Brandon Hurr

Red sweetcorn!! Never grown this before but it's done really well. Tastes pretty much exactly like regular yellow sweetcorn but looks quite a lot more gnarly.

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A blueberry. 90 stacks, 68 photos each. 1.48M splats. #3dgs

LEGEND!

The symmetry of a turn in the air. Yellow Warblers (Setophaga petechiae) are small birds known for their splendid "circling flight" while building their nest. [📷 Glen Noyer] Original post

In addition to the specific genomic, breeding, and disease management outputs, the CucCAP projects have had broader impacts including use of the new genomic tools to provide insights into cucurbit biology. https://doi.org/10.21273/JASHS05562-25 #plantscience

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

This is why we love #CalciumSignaling Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !! By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;) Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

Laughs in octoploid.

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

This was good. I love parafilm and apparently I need to use the "M". Thank you Judson Moss Bemis.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Whoa, I never knew about this!

Lol nice try no such thing

New research provides a comprehensive annotation of cucumber lncRNAs using RNA-Seq data and offers insights into their potential regulatory functions in cold stress responses. #JASHS https://doi.org/10.21273/JASHS05517-25 #plantscience

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

#rstats in the wild

I've been working on this then it hit me. Is this RhizoVision Tron? With open hardware and software, we can accelerate root, soil, and microbiome research. First, we have to solve the segmentation challenge of roots on soil so everyone can do it. www.rhizovision.com

move crisp, get out the way 🤭

My use of the em-dash with respect to LLMs

🍁 Positional variation rather than salt stress dominates changes in 3D leaf shape patterns in cucumber canopies doi.org/10.1093/insi... #model #PlantScience

New PI mutuals who want in on "what do now" groupchat... dm

Last few days to apply to this position! Come join us to model plant stress responses across species in this @cropxr.bsky.social PhD position! 🌱🌽🌾🥬🌡️

I know this is too general and context-free but if I never again see the words "low-hanging fruit" to describe research, it will be too soon. At this point, it might be safer to assume that all low-hanging fruits of science are already picked and whatever we collect with such ease is rotten.

A gift from a student 😂

Lab technicians, what are some “bench” secrets PIs don’t know? Replies are shocking 👇😳

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

Putting “artisanal trash word connoisseur” in my bio

📜 CLAVATA signalling shapes barley inflorescence by controlling activity and determinacy of shoot meristem and rachilla 🧑‍🔬 @isaiavardanega.bsky.social, @simonrdg.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @natcomms.nature.com 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Barley #PlantStemCells

I almost forgot. Today is the perfect date. 😀

If you're teaching a graduate level course, I beg you to include a module on how to schedule and run a meeting. Time zones, calendar invites, links, agendas, minutes, chairing. Together we can be the change we so desperately need.

Tariff-free joy flows from Canada to the world—receive this heartfelt and positive export from the land of resilience and love. 🍁🧡 (and forward the positive vibes)

babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months

@jennbrophy.bsky.social Really enjoyed your NAPPN talk. I think you'll get to where you beat nature sooner than you think, but as you said, under specific environmental conditions. Can't wait to see where you take it.

Post a female character that you love

I am very very jealous that this family on Prince Edward Island (Canada) had a small meteor hit their sidewalk and managed to catch it on their door cam in what is likely the first audio and visual recording of a meteor strike! youtu.be/F_1xInfNMok?...

This should be blown up to poster size and pasted on Brexiter walls.

My tomato developmental series is complete 🍅💚🧡❤️ 🧶 click on image to see the whole thing! #knitting #plantscience #tomato