CRAZY INTELLIGENT QUEER BROWN GIRL

My name is Jonilee Polanco, these are my honest thoughts. Writing a book about my experiences as a hispanic queer woman in the sciences.

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#6: Undah the Sea: Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Phylogenetics of Phytoplankton!

#6: Undah the Sea: Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Phylogenetics of Phytoplankton!

Phytoplankton pangenome reveals extensive prokaryotic horizontal gene transfer of diverse functions.

Xiao Fan (1,2,3,4,5)*, Huan Qiu(6)*, Wentao Han (1), Yitao Wang (1), Dong Xu (1), Xiaowen Zhang (1), Debashish Bhattacharya (7)+, Naihao Ye (1,2)+

1.Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, China. 2.Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries…

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# 4 : 'You're basically a houseplant with more complex emotions': Plants might have a heart-beat, feel, talk, and D. gyrans can "dance!"

# 4 : ‘You’re basically a houseplant with more complex emotions’: Plants might have a heart-beat, feel, talk, and D. gyrans can “dance!”

Plant neurobiology: from sensory biology, via plant communication, to social plant behavior

František Baluška (1), Stefano Mancuso (2)

1. IZMB, University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 53115 Bonn, Germany, email: [email protected] 2. LINV, University of Florence, Viale delle idee 30, 50019 Sesto f. no (FI), Italy

TLDR: Sorry for not posting in a minute, I fell down a research rabbit-hole.…

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#5: Updates on the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, and the Habitability of Large Elliptical Galaxies.

#5: Updates on the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, and the Habitability of Large Elliptical Galaxies.

The habitability of large elliptical galaxies

Daniel P. Whitmire (1)

1.Department of Mathematics, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.

Gif zooming outward from the milky way.

It’s something we talk about often in the sciences, indeed a debate that’s been raging on alongside how life began, what the purpose of life is, and…

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(MÄMRË)

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Sunset Sugar Rhythm

I got by MÄMRË, I have a Youtube, a Wordpress, and my instagram handle is Uber_lee. I'm a Biochemist and Molecular Biologist by training and education!

A song I just made on Garageband!

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Diversity in STEM and Scientific Communication are Important. Hello! My name is Jonilee Polanco, an aspiring PhD in Ethnobotany. This blog is an aggregation of various scientific research articles and my attempts to break them down for the general public as well as analyze them critically! I have a background in molecular biology and chemistry…

My new blog dedicated to science communication! 

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#3 Are Plants Intelligent?

#3 Are Plants Intelligent?

The Philosophy of Plant Neurobiology: A Manifesto

Paco Calvo (1)

1.Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab), Department of Philosophy, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

TLDR: The investigation of plant intelligence is a matter of interest emerging in many different fields. One of the objectives of the article analyzed here is to make explicit the assumptions incorporated into the current…

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Research Article Analysis # 2

Research Article Analysis # 2

5Gs for Crop Genetic Improvement

Rajeev K. Varshney (1), Pallavi Sinha (1), Vikas K Singh (2), Arvind Kumar (3), Qifa Zhang (4), and Jeffrey L Bennetzen (5).

1. Center of Excellence in Genomics & Systems Biology, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, 502324, India 2.International Rice Research Institute, South Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Hyderabad,…

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[tlirsgender]

Hozier is just like "I'm a corpse in the woods I have a complicated relationship with religion and I'm tastefully horny" and we all collectively went "same"

[dualvoidanima]

‘walk-inside’

[nature-travel-photography]

Had this beautiful place to myself for a few hours on this peaceful morning - Grand Teton National Park - [OC] [5432x3621] - IG: @travlonghorns - travlonghorns - EarthPorn

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https://youtu.be/kSr1ktLSu1U

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson

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NEW YOUTUBE CONTENT: SOON TO COME, SPOOKY SISTERS

New content out on youtube! 

[the-heat-that-drives-the-light]

What was the best [nickname]?

(You’d think in the year 2020 they’d found out how to pronounce his name.)

[dogalmighty]

the only difference between me and a medieval peasant is that I can make a Spotify playlist to express my feelings

[phoenixkaptain]

When Coronavirus isn't enough, so Utah's like, "Hmmm, earthquake time."

[uncle-beanbag]

It was fun

[wombat-annihilator-deactivated2]

definitely a first for me.

[forest91]

I always wanted to know the feeling of one, been through hurricanes and tornadoes now I just wanna be in an earthquake....

[wombat-annihilator-deactivated2]

i always said the same thing, til this morning. definitely checked that box off. wasn't as bad as I thought, but I also woke up to it. if i'd already been awake, or if I'd been closer to the epicenter, I might feel differently.