Guest post by Beronda L. Montgomery (@BerondaM) Note: This contribution is adapted from a blog post original posted at http://www.berondamontgomery.c… on January 20, 2019 Many current “mentoring” programs focus primarily on interventions for those being mentored, i.e., mentees (or sometimes referred to as trainees). All too frequently, these so-called interventions focus on fixing “deficits” in individual mentees […]
Guest post by Paul Sokoloff, Senior Research Assistant, Botany, Canadian Museum of Nature Astragalus, the milkvetch genus, is a massive group of plants in the pea family that has diversified into over 3000 species, which can be found in various habitats across the northern hemisphere. Its also a genus with a surprising queer history. When […]
Guest post by Jennifer Nemhauser & Elizabeth Haswell This spring, in collaboration with Joanna Friesner, we launched DiversifyPlantSci (1), an on-line directory of self-nominated plant scientists who share identity with groups that are currently minoritized in STEM fields. Membership now exceeds 250 people, and includes scientists who identify as belonging to racial or ethnic groups other […]
Guest post by Jonathan Monroe ASPB has been a big part of my professional life since I first joined in about 1984 as a graduate student at Cornell. One early memory of attending ASPP (former name) meetings was making posters by spray-mounting printed paper onto colored cardboard and trimming the edges so there were as […]
Guest post by Lucas Vanhaelewyn, PhD candidate, Laboratory of Functional Plant Biology, Ghent University Being a scientist is a wonderful job, especially when your theory is suddenly confirmed on a gel, or when that fluorescent signal does get upregulated. Those moments highly compensate for those lesser days when you accidentally cut your fingers with the […]
Written by Laura Klasek Two weeks before my qualifying exam, my PhD advisor — Kentaro Inoue — and I met to discuss the thirty-first draft of my dissertation research proposal and encountered a sticking point on the second of three aims. I rewrote, and reworked, and rewrote the section throughout the day, returning to lean […]
A guest post by Drake Gardner Test Tube Seed Necklace! ?? Great outreach activity. Fun seeds to use are broccoli ? or purple mustard seed ? Have the… Posted by Exploring Plants on Thursday, May 9, 2019
Hello ASPB members! If we haven’t met, or if you don’t follow me on Twitter (@PLANTasticPope), my name is Lauren Pope and I am a first-year graduate student in the Stanford Biosciences PhD program. While I am still rotating through labs during my first year at Stanford and am seemingly far from the completion of […]
Zoe Getman-PickeringLeafByte app home screen. LeafByte– built primarily by current and former Cornell graduate and undergraduate entomology students – lets users take a photo of a damaged leaf and quickly receive accurate data on how much of the leaf pests have eaten. The app, available for iPhone users on the App Store, can analyze an image […]