How do plants respond to climate change? We study the genomes of 200-year-old pressed plants and find that they may have evolved fewer leaf pores (but it is complicated - read the paper!👇) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Ginkgo endures.

weighted blankets aren't enough. I need to be subducted by continental crust

One of my favorite @nature covers for this week’s issue

still thinking about the undergrad who asked me, with a totally straight face, "grad school... slay or flop?"

A wet winter has produced a bounty of flowers across California. The spring bloom provides a narrow window for botanists to search for wildflowers that have been lying dormant for years in a bid to save them from the brink of extinction. nyti.ms/42UsFe4

Our paper on Indigenous cultural fire is out 🔥🌿 we discuss “Ceremonial Fire”, climate change implications & moving from TEK to TEP, “Traditional Ecological Practices” ✍🏽 w Chairman Goode & Erica Tom #goodfire #rxfire #INDIGENOUS #AcademicTwitter Academic Chatter™ #NativeTwitter

Publishing a complete, telomere-to-telomere assembly of the vast and tangled maize genome, filling in every remaining gap. nature.com/articles/s4158…

it’s that time of year again where folks are applying to grad school and the #nsfgrfp!! i have a lots of resources on my website cesaroestien.com/resources for both, including a paper i wrote with some great folks all on applying to grad school :) doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2…

🎧🧬 DNA Enzymes explained with earphones! 🎧🧬 Good for teaching! •Helicase: untangles the double helix structure of DNA •Topoisomerase: relieves tension created by unwinding of DNA strands •Ligase: joins broken ends of DNA strands together •Restriction enzyme: cuts DNA at

Happy to share our new monograph on redlining, birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles just out in American Ornithological Society. Please see the infographic below, put together by KAP. Design, for details If you're unable to access the paper (see link) please DM me academic.oup.com/condor/advance…

It is always a treat to see a paper in press. Congrats to @jcbnunez and the rest of the Bergland lab for an amazing study of seasonal evolution in #Drosophila using a multiyear time-series analysis of genomic data. Read more here Genetics Society of America: doi.org/10.1093/geneti…

Just in time for the holidays, @GrohJeff cracks the story of ancient balanced polymorphisms for heterodichogamy (male vs female flower order) in walnuts & pecans biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Avi Shlaim is one of the most high integrity Jewish intellectuals of his generation. This piece is a required read by all of us so torn by the events since October 7th prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel/6…

I wrote an article. ‘How Can I Care About Wolves When There’s a Genocide Going On?’ Or Conservationists' Responsibility to Palestinian Liberation: link.medium.com/AX9hDma4XFb #ConservationistsforCeasefire #ConservationistsAgainstGenocide

George L. Jackson calls fascism "reform." In his work "Blood in My Eye," Jackson wrote that the word "reform," more precisely "economic reform," is a working definition of fascist motive forces. He argued that fascism is a response to a threat to the capitalist establishment 1/2

Very helpful! But consider colorblind-friendly color palettes 🎨 ggpubfigs only supports colorblind-friendly color palettes, so it is something users don't even need to think about :D github.com/JLSteenwyk/ggp… x.com/tangming2005/s…

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and