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Brittany Sutherland Jan 6, 2023

@TheKaneLab Yes! I'm surveying on day one and my syllabus say subject to change in like three places. :) I'd like to make this relevant to the students.

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Brittany Sutherland Jan 6, 2023

@dr_norb I"m front-loading pollination syndromes and will briefly refer back to it with particular groups. Good call with the mycorrhizae!

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Brittany Sutherland Jan 6, 2023

@dr_norb I've got some aquatics, both angiosperm and fern. I've worked on Salvinia, so that's going in there, and I'm covering the ANA grade.

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Brittany Sutherland Jan 6, 2023

@dr_norb Yup, got all these!

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Brittany Sutherland Jan 5, 2023

@joncounts @Anna_Scharnagl
Thanks! I'm front-loading a lot of the ecological basics as they pertain to classification (I'm using Judd et al for the text). I definitely think trying in to what they see up here in northern Virginia will help!

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Brittany Sutherland Jan 5, 2023

@Anna_Scharnagl
Yeah, we're definitely going a mile wide and an inch deep here, but I don't want to sacrifice the evolution, systematics, and morphology portions.

My first pass of "Must-Have" in just the Angiosperms was 78 families. I think culling is going to be iterative. :D

Brittany Sutherland Jan 5, 2023

Hi, plant folks! I have a question:

I'm teaching a plant diversity course this spring. Because we don't have a Botany course here, I'm trying to split the difference and heavily cover botanical basics in the first half before I start surveying groups.

The nutshell is that I have about six weeks to cover the Angiosperms. I can cover everything terribly or a subset well.

Therefore: What are your MUST KNOW Angiosperm groups for U.S. based students, mostly Ecology majors? Please opine and boost!

Brittany Sutherland Jan 5, 2023

Graham Coop Jan 5, 2023

Personally I agree with Coyne and Dawkins complaints about the article critiquing the language of fitness and adaptation...oh wait...sorry I was reading a Lewontin article

Brittany Sutherland Jan 5, 2023

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Graham Coop Jan 5, 2023

It's very fair to wonder about how much of our field's language & the way we think has been shaped by the history of eugenics & ableism. Such conversations will be uncomfortable and that's good.

Brittany Sutherland Jan 4, 2023

Oh thank Dog, my course evaluations came back positive!

I was worried because the last couple of labs were trash fires.

Time to finish prepping for Plantapalooza this spring!