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Brittany Sutherland

@SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

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Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Evo/Eco, Mating Systems, Plant Invasions, Bioinformatics.
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Have polyploids will travel. 🌿🏳️‍🌈🌵

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Joined November 04, 2022

Brittany Sutherland @SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

· 45mo ago

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 @SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

· 45mo ago

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!

Brittany Sutherland @SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

· 45mo ago

Replying to

@joncounts@mastodon.nz @Anna_Scharnagl@mstdn.social 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!

Brittany Sutherland @SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

· 45mo ago

Replying to

@dr_norb@fediscience.org Yup, got all these!

Brittany Sutherland @SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

· 45mo ago

Replying to

@dr_norb@fediscience.org 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.

Brittany Sutherland @SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

· 45mo ago

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

Brittany Sutherland @SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

· 45mo ago

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@TheKaneLab@qoto.org 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.

Brittany Sutherland @SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

· 45mo ago

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@Anna_Scharnagl@mstdn.social 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 @SutherlandBL@ecoevo.social

· 46mo ago

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@cromanpa That’s wonderful! Congratulations!!