Shuxiao (Susan) Zhang
@sxzhang.bsky.social
Professional plant nerd currently at Sacramento City College.
That feeling when so many of the students make the same type of mistake on the same question that you double check your answer key and your slides to make sure you got it right.
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
That feeling when so many of the students make the same type of mistake on the same question that you double check your answer key and your slides to make sure you got it right.
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Among the cracked earth & blinding sunlight of California's Death Valley, one native plant not only survives — it thrives.
Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Among the cracked earth & blinding sunlight of California's Death Valley, one native plant not only survives — it thrives.
Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
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✨ Flash Talk Fundamentals for Applied Biologists ✨
An interactive online workshop for early career researchers & professionals - perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to deliver a great conference flash talk or 3MT!
📆 12th December, 1pm GMT
Register now 👉 buff.ly/OiDYE93
An interactive online workshop for early career researchers & professionals - perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to deliver a great conference flash talk or 3MT!
📆 12th December, 1pm GMT
Register now 👉 buff.ly/OiDYE93
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
✨ Flash Talk Fundamentals for Applied Biologists ✨
An interactive online workshop for early career researchers & professionals - perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to deliver a great conference flash talk or 3MT!
📆 12th December, 1pm GMT
Register now 👉 buff.ly/OiDYE93
An interactive online workshop for early career researchers & professionals - perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to deliver a great conference flash talk or 3MT!
📆 12th December, 1pm GMT
Register now 👉 buff.ly/OiDYE93
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❄️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱❄️
Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
❄️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱❄️
Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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The only way we will win a better world is not only leftism for America, but internationalism. “Researchers who have anything to do with China should have their careers ended” is a bipartisan position, and it can’t be anymore. If we live in a fragmented world, it will burn in our lifetime
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The only way we will win a better world is not only leftism for America, but internationalism. “Researchers who have anything to do with China should have their careers ended” is a bipartisan position, and it can’t be anymore. If we live in a fragmented world, it will burn in our lifetime
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Good that Canada joins coalition to fight against climate disinformation (so maybe don't weaken greenwashing law?) www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Countries commit to tackling climate disinformation at COP30
It is the first time states have formally committed to information integrity and fighting back against climate disinformation.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Good that Canada joins coalition to fight against climate disinformation (so maybe don't weaken greenwashing law?) www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
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It’s #TransAwarenessWeek 🌈
This week, we’re celebrating trans and nonbinary people while also raising awareness of the challenges and discrimination that many still face. Check out our discussion with Rowan Casey: microb.io/4hFL6vk 👈
#TransInSTEM #TransInScience #LGBTQSTEMDay
This week, we’re celebrating trans and nonbinary people while also raising awareness of the challenges and discrimination that many still face. Check out our discussion with Rowan Casey: microb.io/4hFL6vk 👈
#TransInSTEM #TransInScience #LGBTQSTEMDay
Queer in Microbiology: A Conversation
18 Nov - Virtual, online
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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It’s #TransAwarenessWeek 🌈
This week, we’re celebrating trans and nonbinary people while also raising awareness of the challenges and discrimination that many still face. Check out our discussion with Rowan Casey: microb.io/4hFL6vk 👈
#TransInSTEM #TransInScience #LGBTQSTEMDay
This week, we’re celebrating trans and nonbinary people while also raising awareness of the challenges and discrimination that many still face. Check out our discussion with Rowan Casey: microb.io/4hFL6vk 👈
#TransInSTEM #TransInScience #LGBTQSTEMDay
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Some plants secrete brine from their leaves to cope with salty soil. Such plants use a subcuticular space to separate surface brine from secreting cells, a trick that could be useful for salt-tolerant crops or desalination devices. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Aich50Xr3Fl
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Some plants secrete brine from their leaves to cope with salty soil. Such plants use a subcuticular space to separate surface brine from secreting cells, a trick that could be useful for salt-tolerant crops or desalination devices. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Aich50Xr3Fl
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Dance with plants: Taylor Swift’s music videos as advance organizers for meaningful learning in botany
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
November 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Dance with plants: Taylor Swift’s music videos as advance organizers for meaningful learning in botany
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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🌾💧 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾💧
Zhen et al. discovered that the density of small openings—called stomata—located on barley stems is associated with whole-canopy water use much more than those located on the leaf blades 🌿🌾💧
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Zhen et al. discovered that the density of small openings—called stomata—located on barley stems is associated with whole-canopy water use much more than those located on the leaf blades 🌿🌾💧
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🌾💧 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾💧
Zhen et al. discovered that the density of small openings—called stomata—located on barley stems is associated with whole-canopy water use much more than those located on the leaf blades 🌿🌾💧
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Zhen et al. discovered that the density of small openings—called stomata—located on barley stems is associated with whole-canopy water use much more than those located on the leaf blades 🌿🌾💧
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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Fully-funded #PhDproject at Earlham Institute in collaboration with @ibers.bsky.social, understanding genome regulation in hybrid Miscanthus for #sustainable #biomass production.
Join our supportive PhD and postdoctoral community!
#Genomics #Bioenergy
Join our supportive PhD and postdoctoral community!
#Genomics #Bioenergy
4-year NRPDTP PhD at Earlham Institute
Application deadline: 02 December 2025
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November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Fully-funded #PhDproject at Earlham Institute in collaboration with @ibers.bsky.social, understanding genome regulation in hybrid Miscanthus for #sustainable #biomass production.
Join our supportive PhD and postdoctoral community!
#Genomics #Bioenergy
Join our supportive PhD and postdoctoral community!
#Genomics #Bioenergy
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Convergent evolution of the developmental anatomy of leaf abscission: evidence from the arboreous lycopsid Sigillaria
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Convergent evolution of the developmental anatomy of leaf abscission: evidence from the arboreous lycopsid Sigillaria
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2180... #plantjobs #jobs Assistant prof of crop production position opening in #UCD!
Assistant Professor of Vegetable Crop Production in Davis, CA for University of California Davis
Exciting opportunity in Davis, CA for University of California Davis as a Assistant Professor of ...
jobs.plantae.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2180... #plantjobs #jobs Assistant prof of crop production position opening in #UCD!
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⚙️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ⚙️
Iron is essential to plants, and molecular mechanisms controlling iron uptake and concentration are affected by other essential nutrients such as zinc, copper, phosphorus, and nitrogen 🧲 🌿
📝 Wairich et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Iron is essential to plants, and molecular mechanisms controlling iron uptake and concentration are affected by other essential nutrients such as zinc, copper, phosphorus, and nitrogen 🧲 🌿
📝 Wairich et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
⚙️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ⚙️
Iron is essential to plants, and molecular mechanisms controlling iron uptake and concentration are affected by other essential nutrients such as zinc, copper, phosphorus, and nitrogen 🧲 🌿
📝 Wairich et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Iron is essential to plants, and molecular mechanisms controlling iron uptake and concentration are affected by other essential nutrients such as zinc, copper, phosphorus, and nitrogen 🧲 🌿
📝 Wairich et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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My pick for In Other Journals this week: A MYB transcription factor regulates lignin deposition on thorn tips:
My summary here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
My summary here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
In Other Journals
Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
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November 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
My pick for In Other Journals this week: A MYB transcription factor regulates lignin deposition on thorn tips:
My summary here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
My summary here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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#JustIn on Plantae — Balancing Teaching and Research Careers: Insights and Strategies. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellow Irene Ikiriko explores the options available to get the best of both research and teaching careers. buff.ly/Bg4tye7
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
Balancing Teaching and Research Careers: Insights and Strategies | Plantae
An academic career is multifaceted. Academics combine research and teaching with mentoring, grant-writing, publishing, community service, and administrative roles. One of the first questions aspiring…
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October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#JustIn on Plantae — Balancing Teaching and Research Careers: Insights and Strategies. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellow Irene Ikiriko explores the options available to get the best of both research and teaching careers. buff.ly/Bg4tye7
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
#UCD is hiring an assistant prof for #plantpathology! #jobs #plantjobs jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System
Exciting opportunity in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System as a Assistant...
jobs.plantae.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#UCD is hiring an assistant prof for #plantpathology! #jobs #plantjobs jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...
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The last of the Rosa Rugosa on the dunes. 🌱 #gardening
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The last of the Rosa Rugosa on the dunes. 🌱 #gardening
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🌳From Annals of Botany: Urban forests hold untapped potential as genetic reservoirs for threatened tree species, offering a powerful tool to advance global conservation goals. (Alessandro Ossola)
▶️ academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
#PlantScience #Conservation #Ecology
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#PlantScience #Conservation #Ecology
Genetic diversity in urban forests and their potential role in conserving the world’s threatened tree species
AbstractBackground. Plant species diversity is threatened worldwide, and urgent conservation action is needed. Emerging evidence demonstrates that urban fo
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October 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🌳From Annals of Botany: Urban forests hold untapped potential as genetic reservoirs for threatened tree species, offering a powerful tool to advance global conservation goals. (Alessandro Ossola)
▶️ academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
#PlantScience #Conservation #Ecology
▶️ academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
#PlantScience #Conservation #Ecology
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A few years ago I made a slide showing the top 10 results if you search Google Image for "cartoon scientist".
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
October 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A few years ago I made a slide showing the top 10 results if you search Google Image for "cartoon scientist".
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
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🌱From Ecology: Invasive annuals show strong local adaptation to aridity, but not to nitrogen deposition, highlighting climate as a key driver of evolutionary response. (Justin M Valliere, Mayra J Hernández)
▶️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#PlantScience #InvasiveSpecies
▶️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#PlantScience #InvasiveSpecies
October 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🌱From Ecology: Invasive annuals show strong local adaptation to aridity, but not to nitrogen deposition, highlighting climate as a key driver of evolutionary response. (Justin M Valliere, Mayra J Hernández)
▶️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#PlantScience #InvasiveSpecies
▶️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#PlantScience #InvasiveSpecies
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Whoop, whoop! The new queer wildlife documentary 'Second Nature,' narrated by the inspirational Elliot Page, will premiere in New York on Saturday. 🐠🏳️⚧️🐧🌈🐘
It looks awesome; check out the teaser. Hopefully it will be available in the UK soon.
www.secondnaturedoc.com #lgbtq #nature #film #PrideInSTEM
It looks awesome; check out the teaser. Hopefully it will be available in the UK soon.
www.secondnaturedoc.com #lgbtq #nature #film #PrideInSTEM
Second Nature — A documentary about everything you didn’t learn in high school biology.
Debunking myths that females are “inferior” and being queer is “unnatural,” Second Nature follows trailblazing trans Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Joan Roughgarden as she meets other groundbreaking scien...
www.secondnaturedoc.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Whoop, whoop! The new queer wildlife documentary 'Second Nature,' narrated by the inspirational Elliot Page, will premiere in New York on Saturday. 🐠🏳️⚧️🐧🌈🐘
It looks awesome; check out the teaser. Hopefully it will be available in the UK soon.
www.secondnaturedoc.com #lgbtq #nature #film #PrideInSTEM
It looks awesome; check out the teaser. Hopefully it will be available in the UK soon.
www.secondnaturedoc.com #lgbtq #nature #film #PrideInSTEM
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In our session this week, we will be joined by the amazing @penguinacho.bsky.social for a discussion on penguin sexuality and the documentary Animal Pride: Nature's Coming Out Story! 🐧💬 #QueerStem #QueerAcademia #GayPenguins
October 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In our session this week, we will be joined by the amazing @penguinacho.bsky.social for a discussion on penguin sexuality and the documentary Animal Pride: Nature's Coming Out Story! 🐧💬 #QueerStem #QueerAcademia #GayPenguins