How to choose a "good tester" in testcrosses? 🎯🌾 ✓ Accuracy jumps most from 1 to 2 testers, though "noise" depends on dominance and pool structure. Next: Pareto framework to pick testers balancing GCA and complementarity! 🚀 Thanks to Daniel Tolhurst, @gregorgorjanc.bsky.social , Sven Weber and BASF!

Dr. Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977. #WorldNGODay An environmental #conservation org using tree planting (51 million so far!) as an entry point to address issues like poverty, climate change & community empowerment, particularly for women/rural groups. #WomenInSTEM #ecosky

Help us map science history for #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience. We've launched a new interactive map of landmarks across the UK connected to women from science history, and we want your suggestions. Explore the map and submit your landmark now: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Dear funding agencies, I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development. Sincerely, Looking for basic research grants.

Jane opened up my eyes to a lot as a kid - she was a female scientist and she was known for devoting her life to it. not to her family or children, but to her passion. i remember thinking that was so cool and it was probably the first time I realized women can be known in that way.