managing director @LeafWorksDNA; PhD in Genetics; plant metabolite ecology & evolution; opinions are my own, obviously.
Sebastopol, CA
Joined September 2014
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📢Don't miss out! Live Webinar, TOMORROW, May 7 @ 11AM PST. Kerin Law, PhD on next-gen sequencing, best practices in botanical DNA ID & LeafWorks’ new single-prep, multi-endpoint approach boosting efficiency & scalability. Register today:
linkedin.com/events/74549957…
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📢Upcoming free Live Webinar, May 7 @ 11AM PST!
Kerin Law, PhD on next-gen sequencing, best practices in botanical DNA ID & LeafWorks’ new single-prep, multi-endpoint approach boosting efficiency & scalability.
Register today: linkedin.com/events/74549957…
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LeafWorks is heading to ICSB Oxford 2026! 🌿
Don't miss our presentations by LeafWorks' Kerin Law, Nick Batora and Laura Klein. Join us April 20-23 to see what’s next in plant & fungal verification. #ICSBOxford2026 #naturalproducts #DNA
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Scientists have long pulled DNA from water and soil, but they have only just started to see the air as a source of genetic information
go.nature.com/4c90Rd8
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“DNA didn’t work.”
Or did the system behind it fail? #DNA is a category, not a single method. Results depend on markers, databases and validation infrastructure. LeafWorks built its platform to eliminate those inconsistencies.
Read more: leafworks.com/blogs/news/why…
#BotanicalTesting
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Our Equinox Sale is almost here!
March 20–25: get 40% off Cannabis/Hemp Sex & Pathogen ID Tests.*
Stock up now and get ready to grow—our envelopes don’t expire.🌿Visit us at leafworks.com to learn more.
*Discount on base price, bulk discounts do not also apply.
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Botanical DNA testing has evolved.
From rushed first-gen tools to universal barcoding
LeafWorks defines the 3rd generation—and is the only lab exclusively devoted to non-barcoding botanical genomics. Which gen are you using?
leafworks.com/blogs/news/ent…
#DNA #BotanicalTesting
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I think we're in the Roman Republic dilemma at this point. You can't let people get away with this level of constitutional overreach without punishing them.But to punish them is to play right into the partisan tit for tat retribution cycle,which was what plagued Rome.("Lawfare"?)
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.@stephenasmith says he's "scared of these damn Pistons." 😅
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Virtually every large Vietnam protest involved illegal activity, occupying government or campus buildings, blocking access to induction centers, burning draft cards, and shutting down streets. Plenty of pot smoking, and lots of pelting police with objects. Find your own links or watch Ken Burns Vietnam
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If you go back and look at the Vietnam War protests, they were often huge and violent. In the entire 10 years the only time people got shot, were twice by National Guardsmen, never by trained LEOs. But ICE has done it twice in one month, in the same city.
Data supports my pain!
The 2025 Detroit Lions were among the unluckiest teams in the NFL prideofdetroit.com/detroit-l…
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A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
Both profoundly changed the way humans communicate and this rise of connectivity may have fueled polarization. Adding a small number of individuals with extreme opinions (influencers) also drives continuous increases in polarization.
Once polarization occurs as a consequence of increasing connectivity, it can not simply be undone by reversing to previous connectivity levels. This may be why social media removal studies have very modest effects on polarization. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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World Health Organization Won't Ease Coca Leaf Ban, Even As Review Found Prohibition Is More Dangerous Than The Plant: "It’s unacceptable for humanity to demonize a sacred medicinal plant. It was more of a political decision than a scientific one."
marijuanamoment.net/world-he…
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The “postdoc” is an antiquated concept and should just be replaced with real jobs with real benefits and retirement packages. For God’s sake, the folks have PhDs… they’ve paid their dues.
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Important to read in light of today's op ed on Glyphosate. "The afterlife of a ghost-written paper: How corporate authorship shaped two decades of glyphosate safety discourse" - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/ar…