After a week off, we’re back with some cool facts from the world of plants and gulls. Did you know that gulls know your every move? There are probably some on the roof as we speak. They see you when you’re sleeping, they know when you’re awake. You better not pout, you better not cry. Sea gulls are coming to town. 

Links

• Spanish moss is not a moss.
  • Story about the evil man
  •  Usnea
• Thekla Resvoll, her photo in pants
• Uncertainty enhances the preference for narcissistic leaders
  • Uncertainty enhances the preference for narcissistic leaders BARBORA NEVICKA*, ANNEBEL H. B. DE HOOGH, ANNELIES E. M. VAN VIANEN AND FEMKE S. TEN VELDEN University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• The controversy of the Nature Comms article on mentoring, summarised
  • How to avoid gender bias in your recommendation letter
  • Men in Global Health, Time To ‘Lean Out’
  • Sponsorship vs Mentorship

• COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool
• Growing plants on mars is not as easy as in the Martian
• The temperatures they are a-changing paper 
• Gulls track us
• There is no such thing as a sea gull
• The paper about ecology and evolution and their political statements in the funding section 
• YIMBY
• Giant Virus genomes found in algae
• Pandora Virus
• Black in Science Communication
• Atomic Kitten (by Randall Munroe)

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