Jack C. Schultz

@Striga_Steve @KamounLab @lab_albert This is similar in several ways to how gall-forming insects make galls.

Super cool paper on how the parasitic plant Dodder feeds from the host. @lab_albert

New paper! academia.edu/2997-6006/3/2/…

@nicksortor So who’s more likely to know, science experts or a bunch of cops?

BREAKING: A CIA whistleblower just testified UNDER OATH that Anthony Fauci DIRECTLY meddled with intelligence agencies to cover up the COVID lab leak. Every day that Fauci remains free is an INJUSTICE. Per the whistleblower, the CIA was on the verge of calling it a lab leak — then changed course days later with zero explanation. Fauci injected himself into the intelligence community and FLIPPED the conclusion.

@nicksortor That’s because it’s BS as anybody paying attention would know

INFURIATING: Not a SINGLE SENATE DEMOCRAT showed up to the committee hearing with a CIA whistleblower EXPOSING the deep state COVID cover-up Democrats are STILL partaking in the cover-up. NEVER forget that Democrats hate you.

@rcannon992 Because they are growing fast, importing photosynthate, are nitrogen/limited, creating a carbon surplus, which goes into the anthocyanin pathway.

Why are some young leaves red? rcannon992.com/2021/06/04/why…

@sciencegirl Vegans beware!

Carmine, often used in red lipsticks is a pigment derived from the crushed female cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). It takes approximately 70,000 to 100,000 insects to produce just one pound of the colorant

G’morning from Texas!

@scottpegan @FuSchmu @MaryamRFaghihi @wasp_venom @gallformers Need sharp eyes to see that!

Mass emergence of tiny Belonocnema kinseyi gall wasps this spring! Emerging from root galls underground, now looking for mates, and fresh leaves for oviposition. #biodiversity

This Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring was distributed by Kix cereal in the late 40's, for 15 cents and a mail-in box top. It was actually a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210 (one of the most toxic substances out there). A child would take the toy into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206.

@Elohssa412 @amrG1 @ryanwhitney6 They were the better team ON PAPER but not on the ice that day.

@amrG1 @ryanwhitney6 Team Canada was definitely the better team but at the end of the day Hellebuyck was amazing, the Canadians didn’t have an answer and team USA is bringing home the gold.

I will have a Team USA Jack Hughes jersey behind the seat at my desk for the rest of time. What an incredible description of how every USA hockey fan felt

@Edel_PLopez This effect will be mediated at least in part by the plant’ emission of volatiles that attract parasitoids.

To the reviewer who has kept our manuscript hostage for four months: I don’t like you, and one day I’ll find out who you are! 😡 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy Valentine’s Day from the “love vine” - a parasitic plant parasitizing other plant parasites! #ValentinesDay

It’s Feb 13 and the live oaks are flowering in Houston

@Michaelfiore That’s no rat!!!

We found a rat when uncovering our roses, so I deployed the tactical assault cat.

@DrNeilStone 😂

"Everybody who has an mRNA injection will die within 3 to 5 years, even if they have had only one injection" said Delores Cahill Anyone out there 5 years or more after the vaccine and still alive? ✋

@ScottESolomon Never

How long until human footprints on Mars? 👣

Even the temperature differentials are bigger in Texas

@alaskalandmine Saw that on Stranger Things last night

My god. The derrick basically disintegrates when it hits the ground. Doyon 26 weighs nearly 10 million pounds. Absolutely no clue how the rig could tip over like that.

@DrNeilStone ✋

Who here has had all their recommended vaccines with either no or minor side effects? 🤚

@thebiologistisn @simonmaechling My comment was more observation than criticism.

@jackcschultz @simonmaechling Not even that. People generally want consistency in their crops. Consistency in biology is something that parasites/diseases take advantage of. Even if the plants had all the same resistances they had 100 years ago, those resistances would be irrelevant.

Tomatoes didn’t start big, red, or sweet. They began as tiny, bitter berries in the Andes, produced by wild plants that barely resemble what’s on your plate today. Over thousands of years, humans did what humans always do: they selected. Bigger fruits. Less bitterness. More flesh. Fewer toxins. More yield. Generation after generation, farmers kept seeds from plants with the traits they liked. That deliberate filtering turned wild Solanum relatives into cherry tomatoes, then into the large, juicy tomatoes we know today. This is domestication. Not “unnatural.” Not new. Modern breeding and today’s genetic engineering does the same thing, just with better tools and more precision. The tomato is proof that nearly everything we eat today is already a human invention of modified genes.