Rachel Melnick
@plantdr.bsky.social
Works in agricultural policy and climate change. Lover of plants and microbes.
Making the kid watch Less Than Jake on the live stream of DC Warped Tour
June 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Making the kid watch Less Than Jake on the live stream of DC Warped Tour
As an alum of the USAID SANREM and IPM CRSPs this is hard to see. My PhD was mostly supported by USAID. Https://www.linkedin.com/posts/soybean-innovation-lab_today-is-a-dark-day-when-once-there-were-activity-7293758354156400640-vPmL?utm_source=share
Soybean Innovation Lab on LinkedIn: Today is a dark day when once there were so many winners. SIL, the Soybean…
Today is a dark day when once there were so many winners. SIL, the Soybean Innovation Lab, will shutter its doors as of 4/15/25 as all USAID funding has…
www.linkedin.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
As an alum of the USAID SANREM and IPM CRSPs this is hard to see. My PhD was mostly supported by USAID. Https://www.linkedin.com/posts/soybean-innovation-lab_today-is-a-dark-day-when-once-there-were-activity-7293758354156400640-vPmL?utm_source=share
Ska still hits youtube.com/watch?v=gqH_...
youtube.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Ska still hits youtube.com/watch?v=gqH_...
This is beyond awful www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/u...
FAA issues ground stop at Reagan National Airport after passenger plane collides midair with helicopter | CNN
A passenger jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter midair as the flight was approaching Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, DC, Wednesday night, the Federal Aviation Administra...
www.cnn.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is beyond awful www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/u...
Saturday meditation
January 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Saturday meditation
Reposted by Rachel Melnick
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Missing this guy this week. After 18 years, my parents dog crossed the rainbow bridge. His longevity definitely was some hybrid vigor as he was pure mutt.
January 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Missing this guy this week. After 18 years, my parents dog crossed the rainbow bridge. His longevity definitely was some hybrid vigor as he was pure mutt.
Tis the season for catnip meeses.
December 25, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Tis the season for catnip meeses.
Been on the train for 1.5 hours and just mmade it underground (still in VA), so it isn’t my fault I am missing the morning session of AGU today. Glad I am not speaking today.
December 12, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Been on the train for 1.5 hours and just mmade it underground (still in VA), so it isn’t my fault I am missing the morning session of AGU today. Glad I am not speaking today.
Reposted by Rachel Melnick
Phytophthora takes down an indoor farming company: pitchbook.com/news/article...
Wilted greens: How a leaf-eating pathogen, failed deals brought down Bowery Farming - PitchBook
A pathogen decimated crop yields at both of Bowery's farms, former employees said. They never fully recovered.
pitchbook.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Phytophthora takes down an indoor farming company: pitchbook.com/news/article...
Happy Halloween from Edison and Tesla
November 1, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Happy Halloween from Edison and Tesla
This weekends update on our caterpillars
October 28, 2024 at 12:26 PM
This weekends update on our caterpillars
Enjoying this weeks garden guests.
September 28, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Enjoying this weeks garden guests.
AGU membership site crashing the day abstracts were due was truly a wild ride, which was an oddly expected.
August 1, 2024 at 3:12 PM
AGU membership site crashing the day abstracts were due was truly a wild ride, which was an oddly expected.
When you walk out because you wonder why that butterfly is acting funny in your flowers…
July 24, 2024 at 2:44 AM
When you walk out because you wonder why that butterfly is acting funny in your flowers…
Mandated return to work costs https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/research-damaging-results-mandated-return-to-office-worse-than-we-thought-rto-remote-work-careers-leadership-gleb-tsipursky/
August 2, 2023 at 12:12 PM
My 4 year old at his first baseball game - Ugh this is long, when is it over!!! One day later - “I went to a baseball game and it was amazing”
July 17, 2023 at 9:44 PM
My 4 year old at his first baseball game - Ugh this is long, when is it over!!! One day later - “I went to a baseball game and it was amazing”
Morrill Act Reparation sought
Amid a reckoning, some Native Americans call for reparations
Numerous advocates have asked universities built on tribal lands to make amends.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 10, 2023 at 1:20 AM
Morrill Act Reparation sought
This would be interesting to hear, particularly with my Pennsylvania roots https://www.npr.org/2023/07/08/1186575606/ted-hearnes-choral-work-farming-raises-food-for-thought
July 9, 2023 at 5:53 PM
This would be interesting to hear, particularly with my Pennsylvania roots https://www.npr.org/2023/07/08/1186575606/ted-hearnes-choral-work-farming-raises-food-for-thought
When you can’t eat gluten and have to consistently ask for the agenda of the meeting you are attending next week, because they haven’t added you to the mailing list - at least you know outright they are not accommodating you and to bring your own food (which work will cover thru per diem).
July 8, 2023 at 1:28 AM
When you can’t eat gluten and have to consistently ask for the agenda of the meeting you are attending next week, because they haven’t added you to the mailing list - at least you know outright they are not accommodating you and to bring your own food (which work will cover thru per diem).
And there goes affirmative action
June 29, 2023 at 2:58 PM
And there goes affirmative action