DeMarche Jill T. Anderson

Plant Biologists: Please contribute a Primer to this series! Let's make teaching/learning materials more accessible.

RYAN GARCIA BABY!!

Check out the first issue of the new open-access Plant Perspectives journal from The White Horse Press, now available online for free viewing or downloading at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/view/… 'Plant Perspectives is a new forum, grounded in interdisciplinary plant studies, to explore

So excited to see our first issue out in the world! Huge congrats to the lead editorial team!!

Today we published the very first issue of our brilliant new peer-reviewed journal ‘Plant Perspectives’. It’s #OpenAccess and online for all to read, here: whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/view/… #plants tudies #plants #subscribetoopen

Delighted to share the work of our collaborators Md Nasful Prince and Dr. Tonmoy Chakraborty on their new ultra-fast, high resolution dual axial scanning light sheet microscope. At 40 fps, imaging of whole tissues has never been faster!
nature.com/articles/s4417…

Excited to share my first undergrad-mentee-led manuscript!

Here we introduce gatoRs, an R package designed to streamline the downloading and processing of biodiversity data.

doi.org/10.1002/aps3.1… (1/n)

🚀 Excited to share our #PopGenInR workshop resources with everyone! 🌍 Uniting for biodiversity with genetics & R. Dive in:
- Tutorials: green-striped-gecko.github.io/kioloa/
- Code: github.com/mijangos81/Pop…
- Presentations: youtube.com/@dartRverse
- Slides: github.com/mijangos81/Pop…

To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay I'm giving away some books! A HB of The Drift, a super shiny @subpress limited edition of Sliver of Darkness and a very hard to come by US proof of my new novel, #TheGathering . For a chance to win the whole bundle, just like and RT! 😁

#neuroimmunology lovers Our latest work in preprint now biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Led by Amir and in collaboration with the Barreda lab. We asked what parts of the brain respond to systemic inflammation in teleosts other than the hippothalamus.

🌱From the upcoming #AJB #Polyploidy special issue🌱

Plant–soil microbe feedbacks depend on distance & ploidy in a mixed cytotype population of #creosote bush

By Benjamin Gerstner, Robert Laport et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany Polyploid Papers Wiley Plant Science

'Most grad students.. want a career at a research-intensive univ, but many botanists in academia are retiring w/o bring replaced by more botanists. Faculty expertise is misaligned w/needs of industry/gov employers, causing challenges to training grad students for those careers.'

Happy Valentines Day!

Reminder that Louie and Lucy are siblings. 🐾