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Yay! The most melancholic day of the year is here! Let's share a toast, seeking solace in a glass, momentarily escaping life's burdens. For now, let's feign happiness and camaraderie! Cheers!

Everybody knows that the suit to block Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado was filed by Dem…

Wait, this just in. It was filed by Republicans.

My annual call!

Please suggest a cool paper/preprint in your field in the last year or so!

For a course I teach, I am collecting papers on: cell/dev bio, microbio, neuro, maths/stats/CS/chem/phys applied to biology.

Students use one paper as the basis for a "research grant application" that they will write. So papers that are cool but also open doors to future study are ideal! Do you know one? It can be your own, I don't mind!

Last year's selection: quantixed.org/2023/01/14/paper

#ScienceMastodon

Food plants in Brazil: Origin, economic value of pollination and pollinator shortage risk ($)

botany.fyi/s4Gmb3?b1

Olivera et al. investigate the origin, pollinator dependence and economic value of 199 food crops cultivated in Brazil to understand to which extent (1) Brazilian agriculture is vulnerable to pollinator shortage, and (2) Brazilian society has already achieved a comprehensive perspective about crop dependence.

#Botany

Looking for frost damage?
Field phenotyping data have enabled the development of a genotype-specific index that quantifies frost damage in winter wheat, making it possible to screen varieties for frost resistance.
Here is our recently published paper in #Plant #Phenomics on how we did it: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p

I've been using to test tags and algorithm and it looks like they've done an impressive and dangerous job.

Sunrise this morning with the light shining on the stone of St Michael's tower, Glastonbury Tor. We had more rain yesterday which has added to the water on the levels that can be seen through the archway.

Uma das razões pelas quais é tão difícil vencer a extrema-direita com recurso à argumentação lógica e racional, é esta não se apoiar em factos; o seu alicerce são emoções primárias (medo, raiva, ...). A realidade é uma categoria que está ausente da discussão, porque o que verdadeiramente lhes importa é a percepção da realidade.

publico.pt/2023/12/07/sociedad

Po & Ma 

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De 0 a 3. Que nota você dá para a sua vontade de viver hoje?

Conventional #plantbreeding helped develop #legumes with better #nutrition (beans with high #zinc & iron, high zinc #lentils). Molecular breeding can help overcome limitations (genetic diversity, time) to develop future #biofortified legume crops: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-3395 #beans

One of the reasons I made this instance and support Mastodon as a place to move to from Twitter, is because its community instance/federation approach allows us to be together-apart. I think this video explains this really well.

youtu.be/fuFlMtZmvY0

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