On Saturday, I had the greatest honor of giving a TED talk in Oxford. I spoke on the topic "Breaking the cycle of hunger and malnutrition in Africa" - a speech written on my heart for many years now. It was the most incredible & humbling experience, 1

A long noncoding RNA regulates color variation in monkeyflowers, a new study finds. The results highlight an unexpected mechanism for petal pigmentation evolution. Read that research and more this week in Science: scim.ag/1ts

Haven't seen a better representation of what a Ph.D. is/should be. #AcademicTwitter #academia #research PhD Voice - Independently Run PhD_Genie

We are celebrating! The Good Scientists was born one year ago as Elena Del Pup was admitted into the Clinton Global Initiative University '22 Class! More on this interview by SantAnnaPisa bit.ly/413xfp3 #socialimpact #CGIU22

electron microscope view of a hydrothermal vent polychaete deep sea worm

Super cute 🥰

Registration is open for a new, virtual PCA workshop on "The Missing Link: Broadening Participation and Embracing Biodiversity in Scientific Research"! Moderated by Rose A Marks and Will Dwyer. Date: June 22, 2023 Info/Register: bit.ly/PCA-BP-Workshop

News: Going back to school alongside 84 amazing KnightHennessy scholars at Stanford University this Fall! 🌲🌲

Found some bivalve shells (wording?) buried inside a piece of siltstone this weekend. #GeoTwitter #ScienceTwitter Can someone explain what’s happening here? Could these be fossils in formation?? Location: bottom of a cliff, on a beach near Santa Cruz, California.

Meet our founder, Elena del Pup! Elena is 24 years old and Italian, from Friuli-Venezia Giulia. After graduating from Università di Pisa and SantAnnaPisa with a Bachelor in #agricultural sciences, she completed a Master’s degree in Plant Sciences at Wageningen U&R.

Shannon & Erin under the saw palmettos. Shot on #35mm in Georgia’s coastal maritime forest.

One more week to register!

T-2 days until the start of "The Missing Link" symposium hosted by PlantCellAtlas.bsky.social! Registration is still open: plantcellatlas.org/broadening-par…

Nature is amazing! A camera recorded from start to finish how a bird built its nest and had its chicks.

So proud of you @Sterling_Field !!

A great opening and talk by @Sterling_Field at #ASPB2023 on the discovery of rhamnose synthesizing biocondensate. Now we need to get the paper into bioRxiv and submit to a journal !

Help us reach our fundraising target to register as a non-profit initiative in the Netherlands! Help us connect individual researchers with social impact opportunities with our platform and volunteer-led initiative. gofund.me/6dcc752f

In our newest podcast episode, Will Dwyer discusses immigrating to the U.S. from France, his love for plants’ otherworldly biochemistry, and more with Willie Thompson, Taylor Goss, and Sydney Hunt. Bonus: An original song performed by Taylor on guitar. open.spotify.com/episode/2S3itw…

Very proud to share our latest preprint: postdoc/LRSF fellow Yue Rui studies the mechanisms regulating attachment of the cell wall to the plasma membrane. The Cellulose Synthase Complex and REMORINs determine attachment and root osmotic stress tolerance. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…