This week, we’re talking about the worst favourite plant ever, keystone genes and how surfers can be scientists. Also: your dog’s breed doesn’t mean what you think it means. 

• It could be witchweed, some evil witchweed
•  Parasitic plant study by Professor Shelley Lumba reveals unexpected pathway to germination of witchweed seeds – Department of Cell & Systems Biology
• Research aims to alleviate global hunger by deciphering the molecular ‘language’ of plants
• SMAX1-dependent seed germination bypasses GA signalling in Arabidopsis and Striga | Nature Plants
• Wanda Zabłocka
• The rise of citational justice: how scholars are making references fairer
• Cite Black Women. 
• Afro-Paradise (Christen A. Smith’s page) 
• We talked about this before here
• Racial and ethnic imbalance in neuroscience reference lists and intersections with gender | bioRxiv 
• Putting new colours on science: Laurier biology prof’s posters have been turned into a downloadable colouring book | TheRecord.com
• In ‘Plant Armor’ crop cover, insects have to navigate textile maze — ScienceDaily
• Novel 3-D Spacer Textiles to Protect Crops from Insect Infestation and That Enhance Plant Growth
• Surfer science supports seawater study
• On the Seasonal Dynamics of Phytoplankton Chlorophyll-a Concentration in Nearshore and Offshore Waters of Plymouth, in the English Channel: Enlisting the Help of a Surfer
• Fun acronym: Study on Pear flowers Detection Performance of YOLO-PEFL Model Trained with Synthetic Target Images 
• YOLOv4 – An explanation of how it works 
• The most boring person in the world works in data analytics, likes watching TV, and lives in a town, scientists say 
• A single gene controls species diversity in an ecosystem — ScienceDaily
• The article – A keystone gene underlies the persistence of an experimental food web 
• Dog behaviour has little to do with breed, study finds
• Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes

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