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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 1d

I keep going back and looking at this picture. It seems, no matter what topic I'm working with, I really like bright, saturated colors.

Rectangular woven basket filled with blue, yellow, and pink dry beans.

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 1d

Oh and did I mention that the mutant has interesting misoriented divisions? Movie by Stephanie Martinez! 🌱

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 1d

Severing is critical for the reorganization of microtubules, movie by Stephanie Martinez!

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 2d

A flower for you, Shantha! 🌸

Magenta flower with serrated leaves and brown furzy stem

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 2d

Ooooh weird mosses, hoping you get some cool snaps!

a close up of a waterfall with the website wondersofmotion.tumblr.com in the corner

Alt: a close up of a waterfall with moss in the foreground with the website wondersofmotion.tumblr.com in the corner

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 2d

A time projection of the microtubules in the katanin mutant by Stephanie Martinez 🥳

Maize epidermal cells with a live cell marker for microtubules where microtubule color from cyan to red indicate time.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I don't know, if you're like us and make content like this then its quite possible NEPA shutting down a concentration camp in FL is the sexiest thing you've seen all year. I guess NEPA does delay fascism.

NEPA Does Not Delay

Deregulation is Not the Solution for Clean Energy

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks John 🎉

Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to share this preprint on the microtubule severing protein Katanin, and its role in cell elongation and division in maize. First author Stephanie Martinez worked collaboratively with many folks to bring you this preprint. Check it out! 🔬🌽 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

KATANIN promotes cell elongation and division to generate proper cell numbers in maize organs

Microtubule severing is essential for proper eukaryotic cell elongation and division. Here we show that the microtubule severing protein, KATANIN, is encoded by two genes in Zea mays (maize) called Di...

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 3d

Datura #bloomscrolling

Two white flowers with dark green leaves

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 4d

Serious kestrel side-eye today! 🪶

Female American kestrel looking back indignantly over her shoulder.

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 4d

The blue sword

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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 5d

AnatomyArray: a high-throughput platform for anatomical phenotyping in plants (Yikeng Cheng, Jiawei Shi, Zhanghan Pang, Nuo Xu, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 7d

🐰 RABBIT EARS directly regulates WOX4 transcription and inhibits secondary growth in #Arabidopsis stem

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by Thapa Chhetri et al.

@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience #cambium

Identification of a rbe-d mutant with reduced secondary growth.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 8d

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 9d

Love to see it!

kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain .

Alt: kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain waving his arms saying yay!

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 9d

she says she is determined to do it, I got her number and texted her a bunch of resources and info on state rebates

I wrote about my heat pumps like two years ago, she’s been chewing on it this whole time

you don’t even know how much you do in the world just by being loud about your choices

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 9d

waylaid at the gym for heat pump advice! winning!!

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you Shantha! 🌸

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 11d

Good morning!

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 12d

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP

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