Annelise (@basicbiologist23.bsky.social) is one of the coolest scientists I know and her research totally reflects that. Highest vertebrate blood lead level ever recorded?!?!?! And her paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Meet #BSASpotlight Whitney Murchison-Kastner (Tulane University), who studies how parallel evolution shapes similar traits in Mimulus species adapting to harsh, rocky environments — and the genetic basis behind it.

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