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Plant evolution and genomics, #ferns #mistletoes #iamabotanist Assoc professor @ Cal State Fullerton
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🌴 #Botany2025 Registration is OPEN! 🌵 Join us in Palm Springs, July 26-30! Deadlines: • Early Registration – April 30 • Abstracts – April 14 • Sectional Awards – TOMORROW • Hardship & Pro Travel Awards – April 15 Info: www.botanyconference.org Register: www.botanyconference.org/registration...

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We must not capitulate to the attacks on DEI in science and academia. Here is a must-read outlining some of the reasons why. #science #DEI #HigherEd www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

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Plant evolutionary ecology has lost a very rare talent. Shu-Mei was a genuinely kind, whip-smart, reasonable, creative, bright light of a person. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/a...

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Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there! More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org #Botany2025

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There's a super fun story about these spurless Columbines! Pollinators mainly visit flowers for nectar, but these nectarless populations were very stable, and this study found both molecular & biological basis for these supposedly disadvantageous forms. 🧪 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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100+ species for #Plantsgiving is 😲! Our highest count was in 2022: 75 species, 44 families, 31 orders. I wanna share our 2022 sheet here to encourage more people to participate: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... We have an elaborated menu planned this year to enter this competition! 🧪🌱 #iamabotanist

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Cool paper: Evolutionary #genomics of the emergence of brown #algae as key components of coastal ecosystems. 👍👏 Congrats to all authors! Was a pleasure to review your manuscript for #Cell. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jack Dawes presenting his research at Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research today at Cal State San Bernardino! #herbarium #milkweed #cch2

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