This is an interesting survey aimed at understanding how humans view different forests and which people would prefer to preserve.
It made me wonder what I value - is arboreal perfection for me to do with the mix of species, their age or the amount of sunlight that filters through the canopy? 🧪 🌳 🌲
For Canadian scholars, the reality is bleak .
Ottawa is dangling money for American researchers, but what about our own? #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky
Trees changed us / les arbres nous ont changé !
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Connection with nature has a profound effect on who we are
Our new untargeted metabolomics paper is out in @theplantjournal.bsky.social revealing how willow adapts to NaCl and Na₂SO₄ salinity Congrats @Eszter Sas and team ! @njbbrereton.bsky.social @adrienfrem.bsky.social
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Infographic on how alcohol-free beer is made. Definitions of alcohol-free beer vary in different countries, with some allowing small amounts of alcohol. Alcohol-free beers can be produced by avoiding fermentation entirely, but this can impact flavour. More common methods include dilution (where a concentrated beer is produced then diluted), dealcoholisation (where alcohol is removed via distillation or membrane filtration) or limiting the production of alcohol (by using specialised yeast or low fermenting temperatures).
Alcohol-free beer chemistry is also available! www.compoundchem.com/2022/08/24/a...
Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.
Québec is doing something good! 64% of operating revenues of universities come form provincial government funding and 29% from tuition fees paid by students. In Ontario it's the other way around.
Canada will add PFAS, which are linked to cancer and other health problems, to toxic substances list #Canada #cdnpoli
Move does not ban PFAS, but starts a process to restrict them in various consumer and industrial products
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#JustIn on Plantae - Classical Botany in the Shadow of Molecular Science: Why It Still Matters. In this piece, Plantae Fellows, @kesmaio.bsky.social @carlosgonzsanz.bsky.social and @vedjiwan.bsky.social discuss the decline of the term and education of botanical sciences https://plantae.org/classica…
A brassica joke!
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Yes to the scientists, and philosophers of science, and historians of science, and sociologists of science, and metascientists, and humanities scholars, and academics of all stripes 🧪 #academicsky
