Rachel Ehrenberg

delicious dish, say no more youtube.com/watch?v=bPpcfH_H…

female grasshopper feeding on the carcass of a Japanese pit viper "Thus, necrophagy (the act of eating corpses) may be more widespread among grasshoppers than previously recognized." great tidbit @ESA_org esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

hey bio/molecular bio twitter-- what do you call those circle gene plots things, is there a common nickname for them? (other than circle gene plot things)? please RT!

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These plums aren’t a vine-shrub love child. Their weird form is a side effect of genetic tweaks to get them to flower sooner and for longer. And they might help grow fresh fruit in space. Yep. (@PLOSONE paper) much of this cool research done by Chris Dardick and others @USDA_ARS

Then there’s the newly discovered WEEP gene, which is related to LAZY and also helps plants deal with gravity, mutations in WEEP gives some trees these lovely cascading branches

Just getting your branches to grow UP is a feat. Enter LAZY genes. Some operate in roots, telling them to grow down. Others operate in shoots, helping them to grow up. On left is corn with non-functional lazy gene, just hangin, its gravity response out of whack (@PLOSONE paper)

Take a tree that’s been tipped over. How does it re-orient its growth? Reaction wood, baby: in #hardwoods (oak beech maple etc) reaction #wood forms on a branch's upper side & creates a force that *pulls* the branch upward. #mindblown talking to expert Andrew Groover @usfs_r5

and one of the great/disgusting counter ads that didn't make it into the story: youtube.com/watch?v=-F4t8zL6… more on counterads and junk food: knowablemagazine.org/article…

OMG did @sethmeyers and Fred Armisen see our @knowablemag story on seeing Seurat? knowablemagazine.org/article… to quote #FredArmisenArtAficionado "the human eye turns paint into things" youtube.com/watch?v=rdes-VUl… #Seurat #ASundayAfternoonontheIslandofLaGrandeJatte