Tomato Body Horror
05/01/20 • 57 min
We’re back. We were never really gone. We had just hurt our individual faces and now they’re in good enough shape to drag them in front of the microphones. This week, we talk about coffee, rat spines and glow-in-the-dark plants. Keep your faces intact and enjoy!
Paper of the weekBing Cheng, Heather E Smyth, Agnelo Furtado, Robert J Henry, Slower development of lower canopy beans produces better coffee, Journal of Experimental Botany, , eraa151
Fun StuffThe ABCD meeting framework:
All continents
Balanced Gender
Carbon transport
Diverse backgrounds
“nobody will have scary rat spine hands”
All views are our own. If you want to comment or correct anything we said, leave a comment under this post or reach out to us via twitter, facebook or instagram.
Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
We’re back. We were never really gone. We had just hurt our individual faces and now they’re in good enough shape to drag them in front of the microphones. This week, we talk about coffee, rat spines and glow-in-the-dark plants. Keep your faces intact and enjoy!
Paper of the weekBing Cheng, Heather E Smyth, Agnelo Furtado, Robert J Henry, Slower development of lower canopy beans produces better coffee, Journal of Experimental Botany, , eraa151
Fun StuffThe ABCD meeting framework:
All continents
Balanced Gender
Carbon transport
Diverse backgrounds
“nobody will have scary rat spine hands”
All views are our own. If you want to comment or correct anything we said, leave a comment under this post or reach out to us via twitter, facebook or instagram.
Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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The study of ducks
Grab your top hat and ball gown, it is time to get fancy! This week, we dress up and talk about favourite plants, great scientists and all sorts of things that moved us in the last week.
Joram’s favourite plant are all plants in the genus Schlumbergera
Tegan presents the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian. Don’t forget to check out Fieldwork in fancy dresses!
Joram is under the illusion of control
Researchers figured out the Nicotiana benthamiana genome
Go out and identify plants to get credits. Blog post.
Hugh Jackman dodged a Cats shaped bullet. Also check out Lindsay Ellis’ review of Cats
All views are our own. If you want to comment or correct anything we said, leave a comment under this post or reach out to us via twitter, facebook or instagram.
Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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Don’t send Tom Cruise, send three to four Arabidopsis
It’s time for all our segments! We talk weird chewing gum, South African botanists, biases and answer your questions. Do trees still breathe when they lose their foliage?
Tegan’s favourite plant is Pistacia lentiscus because it’s used to make Mastic, a type of chewing gum. Also check out how chewing gum is made.
Joram presents the life and work of Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus (1877-1970). Also check out the paper on the contribution of women to naming species.
Tegan talks about how we only care about victims that we can identify.
We are answering your questions! The first one is from Apple Chew Yen Peng
Do trees still ‘breathe’ without leaves in winter??
— Apple Chew (Yen Peng), AFHEA, #OpentoWork (@_applechew) May 7, 2020Trees don’t breathe as much in winter. Check out this article on the matter.
Carbon emissions during the crisis
Hummingbird drone and monarch butterflies
Nathan sewed cool pockets
Decided to learn sewing today and took inspiration from @plantspipettes to make this pocket belt for @nahtalix. Two functional pockets for if your trousers don’t have any. #Creative pic.twitter.com/RI9UldOd95
— Nathan Howard (He/Him) (@nathsnH) May 3, 2020 https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1257752395750289409All views are our own. If you want to comment or correct anything we said, leave a comment under this post or reach out to us via twitter, facebook or instagram.
Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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