Bought this guy for $45 from the fellow who made him in 1999. Bought maybe a dozen more masks from the same gentleman over the years. A fantastic woodworker from Guerrero who would travel to CDMX to sell his wares.

Or, if you're Ledyard Stebbins, you do this quite literally with your typewriter and the office window.

Me too, Elmo, me too!

hey Apple it's really weird that Siri gives you the option "Horario" to finalize an event in your calendar in Spanish. I think this is just a bad direct translation of the noun form of "Schedule" instead of using the more appropriate verb "Programar".

Come join us for an exciting project!

Hey Damon Lisch any idea what’s going on here with the red color?

Love it when DHL U.S. holds up a shipment inexplicably, then fails to add dry ice after requested, destroying some irreplaceable biological samples and then refuses to refund our payment. Good advertising for FedEx

Beautiful collaboration led by Tetsuji Kakutani and Sayuri Tsukahara on unravelling the fine changes that can make a centrophobic TE become centrophilic and vice versa! The devil is in the details for these TEs. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Postdoc jobs in the Gaut lab! Brandon isn't on here, so I can be frank: he is fantastic. I did my postdoc with him and he is not only an amazing scientist but one of my favorite humans. I would have happily stayed in his lab forever if that was feasible. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08999

2025 Gomez-Pompa lecture by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra talking about the human impact on the genetic diversity of 🌽 #StudentOrganized #CortevaSymposium UC Riverside CNAS

Talking Biotech 459 - where did the key domestication mutations in corn come from? Were they present in resident gene pools waiting to be selected, or new mutations? I discuss with Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and his student Regina Fairbanks. @aspb ASHS UF IFAS Solutions share.transistor.fm/s/bed2ffa6

📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: High Throughput Computational Approaches Concurrent Session!🌱 app.swapcard.com/widget/event/p… Learn more and register now!👉plantbiology.aspb.org/registration/ #plantscience

We're excited to share PlantCAD browser tracks: a new, unpublished dataset integrating AI techniques for plant genome analysis. Explore it here: github.com/andorfc/PlantC… We welcome the community's feedback and innovative use cases for this data!

Reason number 4,517 (yes I'm counting) why MaizeGDB is so awesome and we're so lucky as a community to have these folks. Also a great example of maize community sharing. UNPUBLISHED data already up on the community database showing conservation scores across the maize genome.

New data from the Bob Schmitz lab (Marand 2025) on cell type-specific cis-regulation in maize! This study, in Science Magazine, reveals how DNA changes impact expression and maize traits. Explore the 176 tracks on our browser (Epigenetics and DNA Binding) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

An ancient origin of the naked grains of maize | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

In #GENETICS, Elli Cryan, Daniel J Kliebenstein, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, & colleagues identified sites under positive selection, estimated the timing of gene & loci divergence, and discovered a siRNA-mediated mechanism of silencing the reproductive barrier in #maize: buff.ly/cQFkzfP

Such an amazing story about meiosis in pentaploid roses... rdcu.be/esxPd

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The International Forum for Maize Bio #IFMB2025 happening this October in Wuhan with myself, Jianbing Yan, and Dave Jackson as chairs. All the corniest science! Please submit abstracts! We will reimburse airfare for some of the selected abstracts as well! ifmb.maizemeeting.com