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The Reski Laboratory on Twitter

Dec 3, 2009
I just discovered that the Reski Laboratory is on twitter. They study the moss Physcomitrella patens at the University of Freiburg in Germany. I am tossing around the idea of using twitter when I don't have time for longer blog postings. I signed up...

Berry Go Round #22

Dec 2, 2009
The latest edition of the plant carnival Berry Go Round has been posted at Seeds Aside. One of my posts from this past month has been included in the lineup! Link through to checkout all the interesting botanical topics from November 2009.  P.S. Be...

Some Birds Like the Moss

Dec 1, 2009
One of the ornithologists in my department forwarded along this article about Australian woodland bird conservation that mentions mosses. R.M. Montague-Drake, D.B. Lindenmayer and R.B. Cunningham. 2009. Factors affecting site occupancy by woodland...

Not the Model of Monophyly

Nov 27, 2009
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Physcomitrella patens is our little model organism moss. It has recently had all of its DNA sequenced. Think the human genome project, but for mosses. The speed at which scientific information is...

Darwin's not that Cool

Nov 24, 2009
Charles Darwin's work On the Origin of Species is celebrating its 15oth birthday/publication-day today. A lot of news outlets are talking about the influence of this book on our scientific thinking about evolution. Checkout NPR, BBC and NYTimes for...


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