Peter L. Morrell

Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher should be better known as a civil rights figure. She challenged segregation at @UofOklahoma and won in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lois_…. Thurgood Marshall was her attorney. OU president George Lynne Cross helped bolster the case. 1/n

A new tool in GrainGenes: SNPversity 2.0 with diverse wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) accessions added on GrainGenes graingenes.org/GG3/content/fe… @AMBA_Barley @WheatInitiative @IntBarleyHub

Hydroponic barley grows in 7 days, soil-free and weather-proof. Cows love it, farmers save, and feed is evolving.

@vsbuffalo We watched the whole series when Netflix still shipped DVDs. The bit where the main character breaks up with his perfectly charming girlfriend b/ she codes with tabs rather than spaces still makes me laugh out loud!

The entirety of HBO’s “Silicon Valley”belongs in the Western Canon.

Uneven font sizes, no mention of my name or anyone else's, and the invitation to click a link to find out about salary changes. ChatGPT says this is likely spam or phishing. Or maybe @UMNews HR is sending out salary adjustment announcements that smell exactly like phishing?

@vsbuffalo @famulare_mike See also: cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/memoir.ht… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_…

Enjoyed this: “How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?” freaktakes.com/p/how-did-plac… (HT: @famulare_mike)

@vsbuffalo @nathanfielder The Air Disasters tv show is in the 23rd season, so you aren’t the only person with this interest. Aviation magazines used to list an account of recent accidents. My host father in Australia was a private pilot and read those accounts religiously.

People have always given me strange looks when I tell them one of my hobbies is reading about aviation disasters. Now, I can confidently say it’s an entirely normal pastime that other normal people like @nathanfielder do too. Thanks, Nathan.

@szintri They showed up in our local Asian grocery recently. I’ve been buying longan, but I look forward to lychee season!

I am not sure I’m ready for being able to impulse buy lychee as a regular grocery store in the middle of the American Midwest.

For transparency, we should insist retailers list the amount of new federal sales tax on each item. Ideally this would appear both on price listings and on receipts as the “Trump tariff“ charge. If Trump’s signature was on stimulus checks, he also deserves credit for new taxes!

Gmail accounts are ending abruptly for anyone leaving a university. Tracking down an alternative email for folks still involved in research can be a challenge. @UMNews could follow other universities in setting up a forwarding service. Minimal investment insidehighered.com/news/tech-inno…

University of Minnesota confronts growing backlog of building repairs startribune.com/university-of-…

Congrats to Ed Buckler (USDA-ARS) who has been chosen as the 2025 recipient of The Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies by the Maize Genetics Cooperation!

@vsbuffalo We recently took the new @Amtrak Borealis to Chicago and then service on to Detroit. A big chunk of the Detroit run is at 110 mph. It goes by pretty fast. Only complaint is that the train was almost completely full.

@vsbuffalo At ~500 miles, a 200+ mph train would make pretty quick work of that trip. Even the 150 mph of the Acela trains in the equivalent corridor on the East Coast would make the trip in about the same time as her layover!

My fiancée's bonkers travel itinerary of EUG→SEA→SFO to visit me this weekend —somehow with a three hour layover— is a modern day love poem.

Our manuscript with @PeterLMorrell @ChaochihLiu et al about “Phenotypically wild barley shows evidence of introgression from cultivated barley”is here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This looks useful. Natural language queries to accomplish tasks in the UNIX shell. warp.dev/blog/agent-mode @warpdotdev

@jrossibarra @GittaCoaker Sorry to hear that!

@GittaCoaker Egads so sorry. Glad you were helmeting.

Well, my summer is over before it began. Hit by a vehicle from behind while biking to work. Surgery on Monday. 🤕At least no head injuries as I wear a helmet. I don't usually get hurt, but when I do I go all out.

Our manuscript (with @ChaochihLiu,@PeterLMorrell, @justinfay,@SkylarWyant, and other amazing colleagues) about the sodium azide mutagenesis inducing a unique mutation pattern comes out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@vsbuffalo mprnews.org/story/2024/04/…

Random thought: are there good contingency plans were a science building ever to be occupied? The risk of potential losses is massive: tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, longterm experiments destroyed, grad work conducted over years gone.

Adaptive gene loss in the common bean pan-genome during range expansion and domestication biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

@vsbuffalo If a single episode of a tennis documentary lands you on the court it will be interesting to see what happens when you watch Drive to Survive. Perhaps a Skip Barber racing program?

Me to partner: what show are you watching? Her: Breakpoint. It’s a Netflix documentary about tennis. Me: ugh, tennis. That is a sport I do not like. Eh, I guess I’ll watch an episode. Today: