Jeffrey Dean
@jeffdean-uga.bsky.social
Assistant Provost and Director
University of Georgia, Griffin Campus
Biochemist by training, Scientist by birth
Just passing through on my random walk
University of Georgia, Griffin Campus
Biochemist by training, Scientist by birth
Just passing through on my random walk
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Hoverflies, often mistaken for bees and wasps, pollinate three quarters of our crops. Now we’re discovering we can train them to be even more efficient
The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops
Hoverflies, often mistaken for bees and wasps, pollinate three quarters of our crops. Now we’re discovering we can train them to be even more efficient
www.newscientist.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hoverflies, often mistaken for bees and wasps, pollinate three quarters of our crops. Now we’re discovering we can train them to be even more efficient
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🍅 The success 🍅 of vertical #farming 🍅 depends on #plant architecture. In this #OpenAccess paper, Lee et al. explore the role of the 🍅 strigolactone pathway in 🍅developing shorter #tomato 🍅 plants with more 🍅 axillary shoots.
🍅 doi.org/10.1111/jipb... 🍅
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci 🍅 #genetics #CRISPR
🍅 doi.org/10.1111/jipb... 🍅
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci 🍅 #genetics #CRISPR
Modulating the strigolactone pathway to optimize tomato shoot branching for vertical farming
Optimizing tomato architecture via CRISPR–Cas9 editing of strigolactone–related genes revealed that weak alleles can balance axillary shoot growth, yield, and ripening. Strong mutants reduced yield d...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🍅 The success 🍅 of vertical #farming 🍅 depends on #plant architecture. In this #OpenAccess paper, Lee et al. explore the role of the 🍅 strigolactone pathway in 🍅developing shorter #tomato 🍅 plants with more 🍅 axillary shoots.
🍅 doi.org/10.1111/jipb... 🍅
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci 🍅 #genetics #CRISPR
🍅 doi.org/10.1111/jipb... 🍅
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci 🍅 #genetics #CRISPR
This Shrub Thrives in Death Valley’s Scorching Temperatures. Where Do Its Heat-Tolerant Superpowers Come From? - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
This Shrub Thrives in Death Valley’s Scorching Temperatures. Where Do Its Heat-Tolerant Superpowers Come From?
Tidestromia oblongifolia thrives in high heat—and scientists think it may hold the key to making food crops more resilient amid global warming
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This Shrub Thrives in Death Valley’s Scorching Temperatures. Where Do Its Heat-Tolerant Superpowers Come From? - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
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A volcano with no record of eruption in ~12,000 years has gone off in Ethiopia.
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A volcano with no record of eruption in ~12,000 years has gone off in Ethiopia.
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The scientific world would be a better place if reviews routinely reflected this degree of critical thinking and graphical excellence.
Thanks for putting this together @plaschkalab.bsky.social @rupertfaraway.bsky.social and @thezenklusen.bsky.social
Thanks for putting this together @plaschkalab.bsky.social @rupertfaraway.bsky.social and @thezenklusen.bsky.social
How does messenger RNA (mRNA) get out of the nucleus to become a protein? Eukaryotic mRNA is packaged, exported, and then translated in the cytoplasm. But how do these steps work? And what are open questions? Check out our new review for our take: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... (1/3)
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The scientific world would be a better place if reviews routinely reflected this degree of critical thinking and graphical excellence.
Thanks for putting this together @plaschkalab.bsky.social @rupertfaraway.bsky.social and @thezenklusen.bsky.social
Thanks for putting this together @plaschkalab.bsky.social @rupertfaraway.bsky.social and @thezenklusen.bsky.social
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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#TansleyReview: Physiological roles of #lignins – tuning cell wall hygroscopy and #biomechanics
Pesquet, Cesarino, Kajita & Pawlowski
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
Pesquet, Cesarino, Kajita & Pawlowski
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Elevated DNA damage without signs of ageing in the short-sleeping Mexican cavefish offers a unique model to study sleep, DNA repair, and ageing.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Elevated DNA damage without signs of ageing in the short-sleeping Mexican cavefish offers a unique model to study sleep, DNA repair, and ageing.
buff.ly/6VrO19l
buff.ly/6VrO19l
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Researchers have developed a charge-shifting polyzwitterion that can carry insulin through intact skin and into the bloodstream, producing robust glucose-lowering effects in diabetic mice and miniature pigs. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
A polymer for needle-free insulin delivery
New material slips past skin and ferries insulin into the bloodstream
cen.acs.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Researchers have developed a charge-shifting polyzwitterion that can carry insulin through intact skin and into the bloodstream, producing robust glucose-lowering effects in diabetic mice and miniature pigs. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
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“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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#TansleyReview: Physiological roles of #lignins – tuning cell wall hygroscopy and #biomechanics
Pesquet, Cesarino, Kajita & Pawlowski
👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
Pesquet, Cesarino, Kajita & Pawlowski
👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#TansleyReview: Physiological roles of #lignins – tuning cell wall hygroscopy and #biomechanics
Pesquet, Cesarino, Kajita & Pawlowski
👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
Pesquet, Cesarino, Kajita & Pawlowski
👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
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“I think our bill was $74,000 on broken windows,” said Ranahan. “And the crazy thing is, everyone loved it. The people, the neighborhood, they still come out to me and talk to me about it.”
(via The Browser)
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
(via The Browser)
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
'It was chaos': The history of San Francisco's most unforgettable TV ad
The million-dollar shoot resulted in $74,000 in broken windows.
www.sfgate.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
“I think our bill was $74,000 on broken windows,” said Ranahan. “And the crazy thing is, everyone loved it. The people, the neighborhood, they still come out to me and talk to me about it.”
(via The Browser)
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
(via The Browser)
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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So, special election next year for MTG seat. Here's the Democrat already in the race. 40-year military vet, retired as an Army Brigadier General. 5 children, 4 grandchildren. Wife Karla works as a family doctor. Plus, they run their grass-fed cattle farm. www.shawnforgeorgia.com/meet-the-can...
Meet Shawn - Shawn Harris for Georgia
Kick-Off Speech. Shawn grew up in Blakely, Georgia, on his family’s farm. After high school, Shawn enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to the rank of Sergeant. Later he got his B.A. in Agribusi...
www.shawnforgeorgia.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So, special election next year for MTG seat. Here's the Democrat already in the race. 40-year military vet, retired as an Army Brigadier General. 5 children, 4 grandchildren. Wife Karla works as a family doctor. Plus, they run their grass-fed cattle farm. www.shawnforgeorgia.com/meet-the-can...
This, indeed, captures the agony and the ecstasy that is Georgia football. Go Dawgs! Sic em!!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
Leitch: College football is supposed to be fun. We can't stop ourselves from wanting more
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This, indeed, captures the agony and the ecstasy that is Georgia football. Go Dawgs! Sic em!!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬
Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬
Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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Catching up on blog posts: a biochemical role for the element tungsten, of all things. Don't look for it in your multivitamins any time soon, though:
Biochemical Tungsten - Really
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Catching up on blog posts: a biochemical role for the element tungsten, of all things. Don't look for it in your multivitamins any time soon, though:
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Serial section videography (SSV): A low-cost protocol for generating 3D reconstructions of internal plant structure
New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience
New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Serial section videography (SSV): A low-cost protocol for generating 3D reconstructions of internal plant structure
New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience
New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience
It’s the ‘most important fish in the sea.’ And it’s disappearing.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | It’s the ‘most important fish in the sea.’ And it’s disappearing.
If the menhaden decline continues, striped bass could be next to vanish.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It’s the ‘most important fish in the sea.’ And it’s disappearing.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...