Katherine Muller

USDA scientist, wrapping up a postdoc at Cornell. Research applies evolutionary ecology to agriculture. Also, music nerd, tentative about social media

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@_jbenning Maybe check the weed science literature.

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@ThePhDPlace Integrating agricultural experiments

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@davidmackau Rosebud

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@BioinfoCreed Something you can find in latest agricultural market reports on grain legumes.

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@EmilyMeineke @eswillwalker Daymet

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@moirahough @deepdivewhales @blacksciblog Check out USAjobs. Also, take care to match the language in the job ads so your application doesn’t get tossed aside in the first round. The initial screeners aren’t subject experts and may not recognize that water stress pertains to drought, for example.

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@rochellehd Also, everyone who is in a position to write a letter has had to ask for letters of support. It feels good to pay it forward for someone at an earlier career stage. Especially if they make it easy for you.

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@rochellehd It helps to make it easy. Ask well ahead of the deadline. Provide detailed info and instructions. Send any application materials you can (esp. pers. essays and CVs). I’ve written draft letters for recommenders to fill out.

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@krissylyon Zili. After a piRNA pathway protein.

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@krissylyon I don’t usually reply to Twitter posts from people I don’t know, but the resemblance is too uncanny. He’s named after a protein, so go figure.

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@kheyduk Isn’t the defining trait of parallel lines that they *never* converge? Not that the mathematical definition should strictly apply in all contexts, but it makes the term “parallel” confusing to me in this one.

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@Prokaryota

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@_jbenning Agreed. I don’t think solar/wind/etc are enough to displace coal and natural gas.

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@phd_with_aischa @PhDVoice Power

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@kwon__julie He’s taking your picture!

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@ShanKothari I disagree with that premise. Shading (including self-shading) is a major carbon constraint. Arid conditions also limit carbon acquisition, since opening stomata means losing water. And acquiring other nutrients entails a high carbon cost from roots, exudates, and etc.

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How it started: How it’s going:

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@_jbenning Typographical?

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Portland is about to be national news again because a man was killed here last night.

This means that the entire Republican apparatus is going to activate and opine about what happened and what should be done in a city they've never visited.

So here is one local's perspective.