Fausto Rodríguez Zapata
@minorallele.bsky.social
Color tierrita. Maize Genetics 🧬 🌽.
Don't let poets lie to you.
Don't let poets lie to you.
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When Trees Testify
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
January 20, 2026
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
#FallOfFreedom #ARRoundUp
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
January 20, 2026
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
#FallOfFreedom #ARRoundUp
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
When Trees Testify
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
January 20, 2026
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
#FallOfFreedom #ARRoundUp
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
January 20, 2026
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
#FallOfFreedom #ARRoundUp
Source: BBC
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'In the Amazon, protection is spiritual': Defying coca lords and loggers in the Amazon
How do you police the world's biggest tropical rainforest? Faced with deadly violence, indigenous people have set up their own unarmed guard.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Source: BBC
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So many people are self sabotaging by deskilling via this nonsense right now. Want an edge in 2027? Don’t build reliance on bad tools into your process in 2025.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
So many people are self sabotaging by deskilling via this nonsense right now. Want an edge in 2027? Don’t build reliance on bad tools into your process in 2025.
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I'm offering a PhD project together with Sarah McKim on temperature-controlled stomata formation within EASTBIO DTP www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #plantscience #plantscijobs Deadline 15 Feb. Please share/RP
EASTBIO - How plants breathe in a warming world: unravelling temperature control of stomata development at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO - How plants breathe in a warming world: unravelling temperature control of stomata development at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm offering a PhD project together with Sarah McKim on temperature-controlled stomata formation within EASTBIO DTP www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #plantscience #plantscijobs Deadline 15 Feb. Please share/RP
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r...
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r...
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
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Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
Resumption of Operations at NSF
Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.
www.nsf.gov
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
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It’s ridiculous. One easy way to decrease international collaboration would be to … fund science in the US well!
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It’s ridiculous. One easy way to decrease international collaboration would be to … fund science in the US well!
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Design stable, folded proteins using only the 10 "ancient" amino acids.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Design stable, folded proteins using only the 10 "ancient" amino acids.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Plant miRNAs influence soil bacterial growth and amino acid uptake, restructuring community composition
-in #ISMEComms
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-in #ISMEComms
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Plant miRNAs influence soil bacterial growth and amino acid uptake, restructuring community composition
Abstract. Plants and microbes use many strategies to acquire soil amino acids. Recent findings suggest that genes related to amino acid metabolism and tran
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November 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Plant miRNAs influence soil bacterial growth and amino acid uptake, restructuring community composition
-in #ISMEComms
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
-in #ISMEComms
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I was a UC PPFP fellow when I was a postdoc at UCSD. This program is invaluable--aside from support for two years of my postdoc, I received excellent mentoring from faculty at the UCs. This fellowship set me up for success and gave me a cohort of fellow postdocs who are now UC faculty. 1/2
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I was a UC PPFP fellow when I was a postdoc at UCSD. This program is invaluable--aside from support for two years of my postdoc, I received excellent mentoring from faculty at the UCs. This fellowship set me up for success and gave me a cohort of fellow postdocs who are now UC faculty. 1/2
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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Farmworkers in Oxnard, CA are harvesting marigolds just in time for #DiaDeLosMuertos. The marigold is sometimes called Flor de Muerto (“Flower of the Dead”). These flowers are thought to attract the souls of the dead to the offerings and ensure eternal peace.
November 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Farmworkers in Oxnard, CA are harvesting marigolds just in time for #DiaDeLosMuertos. The marigold is sometimes called Flor de Muerto (“Flower of the Dead”). These flowers are thought to attract the souls of the dead to the offerings and ensure eternal peace.
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I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
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TWO curatorial positions at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada. Curator of Birds, and Curator of Plants and Sustainability... please pass the word and amplify!
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
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royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
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royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
TWO curatorial positions at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada. Curator of Birds, and Curator of Plants and Sustainability... please pass the word and amplify!
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
&
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
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royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
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🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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New rules for a rat-race. I my opinion, all this micro-accounting (= internal author struggles), inhibits effective collaboration. Science increasingly turns to a goal-oriented bureaucracy, away from an open art-like exploration, curiosity and thruth-seeking.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
New rules for a rat-race. I my opinion, all this micro-accounting (= internal author struggles), inhibits effective collaboration. Science increasingly turns to a goal-oriented bureaucracy, away from an open art-like exploration, curiosity and thruth-seeking.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Producing plant chemicals by fermentation is limited by difference in organellar constitution between the microbe and the plant. This might be a clue to solve that issue.
Enhancing cross-organelle coordination to advance plant cytochrome P450 functionality in yeast share.google/bc7UmWdo4acG...
Enhancing cross-organelle coordination to advance plant cytochrome P450 functionality in yeast share.google/bc7UmWdo4acG...
Enhancing cross-organelle coordination to advance plant cytochrome P450 functionality in yeast
Cross-organelle cooperation in yeast boosts plant CYP performance, opening paths for sustainable manufacturing of plant molecules.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Producing plant chemicals by fermentation is limited by difference in organellar constitution between the microbe and the plant. This might be a clue to solve that issue.
Enhancing cross-organelle coordination to advance plant cytochrome P450 functionality in yeast share.google/bc7UmWdo4acG...
Enhancing cross-organelle coordination to advance plant cytochrome P450 functionality in yeast share.google/bc7UmWdo4acG...
Concurrent improvements in maize yield and drought resistance through breeding advances in the U.S.Corn Belt | Nature Communications share.google/QDSRp6l5f9tQ...
Concurrent improvements in maize yield and drought resistance through breeding advances in the U.S.Corn Belt - Nature Communications
Drought is an increasing threat to global food security. By compiling a dataset of 92,096 hybrid-trial observations across the U.S. Corn Belt, this study finds that modern breeding has concurrently de...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Concurrent improvements in maize yield and drought resistance through breeding advances in the U.S.Corn Belt | Nature Communications share.google/QDSRp6l5f9tQ...
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Melastomataceae maybe the closest to my heart.
I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort!
We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
October 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Melastomataceae maybe the closest to my heart.