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Luke Richards

@LukeZRich

Plants are our friends. Microbes are also our friends. Spiders can all burn in hell. PhD student and functioning alcoholic.

Joined June 2019
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osslab@osslab18 Mar 2021
Twitter! take this away please: Macro scale structures in the microbial world and their relation to metabolic interactions. Interested? Please apply within: jobs.ac.uk/job/CER743/resear…
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So, apparently the secret to academia is... you just write? Write crap words and then make them better later? This is a thing?
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Just how contagious is COVID-19? This chart puts it in perspective. #Epidemiology #COVID19 #DiseaseSpread #NewCoronaVirus livescience.com/first-non-br…
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Photosynthesis in action! In this short clip we see photons of red and blue light being absorbed by photosystem II. The energy then makes its way to the reaction center and is used to strip electrons from water. #education #animation #biology
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Gifford Lab@giffordlab7 Feb 2020
A sad day for ⁦@WarwickLifeSci⁩ ⁦@WarwickPlantSci⁩ as we say bye to Patrick and Ruth ⁦@SchaferLab_UoW⁩ who are heading to the University of Ulm. Come back soon to visit and continue our collaborations!
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Gifford Lab@giffordlab29 Jan 2020
Go @bio_beth - first departmental talk @WarwickLifeSci @WarwickPlantSci in our PACMAN series on her work characterising a nodulation gene involved in lateral root development. Thanks to @BeatrizLagunas for the great introduction and co-supervision of this great research project!
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New Research: Interactions Between Phosphorus, Zinc, and Iron Homeostasis in Nonmycorrhizal and Mycorrhizal Plants: Phosphorus (P), zinc (Zn), and iron (Fe) are three essential elements for plant survival, and severe deficiencies… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #PlantScience #PlantSci
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First One Health PhD/Postdoc Summer School @unibern with students from Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK and USA
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Love this! Good reminder of how our brain sees the world is biased.
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@ThamKhaiMeng4 Aug 2019
This arrow by mathematician and sculptor Kokichi Sugihara can't point left. Here's how it works: It's 3D-printed with a bunch of curves our brains don't register.
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Plantae@plantae_org1 Jul 2019
For his @ASPB @Conviron Scholar Independent Project @will_hinckley created infographics to explain #GMO safety for a general audience. buff.ly/2YoqA96
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Just finished writing a paper on the human health benefits of GM crops. Based on the literature, I estimate that Bt cotton adoption has prevented 75,000 Indian farmer suicides over the past 15 years. GM crop benefits don't get any better than this.
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we talked about these amazing photos on the podcast! Gotta love non-visible light photography 💚 plantsandpipettes.com/hot-ju…
Plantae (@plantae_org) profile picturePlantae@plantae_org25 Jun 2019
Ultraviolet Photography Reveals the Unexpected Fluorescence of Flowers: buff.ly/2L9FImP @mymodernmet #plantsci #sciart
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