Our Bio department is discussing dropping the #GRE requirement for admission to our MS program. Does anyone have any great references or documents on #GRExit they recommend?

Any recommendations for soil DNA extraction kits? Thanks!

The monarch butterfly's problems are more than herbicides alone: allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/08/m…

Went looking for poke #milkweed in the Blue Ridge. Found some and these other beauties as well. And the view wasn’t half-bad.

Some things are running a bit behind — Late flowering #columbine #aquilegia and late growing #monarch on my hike today.

More #AppalachianTrail time.

So much fun having the always amazing 闵娅 (Min Ya | Minya), PhD give a guest lecture in my #Botany class today! She absolutely crushed it!

Looking for a #microbiome profiling service (for soil samples). Any recommendations for 16s and metagenomic sequencing? Thanks!

My conversation with David Brooks on finding moral courage in a soulless age (link below)

Meet the monarch super generation! While most monarch butterflies only live 2-6 weeks, the last generation to hatch each summer will live through the winter with most migrating all the way to Mexico! 📷 Tina Shaw/USFWS

Definitely relate to the joys of science in this article—ideation, discovery, and sharing. The only joy missing? Collaboration and the friendships that science makes possible.

Just found this in the Virginia mountains! It always makes me think of those who walked here before us.

Just finished 1491 by 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗. Summary -- more people, more land alterations, for much longer than we imagine. Makes me to wonder what it means for our conservation goals today.

New fossils reveal that members of our genus Homo may have lived alongside another hominin species—a so-far-unnamed type of Australopithecus that would have lived after the famed Lucy. scim.ag/4lsC1WS News from Science

Bee die-off caused by a virus spread by pesticide-resistant mites! What other consequences are pesticides causing that we haven't yet discovered?!

Just published our study on one of the most extensive hybrid zones in the Americas—between showy and common #milkweed. 🌱🌱 A precipitation gradient holds the zone in place. I wonder how climate change shift it? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

I've had far fewer monarchs visit my wildflower garden this year than in previous years. Has anyone else noticed lower numbers?

Couldn't agree more! Now is the time to support the Humanities. Not eliminate them. chronicle.com/article/theyre…