I will forever remember an advisor's comment on my first paper: "You should only use interestingly if the next thing you say is actually interesting"

I hate the "secret price" too, as much as at hospitals and car dealers. Any kind of hidden knowledge you need selects for privilege, in this case having someone around to tell you that it's cheaper than sticker value, and the ability to pay $50-100 admission fee to find out your real price.

Oh, no- sounds like they are trying to start a ring! It's really hard to track the mentor of a mentor

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Participating in professional organizations together is not usually a COI for peer review though? I only rule out peer reviewers if they collaborated with the author on research in the past few years, have had a mentor/mentee relationship, work at the same institution, or self-report a COI.

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Why is Spotted Wing Drosophila attracted to fruit at its prime, instead of overripe fruit like other flies? Xue and Dweck found the neuron receptor shifts responsible for this $500M agricultural problem, in this impressive 2-author work out of the CT Ag Experiment Station!

Just add Proust

Read every paper about quantum dots and carbon nanotubes in agriculture

I sent this to my brother who also turns 38 today. He once commented that there were no celebrities that share his birthday, now he shares it with 12! (or 6 billion depending on how you count).

Communications went from publishing 149 manuscripts in 2010 to 12,633 in 2025- that's over $160 million of science funding going to publication fees for one journal!

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First person to be saved (they Yale AD's wife, here in New Haven) lived until 1999. Its crazy how recent it is- we had electric razors, helicopters, car radios, and electron microscopes before we had antibiotics.

Guns, not roses – here’s the true story of penicillin’s first patient Albert Alexander was the first known person treated with penicillin. While his ultimately fatal case is well known in medical histories, the cause of his illness has been misattributed for decades.

I have taught the rose thorn story in lectures, but some historians now say that his police station was hit by a german bombing raid: theconversation.com/guns-not-ros...

President Zachary Taylor died of diarrhea after eating raw cherries and ice milk on the 4th of July

Half of the noon seminar talks on our schedule this year are titled along the lines of "Something about soil TBA". This is on a flyer with formal letterhead, distributed to all the local colleges. Hey, we don't have enough staff to nag you- you submit it, we print it!

Conceptual model depicting the ecological mechanisms of protist predation that affect plant productivity by regulating nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

Peanuts' ally: Soil protists boost peanut yields by regulating N-fixing bacteria

Zeng et al.

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"When I was your age I walked two miles to school uphill both ways in the snow, and I had potatoes in my pockets for my mittens and my lunch!"

‘The Wire’ actor Isiah Whitlock Jr has died at 71 | CNN Best known for his role on “The Wire,” Isiah Whitlock Jr. also appeared in a number of Spike Lee films and on “Veep.”

Cedar Rapids was a great movie, if you haven't seen it
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Whoever gets this cool job, can you please set the bursting videos to the end part of the 1812 Overture? Thank you very much.

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He was also the last ever murderer caught by Columbo!

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Caprica also did this concept really well back in 2010. I've never been a sci-fi fan but this really convinced me that AI resurrection was possible and probable...

That channel is great! She now has 784 videos up, tailored to whatever you want

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job alert: UC Davis is looking to hire a 9 month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mycology in the Department of Plant Pathology. More details below, for full consideration submit by 1 December 2025

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Diverse soil protists show auxin regulated growth in partnership with auxin-producing bacteria Abstract. Predatory protists are single-cell eukaryotic organisms capable of hunting and ingesting bacteria and other microorganisms, which are thought to

Ever wondered how single-celled predators in soil boost plant health?
🧬 Protists don't just eat bacteria -they team up with them to shape the rhizosphere.
📈 Auxin isn't just a plant hormone -it's an interkingdom signal influencing microbial and protist life.
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