Dear Plantlovers, today, I would like to introduce you to a little growing experiment I am running this year (aside from the community plantbreeding@home-project): The Milpa! "Milpa" is the name

Dear Steemians, today, I will post under a tag I have never posted before: Gaming! Although I have far too little time to dive into virtual worlds, without them, I could not bear the real one! Games inspire

Dear Plantbreeders, I have good news! While EU-residents have received their seeds a while ago, Non-EU residents have not, yet. I immersed myself in the customs and import regulations of the different

Dear Plantbreeders, just as in the famous Sinatra song, spring is finally here and we can start to grow. I have distributed the first batch of seeds to all participants living in the EU. There are some

Dear Gridcoiners, Steemians and Solarcoiners, great news: ComputerBase, a well known German tech- and computerwebsite, published a very positive article about Gridcoin, Steem and Solarcoin.This is great

Dear Plantbreeders, March is already here- high time to get the breeding going! Due to the setbacks with my plants I unfortunetly could not perform the first crossing yet. But this should not be in the

Dear Steemians,   today I would like to pose a question to you, as this is the reason my blog got quiet over the last months:   How does the copyright of research articles affect posting

Dear Steemians, here is a short update concerning this post I wrote three months ago. A short recollection: Germany wants to negotiate deals with three major scientific publishers to abolish paywalls,

Dear Steemians,  hello again! I am deeply sorry for being unavailable forquite some time now, but my PhD left me without choice. Those past months were hell and left me without energy to write or

One of the worst things about the economy around science is actually publishing ones work. Why, you ask? Well, let me explain: A better time of scientific publishing... Most universities and many research

Dear plantbreeders, good news indeed - I think I found the parents for our little hybrid and eventual variety! As you know from the last post, it was decided to breed a sweet and small variety.  If

Dear plantbreeders,   we have our results: We will breed a small and sweet pepper! I will now search for suitable parents and order them. How exciting!

Liebe deutsche Steemit-Community, da ich nicht weiß wieviele von euch von den englischen Inhalten auf Steemit erreicht werden, habe ich diesen Beitrag für euch neu verfasst. Ich habe ein Projekt gestartet,

Dear Steemians, great news, we already have around 35 people signed up! Yay! There is still some space though, as I said about 50-100 participants would be optimal. If you know someone interested feel

Fellow Steemians, as I wanted to upload a profilepicture I noticed that I only got a white circle instead of my picture when I copied the link from Imgur. A quick google search showed that many had this

Dear Steemians, welcome to the official first post of the plantbreeding@home project! As I announced, this is a project to enable everyone willing to participate in the creation of a new plant variety,

Fellow Steemians,   it is time to introduce myself: I am a young plant scientist, currently doing a PhD in biochemistry. As my profile says, I am truly a plant freak as I love everything about them.

Hello fellow Gridcoiners and Steemians,   as a convinced Gridcoiner, I keenly follow the development of Gridcoin, the progress that is made by the developers, the kindhearted and open community who

Hello fellow Steemians,  here my contribution to the colorchallenge Thursday: Green ! What you can see on this picture are magnified cells of a plant leaf (Arabidopsis thaliana, in this case)