I usually pedal my cargo quadricycle out to the field but a frame design flaw made the frame crack & it'll be at least 3 wks before I can ride it again.
So I'm driving (ugh) and walking in the orchards instead. Here's a dormant cherry leaf bud taken through a 10x loupe. @plantscience
Botanical Society of America (BSA) did a survey of members' social media use. There were only 246 responses (out of how many thousands?) and based on that they've put all their oomph into BlueSky.
Not just starting an account there but pooling invite codes to help people join BS. Disappointing. @plantscience#Botany#PlantScience
@alexwild@plantscience Oh, I have no doubt folks who go for those billionaire-owned walled gardens will regret it, but in the meantime...they'll neglect building academic community in a place where they have more control over their own experience. Has a single scientific professional society started their own instance?
@ml
I tried Bluesky, but I didn't care for it. I like the Fediverse vibe more. I secretly hope that BS won't take off because I'm not really interested in Twitter clones. @plantscience
One of the things I was able to do on the birdsite that there just isn't much opportunity to here is find out "current events" in carob by doing a search every week or so.
If you ever see a carob toot, please forward it to me, especially if it's not a tired carob hippie joke, but actual research or market or real life info re Ceratonia siliqua/#Carob
Tweet by @TheBeerShopper with phto of an amber-colored liquid in a red wine glass next to a brown beer bottle with purple labels with gold text and decoration in an Islamic art-influenced style. Label says "Loura 3.2% vol alc. Moura cerveja de alfarroba. Carob beer." Both glass and bottle are on a white tablecloth and backlit in a clearly sunny vacation spot. Text of tweet says "Another first for me, Carob beer from in Portugal. Tasty. Now have to Google what the hell Carob is."
March 9, 2018 tweet by Emily van der Nagel @emvdn "Here's a treat I haven't had for about 18 years: carob buds, a staple at my primary school canteen in the 90s" with 3 emojis I can't make out. Photo shows view from above of a paper bag of carob "chocolate" candies held in the hand of a pale person. puts on flower crown, falls into a faerie circle Replying to @CoffeeShopRabbi and @RutiRegan "THANK YOU it's just its own thing calling carob 'fake chocolate' is a lesser but similar thing to calling Hanukkah 'Jewish Christmas' 3:51 AM - Feb 11, 2020 - Twitter for Android"
Progress photo of the oldest #Carob flower raceme on my tree. It's hermaphrodite when most carobs have either male or female flowers. Technically, this can self-pollinate, but it'll be interesting seeing if it will do it under the current conditions.
Some stamens are already past their prime. Some are fully ripe, others still on the way. Same with the pistils. If you look closely, you can see the seam on the pistil that would show up in the ripe fruit as well. @plantscience #Flower#Botany
In my carob work for some time now, I've wanted to get access to the expertise of woodworkers so I can connect the traits that woodworkers value with the plant's anatomy.
Sometimes I wonder how academics find work that's previously been done when it's off the beaten path a bit. If you don't get just the right keywords in Google Scholar or if the work was done a century ago...
I looked again & this time found this study re xylophones & wood species. @plantscience
@plantscience "Classifying xylophone bar materials by perceptual, signal processing
and wood anatomy analysis" isn't precisely the sort of thing I'm interested in, but it's closer. And it's certainly interesting! #Music#Botany#PlantScience
The UC Davis Plant Breeding Center is hosting the annual UC Davis Plant Breeding Retreat today. Neither the emails nor the registration page mentioned any accessible options that were planned, including any online option.
This is the 2nd year in a row that I as a disabled student who came here to learn plant breeding have been left out due to willful inaccessibility. #UCAccessNow
Blueberry Breeding Position at USDA with faculty appt at Oregon State. Closes 12/26/2023
Salary range: $88,860 - $137,363 per year
Pay scale & grade: GS 12 - 13
Last day to register for the inaccessible UC Davis Plant Breeding retreat. Once more they've made no online option available to attend, much less an equitable online option.
I've started & deleted many emails in response to this continuing ableism.
I got delayed, so I didn't get to log in to the shovelware online version of the seminar until its last 3rd. “Decoding productivity and quality traits in orchard and vineyard crops" Ramona Abbatista was presenting genetic & chemistry re walnut seedcoat phenols and what research says so far about their good effects. She concluded that qualitative traits are often thought to be merely visual & that we need to expand what we think of as a qualitative trait in breeding. @plantscience#PlantScience
I came to UC Davis to learn plant breeding. Despite the fact the pandemic continues and despite the fact that I've explicitly stated that I need equitable online options in order to participate, I continue to be left out of the UC Davis Plant Breeding Retreat.
The vicious ableism at UC Davis, part of a university system I have paid for all of my adult life, has narrowed my academic & career options.