Our Purpose: to excite interest and inform the wise stewardship of our planet. Our Mission: Catalyze the discoveries needed to understand our ocean, sustain life, and ensure the health of our planet ...

The lab of Nina Overgaard Therkildsen in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University invites applications for a PhD position starting in Fall 2026. Our group works...

Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students

The search will remain open until the position has been filled. First consideration will be given to applications received by December 12, 2025. Applications received after December 12, 2025 may be re...

For me at least the choice between ggplot2 and tmap is an ongoing question. Here are my latest thoughts on the subject (with code).

Abstract. Recent studies have demonstrated elevated levels of mercury in fish from remote, low alkalinity and low pH lakes. The mechanisms of this enhanced

Plant cells are totipotent, meaning individual cells have the potential to develop into a full organism, a property unique to the zygote for animals. However, in most species for most cells, plant cells are not spontaneously totipotent, since they must be treated with specific hormone combinations to unlock their totipotency. Species within the Kalanchoe genus is unique as they spontaneously develop foliar embryos that are fully realized plantlets with shoot and root from notches along the edges of leaves. We speculate that the progenitor cells that give rise to these foliar embryos are totipotent, and we are using single cell techniques to identify & characterize them. In addition to being a fundamental process for plant biology, we foresee unlocking totipotency has many biotechnological applications, such as faciliating genetic transformation and the development of synthetic organs of biomanufacturing.

Data structure informs choice of color maps.

In this study, we asked whether normalization by host reads alone was sufficient to estimate absolute bacterial biomass directly from stool metagenomic data, without the need for synthetic spike-ins, ...

Easy wrangling and model-free analysis of microbial growth curve data, as commonly output by plate readers. Tools for reshaping common plate reader outputs into tidy formats and merging them with desi...