Event is in the Spiegeltent, pitched and ready outside the City Hall

Sheffield people - join us on Weds for an evening of psychoactive crops - history, biology and art - it’s a heady mix festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk/2024/spiegel...

Science would be so much more pleasurable to read if we could revive introductions like this - why shouldn’t science be a little more poetic?

I asked my first year #botany students to find botanical anomalies in movies, comics, book, etc. And WOW, they found a LOT! Some of my highlights:

Some traits changed in a punctuated way at particular times, others more gradually through history. But some effects of domestication have had to be reversed by modern breeding academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... 2/2

Diversification of quantitative morphological traits in wheat

AbstractBackground and Aims. The development and morphology of crop plants have been profoundly altered by evolution under cultivation, initially through uncons

Modern wheats differ quantitatively in many ways from their wild relatives - but when did these differences arise? New paper with Yixiang Shan uses a comparative approach to map these changes. academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... 1/2

Diversification of quantitative morphological traits in wheat

AbstractBackground and Aims. The development and morphology of crop plants have been profoundly altered by evolution under cultivation, initially through uncons

Sorry to hear about the passing of Neil Baker, a pioneer in photosynthesis research. Chlorophyll fluorescence approaches we now take for granted are based on his work www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...

Come work with us! We're hiring two postdoc research fellows working broadly on nature-based climate solutions, including mitigation and natural sinks. If you'd like to chat about these, please get in touch. tinyurl.com/mt8stvmr@sheffieldpps.bsky.social@sheffielduni.bsky.social

Standing room only for Merlin Sheldrake’s talk today - lots of love for soil fungi here in Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

🥳This paper from Besiana Sinanaj’s PhD on role of diverse symbiotic 🍄 in plant nutrition was published in @funecology.bsky.socialbesjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... It's her last day with us in Sheffield so this is a lovely farewell & thanks! short 🧵…