episode 68: The one where Joram did his homework – rediscovering extinct plants, Luciana Leite and Luisa M. Diele-Viegas, Platypodes under UV light
Joram came so well prepared, it made Tegan angry. The two work through their disagreements though in another episode filled to the brim with tales from the (plant) science world.
- Joram’s favourite plant is Franciscan manzanita (Arctostaphylos franciscana), based on a really great article on plants believed to be extinct
- Tegan presents Luciana Leite and Luisa M. Diele-Viegas.
- Too intelligent for the life sciences in Brazil
- CV of Luciana Leite and her google scholar page
- Website of Luisa M. Diele-Viegas
- Article by Luisa M. Diele-Viegas on supporting transgender scientists post Covid
- Joram presents the False Consensus Bias
- Joram’s Firewatch playthrough photos
- The dominance of the English language in science, research paper
- How we can learn from plant disease spread to fight Covid (press release)
- Accents of frogs
- Ants are tools
- transparent soil helps research on bacteria and fungi. Our post on transparent soil
- Publishers let transgender researchers change their names; blog post on the update
- Women did hunt (probably)
- Glowing Platypus, link 2, link 3
- Plant Book Club on Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
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