White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt getting schooled by a reporter in her bogus press conference with Tulsi Gabbard about their fake "scandal" about Obama (who has presidential immunity) is glorious.
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1/ Resilin is a disordered, elastomeric protein used by insects to store and release mechanical energy.
Its resilience (~97%) makes it one of the most efficient biological springs known. Properties arise from sequence-level disorder + sparse crosslinking—not crystallinity.
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We figured out how much water is in all of Earth’s plants and how long it takes water to flow through them.
Answer: 786 km3 and 5-18 days.
@NatureWaterJnl@koen_hufkens@sciencebyAJ
The @FeedtheFuture Innovation Lab for @CropImprovement has been awarded a 2nd five-year, $25M grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (@USAID) to continue advancing its mission of improving global food security & agricultural resilience. https://t.co/rbiH0H57i0
We’re hiring a tenure-track faculty in Plant Microbiome & Plant Health in a Changing Climate @CornellCALS
School of Integrative Plant Science. To apply: https://t.co/sgF3uyMgNB Application deadline: 2024/12/10. Please share widely! @AdamBogdanove@ChristineSmart6
We’re hiring a tenure-track faculty in Bioresource Soil Science and Mgmt @CornellCALS
School of Integrative Plant Science. To apply: https://t.co/k7JzTtye4J Application deadline: 2024/12/15. Please share widely!
@RoseLabCornell @JLehmannCornell @ChristineSmart6
Excited to announce an MBG faculty search for two assistant professor positions in collaboration with the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, @weillinstitute.
Please share and apply!
https://t.co/2I7vUskmFF
Please RT! The Gold Lab at @CornellAgriTech is hiring a lab/project manager to join our interdisciplinary team of plant pathologists, computer scientists, engineers, and remote sensing scientists. Apply by *Sept 16th* for full consideration:
https://t.co/Kna0aozeLR
During @FAODG's visit to @Cornell, he met with @BenHoulton and other faculty members from @CornellCALS, the School of Integrative Plant Science, and @CornellGlobal, where he learnt about their research programs and work to help transform agrifood systems and protect #PlantHealth.
Congratulations to the wonderful 🍾🍾awardees from the School of Integrative Plant Science at the @CornellCALS Annual Faculty and Staff Awards!! Hale Tufan and Keith Payne also included but not in the photo. Proud to celebrate you all!🍾🎉
Dorota Szlek, a PhD candidate in fiber science, is designing a sustainable future by electrospinning lignin into useful fibers. Her research utilizing biowaste has the potential to replace plastics in medical products and water filtration.