I have an old edition of Darwin's Origin of Species that I bought as a PhD student. It sat in my office at @utoronto.ca at 25 Willcocks St. Today I looked up the original owner from the bookplate - Ronald R. Hart. I discovered that he was born in 1888 living at, you guessed it, 25 Willcocks St!

MYB5 was differentially expressed. But we only looked at MYB1-5 and didn't do an exhaustive search of other enzymes

Cool!!!
We describe a naturally segregating anthocyanin-less mutant in Mimulus guttatus in this paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Sunny afternoon measuring field experimental plants #mimulus #SequoiaNatlPark #iamabotanist 🧪🌾

Great #CSEE2025 meeting @csee-scee.bsky.social in Sherbrooke! Thank you @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social -- Canadian E&E is a fantastic community! Super proud of lab members for stellar (award winning!) talks and poster! And the most creative swan-song poster by my colleague Chris Eckert!

I'm missing #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social this year, but representing the lab is fantastic grad student @isabeaulewis.bsky.social speaking on Mon Jun 23 in Evolutionary Ecology III at 2:45 on kin discrimination in #Mimulus plants!

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And amazing convergent evolution with the feathery stigmas in wind-pollinated flowers!

[photo of grass species Arrhenatherum: www.delta-intkey.com/grass/www/ar... ]

Students at #QueensU, you can cast your vote in the Federal election while still on campus. Vote early April 14-16 at Ban Righ Hall:

www.elections.ca/content2.asp...

#YGK #cdnpoli #onpoli #federalelection

Silver thaw, ice storm #YGK #Canada

A greenhouse full of one’s first true love always raises the spirits!!!

#ragweed #iamabotanist #botany #plantbiology

@isabeaulewis.bsky.social 🌾🧪

Hmmm… Ambrosia (ragweed) does wind pollination as well as the best of them grasses

For something uplifting... Mimulus is kind to its kin!

We add to the growing evidence that plants sense their neighbours and respond differently to kin vs unrelated individuals!

Congratulations to @isabeaulewis.bsky.social 🧪🌾 #evolution #mimulus #botany

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Dinner. No regrets.

I too, can't resist.

If you see this post, post a photo taken in the mountains

Today I hit my 500 : 0 Wordle record

Nothing like fieldwork in the Sierras and lots of #Mimulus species to feel revitalized and refreshed!

Fantastic news from #Budget2024 -- substantial increase in investment into Canadian graduate scholarships and postdoc fellowships. Thanks for the advocacy and hard work @supportourscience.bsky.social 🧪

We published a protocol for seed measurements in high-throughput manner in Application in Plant Science special issue (Thanks to @smwadgymar.bsky.social for the best of science twitter motivation)

Paper link: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...