Evolutionary ecologist, Botanist, Associate Professor at Davidson College (PUI 💪🏼), she/her
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬
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This is crazy! Obviously people should recuse from discussion of a grant from their institution but to have to recuse from a WHOLE PANEL is nuts. This is just meant to make it harder to review grants, slow down review, and reduce funding grants
As always, the point is to destroy science
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
Freshly published! My new paper exploring Aquatic Plants as part of a special issue on Plant Evolution in @currentbiology.bsky.social
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@biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
FYI avoid Springer Nature as much as possible. It's pioneering new avenues for slop, such as this book, translated with AI: link.springer.com/book/10.1007.... Complete with an AI cover, which of course is nonsense. Also includes a 4 page chapter on millipedes which includes a misidentified photo.
Why are leaves the shape that they are? What controls intraspecific, genetic variation in leaf shape?
New from my lab, in collaboration with many others, led by PhD student Amanda Peake: mapping the leaf shape polymorphism in Ipomoea hederacea.
A female and male Bird of Paradise fly (Callipappus sp), showing the extreme sexual dimorphism exhibited by these scale insects. Seen today in the Perth Hills, WA
#ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #bugsky
There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean.
Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE.
The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells.
But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.
"They physically grabbed us, forced us out of the conference center, & now are telling us we can no longer attend this meeting. They're taking our lanyards," Kelly said.
"It really has come to this in America. Censorship is real…America needs to stand up. Scientists, stand up. Physicians, stand up”
I experienced a microaggression today...
Unexpected expansion and regrowth in Earth’s mangrove forests over the past four decades www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Global mangrove forests have disappeared rapidly because of deforestation but have also regrown through natural regeneration and restoration. Yet their long-term trends in extent and canopy cover rema...
A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
Newly arisen indel governs a leaf shape polymorphism in the Ivy Leaf Morning Glory (Ipomoea hederacea) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.04.730136v1
New: NSF is tightening its conflict of interest rules in what could be a headache for the understaffed agency. Starting in August, reviewers will no longer be able to participate in a panel with any proposals from their own institution.
My reporting for @science.org:
