Patrick Mellor
resinoptes.bsky.social
Patrick Mellor
@resinoptes.bsky.social
Plant biologist, founder of Carbocene Industries (https://carbocene.org). Paleoclimatically informed, syntropic synthetic biology for carbon drawdown and climate remediation!
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Help us

- Expand our propagation space into an outdoor area.

- Sustain costs of our indoor grow space.

- Collect and analyze eDNA and morphological data from our LA River phytoremediation site.

- Locate and characterize an appropriate 5-acre demonstration site.
apical bud just opened on this photosynthesis-enhanced aspen 😁
May 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Help us

- Expand our propagation space into an outdoor area.

- Sustain costs of our indoor grow space.

- Collect and analyze eDNA and morphological data from our LA River phytoremediation site.

- Locate and characterize an appropriate 5-acre demonstration site.
May 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Reposted by Patrick Mellor
New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles

159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist)

🧪
@nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes - Nature
Characterization of the genetic architecture underlying the 7 pairs of contrasting traits studied by Mendel and the over 70 additional agronomic traits in pea (Pisum sativum) reveals their m...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Reposted by Patrick Mellor
NEW – State of the climate: 2025 close behind 2024 as the hottest start to a year | @hausfath.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/LhjP4ac
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Patrick Mellor
"Adoption of heat pumps alters the composition of energy demand: demand for gas drops by 90 percent and demand for electricity rises by 61 percent per year. Overall demand for energy declines by 40 percent. The net effect of these changes is a nearly 70 percent decline in households’ CO2 emissions"
With very granular data, a nicely done study. The chart already gives it away, though.
nber.org NBER @nber.org · Feb 26
Featured in the latest Digest: "Household Heat Pump Adoption and Energy Use"
https://www.nber.org/202502/digest/household-heat-pump-adoption-and-energy-use
February 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Reposted by Patrick Mellor
This article is 112 years old. And we still aren't doing enough to act on climate change.

#ClimateCHANGE
January 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Patrick Mellor
If you need something interesting to listen, here are some cool #PlantScience / #PlantBiology Podcasts (Thread 🧵):

"Atom in the Garden of Eden" by 99% Invisible

99percentinvisible.org/episode/atom...

Back when you could just order & sow randomly #mutagenized plants to check for cool phenotypes.
Atom in the Garden of Eden - 99% Invisible
As the world entered the Atomic Age, humankind faced a new fear that permeated just about every aspect of daily life: the threat of nuclear war. And while the violent applications of atomic research h...
99percentinvisible.org
November 8, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Reposted by Patrick Mellor

Judge blocks rule that eased U.S. reviews of biotech crops
Some plant researchers fear the setback could last years and will stifle innovation. (From Science) #PlantScience
www.science.org/content/arti...
Judge blocks rule that eased U.S. reviews of biotech crops
Some plant researchers fear the setback could last years and will stifle innovation
www.science.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:28 AM
March 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Ulmus sp.

Anyone know which one?
March 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
@treepeople-org.bsky.social

restore and reforest urban watersheds

bsky.app/profile/karl...
March 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
life on every surface 😁🐸
March 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
bristlecone resin hits different
March 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
superposition of the Vance function
March 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/p...

"Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the freeze was needed because bureaucrats were pushing out funds for “wicked and pernicious” policies."
January 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM