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www.modifiedpod.com. Science educator, GMO podcaster and community college enthusiast.
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The Evolving Mission of Workforce Development in the Community College, 2019 - ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/publications...

A few choice quotes in the thread
The Evolving Mission of Workforce Development in the Community College
This paper describes how community colleges became a major resource for the nation's workforce development requirements and discusses how this role continues to evolve to meet the needs of students, e...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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In the process of realigning myself with my profile pic. It's not as gruesome as it looks. Just toner
December 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Episode 8 is live to see you through into the new year. How science took over plant breeding - a potted history (sorry couldn't help myself)

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How Science Took Over Plant Breeding | Modified
What actually is plant breeding and how did it become so deeply intertwined with genetics?
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December 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I'm going to start posting regularly about community college related research and white papers. Buckle up.

Starting with this one about workforce education in Community Colleges - ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/publications....

Continued in thread.
Strengthening Community College Workforce Training
This brief describes the substantial role community colleges play in workforce education, what innovative colleges are doing to improve programming and labor market outcomes for participants, and how ...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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"Wild animals are sentient, can experience pain, suffering and pleasure and should be treated with respect" - quote from the new UK animal welfare strategy document
December 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Do you know what makes something a crop, and not just a plant? Find out in Episode 7 of Modified
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#botany
#science
#scicomm
What makes a plant a crop? | Modified
Learn what sushi and sugar beets can teach us about how to turn a plant into a crop and how this connects to GMOs.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Come get gooey in the lab with me on Jan 22nd! Extract DNA, drink cocktails, and learn about your genome. Tickets below. It's in Seattle.
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Meet your Genome - A Talk and Participatory DNA Extraction Event - Thursday, January 22, 2026 Tickets | The Lab at Ada's | Seattle, WA | Doors at 6:00 pm, Program Begins at 6:30 pm | Stranger Tickets
Botany and Biology talks are back at The Lab!  How does a tiny sugar-based molecule called DNA in all of your cells exert such a powerful control over defining who we are? Come learn with a DNA scie...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Look. You gotta start somewhere. And I'm willing to be excited about 200 downloads
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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In the meantime here's a picture of a church on King St in Honolulu. I am not Christian but there are some really cool church buildings around the world.
A red cross on the front of a white wooden church. Bleached by the Hawaiian sun
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Message to all the legions of Modified listeners out there. I'm taking a Thanksgiving break but there will be a new episode released in 2 weeks. I've not given up.

#podcast
#genetics
#science
#GMO
#Biotechnology
#biotech
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Just breezed through TSA at SEATAC. Apparently flying day of Thanksgiving was not the terrible idea I thought it was.
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Posting a picture of myself because pictures get more traction. And if you like this, then you'll love listening to my podcast - Modified - your guide to the science and history of GMOs

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November 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Wanna know about Chameleon vines, flower viruses, and how to GMO your way to a mango you can eat like an apple?

Check out the latest episode of Modified - www.modifiedpod.com/e/your-quest...

#podcast
#science
#botany
#scicomm
#gmo
Your Questions Answered | Modified
Ant plants, Chameleon plants, and skinny-peel mangoes. Let's dive into your questions and I'll do my best to answer them.    References Leaf Mimicry in a Climbing Plant Protects Against Herbivory - Gi...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Back again with my old friend the NYT election results tracker. One year on from what feels like a lifetime ago.
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Episode 5 out now
How Genes Keep Plants Alive
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#podcast
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How Genes Keep Plants Alive | Modified
How do plants defend themselves, fighting a war of attrition cell by cell? And how did a scientist in Minnesota in the 1950s reshape how we understand plant immune systems and the genetics at their he...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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How do a few strings of DNA make a plant? EPISODE 4 of Modified gets into the weeds.
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#science
#plants
#genetics
How Genes Make Plants | Modified
What are these little bundles of DNA we call genes and how does a bunch of genes work together to make a whole plant? In this episode we’ll take a journey through plant genetics and see why scientists...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Im doing some talks this Fall in Seattle. Cocktails and fun science. What's not to like. Only $10.

Our Modified World: Meet the GMOs in Your Life Tickets | The Lab at Ada's | Seattle, WA | November 19, 2025. Doors at 7pm, Presentation at 7:30pm | Stranger Tickets share.google/1QYDlDwUtJV7...
Our Modified World: Meet the GMOs in Your Life Tickets | The Lab at Ada's | Seattle, WA | November 19, 2025. Doors at 7pm, Presentation at 7:30pm | Stranger Tickets
Botany and Biology talks are back at The Lab! In a 19th-century castle kitchen, a German scientist was playing with human pus - using his chemistry skills to purify a mysterious new substance from ...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Grading lab reports from a lab you thought was a mess and that all you'd done was confuse all the students, then seeing that they did in fact get it and were doing great work. What a rush.
#teaching
#science
October 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Another Nobel prize win for Seattle. Congratulations to Mary Brunkow (and Shimon Sakaguchi and Fred Ramsell).
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Episode 3 released. The One with Mendel and his Peas
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The One with Mendel and his Peas | Modified
Around the same time as Miescher was tinkering with DNA in Tubingen castle, a middle aged friar-scientist Gregor Mendel was experimenting with inheritance of pea plants. He was the first to define a s...
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October 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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And just as I wonder what middle age has in store for me, the universe enters with the answer... puzzles
Man with green hair looks proud, presenting a puzzle he just completed. It's a 1000 piece puzzle of a forest
September 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Some positive news in the world is really welcome. And amazing to see the many decades of public investment into biotechnology worldwide bearing fruit with a gene therapy against this horrible disease.
royalsociety.org The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Sep 24
Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time following positive results from a global clinical trial, on which Professor Sarah Tabrizi FRS of UCL's Huntington's Disease Centre was lead scientific advisor:

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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As a British American, despite having lived here 10 years there are still some things I can't wrap my little European brain around. And the American health insurance system is one of them.
September 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Bluesky? What are your questions about genetics or plant science? I will research and answer them in an upcoming episode.
#plantscience
#genetics
#botany
#podcast
#science
September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Episode 2: What genes are made of. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3ivci...
What genes are made of
Genes can be a metaphor for our sense of self. But they are also real, physical, things made up of DNA parts, locked inside the cells of every living organism. In this episode we explore the materiali...
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September 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM