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KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR -

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December 5.

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Yikes! Don't people realize that these things are still alive and breathing? It's not like those lenticels are just there for decoration.

I love my town!

I'm going on Sunday and....I don't understand German. Should I bring something to read?

Sometimes the universe just clicks

YouTube video by Billy Bragg Billy Bragg - The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More [Official Audio]

If history teaches us one thing
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth

And a nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...

Oh one of my favorites! It is such a joy to encounter it giving a bright pop to the trail.

OMG I can't even count how many hours have I spent ripping this stuff out of my mother's yard. And untangling it from actually desirable plants. And letting the expletives fly. She moved, and it came with her in some pots and now it's all over the new yard too. Worse than oxalis.

"nobody calls a 'follicetum'" had me laughing so hard. The only place I've ever seen that term is the Spjut book.

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of ...

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Joseph Fasano

Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now...

Billy has wise words for nearly every occasion. Thanks for this video. He's just a baby here but had already measured the lay of the land.

I've got one of those. Plus two jars of washers that I have found on the ground over the last several years.

Yes! And such an accurate description of what can happen in the field, whether it's transformative or forgettable.

Among the Academies: Studying How Plants Adapt How can plants adapt to their environment, and how will they be able to adapt to climate change? Those are among the biggest questions Johanna Schmitt has sought to answer during her career as a plant...

A nice profile of the wonderful Annie Schmitt

www.ucdavis.edu/news/among-a...

Did anybody else try entering Urticadioica into #letterboxed yesterday? Yeah, I know. Two words. Can't do that. But it was so exciting to see it in the letters that I had to try.

Are we going to have to start calling him POTUS-aceae now?

My small contribution to the popularization of evolutionary biology during the #ESEB2025 week, thanks to this article on the evolution of rose breeding in The Conversation France.
If you read French, here it is: theconversation.com/comment-le-c...
If not, our Genetics paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

And thank *you* Jamie. Now I'll have to find me some Kars 4 Kids ads to swamp it out.

What?!?!?! Ficus does it all.

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out!

Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For #thicktrunktuesday here's a Sequoiadendron from a 3-day stop in Kings Canyon National Park on my way home from #Botany2025. Trunk is thick all the way up. Hiking and life companion at the base for scale.

I really think that "squirtable" is a word. For that matter, "nonsquirtable" is a word. That would be all 12 letters! But #letterboxed thinks otherwise.

Wow. I hope you are growing basil, too! And tomatoes. So many possibilities!

Congratulations!!!
And I should have told you this earlier, but your 2023 paper on species is one of the most elegantly written and thoughtful papers I have read in a long time. Seriously a joy to read. I need to read it again, in fact. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

We should get style points in Letter Boxed, even if answers take more than two words. Mine from yesterday: ozone engulfing gyres. Efficiency doesn't always have to be the goal when there are so many great words out there, waiting to be seen.

RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication?

RFK JR: I did not fact check

RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?

RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate

RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?

Even the original context is disturbing. Removing the lawn has nothing to do with saving water. It's all about hating plants. Never trust anyone who hates plants.

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Barbara McClintock portrait

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

Palo Alto through Mountain View and towards Sunnyvale was packed! People stood along El Camino Real (or No-Real) from Tesla dealership to Tesla dealership. We walked several miles from MV towards PA and it was very crowded. Lots of honking in support, too!