Fang Du

# woman in Science. Population genetics in tree species. Professor in BFU for ecology and evolution.

[Fang Du @dufang325]

The cover is out @NewPhyt! Photo with co-author Min QI in front of my lab in BFU, thanks Yuanye Zhang, @PetitRmy1 and especially Jinghui Wang,@maryse_petit for design the cover!

[Fang Du @dufang325]

Thrilled to announce our review in @GenomeBiology https://t.co/5KDr6g1a3h While the debate continues, we are optimistic about its potential to rescue plant species with Genome editing. #Genomics #CRISPR #Conservation #Biodiversity @petitremy1 @KangquanYIN @PD_NPB_Journals

[Fang Du @dufang325]

https://t.co/VJkXTpgCqQ
Glad to collaborate with Prof. Wang and Chen, and happy to know the cute plant: Dipterocarpoideae species. photo are my collections:)

[Sean Hoban @seanmhoban]

The #HobanLab is hiring a full time Program Manager/ advanced Research Assistant. We produce excellent science & have conservation impact. Supportive, collaborative team, emphasizing growth, development. Work life balance, great salary, amazing workplace, mission & values. Pls RT

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Why is red the colour of Communism, and of Socialism in general?

It involves the assassination of Julius Caesar, the French Revolution, and a small hat on the official seal of the US Senate.

But the story begins over 2,500 years ago in a part of Turkey once known as Phrygia...

All across the ancient world, from Iran to the Balkans, people wore a conical hat with the peak bent forwards. This later became known as a "Phrygian cap", named after one of the regions in modern-day Turkey where it was worn. The mythical Orpheus, who descended to the underworld, was usually portrayed wearing one. This is the first part of the story.

The second part is that in Ancient Rome, whenever a slave was freed, they were presented with a "pileus". This was a conical hat, similar to but different from the Phrygian cap, which represented their liberty. After the assassination of Julius Caesar the liberators used the pileus as a symbol of the freedom of the Roman people — they placed one on the end of a spear as they paraded around the city.

This symbol was revived during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, as people looked ever more to the political ideals of Ancient Rome and Greece. Depictions of a "freedom hat" soon appeared in art all around Europe. Libertas, the goddess of liberty, was usually portrayed with one, and the Dutch "maiden of freedom" held one on the end of a spear.

However, the two hats were eventually merged into one: it had the appearance of a Phrygian cap but the meaning of the Roman pileus. And in the ancient world it had no specific colour, so why was it increasingly depicted as red?

Well, throughout the Middle Ages a red flag usually meant "no surrender", for example when raised above a city under siege. Why? Largely because of the ancient and almost primordial connection between the colour red and our blood, and thus of death, courage, and sacrifice. And so given that red was already associated with resistance, it made sense for the Phrygian cap to be red — struggle in the name of liberty.

During the American Revolution, inspired as it was by the political ideals of Rome and Greece, the red Phrygian cap was used as a symbol of liberty and — harking back to the assassination of Julius Caesar — of republicanism in particular. Hence its eventual presence on the seal of the US Senate.

So what about the Communist connection? Enter the French Revolution. This was, again, inspired by the Roman Republic, and so the red Phrygian cap was worn by the revolutionaries, eventually becoming the symbol of the revolution itself. And, therefore, red also became the colour of the new government. Even Marianne, the personification of the French Republic, is still portrayed wearing a red Phrygian cap.

So red was no longer just about sacrifice and resistance — it had also come to symbolise freedom, republicanism, and radical political uprising.

During the June Rebellion of 1830 red flags were raised on the barricades, and after the French Revolution of 1848 there was even a proposal to make the French flag entirely red. They decided to bring back the tricolour, but by this point the colour red had already become irrevocably associated with revolution.

One example is the Merthyr Rising, a workers' revolt which took place in Wales in 1831. Possibly inspired by the French Revolution, they flew a red flag. And so in Britain, even before the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the connection was made not only between a red flag and revolution in general but, specifically, a workers' revolution. Red went on to become the colour of Socialism in Britain, hence its adoption by the Labour Party.

The first time the red flag was officially used by a political authority was in 1871, in the short-lived Paris Commune. And so the interminable link between the colour red and left wing politics had now been made official.

Later, during the Russian Revolutions of 1917, red flags inspired by those of the Paris Commune were flown by the Communists. So when the USSR adopted their flag in 1922 it was the obvious and natural decision to make it red — with the addition of a hammer and sickle, of course. And from that point onwards, until today, red has been the global colour of Communism.

[Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya_amano]

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
https://t.co/Z6za22rMgg
1/9

[Li Lei（雷栗） @lilei0051]

I am going to hire a postdoc work on functionally validation and characterization of putative conserved cis-regulatory element in grasses. See details in below flyer. Please contact me via [email protected]

[GEO BON @GEOBON_org]

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Join us on Oct 10-13 in Montreal and be part of this critical conversation!

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#GEOBONconf2023

[IUFRO @IUFRO]

#job @MortonArboretum: Postdoctoral Researcher, Oak Population Genomics, to conduct population-level genomic and phylogenomic research on bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) + related species of eastern North America
Open until filled; starting date: August 2023
https://t.co/KY8zskKboO

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Gustave Doré was born in 1832 in Strasbourg, France, and it quickly became clear that he was a child prodigy with an insuppressible imagination and an unstoppable drive to create.

By the age of five he was already drawing things like this:

[Fang Du @dufang325]

@MExpositoAlonso @igisci @doudna_lab agree and eager to see applications in endanger plant species.

[Ruth Mace @tavitonst]

Sex inequality driven by dispersal https://t.co/lgArqwxBuv @cheriongyuan et al.

[Fang Du @dufang325]

@GarciaLabMS Thanks Ben! I will do it , for the Spring festivel (year rabbit):)

[Fang Du @dufang325]

Happy to share trade off of seed size & dispersal in oaks. My first paper without genetic data. Good collaborate with Dr. Xi Chen (right) in YNU.
https://t.co/rPRtu8HylN

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

84 years ago we understood that burning fossil fuels was raising the levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere, and causing the planet to warm.

The theory was understood earlier but this was the first observation & attribution of climate change. #COP27

In 1938.

https://t.co/AfIXXeYM8h

[Fang Du @dufang325]

Happy to share on Ecology and Evolution with EIC Dr. Zhaoxue Ma and AE Dr. Maowei Liang on topic of Biodiversity and adaptation on 1st Nov. with researchers nation-wide, as the audience number over
4, 430, Proud! @Ecol_Evol

[G-BIKE_COSTAction @gbike_cost]

📢📢@gbike_cost has launched its YouTube channel🍾🎉🎊
Watch videos on 📺💻📱
Video on #genetic #biodiversity & #gbike #COST action: https://t.co/GxO0cRukfo
Video on #genetic #Monitoring of #population: https://t.co/qnsj6MxEAM

[Fang Du @dufang325]

nice to see research in my Hometown, GanNan by my sisiter and her mentor. Congratualtions!Come on!😃👍@Ruth Mace @Juan DU

[Ruth Mace @tavitonst]

Podcast on studying the behavioural ecology of monks
https://t.co/9B0TfQZAwR via @acast

[Dan Ondu @Ondu_Ke]

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #COP27

[Fang Du @dufang325]

National parks as protected areas in China’s official documents in 2021. I suggest monitoring and conservation of genetic diversity should be considered as the fundamental for the establishment and development of the national park in China.
Noclear boundary micr&marco evolution