Jack C. Schultz

Chemical ecologist, trying to understand how plant galls happen.

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@KamounLab “Natural can kill. Taxonomy can save your life.” Only if you are dumb enough to put it in your mouth.

[British Plant Galls @britgalls]

Gall of the week, is the oak apple, caused by the cynipid wasp Biorhiza pallida sexual generation.
A week late as May 29th was oak apple day, or shick-shack day. It marks the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660, and was a public holiday until 1859.
Photographer unknown.

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@CarolineSChaboo This ovenbird is a warbler unrelated to the South American ‘true’ ovenbirds (Furnariidae). Here’s their nest:

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@CarolineSChaboo Seems that this would create a big risk of predation

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@UMBS @chrissybillauUM @UMich They do this commonly, probably to get salts.

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@AntiTrumpCanada @HopperLubber Looks more like a butthead

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@slcuplants @JyothiVadassery @RobinsonSci @LeoSerra13 These same forces need more attention in trying to understand how plant galls form

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@scottpegan @RiceUniversity @MaryamRFaghihi @amanda_jackpott @pedrobrandfp @RobertASLaroche @mattheaucomerf1 @Lin_YiZhang @RiceNatSci @FuSchmu Congratulations and richly deserved!

[Uncle Gary’s Parole Officer @garysparole]

@nypost Radicalized by the liberal learning factory of…

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Liberty University

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@Striga_Steve @KamounLab @lab_albert This is similar in several ways to how gall-forming insects make galls.

[Martin A. Nuñez @Martin_A_Nunez]

New paper!
https://t.co/2JrGgUxwad

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@nicksortor So who’s more likely to know, science experts or a bunch of cops?

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@nicksortor That’s because it’s BS as anybody paying attention would know

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@rcannon992 Because they are growing fast, importing photosynthate, are nitrogen/limited, creating a carbon surplus, which goes into the anthocyanin pathway.

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@sciencegirl Vegans beware!

[Scott P. Egan @scottpegan]

G’morning from Texas!

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@scottpegan @FuSchmu @MaryamRFaghihi @wasp_venom @gallformers Need sharp eyes to see that!

[Brian Eastwood @BrianEastwoodx]

This Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring was distributed by Kix cereal in the late 40's, for 15 cents and a mail-in box top.

It was actually a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210 (one of the most toxic substances out there).

A child would take the toy into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206.

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@Elohssa412 @amrG1 @ryanwhitney6 They were the better team ON PAPER but not on the ice that day.

[Jack C. Schultz @jackcschultz]

@Edel_PLopez This effect will be mediated at least in part by the plant’ emission of volatiles that attract parasitoids.