Let’s get out there and support Max Aleman 🏳️‍🌈 on Friday.

Dear colleagues - if you’re seeing strokes more and more in adults in their 20s 30s 40s, you got to raise that alarm.

Same. Same. Same.

@stone_prof I’d really love to read someone on structural fixes to the problem. The whole gamification/advice discourse reeks of neoliberal responsibilization. Hard pass.

5. I guess a few things can help if you want to be one of the lucky few.

Take anti-anxity meds.

Be willing to destroy your personal life and relationships that could sustain you.

Pretend you are all mind, with your body's only job being to carry your brain around.

My angry plant breeding student plea to future authors of “Yield increase by [insert wild number] in X crop” studies:

Please verify your yield estimates in multi-environment trials in elite backgrounds. Yield in lab-optimized, unimproved lines means very little 14/

This won’t be the last time a paper like this is published. Keep an eye out for the sample size, yield estimates against commercial lines, and if these estimates are corrected for field-design/grain-moisture/etc…. 13/

So this whole random thread is just to say that we do not always have to do ALL of the things. Ambition can be dangerous. Maybe it's OK just to exist and enjoy life a bit more. We don't have to chase all of the prestigious things and the science can be done tomorrow. 9/12

I'm working on a new series of insect wing venation paintings. So far I've concentrated on Hymenoptera but I plan on doing a Diptera set next. They are a little wonky because drawing free hand with a bottle of goo is hard but I'm happy with the results.

I can't remember if I posted this collage on Twitter back when I first finished making it. This is my gall collage which contains galls from 4 different Disholcaspis species.

My besties surprised me with a bachelorette weekend getaway. This was my face when they tried to kidnap me. Of course I had to make memes out of it. #phdlife #phdchat

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Yeah. And sometimes I can’t even get that right

Seeing a solid wall of text makes me immediately sad.

PLANT SCIENTISTS OF COLOR 🌿:

Would y’all drop me a selfie & quick sentence into what you research?

I want to show it for my guest lecture on Monday over photosynthesis!

My class is predominant Latinx & CC students. The textbook is pretty vanilla...

PLS & THANK YOU 🌾

The signs as microbio buzzwords

Aries: high-throughput
Taurus: CRISPR
Gemini: in situ resource utilization
Cancer: RNAseq
Leo: synthetic
Virgo: culture-independent
Libra: phage therapy
Scorpio: meta-analysis
Sagittarius: data mine
Capricorn: SIP
Aquarius: biofuel
Pisces: -omics

Happy Friday, everyone! Giving you two #mysterymagnification images today! Each one is a different side of today’s item. Good luck! #scientista #scienceneedsnofilter

You can not just surround yourself with diversity that’s ‘palatable’

Real diversity challenges and pushes you out of comfort zones so you’re able to grow.

Thanks to chauncy hinshaw we have these really amazing photos of Juniper-apple rust.

Incase anyone was curious about how fast I was talking? Because I z o o m e d.