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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Rogue tomato plant growing on the side the road.

A tomato plant growing on the side the road. Yellow flowers can be seen.

Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Why are my tomato starts spindly? Peppers and dahlias are growing in the same conditions and look fine. The tomato leaves are not lush, and the lower ones curl and fall off :(

Tomatoes, dahlias, and peppers growing in seed starting trays.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Just landed in Las Vegas for Google Next, hit me up if you’re here!

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Loss of the de minimis is going to really hit small scale tea imports hard :(:( at least we can bring all those USA tea farmer jobs back to America 🙄

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Studying up for the next few years.

A hand holding a red book titled Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962 by Yang Jisheng

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

First dahlia seedlings from my future breeding program! These are open pollinated from last year, but I’ll do some intentional crosses this year.

Small seedling leaves emerging from soil blocks in seedling tray.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Pretty wild how completely defenseless the entire academic system is to a fascist government.

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Solanum galapagense (Galápagos tomato/“tomatillo”) Isla Santiago, Galápagos

a cheery green plant grows out of volcanic rock. rock formations and moody clouds glower in the distance.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

My raku piece from the firing yesterday.

A ceramic sun sculpture glowing from the 1000º heat of the kiln. Flames are rising above it.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Finally have my own network so I can set up my Pi-hole again. The web is polluted, essential to fight back, especially when everybody wants a piece of our data to help take away our fundamental rights. Already blocking 18% of all queries 😇 pi-hole.net

A close up of a Raspberry Pi Zero W computer board.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The NSF changed my life. Even if you’re an idiot who doesn’t value basic research, for me the path from academia to industry wouldn’t have been possible without their help.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I'm so disappointed my PRFB didn't make the woke Marxist list, everything in academia is so competitive these days 😢 not even an honorable mention 😔

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

What’s going on at the NSF?????

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I get that the evil plan to destroy academia is to force more scientists into private industry to maximize profits, but industry needs academia too! So many startups are based on fundamental academic research and a foundation of open source research is good for everybody. Amazingly shortsighted.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

As if being a postdoc isn't hard enough, truly feeling for the PRFB fellows and anybody else relying on gov research money right now. Also wild how most people have no idea what's going on. Tell your friends!

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana)! Somewhere around 3,000 left in the wild :( They're so beautiful, maybe because of the coastal hills and cliffs where they grow.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Starting a little tea growing project! If anybody has leads on tea breeding programs for the Pacific Northwest I'd be happy to hear about them! This is Camellia sinensis var. sinensis from a local nursery.

A tea plant, Camellia sinensis var sinensis. Several leaves are visible and a small white flower.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Nick is always doing cool stuff 🤯

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I love seeing my biologist friends on random obscure bioinformatics tool help forums 👋🏻

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Saving dahlia seeds for the first time! I've never done this before so I'm excited to see what I'll get. I collected dry flowers from 12 varieties. I wasn't around to do manual crosses so they're all open pollinated. Anybody know how often dahlias outcross vs self? Next year I'll do some crosses!

Two dried dahlia flowers split apart with seeds and chaff visible.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Here's a great idea for the NSF: let's say somebody has a PRFB fellowship, but they get a job and leave early. They should be able to use the remaining funds to pay themselves an hourly rate to finish any outstanding papers. Good for science, good for the fellow, and the money is already there 🌞🌈✨

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The dahlia dig begins! This is variety Citron du cap, which yielded 17 tubers 😮

A large mass of dahlia tubers being held in the air by a rain-jacketed arm.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Great news, my Nepenthes 'Miranda' is flowering for the first time! Less great: it smells like bad meat and I'm having a dinner party tomorrow :/

An inflorescence from Nepenthes 'Miranda' pitcher plant. Other houseplants are in the background and grow lights are visible.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Very excited about my new peony spreadsheet! I only have 8 so far but if they do well I will expand :):) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

docs.google.com

Peonies

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Great university, wonderful place to live.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Nice to work for a company where I can combine visits to HQ with seaside fossilized whale bone viewing.

Fossilized whale bones embedded in marine sedimentary rocks of the Pliocene Purisima Formation, 3-5 million years old.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Exciting section of the plant shelf.

Zoomed in image of houseplants sitting on a shelf. On the left is a Nepenthes ‘Miranda’ bloom with unopened flowers. On the right is a fleshy starfish looking flower of Stapelia gigantea. In the background is a flower of a Fenestraria succulent with thin yellow petals.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

I've been growing Dahlia imperialis (tree dahlia) for a few years now. I think this is the tallest growth yet, 13 feet! Short days trigger flowering, so it has never flowered before the killing frost here in Washington. A mild fall has it so close this year, we'll see!

A very tall dahlia next to normal sized dahlias, all growing in a planter box. Chairs are near the dahlia for scale.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Fantasy Orchids, Louisville CO.

An orchid greenhouse. Many orchids on benches and hanging from the ceiling, some in flower.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

This job looks awesome if you’re headed to academia! I love the TGRC.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Tiny comet, from a parking garage in downtown Durham.

The night sky. Some stars are visible, as well as a comet, which looks like a smudge in the middle of the image.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Posted up at the UGA McBay science library, office hours are open ;)

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

It’s my first climate-disaster-related evacuation so I’ll be in Athens GA for the next few days, in case anybody wants to hang!

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

What should I do with a lot of habaneros?

Lots of habanero peppers growing on a plant.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Does anybody in my network live in Zürich? Looking for a place to crash for a couple nights in August bookending a little hike I'm planning :)

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Orchids! The forest is full of beauty here. Cypripedium acaule.

A group of orchids growing on the forest floor. Cypripedium acaule.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

I think this is Galearis spectabilis.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

It seems like the leaves are more jazzy in the Eastern US forests compared to the West, why is this?

Two leaves on the forest floor with patterns of lighter and darker tones. On the left, wild ginger, on the right, trout lily.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Shortia galacifolia at the Asheville Botanical Garden. Hopefully I’ll see it in the wild at some point!

A small flower nestled in leaves. Shortia galacifolia.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

Hi friends, happy to announce that I've started a job as Computational Biologist at Ohalo Genetics! I'm so excited about my new projects and also so grateful to all my mentors/collaborators in academia, don't worry I'm not completely disappearing! I'll be working from Asheville, NC so come say hi!

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

I had a wild morning in Nebraska today. I had no idea it was Sandhill Crane season, but I happened to be driving along the Platte River right before sunrise and saw one of the most amazing bird sightings of my entire life, many thousands of cranes filling the sky 🥲 Nebraska is pretty cool.

Thousands of Sandhill Cranes flying above the freeway before sunrise.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

A case study for how not to run a university. Robbin’s leadership over the last 4 years that I’ve been at UA has been so embarrassingly bad, it amazes me that he still has a job. Chop from the top, starting with him. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/u...

nytimes.com

As U. of Arizona Confronts Budget Cuts, Workers and Students Brace for the Worst

The public university, the largest employer in the Tucson area, says it’s facing a $177 million shortfall. Critics worry that lower-tier workers and Arizona students will be hit hardest by efforts to ...

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Anybody have recommendations for plant books of the Appalachian Mountains? Specifically for around Asheville.

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Imagining that this wasn't a typo, and there's a cruise ship out there with more plant species than the New York Botanical Garden.

Screen shot of New York Times article about cruise ship with the text: "Space. The ship has the feel of a city, with eight distinct 'neighborhoods.' My favorite, Central Park, was filled with 20,000 plant species; it was the perfect place to stroll or read on a bench. The Royal Promenade, with karaoke and a piano bar, could get crowded and noisy at peak times."

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Cedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Fantastic lettuce in Yuma, what a place! (For lettuce)

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