@AnaCaicedoS

Plant evolutionary geneticist; fond of crop and weed evolution; deaf/HoH STEM; viva Colombia! 🇨🇴; twitter-shy

Joined August 2018
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The Mind Hears is now on Bluesky! Find us at themindhears.bsky.social. We will be winding down activities here on X. Blog posts by and for deaf and hard of hearing academics continue at themindhears.org/
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Come work with me as a #postdoc in beautiful UMass Amherst on dodder pop genetics and adaptation! Join an NSF-funded collaboration with researchers at Penn State and Rutgers. Great plant and evo bio folks at UMass too! Job details and how to apply below. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en…
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The Biology Dept at UMass Amherst is hiring (again!). We have TWO TT faculty positions: Developmental Cell Biology and Plant Biology. Please share and apply! careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/… careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/… umass.edu/biology/
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September is #DeafAwarenessMonth! Check out grad student Eric Heinze’s profile where he shares what it’s been like to move from a hearing institution to a deaf one, and back again! themindhears.org/2024/08/28/…

Profile: Eric Heinze

I realized that there was a “deaf tax” in going to a predominantly hearing institution, and, as the only deaf person on campus, there was no one to relate to.

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Rice gone wild: How humans have inadvertently selected for 'weedy' rice @umassamherst @JXBot phys.org/news/2024-07-rice-w…

Rice gone wild: How humans have inadvertently selected for 'weedy' rice

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered that the anatomical adaptation helping weedy rice varieties to proliferate is not, as previously believed, confined only to these pest...

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Great work from @xiangli_evo!
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What makes a weed...well, a weed? That's the question that has #UMass researchers stumped. After years of study, they've discovered how #rice, a keystone crop, still behaves very much like a wild #plant. @CNS_UMass #agriculture #umassamherst umass.edu/news/article/rice-…

Rice Gone Wild: How Humans Have Inadvertently Selected for ‘Weedy’ Rice | UMass Amherst

Researchers at UMass Amherst show the evolutionary persistence of a weediness trait, rewriting the story of rice as we know it.

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Congratulations, @xiangli_evo! Cool parallel evolution story, a shake-up of what we know about the loss and gain of seed shattering, and a nice UMass press release to boot! umass.edu/news/article/rice-…

Rice Gone Wild: How Humans Have Inadvertently Selected for ‘Weedy’ Rice | UMass Amherst

Researchers at UMass Amherst show the evolutionary persistence of a weediness trait, rewriting the story of rice as we know it.

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Xiang Li@xiangli_evo9 Jul 2024
I am thrilled to share our latest paper, exploring the evolution of seed shattering in cultivated and weedy rice from a morphological perspective. Thoroughly examining morphology can provide insights that genetics alone cannot easily offer. Read it! @JXBot doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae221

Comparative histology of abscission zones reveals the extent of convergence and divergence in seed...

Population-level morphologies of the abscission zone, a crucial structure for seed dispersal, converge among high shattering weedy rice groups, but diverge

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Did you know that 16.6% of US federal employees have a disability? EPA program specialist, Andrew Mutter, shares the hiring pathway available to people with disabilities interested in government jobs. Such a wealth of information in this post! themindhears.org/2024/06/13/…

Are you deaf/hard of hearing and want to become a U.S. Federal Employee? The Persons with Disabil...

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Replying to @geomechCooke
@geomechCooke is listed among five scientists who contributed personal stories to the amazing collection of essays in Uncharted, edited by @drsBayar and @gSerratoMarks. #DisInSTEM cupblog.org/2024/06/05/five-…

Five Scientists with Disabilities Whom You Should Know Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks -...

In 2018, we (Skylar and Gabi) got together and decided that we would create a book with a diversity of stories about disability and medical conditions in STEM, help contributors tell their stories in...

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What works and what doesn’t in making it in academia as #DisabledFaculty? I recently shared my twisty academic disability journey in this post in @TheMindHears. Peer support matters! #DisabledInSTEM themindhears.org/2024/05/01/…

My academic path from self-reliance to self-advocacy to peer-support

Self-reliance seems more of a recipe for isolation and alienation than for increasing the presence of disability in academia

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I´m thrilled to share our last ms about the origin of weedy rice in Argentina in @molecology with @gabyplantbio, María Crepy, @AnaCaicedoS @SamuelTabbs, @GIRCS1 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Introgression from local cultivars is a driver of agricultural adaptation in Argentinian weedy rice

Weedy rice, a pervasive and troublesome weed found across the globe, has often evolved through fertilization of rice cultivars with little importance of crop-weed gene flow. In Argentina, weedy rice...

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Great news! 🎉The Mind Hears has a new look that makes accessing content easier than ever! You’ll find > 55 posts and ~18 profiles capturing experiences of deaf & hard of hearing folks in academia. #disabledAcademics #disInHigherEd #deafAcademics themindhears.org/

Home

a blog for and by deaf and hard of hearing academics

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Are you a deaf or hard of hearing academic and want to share your perspective on deafness? Sharing our experiences helps reduce our isolation. Thanks to support from NSF The Mind Hears can offer $150 for original posts (750-1500 words). Pitch us an idea! theMindHears.org
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Shattering is such a consequential phenotype, but difficult to measure well and so much we don't yet know. Check out our review paper on seed shattering in rice!
Xiang Li@xiangli_evo27 Feb 2024
Happy and excited to share that our review paper on seed shattering in rice is now out ! 🌾 🌾🌾 Grateful for the opportunity to contribute! The abscission zone is truly Amazing!!!
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Come work with us at UMass Amherst!
Michelle Facette@facette_lab5 Feb 2024
We are hiring! We are looking for a Eukaryotic Geneticist to join us at UMass Amherst. All models welcome! Plant, fungal, animal are all welcome - we are a broad Bio dept with strength in many areas. Apps due March 1. Great off-cycle opportunity! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en…
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Our annual update of recommendations on how to make academic settings more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing academics is out! Spread to allies far and wide! themindhears.org/2024/01/04/…
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We published our first issue 5 years ago today! Plants, People, Planet has come a long way since 2018. Thank you to everyone who's contributed to and supported the journal so far! Here are some of our highlights from our fifth year 🧵👉
Cover of Plants, People, Planet volume 1, number 1. During springtime in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, Nemophila flowers form a blue carpet that attracts crowds of people who queue up to admire this beautiful event. Image courtesy of Tetsuo Wada/Aflo.

ALT Cover of Plants, People, Planet volume 1, number 1. During springtime in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, Nemophila flowers form a blue carpet that attracts crowds of people who queue up to admire this beautiful event. Image courtesy of Tetsuo Wada/Aflo.

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This week for PB seminar Dr. Gersony @Jess_Gersony from Smith College will gave a talk! She runs the PLACE (PLant physiology, Art, and Community Engagement) Lab and focuses on plant physiological responses to climate change. Join us this Thur, Nov. 30, 4 - 5 pm in Morrill Rm 222.
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Parents matter when it comes to QTL crosses! Congrats @xiang68698752 on another this weedy rice evolution paper!
Xiang Li@xiangli_evo21 Oct 2023
Our paper on QTLs for weediness traits in #weedyrice is online in @molecology . We specifically crossed ancestral cultivar with the derived weed to identify the evolutionarily relevant QTLs. doi.org/10.1111/mec.17172 The parental evolutionary relatedness matters for QTL mapping!

A derived weedy rice × ancestral cultivar cross identifies evolutionarily relevant weediness QTLs

Weedy rice (Oryza spp.) is a weedy relative of the cultivated rice that competes with the crop and causes significant production loss. The BHA (blackhull awned) US weedy rice group has evolved from...

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How can we make scientific spaces more deaf accessible? Our Editorial (go.nature.com/3Q0JSOZ) collates resources & articles by @TheMindHears @AnaCaicedoS @geomechCooke @meganmajocha @IamAhmedKhalifa @DrTomTam & others! #AcademicTwitter
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