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Help me complete my journey at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and contribute a small spore to the legacy of the forests of Hispaniola!🌿🥹💚
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¿Qué te hace seguir creyendo? ⚡ Esto dice Guillermo Del Toro:
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🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Same-sex neighbours grow better than opposite-sex neighbours across three plant species’ in @annbot by Suqin Fang and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/7)
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ALT The background image shows the fruit of the dioecious tree Diospyros morrisiana
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Join us🚨 next week for our October Seminar Series! Aaron Hogan & Lucie Houdkova will present next Wedensday, 10/21 🌿Register here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-an…
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Bulbostylis is an ecologically important genus with remarkable morphological #diversity.
This revised infrageneric classification by Morel et al. forms a foundation for future #taxonomic and #evolutionary studies.
doi.org/10.1111/jse.70107 @WileyEcology #PlantSci #ecology #C4
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Have you seen this gorgeous poster of the latest APG community-based classification of flowering #plants?
Download it for *free* here!
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...and read all about APG-V in #JSE!
🆓doi.org/10.1111/jse.70096 @WileyEcology #evolution #systematics #APGV
ALT Poster illustrating results of APG-V.
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We invite everyone (nonscientists) to endorse the Declaration of a Planetary Emergency, part of the upcoming World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Add your name and share widely. Your endorsement helps show public concern about our planet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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In our latest manuscript, my coauthors and I wanted to test two ideas: (1) anoles colonized mountains repeatedly and independently, and (2) highland lineages evolve faster than lowland ones. (1/6)
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Gymnophthalmids are the coolest lizards on earth, aren’t they? 🦎 😎
Our latest on gymnophthalmid diversification is now out @AnatRecord . Check out our bone-by-bone comparative assessment of the external skull anatomy of species of Riama
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Si está en sus posibilidades, cualquier ayuda cuenta. Compartamos esta información para que llegue a más personas y podamos apoyar a quienes más lo necesitan.
Exclusive: “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race.” So wrote James Watson in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, his controversial account of how he and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA in 1953.
The image, now known as photograph 51, showed an elegant, symmetrical pattern of spots formed by x-rays diffracted from strands of DNA—the fingerprint of the molecule’s helical structure.
Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer, had produced the image in the spring of 1952. But Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights and sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his alone.
Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958, a decade before his memoir was released and became a bestseller.
But a new analysis of her notes on another x-ray image, which she made just days earlier using the same DNA sample, offers a firm rebuttal.
Learn more: scim.ag/4s7yQsV
ALT How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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The 2026 #NobelPrize laureates in physiology or medicine have laid the foundation of a new era in neuroscience.
Using optogenetics, researchers have been able to reveal neural circuits governing specific memories, feelings, and behaviours relevant for neurological and psychiatric disorders. In clinical medicine, researchers are using the method in attempts to restore sight in people with visual impairment.
Optogenetics has fundamentally altered our understanding of the brain. Every day brings new discoveries, helping to solve one of humanity’s great mysteries: how our incredible brain works.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
