Summer Sales!
🍅 The OSU Organic Growers Club is offering Fruit & Veggie Bulk orders: tomatoes, basil, & berries.
🧀 🥐 🍯 Online we have Beaver Classic Cheese, Barley Scone Mix, and Honey! *Use code "Summer2024" for 10% off your online order*
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Remember, we want interesting stories that fit into the narratives we’re telling ourselves. Every person (me, you, everyone) will try to construct a story that fits into things we already believe. If reality doesn’t fit, our minds will fight to find ways to feel more comfortable.
Insecticides made of RNA could offer a safer and more targeted weapon against crop pests.
Learn more in this @NewsfromScience feature: https://t.co/DZj6pesTYe
The fungal pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome in bats uses different cell entry strategies depending on the host’s hibernation status, according to a new study in Science.
Read that research and more in this week's issue: https://t.co/BM9F8yUnv6
Hurting my own feelings reading “A River Lost” by Blaine Harden about the Columbia River. Has anyone else in ag in the PNW read this book? I choked up reading the line “The river was killed more than sixty years ago and was reborn as plumbing”. Woof.
This month, we uplift the achievements and resiliency of the LGBTQI+ community. USDA is committed to continue fostering cultural competency within our workforce and advancing equality for all we serve.
Happy Pride Month!
I am a science guy but the thing I am loving about the aurora right now is that new pictures keep coming in from places where it is currently dark out, making it very clear how global humanity is.
@MotherOfPhage Maybe! I was a graphic designer who dreamed about leaving my job to do agriculture research (didn't know I'd have the audacity to go for the PhD at the time).
@Michelle_Heck1 Hi Michelle, I was sent this Tweet from a mutual -- I am a graphic designer and I also am a PhD candidate in plant pathology. Happy to help! My website is here: https://t.co/t7XBpAlBfo
It’s happening! Come find me at APS Pacific. I’ll be presenting a poster about my project on powdery scab of potato. Also super excited to have created the logo for the meeting. It’s fun to see it on all the merch. #APSPacific
Our last Winter Term Seminar:
Dr. Sarah Jacobs on Thursday, 14 March | 4pm (Pacific)
Castilleja systematics and the speciation grey zone: the challenges (and potential!) of working in recent plant radiations