Colleges teach the most valuable career skills when they don’t stick narrowly to preprofessional education Parents and policymakers want job security for graduates, but in the AI and automation era, careers may depend as much on curiosity and initiative as on credentials.

I agree heartily with this article about the utility of a college education. 🌾🌿🧪🎓
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Yes, indeed!

I know next to nothing about spiders, but this web caught my attention. Does anyone recognize it? Same Houston Forest, Texas.

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Amazingly awful

t's raining galls! Galls of the mealy gall wasp are falling out of the southern live oaks all over Houston. As you can see, a lot of them are damaged, as though something tried to eat the larva in the center chamber.

You have children as postdocs?

I don't think so. In common use "survey" implies or means that more than one individual participated. A "questionnaire" can be given to one or more individuals, but you can only "interview" one person at a time. These are tools that can be used to create a survey.

This would be great, and the science is compelling, but allowing leaves to accumulate and rot on a lawn will kill the grass. This approach really should be paired with alternatives to the usual lawn.

Renewables produced more electricity than coal for the first time on record in the first half of 2025. Line graph compares global generation in TWh from Jan-Jun of each year, from 2019 to 2025. Renewables has steadily increased and now overtaken coal in 2025. Source: Monthly electricity data, Ember

For the first time, renewable energy has OVERTAKEN coal in global electricity production!!

BAD NEWS for the fossil fuel industry, BRILLIANT news for the planet! 🌍

Just to finish this off, the mechanism involves exuding cytokinin.

The quality and predatory nature of MDPI journals differs widely among them. I have found several to be quite reliable and valuable for getting to the audience I seek.

er PLANT BIOLOGY

Why is this post in PLANT SCIENCE???

Just wow! 🧪🌍🦑🐳🦭

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I don't understand. If that's a Pieris butterfly, it should ovipositor on the kale, which is in the Brassiceae family, the only family it can eat.

H1-Bs are a major source of support for postdocs. This is another move that will damage research.

Apparently RFK is going to announce that leucovorin can be a treatment for autism. It’s used as rescue drug for osteosarcoma treatment , and this action will likely push it into shortage.😠

Does anybody have, or know where to find high quality photos of crown gall in cross section? I need one for an invited review. Will be credited, of course. Thanks!🌿🌾🧪

I think you should be using the same Y-axis scale for both. That would highlight and clarify the differences.

They can get faculty fired for saying something they don't like.

Democrats should let the budget expire and the government close down. Given what's been done to our government, nobody will notice.

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

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We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

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Vaccinations Save Lives!

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The probability doesn't change. The time for the unprovable to occur merely lengthens.

A Series of Fortunate Events – with Sean B. Carroll YouTube video by The Royal Institution

Show me some car genes and we'll have an answer. I urge you to visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eM4... and better yet, read the (short) book: www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Ev...

Given enough time, every that has evolved on Earth could happen, even with those odds.