Plant gene regulation and quantitative traits, Previously: RPCV Jamaica 🇯🇲 NIGMS K99 Postdoc in Lippman Lab at CSHL 🍅 Plant Phys AFE 🌱 PhD in Dong Lab at Duke 🌼 she/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3mj6332bxy22hThis Wikipedia page about signs of AI writing has been making the rounds since Wiki has banned AI generated content, and while reading it I was struck by how my (fully human) scientific writing is now rife with words and phrases favored by AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing10 Apr 2026 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6332bxy22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3mg3evcaefc2cA nice surprise for an otherwise troubling Monday morning, a volunteer profile describing my Peace Corps Jamaica service was in my inbox! Seeing the pictures of my students and plants in Jamaica made me smile. https://www.peacecorps.gov/what-we-do/life-in-the-peace-corps/volunteer-profiles/sophia-z/02 Mar 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3evcaefc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3meytesd4w22yTime to buy a lottery ticket because I got today's Metaflora in a single guess! flora.metazooa.com?utm_source=m... https://flora.metazooa.com/?utm_source=metazooa&utm_medium=referral16 Feb 2026 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3meytesd4w22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3malfjlpol22kWhat a neat and informative figure! Looking forward to reading this review. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Dec 2025 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3malfjlpol22khttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3m7atmhc4c22kNew paper from friends pushing forward CRISPR improvement of an underutilized crop that I personally think is delicious, goldenberry! https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.70140 #plantscienceresearch05 Dec 2025 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7atmhc4c22khttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3lpwvxjfx4c2vAn enjoyable read, with clear simple experiments that show tomato conservation of a core developmental mechanism previously demonstrated in Arabidopsis. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 May 2025 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpwvxjfx4c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3ljnxd7gzyk2iThis paper is a tour de force from many friends and collaborators across Solanum expertise! Check it out to learn about the behavior of paralogs in genomes plus the Solanum genus and it's incredible potential for new crops! #plantscienceresearch [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Mar 2025 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljnxd7gzyk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3lizq6jf4yc2dThrilled to share our latest preprint, an interdisciplinary look at epistasis between variants in the coding and noncoding genome! #plantscienceresearch https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.23.639722v125 Feb 2025 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lizq6jf4yc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3lijxejsxv22iNice work on evolution of genetic interaction between cis-reg elements in floral development! This study really hammered home for me the vast aesthetic difference between having one fewer petal (hideous) and one extra petal (charming) in brassicas. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421990122 #plantscienceresearch19 Feb 2025 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lijxejsxv22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiazebell.bsky.social/post/3letql3ukvc2pStrong genetics and such a cool example of the consequences of altered TF-DNA binding in domestication! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jan 2025 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:syrmvniewcyeo5kds76up65v/app.bsky.feed.post/3letql3ukvc2p