Chemical ecologist, trying to understand how plant galls happen.
Houston, TX
Joined July 2010
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This is an interesting and potentially breakthrough-bound system in which to study gall formation on plants. Strangely, it provides no detailed information about the structure of these galls. Are they galls? doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.11.…
Hey Houstonites! I’ll be talking about plant behavior at the Patterson Park Patio Bar on Tues Nov 10. It should be a lot of fun and even startling. Visit eventbrite.com/e/after5houst… for details. Hope to see you there! (After5society sponsors weekly presentations on science etc.)
From today's NYT: "The White House has begun drafting a new executive order... The order aims to create a new external committee with the power to veto awards🤬
This has the potential to advance study of #galls, since there are few on the ‘model’ plant species
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Our paper on self-DNA as a yield-enhancing immunostimulant for common bean is finally published-.. opem acess, so everybody who is interested can read it.
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This bald cypress tree had more galls per branch than any tree I've ever seen. Galled by Cypress twig gall midge, Taxodiomyia cupressiananassa
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It sounds good until you internalize the fact that this is the NSF response to the White House gutting NSF Core and exercising more control over what kind of science is funded
Today, NSF released 12 new notices of funding opportunity providing over $1.5 billion for foundational research across the sciences and engineering. brnw.ch/21x4ZF2
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Gall of the week, is the oak apple, caused by the cynipid wasp Biorhiza pallida sexual generation.
A week late as May 29th was oak apple day, or shick-shack day. It marks the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660, and was a public holiday until 1859.
Photographer unknown.
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Radicalized by the liberal learning factory of…
*checks notes*
Liberty University
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New paper!
academia.edu/2997-6006/3/2/1…
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This Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring was distributed by Kix cereal in the late 40's, for 15 cents and a mail-in box top.
It was actually a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210 (one of the most toxic substances out there).
A child would take the toy into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206.
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Happy Valentine’s Day from the “love vine” - a parasitic plant parasitizing other plant parasites! #ValentinesDay
Messages I get. “Hi Mr. Schultz this is Diana I would change at the Houston medical office and you were assigned to our relationship here and we wanted to call and juice ourselves to make sure you know exactly who you are when things come up we can absolutely assist you”
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The director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center was shot to death last night in his home. When one of the greatest minds on the planet specializing in nuclear fusion is assassinated, it seems like a bad omen.
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