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Believe it or not, we had a chatBot write our title this week. Oh the wonders of science. Speaking of science: plants. Plant science. Sciency plants. planty planty planty science. Now!

• You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local – Our World in Data 
• Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems – Jha – 2023 – Ecology Letters – Wiley Online Library
• We read The Garden Jungle by Dave Goulson in the Plant Book Club
• Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s
• Our Story on wasps and figs: There might have been a wasp in your fig – but don’t throw it away!
• Figs and Mulberries, inside and out | The Botanist in the Kitchen
• Korea’s Demilitarized Zone — Google Arts & Culture 
• Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics 
• Origins of Coca: Museum Genomics Reveals Multiple Independent Domestications from Progenitor Erythroxylum gracilipes | Systematic Biology | Oxford Academic
• Paper about gget by Laura Lübbert
• Using genome structure, rather than gene trees, to infer relationships in ancient allopolyploid lineages | Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community
• Genome structure-based Juglandaceae phylogenies contradict alignment-based phylogenies and substitution rates vary with DNA repair genes | Nature Communications
• Licorice is not only delicious it also acts as a pesticide
• Nagai Nagayoshi – Wikipedia
• CatGPT 

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