Dan Gates
@dangatesj.bsky.social
Plant biology, bioinformatics, data science, academia, and industry
I want to know more about the fence on this. Are we just flooding the streets with the ultra pure stuff at below market rates from the back of shady trucks? Is Ernst Blofeld sorting out catering for the spectre convention this weekend?
SNAIL HEIST
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I want to know more about the fence on this. Are we just flooding the streets with the ultra pure stuff at below market rates from the back of shady trucks? Is Ernst Blofeld sorting out catering for the spectre convention this weekend?
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Big bluestem has been a lovely and complex system to work with for the majority of my PhD and will always have a piece of my heart! Very excited to share this work with the community.
Super proud of @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social 's paper, now out on biorxiv! She resolves the origin(s) of polyploid big blue-stem, a dominant species in the midwest tall-grass prairie. Her common garden analysis also informs on environmental adaptation and hints at the impacts of polyploidy.
The origins and adaptive consequences of polyploidy in a dominant prairie grass
Polyploidy is ubiquitous across North American prairies, which provide essential ecosystem services and rich soil for agriculture. Yet the mechanism driving polyploid abundance is unclear. Multiple hy...
www.biorxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Big bluestem has been a lovely and complex system to work with for the majority of my PhD and will always have a piece of my heart! Very excited to share this work with the community.
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This story has been such a long time coming! We found that the family of MYB transcription factors that makes pink tomatoes has a wacky cousin involved in the evolution of red flowers in Iochroma. #MYBs4Ever
In #G3journal, @iochromaland.bsky.social and the team present a new genetic pathway in flower color evolution and investigate how this mechanism operates within the flavonoid pathway, which is critical for pigment production in flowers and fruits. buff.ly/7sithlg
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This story has been such a long time coming! We found that the family of MYB transcription factors that makes pink tomatoes has a wacky cousin involved in the evolution of red flowers in Iochroma. #MYBs4Ever
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
Not prone to giving straight political opinions here but I think attacking MTG for timing retirement to maximize benefits is a pretty weak line of attack. You want to weave it in with plethora hypocrisies, silver spoon upbringing, or just general horrid things fine…
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Not prone to giving straight political opinions here but I think attacking MTG for timing retirement to maximize benefits is a pretty weak line of attack. You want to weave it in with plethora hypocrisies, silver spoon upbringing, or just general horrid things fine…
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NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Postdoc positions focused on gene editing using protoplasts and plant regeneration for genetic improvement of forest trees at NC State 🌳
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
The Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources has a wide variety of strengths in forestry and natural resources management, policy and economics, environmental science and technology, wildlif...
jobs.ncsu.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Postdoc positions focused on gene editing using protoplasts and plant regeneration for genetic improvement of forest trees at NC State 🌳
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
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When calligraphers get mad they send strongly lettered words
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
When calligraphers get mad they send strongly lettered words
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The importer, Rad Power Bikes Inc., of Seattle, Washington has refused to agree to an acceptable recall. Given its financial situation, Rad Power Bikes has indicated to CPSC that it is unable to offer replacement batteries or refunds to all consumers.
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The importer, Rad Power Bikes Inc., of Seattle, Washington has refused to agree to an acceptable recall. Given its financial situation, Rad Power Bikes has indicated to CPSC that it is unable to offer replacement batteries or refunds to all consumers.
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CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
Stormin through the party like my name was El Niño
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Stormin through the party like my name was El Niño
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History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men
How nature points out the folly of men
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men
How nature points out the folly of men
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It is 10 to 9. Our giveaway was supposed to start at 9. By 7:30 there were already more people than bags. By 8:30 I’d already given away all our Christmas gift cards because we ran out of the ones for thanksgiving.
$4500 worth of goods and we could have done twice as many…
$4500 worth of goods and we could have done twice as many…
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It is 10 to 9. Our giveaway was supposed to start at 9. By 7:30 there were already more people than bags. By 8:30 I’d already given away all our Christmas gift cards because we ran out of the ones for thanksgiving.
$4500 worth of goods and we could have done twice as many…
$4500 worth of goods and we could have done twice as many…
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
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incredible table of contents here
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
incredible table of contents here
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
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if you have ever taken photos of pigeons that are unique looking would you be willing to share them with me?
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
if you have ever taken photos of pigeons that are unique looking would you be willing to share them with me?
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My mother in law has this book on her coffee table and the first sentence of chapter 1 is, “one cannot spend 35 years looking at barley without acquiring an enormous amount of observations”
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
My mother in law has this book on her coffee table and the first sentence of chapter 1 is, “one cannot spend 35 years looking at barley without acquiring an enormous amount of observations”
5 genres:
-just the right person for their place and time
-zany but old west
-desert southwest scenery
-criminals are bad at doing crime
Oh wait I’m just naming coen brothers flicks…
-burn after reading
-just the right person for their place and time
-zany but old west
-desert southwest scenery
-criminals are bad at doing crime
Oh wait I’m just naming coen brothers flicks…
-burn after reading
What are your top 5 movie genres?
- political thriller
- music documentary
- depressing
- with subtitles, long and difficult
- action (HK, French, otherwise)
- political thriller
- music documentary
- depressing
- with subtitles, long and difficult
- action (HK, French, otherwise)
What are your top 5 movie genres?
Mine are:
- in a galaxy far, far away
- epic quest
- cheering for the final girl
- cringe-watching from between my fingers
- a complete disaster
Mine are:
- in a galaxy far, far away
- epic quest
- cheering for the final girl
- cringe-watching from between my fingers
- a complete disaster
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
5 genres:
-just the right person for their place and time
-zany but old west
-desert southwest scenery
-criminals are bad at doing crime
Oh wait I’m just naming coen brothers flicks…
-burn after reading
-just the right person for their place and time
-zany but old west
-desert southwest scenery
-criminals are bad at doing crime
Oh wait I’m just naming coen brothers flicks…
-burn after reading
It means you dropped them on the group ride even though they paid 23,000 for Wouts alternate from the 2021 MSR
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It means you dropped them on the group ride even though they paid 23,000 for Wouts alternate from the 2021 MSR
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
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This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have tried, it’s just that even success required overshoot (ie, missing the target). And because it’s been framed as a “game over” threshold, media coverage of 1.5 has contributed to the idea that climate action is now pointless. That is not, and will never, be true.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have tried, it’s just that even success required overshoot (ie, missing the target). And because it’s been framed as a “game over” threshold, media coverage of 1.5 has contributed to the idea that climate action is now pointless. That is not, and will never, be true.
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.