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@crawley_mick In field , i feel difficulty in dealing with grass identification. Now in the learning process.

This is the peak week of the year for grass spp. in flower. So it’s a great idea if you want to revise your grass ID over next winter, to make a comprehensive collection now, press and mount them properly, than look at them at leisure when there is no other botanizing to be done.

@SajadAlipour98 Your country is blinded by primitive relgious agenda, world has 6th century phobia! Geopolitis based on religion! Its your country's religion is the major problem. Congratulations for your achievements! Hope you find a position!

@stats_feed So Japanese people dont suffer from delusions

% of people that believe in God or a supreme being: 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 93% 🇹🇷 Turkey: 91% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 84% 🇿🇦 South Africa: 83% 🇲🇽 Mexico: 78% 🇺🇸 USA: 70% 🇦🇷 Argentina: 62% 🇷🇺 Russia: 56% 🇮🇳 India: 56% 🇵🇱 Poland: 51% 🇮🇹 Italy: 50% 🇨🇦 Canada: 46% 🇭🇺 Hungary: 29% 🇦🇺 Australia: 29% 🇪🇸 Spain: 28% 🇩🇪 Germany: 27% 🇬🇧 UK: 25% 🇧🇪 Belgium: 20% 🇫🇷 France: 19% 🇸🇪 Sweden: 18% 🇰🇷 South Korea: 18% 🇨🇳 China: 9% 🇯🇵 Japan: 4% Note: As of 2010 Source: Statista

@crawley_mick Thank you Professor Mick Crawley, I observed this few weeks ago. I am a research student. Its good that I found you through this page. I am learning!

Cypresses (Cupressus spp.) are tricky. They look similar from a distance (e.g. droopy leading shoots) but are easy close up. Just look at the underside of a branch. In C. lawsoniana the scale-like leaves are lined by white wax (left), while in C. nootkatensis they are not (right)

@TRRaju1 Internet and similar computer softwares decrease human learning, and memorising skills. Hippocampus being replaced by silicon chips!

Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says nature.com/articles/d4158…

@TRRaju1 They do postdoc, then they find an unrelated technical job that does not require postdoctoral experiences. They are wasting precious postdoc positions while ambitious candidates do not get such positions.

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals nature.com/articles/d4158…

@RichardDawkins Personal feelings have no place in science. But I know few people whose personal feelings had interfered with their attitude towards science and world view because of intense childhood indoctrination.

Feelings are important but science is about evidence

@geococcyxcal Cutest picture by you. She is stunning.

@RichardDawkins Biology is badly misrepresented by some of the 'smart' PhD biologists. Irony that I have observed is, they believe that soul exist, mind is controlled by something other than brain. They are mental slaves of religions. Thief is in the ship itself. Very ironical and unacceptable

SUPERB article by Jerry Coyne & Luana Maroja. Scientists, publishers & editors should grow a spine & call the bluff of dogmatic adolescent bullies. Skeptical Inquirer bravely stood up when other publishers wouldn't touch it. skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-id…

@ProfFeynman Some of the PhD science grads I know is highly superstitious and believe in pseudoscientific bullshits.# cognitive dissonance # cognitive bias. So sorry for them.

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠

@ProfFeynman Religion is for block heads and science is for rational minds.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

@geococcyxcal Cute sugar pie.

@jenna_miladin @MaribethLatvis Jenna, is it Silene nelsonii ?

Some exciting news- so happy to announce that I will be joining @MaribethLatvis’s lab at UArk for my PhD! I will be continuing to work on Silene, and am excited to explore evolutionary drivers of rarity in this genus🌸🧬

Trunks can last decades, branches for years, and leaves for months, but flowers? Their time is fleeting. Their short life combined with their delicacy makes them challenging to fossilize. This week we'll celebrate Lagerstätten who triumph with flower fossils. #FlowerWeek #Fossils

@TRRaju1 Argyroxiphium sandwicense is an endemic and endangered species found only in Hawaii .

This is Argroxiphium sandwicense of Asteraceae- from my Botany Professor

@geococcyxcal Cuteness overloaded. 🦉🦉🦉🦉

@ProfFeynman Best example for this meme is religion versus science.

@geococcyxcal Wow, that's great. i thought that you are daily watching them and taking photos. 😊

@geococcyxcal I am wondering how you are getting owl buddies photos daily. They are awesome as always.

Shrub Attracts Pollinators By Glittering Under the Full Moon nationalgeographic.com/science/articl… via @NatGeo