I can’t thank enough the amazing instructors, admins and fellow students that made my short course Arnold Arboretum Harvard University one of the most insightful, engaging and fun weeks’ of my #PhD. You’re all the wind beneath my leaves 🌿🌱🍃🍁

Really cool Maize CT. This is a tassel that also thinks it is an ear. You can see little "kernels" forming below the stamen. From @amberyayplants @madelainebart and @Joe_P_Gallagher.

<3

talking to gpt3 (AI) about what it's like to be a corn plant

gpt3 is so cool, but definitely noticing some issues with how uncertainty and perception are communicated. I think it might be useful if the model was somehow more aware of its own limited perspective #OpenAI #chatgpt3

Federal R&D investment on agricultural strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by agency and topic area. h/t @adiranade thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-ag…

Super inspiring... How supercharged plants could slow climate change (Joanne Chory | TED2019) ted.com/talks/joanne_c… via TED Talks

presenting my research at IASPRR @iasprr.bsky.social last month was a highlight of the summer... best part was my roommate Julian Somers who was making me laugh pretty much the whole time. Thanks for the great conference and the great memories!

Bartlett lab alum Joe Gallagher talks about his gt1 vrs1 corn cobs with anthers (delicious) and new avenues to increase crop yield

my awesome advisor @madelainebart is moving the lab to the UK (Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)) .. Congrats Madelaine!! Here's to the start of many new adventures

Did you know that less than 5% of a genome is made up of actual genes? Watch our full interview with Karl Kremling of Inari recorded at the recent meeting of the NAPB. More at hubs.li/Q02PzD7G0

Latest episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast! ⏰📖 In this episode, Arif discussed with Hailong Yang (Bartlett lab, UMass Amherst) about his recent The Plant Journal article about a translational landscape in a maize microRNA biogenesis mutant. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/no-ti…