Bill Tracy
@teamsweet.bsky.social
Sweet corn breeder and professor at UW-Madison
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.
I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense
I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense
I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
March 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.
I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense
I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense
I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
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“All are products that contain palm oil, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott.
West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide
Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“All are products that contain palm oil, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott.
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‘“The people who are attacking higher education are talking nonstop,” said Holden Thorp, a chemist and former university administrator who runs the Science family of journals. “And the people leading higher education are not saying very much.”’
Opinion | The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
‘“The people who are attacking higher education are talking nonstop,” said Holden Thorp, a chemist and former university administrator who runs the Science family of journals. “And the people leading higher education are not saying very much.”’
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March 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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“There’s an attack on people’s rights with one hand and on their livelihoods with the other. Both of them are equally dangerous. It’s no secret that the right wants to defund the left and that they see universities as bastions of the left. It won’t stop with Columbia. They want to suppress dissent.”
A graduate’s arrest and Trump’s ‘pincer attack’ on higher education
The administration is cutting funds and threatening what it sees as liberal bastions, such as Columbia University, where it detained Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestinian activism
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“There’s an attack on people’s rights with one hand and on their livelihoods with the other. Both of them are equally dangerous. It’s no secret that the right wants to defund the left and that they see universities as bastions of the left. It won’t stop with Columbia. They want to suppress dissent.”
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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I need to this. For years I've avoided daily news, and now I just keep recting to everything that fool does. Gotta calm down and focus on me and mine and not him.
January 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I need to this. For years I've avoided daily news, and now I just keep recting to everything that fool does. Gotta calm down and focus on me and mine and not him.
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“Most people stop studying history in their mid-teens. This creates a fundamentally historically illiterate population. The idea that there’s a widespread movement to learn from history or to understand it meaningfully is false. Only small numbers of people engage with it seriously.”
Inside the Nazi mind: why did millions of Germans embrace Hitler's ideology? — BBC History Magazine
My interest has always been in mentalities: why people think the way they do, how they justify their actions, and what makes them believe they are right. This focus has shaped my career much more than...
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January 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“Most people stop studying history in their mid-teens. This creates a fundamentally historically illiterate population. The idea that there’s a widespread movement to learn from history or to understand it meaningfully is false. Only small numbers of people engage with it seriously.”
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Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of significant hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease?
I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵
I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵
January 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of significant hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease?
I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵
I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵
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The 1/3 or so of the electorate who chose not to vote (they could be their own party) are just as responsible for what's coming as the people who voted for him.
Inaction was an action.
Inaction was an action.
November 30, 2024 at 10:48 PM
The 1/3 or so of the electorate who chose not to vote (they could be their own party) are just as responsible for what's coming as the people who voted for him.
Inaction was an action.
Inaction was an action.
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Graduate student Zoe Fess inspects one ofthe ears she just harvested. Photos by Bryce Richter and artcile by Elise Mahon
Graduate student Zoe Fess inspects one ofthe ears she just harvested. Photos by Bryce Richter and artcile by Elise Mahon
November 23, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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Graduate student Zoe Fess inspects one ofthe ears she just harvested. Photos by Bryce Richter and artcile by Elise Mahon
Graduate student Zoe Fess inspects one ofthe ears she just harvested. Photos by Bryce Richter and artcile by Elise Mahon
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Professor Bill Tracy and Paul look at different variety
Professor Bill Tracy and Paul look at different variety
November 23, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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Professor Bill Tracy and Paul look at different variety
Professor Bill Tracy and Paul look at different variety
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New paper from our group! We found that maize plants from push-push fields had a higher relative abundance of metabolites toxic to insect herbivores. This suggests that maize plants growing with companion plants are "stronger" than maize plants growing alone.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Push–Pull Intercropping Increases the Antiherbivore Benzoxazinoid Glycoside Content in Maize Leaf Tissue
Push–pull technology refers to a promising mixed cropping practice for sustainable agricultural intensification, which uses properties of intercrop and border crop species to defend a focal crop again...
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November 15, 2024 at 7:56 AM
New paper from our group! We found that maize plants from push-push fields had a higher relative abundance of metabolites toxic to insect herbivores. This suggests that maize plants growing with companion plants are "stronger" than maize plants growing alone.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Slide I put together for a Darwin Day talk I'm giving next year. Unconscious selection = Natural selection. Leaf angle in maize has not been directly selected on by breeders but shows huge change! A meta-analysis of natural & wild pops suggests selection under domestication is, if anything is weaker
November 21, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Slide I put together for a Darwin Day talk I'm giving next year. Unconscious selection = Natural selection. Leaf angle in maize has not been directly selected on by breeders but shows huge change! A meta-analysis of natural & wild pops suggests selection under domestication is, if anything is weaker
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"Joanne Chory, Who Enlisted Plants to Fight Climate Change, Dies at 69"
In the Wall Street Journal
www.wsj.com/science/envi...
#PlantScience #Obituary
In the Wall Street Journal
www.wsj.com/science/envi...
#PlantScience #Obituary
Joanne Chory, Who Enlisted Plants to Fight Climate Change, Dies at 69
Biologist sought to breed crops that could store more carbon safely underground in their roots.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:58 PM
"Joanne Chory, Who Enlisted Plants to Fight Climate Change, Dies at 69"
In the Wall Street Journal
www.wsj.com/science/envi...
#PlantScience #Obituary
In the Wall Street Journal
www.wsj.com/science/envi...
#PlantScience #Obituary
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978
-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978
November 15, 2024 at 1:18 PM
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978
-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978
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🤔 Here's my idea of "heaven". ... HBU❓️
November 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM
🤔 Here's my idea of "heaven". ... HBU❓️