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You’re wasting your space-nip! – Lettuce Opium, Dinosaurs, Fairy Lanterns
We’re back from the summer break. If you had guessed that we will be more on point, less rambly and more focussed on plants after our break I have to ask: do you even know us? Anyway, we have cool science facts and not a single cut in the entire episode.
- Sedative Effects of Latexes Obtained from Some Lactuca L. Species Growing in Turkey
- Dinosaurs were night prowlers, study finds
- Tatsuya Amano on Twitter: “#languagebarriers have multiple major consequences for scientists, the advance of science, and its impact on societies. We need a concerted effort from all – both non-native & native speakers. Here we’ve listed ten things you can start doing today. https://t.co/HJcEFm3lPz… https://t.co/h2S8atF2PV“
- The role of plant–pollinator interactions in structuring nectar microbial communities
- Bacterial Dyes in Fashion
- Enchantingly Strange ‘Fairy Lanterns’ Discovered Growing in a Malaysian Rainforest
- What’s the chattiest animal?
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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Derp – Social Ferns, Salty Greens, Dark Biofilms
Fly like a lemur, sting like an ant in a crow, as my late grandfather used to say to me before I was born. With that in mind, let’s talk about some plant facts. We have new organs, delicious salty plants and a first of its kind almost-social fern. Let’s go!
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Don’t do Chromothripsis, kids! – Epigenetics, NPAAs, quick fixes
I said hey, what’s going on? We’re more or less vaxxed, we’re excited about summer and we’re bringing plant facts! We’re diving deep into epigenetics, discuss climate fixes and talk for a surprisingly long time about marsupial genitalia. The usual.
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A new hope – monkey puzzles, pride month, sleight of beak
We are very hopeful this week that many bad things will come to an end. Also, we talk about a spiky favourite tree, lots of pride in STEM and many other cool things.
- Monkey puzzle tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_araucana
- It is pride month all throughout June: Google pride month for a fun effect
- LGBTQ+ Plant Scientists (@LGBTQPlantSci)
- Mehmet Kurt on Peer Review for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (PRIDE) providing feedback on grant proposals etc for young LGBTQI+ people in STEM
- Pride in STEM | A charitable trust for LGBT+ in Science, Engineering, Tech, and Maths
- 500 Queer Scientists Visibility Campaign : 500 Queer Scientists
- Anna Dye is plant virologist and vector biologist from the US
- Pedro Sena is an ecologist from Brazil
- Yolanda Caceres is an ecologist from Germany
- Han Tan is an assistant professor of plant genetics in the US
- Digital forensics experts prone to bias, study shows
- A Hierarchy of Expert Performance (HEP) applied to Digital Forensics: Reliability and Biasability in Digital Forensics Decision Making | Request PDF
- “It’s a reverse banana peel slap bracelet”
- Morphomechanical Innovation Drives Explosive Seed Dispersal
- Modeling the 3D genome of plants
- 3D genomics across the tree of life reveals condensin II as a determinant of architecture type
- Natural temperature fluctuations promote COOLAIR regulation of FLC
- Sound Waves Promote Arabidopsis thaliana Root Growth by Regulating Root Phytohormone Content
- A tuning point in plant acoustics investigation
- Scientists rally around misconduct consultant facing legal threat after challenging COVID-19 drug researcher
- Elisabeth Bik 💉 💉 (@MicrobiomDigest)
- Magic Tricks May Fool You, but These Birds Can See Through Them
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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Udder industry is angry – Proximity proteomics, cactus trafficking, graphene confusion
Big udder won’t like this episode – not specifically because we said anything but mostly because they are a joyless bundle of cow farts. In this brand new and highly sought-after episode, we are discussing proximity proteomics, global earthworm abundance and the best way to water your plants.
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Dung is the correct place to be – reflective moss, Mark Spencer, beautiful plants
This week, we’re going cave diving. Not too deep though, we still need a little bit of light to find a moss. We also talk plant forensics and about the cooles news in plant science.
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At the carp waterpark – biosensors, tracking carp, pseudopollen
Oh Carp! Is it a new week already? We have another episode for you, this time talking about priming in maize, biosensors and carp science! Do you know whether carp can hear music? Tell us. We need to know.
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Power Plants – Vegetable Sheep, Joanne Chory, Microneedles
A new episode is here! We’re talking about a sheep made of vegetables in the mountains, microneedles on plant leaves and the amazin work of Joanne Chory.
- Raoulia
- Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
- Alpine Cushion Plants New Zealand
- Bloom of the Week – Vegetable Sheep
- Joanne Chory
- Washington Post article: Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change
- The Scientist: Into the Light: A Profile of Joanne Chory
- Harnessing Plants Initiative
- Her TED talk: Joanne Chory: How supercharged plants could slow climate
- Genome-wide role of codon usage on transcription and identification of potential regulators
- Codon usage bias and nuclear mRNA concentration: Correlation vs. causation
- Reply to Qian and Zhang: Demonstration of the effect of codon usage on transcription by multiple approaches from fungi to animal cells
- The dark side of our houseplant obsession
- A simple and efficient agroinfiltration method for transient gene expression in Citrus
- EC study on new genomic techniques | Food Safety
- The genomes of ancient date palms germinated from 2,000 y old seeds
- Mangroves and seagrasses absorb microplastics
- Plastic in your Plants – Plants and Pipettes
- Plant signals differentially affect rhizosphere nematode populations | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- Benzoxazinoids selectively affect maize root-associated nematode taxa
- These strange salt ‘creatures’ could help unclog power plant pipes
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut – new blue food dye, learnings from COVID, parsnip burns
We’re blue, da ba dee, da ba dye – Our sauerkraut senses were tingling when we read today’s science story about a blue dye made from cabbage. Also: something we can learn from the pandemic and how to get burned by parsnips.
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CAPE FASHION – hipster coffee, Beronda Montgomery, SciComm for PlantSci
Your favourite tools are back to talk about some great science tools: a 28-page guide book for SciComm, DIY microscopes and the best AI-crafted pickup lines this side of the Mississippi. Also some actual plant science.
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Licked by a bee – pollinators, plants and pollinators (also pollinators)
A bumblebee’s tongue is not something we thought to discuss but here we are. This week, by pure coincidence, is all about plants and their pollinators. Follow the buzz, sip some nectar and come along for some plant science.
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The etymology of loot – extremophiles, subtraction bias, jargon
This is technically still a plant podcast even though we talk a suspiciously long time about fancy words and worms. There is also a new favourite plant, an awesome researcher and cool new science from the last week or so!
- Eutrema salsugineum – eXtreme Plants
- Learning from Evolution: Thellungiella Generates New Knowledge on Essential and Critical Components of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
- Berta Lange de Morretes, 1917 – 2016 (99 years)
- Gabrielle Adams on Twitter
- Video: Less is more: Why our brains struggle to subtract
- News and Views: Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving
- Construction of simple structures drastically improves biotope health along streams
- Hubert Duprat’ precious larvae — Cercle
- Want other scientists to cite you? Drop the jargon; The actual paper
- Organic Chemistry Taught Me to Fully Inhabit My Mixed Identities | Ariana Remmel
- How pirouettes and pliés prepared me for a research career
- How to stop psychopaths and narcissists from winning positions of power
- Cat happy birthday
Check out the new episode of the Plant Book Club!
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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Building molecular Legos –ATP synthase research with Etienne Meyer
This week, we’re welcoming our close friend Etienne Meyer to the show. Together with Joram, he just published a new paper on ATP synthase research and we take the chance to talk about it.
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Explosive Good Looking Salmon – lavender, antarctic exploration, lemurs
There is a worm moon on the rise and we’re here for it. This week, we’re talking about the science behind lavender, the antarctic explorer Rosell Ocampo-Friedmann and our favourite bits and pieces from the last week.
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Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung – Feral crops, seed maturation, anti-Asian racism
This week, we’re talking about a paper that looks at the internal selection processes happening within plants to decide which fruit makes the cut. Plus a number of interesting facts from the last days.
- When a Crop Goes Back to the Wil: Feralization
- No Effect of Selective Maturation on Fruit Traits for a Bird-Dispersed Species, Sambucus racemosa, Koyama, K.; Tashiro, M. Plants 2021, 10, 376.
- FOSSIL PLANTS found beneath MILE-DEEP GREENLAND ICE—indicating risk of rapid sea-level rise
- A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century
- Ancient noeggerathialean reveals the seed plant sister group diversified alongside the primary seed plant radiation
- “Pompeii of Prehistoric Plants” Unlocks Evolutionary Secret – Spectacular Fossil Plants Preserved Within a Volcanic Ash Fall
- Climate change: ‘Forever plant’ seagrass faces uncertain future
- To keep nationalism in check, nurture science solidarity World View
- The US Is Building Walls Around Science, and We’re All Poorer for It
- Introduction, adaptation and characterization of monk fruit (Siraitia grosvenorii): a non-caloric new natural sweetener
- Siraitia grosvenorii
- To Protect Local Wildlife, Feed Your Cat Meatier Meals