Carolyn Rasmussen

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Associate Prof of Plant Cell Biology at UC Riverside. Views are my own.

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So I want to talk about this from the perspective of someone who does professional fact checking as part of my work. For some years now I have been paid to check TV and written content themed around animals to make sure it is factually accurate. Chat GPT & AI has made that job so much harder.

Uhhhh… this is probably bad 😬😬

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Join me in southern California! My lab is now open @UCRiverside. I am recruiting grad students for Fall 2025. Contact me if you are interested in pursuing a PhD in plant community ecology, ecosystem functioning, global change, and conservation. I am also happy to meet at #ESA2024

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Seven years ago today 🌿 Mitella pentandra, our Alpine Mitrewort, is a small inconspicuous flower with wonderful pinnate petals. Sawmill Pond 😎

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Shot, chaser

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Good morning! #birds

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"No CRISPR: oddball ‘jumping gene’ enzyme edits genomes without breaking DNA" by Heidi Ledford for @natureportfolio.bsky.social #GenomeEditing via a #ProgrammableRNA #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #PlantGenomics www.nature.com/articles/d41...

No CRISPR: oddball ‘jumping gene’ enzyme edits genomes without breaking DNAwww.nature.com A programmable RNA that bridges a genetic donor and a target could herald a safer and more flexible approach to large-scale chromosome changes. A programmable RNA that bridges a genetic donor and a ta...

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The uniquely beautiful flowers in the mallow family. Here is an okra. 🌱

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Timeline cleanse. Some flowers at Palomar Mountain: Columbine, Lupine, Waxy checkerbloom, and Yarrow. 🌿

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Great article, great writing. I know someone with an exceptional sense of smell and wonder what she notices. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/m...

The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’swww.nytimes.com She first noticed the scent on her husband. Now her abilities are helping unlock new research in early disease detection.

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reskeeting myself

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The rocks are home to many unusual ferns and plants 3/n

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Director (m/f/d)www.mpipz.mpg.de We seek individuals with an international reputation and a proven track record in the field of pioneering science in plant cell biology and related areas.

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Proposal to build massive warehouses near Inland Empire homes up for vote this weekwww.cbsnews.com A proposal to build millions of square feet worth of warehouses near some homes in Riverside is up for vote this week, and some residents are banding together in hopes of preserving the area.

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Zheng et al. discuss the potential for finding hidden treasures in rice #germplasm banks in this #OpenAccess commentary. #PlantScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The division site localized protein TANGLED1 is recruited from the plant cytokinetic structure via both actin/myosin dependent and independent ways to the cell cortex. Great work from Aimee Uyehara and co-authors! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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This photo of tomato fruit shows a fruit with three carpels forming three locules (chambers). A large, intruding placenta (with its seeds) is clearly visible in each locule. This is axile placentation. #placentation #Solanaceae : Jo Christian Oterhals CC BY-NC-ND 2 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

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Twisty-petaled flower and fuzzy fruits of creosote bush, Larrea tridentata 🌿 flic.kr/p/2pTrF8F

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Really? #plantscience

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"So this bill will protect the Ku Klux Klan to wear masks in public, but someone who's immunocompromised like myself cannot wear a mask?" — North Carolina Senator Sydney Batch, who is a cancer survivor Unbelievable.

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Six hours ago versus now! Cosmo is doing her very best to unfurl. We stan a gigantic flower with a nauseating smell!

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The bluesky timeline needs more nudibranchs. Here's a Hermissenda crassicornis to bless your feed.

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GOOD MORNING! I knew vaguely that ferns reproduce using spores instead of seeds, but what I did not know is that the spores do NOT grow into a fern. They grow into a gametophyte. Bear with me because YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING

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Good afternoon🌼

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We at EMBL-EBI are hiring faculty again. It's been a great and supportive place to start a group. And it would also be great to get applications from other people working on pathogens/microbes! www.embl.org/jobs/positio...

EMBL Jobswww.embl.org We offer a wide range of challenging scientific and non-scientific positions at all of our European locations and encourage applications from international candidates at all career levels.

I’ve never seen a brown praying mantis before

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Asclepias asperula, our native Antelopehorn Milkweed, blooming south of Gateway today 🌿

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Also from sunrise this morning ☀️🌵

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I'm behind on this month's #InsertAnInvert2024 because, well....crabs aren't my favorite and I don't want to draw them. So I'm protesting @franzanth.bsky.social making me draw crabs by choosing one in mortal peril. rip kelp crab, i'm sure you made a fine meal.

Another paper that looks cool - idioblast specific tf identified for secondary metabolite production

I woke up & decided I can pursue more risky projects. As we submitted my 3rd 1st-author manuscript for my postdoc (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), and we're getting data to solidify a 4th one, I have leeway for high risk high reward stuff that may not generate publishable results.