engineer, rice & phytoremediation researcher, educator, postdoc, weather fan, gardener, wood worker and more. tweets are my own.
UDel/Charlestown, MD
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Registration for the International Phytotechnologies Conference is still available for virtual attendees at a reduced rate. Recorded talks will be available post-conference for virtual registrants. See website for details
ipc18.uoc.ac.in/Registration
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Our new review highlights toxic metal mitigation in leafy greens cannot be a one-size-fits-all approach. We must understand metal-soil-plant relationships. @MattLimmer @DrBenRunkle @IAFNS_science @UDcanr @FDAfood agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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“We know a farmer from Iowa,” Steinhaus said. “He raises pigs there, the old-fashioned way. He was here fishing. He said North Dakota reminds him of how Iowa used to be. He said it’s clean and beautiful. After all this, it ain’t going to be beautiful.”
barnraisingmedia.com/north-d…
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Check your air quality conditions: Wildfire smoke levels can change rapidly during the day, so check fire.airnow.gov/ often. Enter your ZIP code to see conditions in your area and recommendations for what you can do to protect yourself when smoke is in the air.
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Jerry Seinfeld: I'm never not working on material. Every second of my existence, I'm thinking, could I do something with that?
Howard Stern: That, to me, sounds torturous.
Seinfeld: Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.
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Write something
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The abstract submission deadline for the 17th International Phytotechnologies Conference has been extended to March 1. Submit your abstracts online: phytosociety.org/events/view…
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My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created
I'm not sure what to make of receiving samples in a toilet paper box...
@BeatrizMoGa
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There is a zombie idea that just won't die and I am going to kill it with math.
If we put all our crop subsidies into fruit & veg, it WOULD NOT change the way Americans eat ONE IOTA.
Ok, maybe ONE iota, but not TWO.
Here's why, and it's MATH.
A cranky 🧵
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Biofuel battles seem especially intense right now. The ethanol industry is attacking scientists who measure ethanol's environmental damage. @KnowableMag
knowablemagazine.org/article…
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Progress in health, climate, and education is driven by impatient optimists. Great read by @_HannahRitchie. b-gat.es/3RMhldx
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“One thing I’ve learned in my years of whining about Florida’s unsustainable trajectory in the climate era is that most Floridians don’t care,” writes @MikeGrunwald: on.theatln.tc/rFLjya8
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Our derelict vessel crews are begging you to understand that anything that “serves briefly as a boat” should not be used as a boat
ALT A car that was most definitely not equipped to cross a body of water floats down the Sauk River in Washington state. The silver sedan is almost entirely submerged but for the rear passenger wheel, sticking out in a futile attempt to flag for help.
