@DrVickyHowe

Postdoc biochemist now studying receptors in 🌱. Nature lover, 🚲 enthusiast, mum and tentative science blogger ⬇️ 🇦🇺 in 🇩🇪

 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Joined November 2018
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At a recent conference I decided to do something a bit different for my poster - and it paid off. I finally realised, a poster should be about starting conversations, not just showing results. This got me thinking #blog #SciComm @Better_Posters leafingthroughbiology.wordpr…

Thinking outside the (poster) box

Science posters should be conversation-starters, not journal articles printed on A0 paper. It’s time to get more creative with our poster making.

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IN BRIEF: Shedding light on photomorphogenesis (Vicky Howe) buff.ly/3zVcCTQ @DrVickyHowe @ASPB #PlantSci
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"Don't stir using the pH probe" must be one of the most ignored lab instructions ever. If you've done it then own up and raise your hand .........🙋
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Applications for the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor program (volunteer positions) are being accepted between now and October 15, 2024. Who should apply? Late-stage PhD students & postdocs who want to expand their horizons and skillsets. More ➡️ blog.aspb.org/plant-physiolo…
Plant Physiology Call for Assitant Features Editors. Deadlin for applications: October 15, 2024.

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IN BRIEF: From the archives: Targeting proteins to plasmodesmata, germination in the desert, and functional diversity of KNOX proteins (Vicky Howe) buff.ly/4aojWni @DrVickyHowe @ASPB #PlantSci
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IN BRIEF: The quest to find TLC: Tendril-less cucumbers, that is (Vicky Howe) buff.ly/4bqcKbs @DrVickyHowe @ASPB #PlantSci
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Did you know that side-shoots must be manually removed from commercial cucumber vines? This IN BRIEF @ThePlantCell summarises a study of genes controlling cucumber tendrils and branching and their potential to increase agricultural productivity academic.oup.com/plcell/arti… #PlantSci

The quest to find TLC: Tendril-less cucumbers, that is

If you have ever grown cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) at home, you will know just how unruly these plants can be. As the primary stem grows and produces leave

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For a summary of an interesting paper revealing one way plants can respond to unexpected cold snaps, see my latest IN BRIEF (clue: it involves temperature-sensitive changes in protein localisation 😉)
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IN BRIEF: Aw, snap! How reversible protein lipidation helps plants deal with sudden temperature dives (Vicky Howe) buff.ly/3vETSGw @DrVickyHowe @ASPB #PlantSci
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Who does this???
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I did not expect to see the November sun today @HHU_de. Happy Friday!
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It's normal to be excited by the appearance of a new tape dispenser in the lab, right? Look at all the *colours* 🌈🤩
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This is exactly what you don't want to see when you sequence the plasmid you former student cloned and proceeded to use in their thesis 🥲🥲🥲 A PSA to ALWAYS SEQUENCE PLASMIDS PEOPLE GIVE YOU (AKA don't trust anyone) #PostDocLife
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Super excited to be included in the line up of @ThePlantCell AFEs for 2024. Summarising entire articles into a 600 word highlight will be a good way to hone my #SciCom skills 😄 looking forward to the challenge and working with the team!
The Plant Cell@ThePlantCell16 Oct 2023
The Plant Cell welcomes 2024 Assistant Features Editors. Congratulations to all of our successful applicants. We look forward to working with this terrific group of early career researchers in 2024! buff.ly/3Qe4O5g @ASPB
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“The poster that starts the most conversations wins, not the poster that has the most information.” - The Better Posters book, page 26
Vicky Howe@DrVickyHowe28 Sep 2023
At a recent conference I decided to do something a bit different for my poster - and it paid off. I finally realised, a poster should be about starting conversations, not just showing results. This got me thinking #blog #SciComm @Better_Posters leafingthroughbiology.wordpr…

Thinking outside the (poster) box

Science posters should be conversation-starters, not journal articles printed on A0 paper. It’s time to get more creative with our poster making.

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Ebuka Nwosu@Phardiga10 Sep 2023
Saw this poster at the Plants and People conference at MPI in Golm last Wednesday and really loved it. It’s how I imagine effective communication between scientists and the general public. Great work @DrVickyHowe 👏🏼
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You might think of #SciCom as a formal, deliberate act. Actually, it can be as "simple" as explaining what you do to your friends/family/kids. In this #blog I talk about the challenges of explaining science to non-scientists @Momademia @PhDVoice #postdoc leafingthroughbiology.wordpr…

Yes, but what do you actually do?

Some people think of science communication as a formal, deliberate act. But in fact, science communication starts with your friends and family.

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I found this strange (to my Australian eyes) spidey on my balcony, then a few days later the same type of spider hiding in an apple orchard. What is it? And why are its legs alternating lengths?
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Have you ever seen such a bedraggled bumblebee? 🥹 @hhu_de #InsectThursday #petsofhhu #bees
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I may have sustained a small ice burn in the process (😬) but look how frost-free our -80 is now 😁 that's my achievement for the day #postdoclife
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Oh... You don't store your cut flowers in scientific glassware? #lablife
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