Super proud of this project that started as a bar conversation at a conference 7 years ago. And now, it's in field trials. How cool is that? 🌾 🍚 🧬 😎 🇮🇹

Congrats to Baxter Worthing, for winning best oral talk at the North America Forest Genetics Society meeting, Mexico. He talked about Unraveling the genetic architecture of bud flush timing in two hybridizing Populus species to predict phenological responses to future climates.

Last night, I won the Democratic nomination to run against Marjorie Taylor Greene. I'm not sure why, but since then I keep seeing posts by people saying that they never unfollowed but are no longer following us. Can you please retweet this so people can find our account?

Alex Rodriguez asked a question. Reggie Jackson answered it. (Shouts to the producer and rest of the desk for staying out of Reggie’s way and just letting him talk. I doubt they expected this answer. But it’s a great few minutes of television.)

Some of the people he’s talking about are still alive. A LOT of their children are. In a place where this was the overwhelming social norm, it’s insane to believe MOST of those people changed. It’s a hard thing to hear or to say out loud. But believing it is ABSOLUTELY insane

This is wild. Her “investigative report” was just an AI search. Black historians have been telling this story for years. There’s a whole chapter in my book about it w/endnotes to the maps she claims she couldn’t find bc they didn’t pop up on Google. Apparently, nothing exists

As a matter of fact here’s a whole thread I wrote 3 years ago about 1 of those properties, McLeod Plantation in Charleston SC. Oh wait, it’s not a thread. Now it’s an “investigative report.” x.com/michaelharriot…

Bioengineering secreted proteases convert divergent Rcr3 orthologs and paralogs into extracellular immune co-receptors buff.ly/3SqgWRx Jiorgos Kourelis Parvinderdeep Kahlon Ruby O'Grady Dr. Ana Bravo-Cazar Mariana Schuster Ali Kabalak Pitter Huesgen Sophien Kamoun Oxford Biology The Sainsbury Laboratory

Yikes, a 4-fold increase in nitrogen fertilizer use predicted to meet future global wheat demand. Clearly we need to find an alternative. nature.com/articles/s4147…

Congrats 👏 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The new class of HHMI investigators average 3.9 papers as corresponding author in Cell, Nature, or Science. 26 out of 26 members of this group previously trained with a PI who is in the National Academy of Sciences or who was an HHMI investigator themselves.

No one ever worried about having two straight White men on a party ticket. Now people are saying that VP Harris needs the "balance" of a White man. A Republican strategist is quoted here suggesting "a little toxic masculinity." washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Early this year, scientists at Saitama University, Japan, used a fluorescence microscope to film plants using calcium signalling to respond to airborne warning messages from other plants. Brilliant! Read more about it: bit.ly/3XTdVwx

Immune signaling by flg22-FLS2 can cross-activate EPF-ERECTAf signaling pathway to enforce stomatal patterning, but only under certain condition. Take a look at our latest work & see what chemical biology can unravel 🥰🌱🧪 @ArvidHema krishnamohan biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to learn our non-transgenic canker-resistant citrus generated by crispr genome editing exempted by EPA, by APHIS, for use by growers! They are the 1st to receive EPA exemption for gene-edited plants! ThanksNIFA funding!Thanks@usda_nifa ⁦⁦U.S. EPA⁩⁦USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service⁩

Maher has become the first Vermonter to medal at the summer games since 2016. buff.ly/3WKwZMv

In our new review we explore how plants use β-glucans and their binding proteins to navigate between harmful, neutral, and beneficial microbes. We dive into the dual roles of these molecules in plant immunity and symbiosis. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.… #MicrobeInteractions

Thank you Technology Networks and Molly R Coddington for highlighting my experience as a queer scientist and allowing me to explain why we need more diversity in STEM. Greater representation can be good for innovation and science. Read the article here ⬇️ bit.ly/4cJxifd

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.