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Leonie Moyle
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Into evolution, genetics, reproduction. Immigrant (actual, and from the bird site). She/her.
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Not now, carnivorous death ball
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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OTD in 1880, Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants. D believed that plants are active agents in the world: “A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.”

🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab.

Details and how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...
The Philosophy of Biology Lab: Entangled Lineages, Classification, and Individuality - Office of Undergraduate Research
tinyurl.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.
many people are saying!
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
low tide, Roscoff Brittany
October 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
night view from Roscoff, Brittany
October 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research.
If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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As promised, here's a 3D volume rendering from an XRM scan of a single Arabidopsis flower, showing the anemone-like stigmatic structures on top of the carpel and array of ovules within. The carpel is ~300um in diameter.
@danforthcenter.bsky.social
@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Samstag, Berlin
October 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
www.nobelprize.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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How do plants stave off greedy pollinators? Read our new paper on pollen dosing in buzz pollinated flowers just out in @funecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gradual pollen release in a buzz‐pollinated plant: Investigating pollen presentation theory under bee visitation
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
dominance, epistasis, pleiotropy
October 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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A test blimp that was aloft five miles from one of the Plumbbob nuclear tests in August 1957, deflated from the shock wave.
October 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Berlin snail, Berlin
October 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
kites over Berlin,
tempelhofer feld
September 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Thomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866.

If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it."

🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration
September 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
renaissance moth
(Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
September 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Kreuzberg, Berlin
September 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
september
September 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u
August 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM