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Dr. Karl Haro von Mogel

Ph.D. in Plant Genetics and SciComm, Postdoc at UCR, Director of & maker of awesome shirts. Tweets = mine

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Missing colleagues and exciting talks during this year's #PlantBiology2025 conference. Been teaching plant anatomy to a very phytophillic toddler instead. :)
If you're still in Milwaukee check out the safe house!
See y'all at future conferences!

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@simonmaechling It seems like we need a group of specialized professionals who are adept at helping non-experts feel smart learning how experts interpret this data - without making it about how the non-experts are non-experts.

[Manjul Dutt 🧬🐊 @fruitscanbefun]

Some of our work was featured by @USDA_NIFA recently!

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@mbeisen Scientists should translate what members of the public MEAN when they use words that also have scientific meanings. You can still educate about what these words mean in science and avoid putting people down.
Ask, even!

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@mbeisen Chemical (Chemistry): literally everything.
Chemical (popular understanding): unfamiliar, complex, artificial compounds.

To treat these as the same is to equivocate for the purpose of denigrating someone who is not as educated. "Ah ha! Let me chemosplain the word you used"

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@mbeisen It's punching down and failing to understand people's views.
"I don't like chemicals"
"Haha LOL everything is a chemical"
Translation: "I am uncomfortable with the idea of artificially produced compounds that are unfamiliar to me."

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Does anyone think these relentless “Heh. Heh. Politicians and members of the public are stupid because they don’t know what mRNA is” jokes are either effective or even remotely clever or funny?

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@mcuban We need a billionaire who will put his money where his mouth is. Help fund the legal challenges against this insanity. You were the only Shark who prided himself as not investing in irrational ventures. Tell me, is this not the most irrational venture this country has undertaken?

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@LauriLinnea Simon handled himself well and professionally, and the dispute was resolved immediately and to my satisfaction. As the copyright holder, I have the right to determine how my work is used. Have a good day.

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@simonmaechling Thank you - if you could add it to the image as a watermark on the left for future postings that would work. Thanks again!

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@ACSHorg No thanks on anything by "ghost-write-me!" Henry Miller.

I'd much rather read something by Drew Kershen by himself analyzing the crux of the decision, vis a vis, the plant pest regulatory hook. Disappointed, to say the least.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you @POTUS, Congress, and the American people.
Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Scientists I am begging you to please cut it out with this trite, unfunny, and deeply patronizing "we're so much smarter than the public because we know what mRNA is" bullshit.

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I thoroughly enjoyed the halftime show by Kendrick Lamar. The commentary, references, and Easter eggs made it all the more interesting.
I hear some found it boring. I pity them.

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@MontereyAq Something is blocking your jellyfish cam!

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@jennysplitter It will be confusing that's for sure. I have seen one commentator naively ask "how can 1.5% stop this?" in reference to farmers supposedly voting against Trump. The better question will be, will they now fight for their farms, or for their political views?

[Association of Science Communicators (ASC) @ScienceTalkOrg]

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[Helen Pennington @hgpennington]

I painted bleeding canker of horse chestnut for the October illustration of the BSPP plant pathogens calendar

Pseudomonas syringae pathovar aesculi

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