This week’s @TheSainsburyLab @JohnInnesCentre Friday Seminar is Prof. Jitendra K. Thakur @jitendraIC82513, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology New Delhi @ICGEB @ICGEBNewDelhi “The Great Mediator: Balancing Growth and Stress in Plant Roots”

Never outdated: 12 timeless tips for effective leadership. blog.venturemagazine.net/12-tips-for-...

GetGenome Newsletter -- February 2026 ✔️#GGFungi2026 now open for applications! ✔️ECR Symposium: Open for abstract submission and virtual attendance ✔️Stay up to date by joining the mailing list today getgenome.net/network

Check out this great opportunity to join the @kamounlab.bsky.social! Apply online by 16 March 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

Delicious irony: a publishing giant making billions supposedly to filter out dodgy papers highlighting how unpaid volunteers outperform them at it. 🤷‍♂️🤡 #NatureRipoffs #ScienceCrisis @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#TunFood 🇹🇳

‪#TunFood‬ ‪#MedFood‬ ‪#Ramadhan‬ صحة شريبتكم 🇹🇳

The Microbial Genomics ECR Symposium will return again this summer! Co-organised by @norwichmicro.bsky.social and @getgenome.bsky.social the symposium will take place on 15th July 2026 at the John Innes Conference Centre. Please register here: web.novogene.com/2026TheMicro...

Dyrosaurus—giant crocodiles that roamed North Africa ~50 million years ago 🇹🇳 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 Sadly, we have to go to Paris to see them… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyrosau...

The cost of 1 kg of Solanaceae in Tunisia 🍅🥔🌶️ 1 TND (1,000 millimes) ≈ €0.30

“I have a ridiculous idea that I can change the world. I still think it’s possible.” — Bono

Google.org $30M global open call and Accelerator program focused on "Nobel-worthy" breakthroughs in Health & Life Sciences and Climate Resilience 👇🏾https://www.google.org/impact-challenges/ai-science/

Join us on March 10, 2026 at Kyoto University 🇯🇵 for a day celebrating my long-time friend and collaborator Prof. Ryohei Terauchi. "Kyoto Mini-Symposium on Plant–Microbe Interactions"

It’s that time of year! #SchoBozKa in Downing College, Cambridge 🇬🇧 Running strong since 2017–Annual lab meeting of the teams of Sebastian Schornack, Lida Derevnina, Phil Carella, Jiorgos Kourelis and Sophien Kamoun. This year’s guest is Steven Spoel, University of Edinburgh

#HeardToday You people use Gateway cloning

We are incredibly excited by TSL spinout @ResurrectBio's successful initial closing of its Series A funding round at ⭐️ $8.1M ⭐️ Resurrect Bio is revolutionizing agriculture by equipping crops with genetic defenses against disease 🌱🛡️ www.tsl.ac.uk/news/tsl-spi...

50 cents would get you get 2.5 AlphaFold 3 PPI models

#Schobozka 2026 pre-event dinner with this year’s distinguished guest Steven Spoel @SpoelLab @EdinburghUni

#Schobozka 2026 kicking off in Downing College, Cambridge 🕸️

Following the successful completion of the Series A funding round, our plant disease resistance start-up Resurrect Bio @resurrectbio.bsky.social is hiring for its London lab: (1/2) AI Research Scientist | Protein-Protein Interactions jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/resurrect/ai...

Easy, guys.. I put my pants on just like the rest of you -- one leg at a time. 😝

A meme is born: “FHG thinks we have a chance” #AcademicChatter #PhdChat www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A great start to 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

Bluesky ain’t global. I don’t see trends like “first in my bloodline” here — This place feels like an Euro-American bubble. x.com/search?q=%22...

I just published: Adeline Harant: Keeping an open mind is key for a fulfilling career in science A much-deserved tribute to the amazing Adeline Harant and her leadership at the bench and beyond. She also brings a dose of sanity to the @KamounLab madhouse. kamounlab.medium.com/adeline-hara...

Exciting postdoc position @KCGEB1 on an ambitious project on red palm weevil - Wolbachia research. Consider applying: Insect / beetle reserach is the next frontier! 🌴🪲🦠🧫 jobs.uaeu.ac.ae/Postings/Pos...

We’re hiring! Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant @KamounLab “Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors” www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

Vorholt Lab re-created endosymbiosis in the lab: injected bacteria into a fungus and evolved a heritable partnership. Evolution, fast-forwarded. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It’s the David Hopwood Lecture Friday Seminar @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab with Prof. Julia Vorholt " Establishing causality: Opportunities of synthetic communities for plant microbiome research"

As part of our partnership with Khalifa Center @KCGEB1 in Al Ain, UAE, we animated this workshop on February 10th, 2026 -- @TheSainsburyLab Follow link for outline and slides kamounlab.tumblr.com/post/8083443...

Secondary Metabolites of Leaves of Indigenous and Introduced Grapes Collected from Hebron and Bethlehem Regions in the West Bank-Palestine 🇵🇸 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Wonderful to catch-up with Khaoula, Angela, Seb and Tolga—key members of the @KamounLab Golden Generation ⭐️🔥 #CelebratingAlumni #LFcats @TheSainsburyLab

Europe to be “be “swept aside” by technology from America and imports from China.” For sure… apple.news/ArAqm9hIdTV2...

Presented today with @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @KCGEB1 Open Science, Global Impact: Elevating Your Institute and Career How can open science amplify both institutional reputation and individual careers? doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

This question about oomycete macroevolution popped up—here are my two cents. 👇🏼

Benthamiana rhapsody 🎶 🌱 How benthi is the go-to system for cracking the activation mechanism of an Arabidopsis TIR-NLR immune receptor— that’s the rhapsody. Congrats He Zhao and Selvaraj for this wonderful collaboration 👇🏼 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Last November I wrote to the BBSRC, with someone at the University of Nottingham, asking about their investment in plant health research…

Only Five: The Events Where One Nation Owns Three of History’s Top-Five Performers 🏊 🇺🇸 🇹🇳 www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/only-fi...

Don’t walk and tweet… When you get a paper to review that wasn’t preprinted… 👇🏼

“Lastly, note that this paper wasn't preprinted, so it hasn't undergone broader scrutiny by the scientific community. This lack of public peer review should be considered when evaluating the robustness of the findings and conclusions and is not appropriate for a high-quality journal.” 2/2

When you get a part to review tha wasn’t preprinted. Add this to your review: #ASAPbio 1/2

Rereading these two papers: Holes in the hologenome: why host-microbe symbioses are not holobionts. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... And I still find myself in general agreement with most of the points in them

Funny how many academics “left X” on ethical grounds, yet remain perfectly comfortable taking Bill Gates cash.

Crinkler proteins—first discovered in Phytophthora—can be fused to ADP-ribosyltransferases, acting as epigenetic parasitic elements in free-living eukaryotes. #AACRNL #Evolution doi.org/10.1038/s414...

In 2025, departures of govt scientists outnumbered new hires by a ratio of 11 to 1. This reduction in STEM PhDs translates to 106k yrs of federal work experience across 10,000 employees. These talents will take their expertise elsewhere. Experience is indispensable. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Some notes on what the new Dutch govt agreement says about peace and conflict www.kabinetsformatie2025.nl/documenten/2... Items most interesting to me personally: * pro European nuclear deterrent * establishing a Dutch DARPA with up to 10% of def budget

Our @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Friday seminar speaker today is @LifeAtPurdue Sharon Kessler —Processing extracellular information: MLO signaling in plant reproduction and development

Predatory vibes from @pensoft.net — click a link to decline a review and you’re forced to create an account—purely to pump user metrics. Declining a review should not require registration. Commercially driven #predatorypublishing plain and simple. #sciencecrisis

Andy explaining how according to the textbook Pikobodies can detect ants 🐜 🌱 😱

8/12 We identified: 🟤 324 root-specific NLRs 🟢 171 leaf-specific NLRs 🔵 841 non-specific NLRs Average tissue specificity: 32% per species. Larger NLRomes showed increased tissue specificity and transcriptional silencing 🔬