The SingAboutScience.org database: An educational resource for instructors and students
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Setting something to music is a well-known method for supporting learning (think about the alphabet song that you learned as a child). Gregory J. Crowther has assembled a searchable database of science-themed songs, along with lesson plans and suggestions for how to use songs in your teaching.…
Applications open for 2017-2018 Plantae Fellows
Blog, Careers, Careers - BlogAre you a creative, articulate and web-savvy plant scientist looking to connect with other like-minded folks? We need your help to nurture and grow Plantae, the online community for the global plant science community. We are looking for individuals who are interested in being highly engaged contributors…
The new Plantae: When we are connected, good things can happen
BlogPlantae makes it easy to communicate with plant scientists from around the globe about anything related to research, careers, grants and other plant biology topics.
Here are some things you can do:
Set up a network for your lab or project team
Curate, review, annotate, and co-author content
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Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors, May 2017
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesJennifer Wisecaver, featured first author of A Global Co-expression Network Approach for Connecting Genes to Specialized Metabolic Pathways in Plants
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University.
Education: PhD (2012) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,…
What We're Reading: June 9th
Blog, ResearchThis week's What We're Reading is curated by Sridhar Gutam, Senior Scientist, Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Nidhi Sharma, Research Specialist, Stanford University.
Nidhi Sharma is a researcher in Dominique Bergmann's lab at Stanford University. She graduated from The University of…
Plant Physiology Focus Issue on Stomata published
Blog, Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Editorials, ResearchThe June 2017 issue of Plant Physiology is a Focus Issue on stomata; here is the editorial overview to this issue by Michael R. Blatt, Plant Physiology, Editor-in-Chief, and Tim J. Brodribb and Keiko U. Torii, Plant Physiology Editors.
Small Pores with a Big Impact
The guard cells surrounding stomatal…
Alan Alda's Experiment: Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us
Blog, Careers, Education, Education General, Skills and Advice, Writing/Reviewing/Publishing/CommunicatingAn NPR interview with Alan Alda about his efforts to help scientists learn to communicate.
"People are dying because we can't communicate in ways that allow us to understand one another," he writes. "It sounds like an exaggeration, but I don't think it is. When patients can't relate to their doctors…
Why can't scientists be better communicators? (SciAm blog)
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Author Katherine Wu highlights some of the challenges that interfere with scientists communicating.
She says, "Both scientists and non-scientists must commit to not only communication, but also a drastic reassessment of how we communicate with each other. I believe mending the rift starts with…
Interview with Bob Furbank on "Turbocharging Crops"
Blog, ResearchThe Science Show on Radio National, Australia, interviewed Robert Furbank, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Australian National University, on efforts to engineer C4 photosynthesis into rice.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/turbo-charging-crops-to-feed-the-billions/8541396