Plants and Pipettes

Tegan and Joram explore the world of molecular plant research. How to plants sense their environment? What controls their metabolism? How do they store energy? Come along to an excursion into the very cells of all green things!

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episode 57: Mola mola babies – extremophile algae, intersectional feminism in academia, talking to conspiracy theorists


Some weeks we talk a lot about plant science, some weeks we explore a lot of plant-science-adjacent topics. You be the judge of what happened this week. 

Tegan’s favourite plant is Chlorella ohadii which is extremely resistant to excess light. New paper, old paper and news article.

Joram presents the work of Maria N. Miriti.

  • Hidden figures in ecology and evolution, Nature correspodence
  • Intersectional feminism, UN women
  • Related: Too many senior white academics still resist recognizing racism, by Namandjé Bumpus

Bias: Zeigarnik effect; (related) Ovsiankina effect

  • 10 tips when talking to people about conspiracy theories
  • Hygiene theater, The Atlantic
    • “Masks, social distancing, and moving activities outdoors. That’s it. That’s how we protect ourselves. That’s how we beat this thing.”
  • Smallest dinosaur is actually a lizard
  • Publishers: let transgender scholars correct their names 
  • BlueBeets
  • Drought deciduous plants
  • Mola Mola Meme (don’t trust this) 

Andrew Lloyd Webber annoyed at James Cordon’s ad libs  in his song as Bustopher Jones.Awesome Getty museum challenge photos. The cat picture in question.

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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross

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 July 31, 2020  1h27m