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• The paradox of toxic nectar and pollen in death camas | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
• Don’t Eat the Death Camas…or ‘Death’ Anything | Nature’s Poisons
• Zygacine – Wikipedia
• Co-dependency between a specialist Andrena bee and its death camas host, Toxicoscordion paniculatum | SpringerLink
• Neurotoxic alkaloid in pollen and nectar excludes generalist bees from foraging at death-camas, Toxicoscordion paniculatum (Melanthiaceae) | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | Oxford Academic 
• Using animation to mediate scientific discourse | Nature Microbiology 
• Janet Iwasa – Wikipedia 
• Molecular Animation: Where Cinema and Biology Meet – The New York Times 
• SARS-CoV-2 Visualization and Annotation Project — The Animation Lab 
• PCA Art Exhibit
• Recognizing pioneering Black plant scientists in our schools and society: Trends in Plant Science
• #blackinbotany – Twitter Search / Twitter
• Black History Month 2022: What is it and why is it celebrated? | Arts and Culture News | Al Jazeera
• MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) / Twitter 
• Keynote Talk: Margaret Mitchell, PhD – Bias in the Vision and Language of Artificial Intelligence
• Climate change is causing UK plants to flower a month early – BBC Science Focus Magazine
• Huge genetic database includes over 9000 species of flowering plants 
• Scientists pass the halfway mark in completing the plant tree of life | Kew
• Kew Tree of Life 
• How to read a phylogenetic tree – Artic Network 
• Tobacco publishing ban for researchers at industry-owned firms
• DNA-free CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing of wild tetraploid tomato Solanum peruvianum using protoplast regeneration | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic
• Bamboo plant causes devastating £100,000 damage to horrified neighbour’s home – Mirror Online
• Fake poop helps evicted owls settle into new neighborhood | AP News

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