Zach

Regulation of spikelet number during wheat spike development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.698073v1

Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

Brutal line "paint by numbers approach to thought."

Glad for the opportunity to present my software Canecestry at NAPB, National Association for Plant Breeding in Kona, Hawaii!

Check out the preprint here: lnkd.in/d2Qn7D4V

And the GitHub!
lnkd.in/d_ks-aY6

#opentowork

Preprint now available for CaneCestry! A software I made to assist sugarcane breeders in generating family trees and numerator relationship matrices.

How many times do I have to listen to Sapolski's Stanford lectures on Human behavioral biology before I can watch the news without breaking a sweat?

Just figuring out that I need to tag my posts! I post #botany pictures on my page. #biology #entomology #plants

Mayfly ( Ephemeroptera) – Dayflower (Commelina sp.)

Largely complete exuvia of a mayfly.

Gulf Fritillary (Dione vanillae) – Passiflora incarnata

Crescent Butterfly (Phyciodes) – Surrounded by Commelina sp., Phyllanthus urinaria, Phyla nodiflora

South Louisiana

Thanks for the suggestions! I will have to check out Evolutionary QG. I have the books by Walsh and Bernardo, both of which are frequently visited entries in my personal library. Bernardo also has an excellent Essentials of Plant breeding.

Hello! For my first post on Bluesky I would like to issue a question to my followers. My primary interest/focus is evolution and speciation, specifically within the Poaceae. I have a pretty good collection of textbooks but I am curious to see what others recommend.