Andrew Willoughby

Oooooh that's fun

When someone busts out their slides from 2008 with the yellow text on blue background and the square instead of widescreen format, you're about to get a STORY

I remember them always parking illegally right in front of the stadium like on the brick sidewalk or in the maintenance staff parking spots. I wonder if this is their attempt at a compromise with the rules

OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.

This is horrible news.

www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

It photosynthesizes and you can take cuttings of it. At some point when do we give up the game and just call it a plant

It's great for story telling in a group chat

Congratulations!!!

Credit: @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social

Getting to be involved in this project was the first time I had heard of the Calyceraceae. Really great plants, and really neat story about the evolution of the Asteraceae!

A picture of 6 of the variations of brassica oleracea that have resulted in distinct vegetables, out of several more.

I mean...

I know who I am!

The service you're doing to the scientific community by including that they were colored pencils. Replicability crisis who?

I will not be called out in public because of your decisions!!!!

And sonic

Where'd you get these little propagation domes that look like they have vents?

He Studied Why Some Female Birds Look Like Males

"The project that was terminated was on this hummingbird, the white-necked jacobin....I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary." Researcher @jjinsing.bsky.social interviewed by @carlzimmer.com #birds #nature #science #fundscience #nonbinary 🧪

A screenshot of the article PDF showing the title, authors and author photos. Read the article for more information.

More extraordinary model systems for regeneration

In their #LifelongDevSI Perspective, José Garcıa-Arraras, Chunyi Li, Tania Rozario, Mansi Srivastava & @andrewilloughb.bsky.social introduce five research organisms with remarkable regenerative potential

doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Streptocarpus plants rapidly make shoots from the leaf epidermis without exogenous hormones.

The coolest plants in the world, many species have one cotyledon that never stops growing, and no SAM until they flower.

Do you have Streptocarpus at home already? African violets are also Streptocarpus!

Thank you Suresh!!!

Love the concept of new research organism in development and regeneration. Enjoyed reading it!!

More extraordinary model systems for regeneration ABSTRACT. The ability of organisms to replace and regenerate anatomical structures following their loss or damage has piqued the curiosity of biologists for centuries. In addition to Development's ‘Mo...

Excited to share this perspective article out now! Come read about Streptocarpus and other great model systems!

More extraordinary model systems for regeneration journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Looking forward to it! Now #MorphographX is an important part of my work.
I'm grateful for @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social and @mingyuanzhu.bsky.social teaching me how to use it during grad school, and for @richardsmithlab.bsky.social and @soestrauss.bsky.social always patiently answering questions!

I think I've used everyone at this point and it's just about whatever deal you can get

Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades
www.salk.edu/news-release...

I love the eldritch horror of balancing odd numbers of tubes

Putting googly eyes on my thermomixer immediately

UNC Chapel Hill is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Per Jeff
Dangl MPMI candidates are also highly desired in the search. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Paleobotanist searches for ancient plants | UNC-Chapel Hill Emeritus professor Patricia Gensel studies 400-million-year-old plants across the globe.

Love to see one of my favorite colleagues, Pat Gensel, profiled on the UNC website: " Indiana Jones — but for plants"
www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...