Gil Yardeni

"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common

"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you

This makes total sense.

Update: very pleased so far, several software issues have improved, package management is quite sane. 8/10 needs larger community support.

It's okay, I can love the weirdo maroon snapdragon.

Noooo, this is not how spiders work 😢

among others,

[1] doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...

We plant and love them, anyway. I'd like to think that we too, can sometimes be different and deeply imperfect. We may be sick. Perhaps we're weird in our suffering. and yet, we can remain beautiful. Highly value-able, deeply loved.

...in so many words, they're less pretty. How lucky it is, that beauty is the eyes of the beholder. To me and to the people planning our parks, chestnuts are clearly beautiful. They're just different. They don't do autumn or summer like other trees, and since they're trees, they can't help it.

but let us not turn sad for the lovely chestnut, not yet. As far as scientists report[1], it seems like the trees are holding up sorta fine. They have plenty of time to make it, each year, before the disease hits. The loss is their "aesthetic value", write the experts....

it is. Horse chestnuts in Austria and all over Europe are infected by a moth, named for the deed: the horse-chestnut leaf miner or Cameraria ohridella. The offspring are born within the chestnut leaves and feed on them, eventually causing leaf death. No remedy had been found.

There's a hint in the leaf's appearance: from up close, it seems different. Leaf senescence has a certain color gradient, sometimes starting at the tips, or at the midribs and veins. Instead, our chestnuts have spots - it almost looks like a fashionable mosaic. Like somebody's works. So, actually -

Standing in the streets and parks, they're already a deep golden brown and shedding heavily at the end of summer. a botanist may tell you that sadly, they're not autumn marathoners: they're just sick. (and I, too, happen to be one).

A view of a paved paved in a park, lined by green grass on the right side and trimmed green bushes, with full foliage, on the right. Also on the right is a tree with much of its foliage lost and the rest brown - the horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum

A leaf of Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, held by a hand wearing a cycling glove. The leafs was previously green, but presents many large browned dry-looking spots and a yellow color gradient at the tip.

A few words about chestnuts.
Autumn is setting in much faster this year and the days turned suddenly cloudier, suddenly colder. Luckily, the beautiful succession of trees changing follows: leaf senescence, the yearly dance of leaf colors. The earliest are the chestnuts, Aesculus hippocastanum.

Hello, I'm an evolutionary biologist in a film. I can identify any species from 30 base pairs of DNA, including human-alien hybrids. I quote Darwin and Gould ad libitum to compensate for my lack of emotional depth. Inexplicably, I'm unable to correctly pronounce 'genome' or 'drosophila'.

בשלב מסוים קיבלתי את זה שכל הפוליטיקה האמריקאית היא הטרלה אחת גדולה.

Today is the day I give Debian a go on the 6-year-old, always-Ubuntu laptop. Wish us luck! ✨

I used to be friends with a person like that, and 'used to' for obvious reasons. Last I heard, he married very conservative, meaning to someone who is very unlikely to leave or have opinion. He had children and went very right-wing. That seems to be the trope 🤷‍♀️

Absolutely agree, but also, people of a gentler disposition just reduce or stop using Facebook. It's a very unpleasant space, and unsurprisingly this is the sort of crowd that persists.
I personally believe it's not a good representation of humanity at all.

🌱 Phylogenomics, hybridization and species network in our latest paper

📜 The explosive radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) has been accompanied by pervasive hybridization

⭐ Open Access!

Also w/the excellent @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social

Thank you, I sent an e-mail.

We had no resolution from costumer support (outsourced to @aptara.bsky.social), no replies from Author Support on phone on or e-mail, and no way to reach production.
I hate to do this, but we're stuck and don't know who else to turn to.

Dear Colleagues, I'm asking for help: do you have contacts at #OUPAcademic ?
We asked for a change of corr. author over 40 days ago, received no answer or support, & upcoming deadlines means publication will not proceed - so we're pretty worried >>>
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social

I love this. My partner suffers from a sun allergy and it's as bad as it sounds - any level of sun exposure causes allergic reaction. It's very hot.
He feels great in kaftans, but says the public reactions make it not worth it. Other than develop a thick skin (pun int), what are the options?

That's precisely what they think, and I'm not sure they're wrong...

אני מתה על רכבות והדבקתי את בן הזוג.
בפברואר נסעתי ברכבות מוינה עד דרום איטליה, לקח לי כ-יום וחצי עם עצירה לקפה ומאפה ברומא ונהניתי מאוד מאוד.
בקיץ הקרוב ניסע מוינה להמבורג, ואז נמשיך ברכבת לדנמרק וניסע באופניים עד קופנהגן. אני מתרגשת!

צ'כיה כה יפה עם תשתית נוחה ולגמרי
underrated.
איזור מורביה ובוהמיה יפים נוחים ולא יקרים.

מברלין אפשר לנסוע לפראג! אותה רכבת עוברת באיזור שוויץ הצ'כית (Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz) שהוא יפה במיוחד לטיולים ולביקורים.
אפשר גם לנסוע צפונה לים הבאלטי המהמם ואפילו להמשיך במעבורת לשבדיה או גרמניה.

אצלנו אוהבות להגיד "באוסטריה הרכבת היתה מגיעה בזמן". זה נרגן אבל די נכון, דויטשעבהאן פשלנית גדולה יחסית. אז אני בעד להתכונן לבלתי צפוי, לארוז אוכל וגם ספר טוב - אבל הנסיון שלי הוא שרכבות בינ"ל בחסות אוסטריה מגיעות בזמן, רכבות גרמניות נוטות לאחר ורכבות איטלקיות מגיעות פעם כן, פעם לא :)

Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms - Nature Phylogenomic analysis of 7,923 angiosperm species using a standardized set of 353 nuclear genes produced an angiosperm tree of life dated with 200 fossil calibrations, providing key insights into...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Just finished reading this amazing manuscript and what a ride! This is a great reminder to what collaborative work can achieve. Excuse the corny tone: we do amazing things when we work together. Also, will Chloranthales ever behave?

10 years is amazing, Marco 🤩