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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬
@smwadgymar.bsky.social
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Evolutionary ecologist, Botanist, Associate Professor at Davidson College (PUI 💪🏼), she/her 🔗smwadgymar.weebly.com
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · Nov 8
I'm very happy to share with you the results of a collaborative experiment between the Catawba Indian Nation and faculty, staff, and students at Davidson College.

Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture versus the Three Sisters🌽🫘🎃

A few take home points:
(a) The raised beds on June 15, 2023. (b) The Three Sisters planting design typically forms a large circular shape with maize/bean mounds interspersed with squash. In our study, the Three Sisters were established in raised beds by planting four maize seeds in a 6-in. (15.2 cm) square each with a bean plant 3 in. (7.6 cm) toward the edge of the bed on a diagonal with the center of the maize square. Maize/bean squares were spaced 4 ft (1.2 m) apart within each row. Squash seeds were planted in pairs between each maize/bean square.
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 16h
A new study claims that male mice who exercise pass micro-RNAs to their offspring through their sperm that increases the aerobic capacity of the offspring.

The claim is of epigenetic inheritance of a phenotype from the male parent.

#EvoBio 🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪
Well-exercised male mice appear to pass fitness to their male offspring
Surprising epigenetic effect relies on snippets of RNA packaged within sperm
www.science.org
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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 1d
📰Published📰Different herbivores, different outcomes: how animals influence leaf breakdown 🍃

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Different herbivores, different outcomes: how animals influence leaf breakdown
M. Paz Tapella, Carolina Quintero, Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal, Yamila Sasal, M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found he…
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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 2d
How do plants stave off greedy pollinators? Read our new paper on pollen dosing in buzz pollinated flowers just out in @funecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gradual pollen release in a buzz‐pollinated plant: Investigating pollen presentation theory under bee visitation
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 2d
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d
✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/8) Could photoperiodic responses have evolved prior to the emergence of circadian clocks?
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fig. 1 (a) Model for how photoperiodic time measurement works across different species. (b) Examples of the photoperiodic pathways in plants (upper) and mammals (lower).
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Maria E. Eriksson @treesandgrowth.bsky.social · 3d
#PlantScience #Photoperiodism 🌱⏰https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-025-00054-0
Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants - npj Biological Timing and Sleep
npj Biological Timing and Sleep - Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants
www.nature.com
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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 4d
Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth
Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...
www.sciencedaily.com
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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 3d
IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News
The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 5d
Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d
Judge: Let me ask you, though: a social-media post is the basis of deployment of troops? Is that really the basis?

DOJ: Posts reflect Trump's decision-making.

Judge: How can I consider post-hoc rationalization of order already issued?

DOJ: Nothing in law requires particular form of determination
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 5d
Write out your lab norms and expectations. Make it clear what you expect of students & what they can expect of you, & what actions you/they might take if expectations aren't being met. Also clear up lab policies (eg authorship, lab meetings, etc). This is helpful for current & prospective students.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d
Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 7d
Scaldweed, Cuscuta gronovii, a native annual non-photosynthetic #parasitic #plant - haustoria instead of roots; shares #herbivores with its host plants (you are what you eat) - but a #flowering plant nonetheless. Most plant communities have several distantly related species of parasitic angiosperms
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 6d
Bucket list ✅

I got to see a corpse flower in full bloom! It smelled like cooked broccoli to me - not that bad, but my friends thought it was awful. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Totally worth the 2.5 hr wait with friends and really fun to see so many people excited about plants!
A corpse flower. The Corpse Flower is not a single flower, but a huge cluster of flowers on a central spike called a spadix. This one was 7 feet tall. The colorful "flower" consists of a large, vase-shaped, ruffled spathe (a modified leaf) that encloses the spadix. A corpse flower. The Corpse Flower is not a single flower, but a huge cluster of flowers on a central spike called a spadix. This one was 7 feet tall. The colorful "flower" consists of a large, vase-shaped, ruffled spathe (a modified leaf) that encloses the spadix. This picture shows the flowers up close. A corpse flower. The Corpse Flower is not a single flower, but a huge cluster of flowers on a central spike called a spadix. This one was 7 feet tall. The colorful "flower" consists of a large, vase-shaped, ruffled spathe (a modified leaf) that encloses the spadix.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7d
Today is our first day without federal funding. Our commitment to providing trusted, objective journalism hasn't wavered.

For 50 years, PBS News has helped you understand the world and make informed decisions. This mission drives our work every day, and your support of PBS News makes it possible.
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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 7d
You’re not ready for gar slime:
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · 8d
So this came online over the weekend: My dive into the "definition" of coevolution is online ahead of publication in @journal-evo.bsky.social!

Don’t ask "when is it coevolution?" — ask "how?"

doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Don’t ask “when is it coevolution?” — ask “how?”
Abstract. Coevolution has come to be widely understood as specific, simultaneous, reciprocal adaptation by pairs of interacting species. This strict-sense
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 8d
Beautiful 😍
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 9d
I just looked it up. It's called the laugher moth! Lovely.
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 9d
Dear everyone, More science and natural history posts please 🙏🏼 🧪 🌍
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 9d
🚫👑NO KINGS 2.0, October 18 🚫👑

Mark your calendars 📆and tell 🗣️your friends! We have a record to beat. www.fiftyfifty.one

Check out other protests and actions here: thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/friday-cal...

#weekinprotest
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