Rose A. Marks Oct 161 min readScience and diplomacy I recently had the opportunity to talk about desiccation tolerance, and the resurrection plants that embody it, at the 2024 GESDA science...
Rose A. Marks Jan 10, 20211 min readWhere I work This short article about my first field season in South Africa (written by friend and colleague Abdullahi Tsanni) came out in the last...
Rose A. Marks Apr 6, 20205 min readComplicated South Africa is so beautiful, so painful, so complicated. The complexity of the nation stopped me from writing about my experiences and...
Rose A. Marks Nov 1, 20194 min readColonialism Colonialism in science (and colonialism more broadly) has been on my mind recently. As an American scientist conducting research on a...
Rose A. Marks Jul 23, 20191 min readImpatience One thing about resurrection plants (maybe stress tolerant organisms in general) is that they grow slowly. It's not a bad strategy for...
Rose A. Marks Jul 18, 20191 min readAcclimationI just started a new job at Michigan State University. I am both grateful for and totally intimidated by the cumulative knowledge...