A reason I’be become so passionate about this topic is my realization that antiscience kills. The reason 615,000 people lost their lives from COVID19 is partly from SARS CoV2 but in equal measure, defiance of masks and vaccines journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Grateful for the writing guides at Open Academics. Just wrote the abstract in less than half an hour (always a last minute and h.... task)! OpenAcademics #AcademicTwitter

Great news for plant biotech! A COVID vaccine grown in plants measures up! A Canadian biotech firm is reporting positive results from a large study of its COVID-19 vaccine. What makes it unusual is that the key ingredient of the vaccine is grown in plants npr.org/sections/healt…

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Twitter hivemind: where is it shown that plant anthocyanin CONTENT (not biosynthesis) is diurnal? #AcademicTwitter #planttwitter

New preprint PsyArXiv from Chujun Lin 林楚君 & me! "Fooled by beautiful #data: #Visualization aesthetics bias trust in science, news, and social media." Across 4 studies, we show that people (mis)place more trust in more beautiful graphs. Paper: psyarxiv.com/dnr9s/ Explainer 🧵👇

#HouseplantHour flower stalk alert! If I only remembered the ID of this plant...

#houseplanthour Another flower stalk alert! I think this one is a Gasteria…

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just lost all my browser tabs 😒

My Aloe says aloe #houseplanthour

Paper submitted. #AcademicTwitter

Apply to be the Executive Director of the Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering Consortium: glase.org/about-glase/jo… #CEA #horticulture #greenhouse #Management

When you’re vacationing and conferencing on the same trip, your plant shopping results have to hang out in the hotel window for a couple of days 😊#HouseplantHour

So this one had spider mites and was treated with neem and now all leaves look like this… clearly unhappy! What to do? #HouseplantHour

#houseplanthour I dont have a picture but my monstera developed the first leaf with center hole this week!!🥳

It happens in 3s, grant overspent, technician quit and proposal not funded #academia

Whats your experience with students publishing in Journal for Student Reserach jsr.org/index.php/path ? #plantbiology #AcademicTwitter

Blue spectral quality contributes to yield and ascorbic acid content in Micro Tom tomato under sole-source lighting biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

So whats the polite response again? Reviewer rejected paper based on missing information that is actually not missing.... #reviewer2