BBSRC Early Independence Fellowships had an Outline stage this year to try help with amount of peer review. Turns out they received 586 applications, a 110% increase on 2025, and only typically fund 15 a year. They are cancelling this stage and going straight to full app with an institutional sift.

Why can't we explain enhancer action despite 2 decades of chromosome conformation technologies? 😬 Our new study spearheaded by Leonid Mirny's group points to a flaw in our assumptions, and to a solution from physical principles By @timothyfoldes.bsky.social 💻& @karissalhansen.bsky.social 🧪 🧵👇

The spotlighted work is by @ubechtold.bsky.social @raduzabet.bsky.social @robynemm.bsky.social & co Gene body methylation buffers noise in gene expression in plants in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

I wanted to share my new Spotlight in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social that highlights a terrific paper linking gene body methylation with noise in gene expression: Silencing the noise with gene body methylation doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Plant gene discovery just went single-cell 🧬🔬 New platform PIVOT uses virus delivery+cell-surface markers to screen gene libraries in individual N. benthamiana cells. One leaf=thousands of experiments. Already found new cytokinin regulators from Arabidopsis #plantsci www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ERGAReads | A reference-free pipeline for detecting shared transposable elements from pan-genomes to retrace their dynamics in a species link.springer.com/article/10.1... #pangenomes #TEs #TransposableElements #pipeline #genomes #GenomeBiology @univparissaclay.bsky.social

🆕 A new international network chaired by Dr Rachel Rusholme-Pilcher at the Earlham Institute is looking to overcome computational challenges of generating plant pangenome graphs, through a culture of openness and collaboration. Read more ⤵️ buff.ly/vNi07lz #PlantScience #Pangenomes #CropScience

Not all clones are created equal! Our paper quantifying somatic mutation in plant tissue culture is out now in @pnas.org : doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Check out this article for a quick summary, or keep reading: www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/news/davis-m...

Post 1/2 Our new preprint is out! 🧬 We’ve extended #Tiberius for accurate ab initio gene prediction across the eukaryotic tree, including Plants, Fungi, Insects, and Diatoms. doi.org/10.64898/202...

🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

Heartbroken to hear this news. Philippa was a wonderful and truly inspiring mentor. I really loved working with her.

🌱 We’re excited to launch the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural workshop (free!): “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 📍 Uni of Dundee (hybrid) We look forward to welcoming you! Feel free to repost to help us reach the community

Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman ▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie... ▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...

BLOG - There is never a right time — how institutional support makes academic careers possible For #IWD2026, Dr Pirita Paajanen, senior scientist, reflects on the support she has received to advance her career, whilst balancing family life www.jic.ac.uk/blog/there-i... @leadersplus.bsky.social

Happy to share our🆕invited #OpenAccess article "​From the #genome to super- #pangenome🧬: a new paradigm for accelerated #crop improvement🌾🌿🪴" is out in 𝙣𝙥𝙟 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 @natureportfolio.nature.com🤩🎉 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #PlantScience @tpg-sssa.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social

“At 14 research agencies Science examined in detail, departures outnumbered new hires last year by a ratio of 11 to one, resulting in a net loss of 4224 STEM Ph.D.s. “ www.science.org/content/arti...

📘 @springernature.com has published Deep Learning for Life Scientists by Filippo Biscarini & Nelson Nazzicari—the first volume of the new Decoding Evolution series. Based on Physalia-courses, it bridges theory and practice in AI, bioinformatics & genomics 🚀 🧵

We are pleased to announce the official release of PLAZA 5.1, our plant genomics platform, which comes with a major front-end redesign. This results in improved performance, enhanced visualization tools, and refined Toolboxes. Src: www.vandepoelelab.be/plaza/news#28

Are you excited about pangenomics? If so, join us in Edinburgh on 8-9th June to discuss the latest methods & insights from using these approaches across biodiversity! More details here: royalsociety.org/science-even... Organised together with @henrylnorth.bsky.social & @joanameier.bsky.social!

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Now on Bluesky: @darwin-online.bsky.social. Give 'em a follow! #HPS #histsci

Lovely new review on H3K27me3 dynamics and potential functions in #plantscience by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The hidden danger of Biorender (& the death of scientific illustration) A short thread 🧵

A really nice article in The Scientist about q.e.d! @qedscience.bsky.social - If you're not using it yet, now's the time! www.the-scientist.com/q-e-d-an-ai-...

Our latest paper has just been published in Cell! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.

I am looking for a PhD student to start in my lab at UCSB in Fall 2026, studying evolutionary biology. See attached flyer for more information. Please also share with potentially interested students. Thanks!

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

Chromatin organization is measured in single cells using droplet microfluidics go.nature.com/3NCqwO1 rdcu.be/eNah5

🚀 New preprint! We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1 #Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean

Our new publication on HOBIT, a software tool for polyploid gene expression analysis. Compared with our previous method HomeoRoq (2014), HOBIT enables direct and higher-quality analysis of complex allohexaploid species such as bread wheat.

Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! #PhD available in our group

Pre-phasing long reads improves structural variant genotyping. #LongReads #Sequencing #ReadsPhasing #StructuralVariants #Genotyping #Genomics #Bioinformatics academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

Lunch today halfway around the world in Hangzhou and met a new asst professor who was very thankful for this resource. Please help out folks like them and other early career scientists with examples of job apps. Submit yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...

Today we have published a new analysis of UK immigration costs, comparing the 2025 costs of skilled worker, researcher and student visas in the UK and 17 other leading science nations. This updates previous analysis from 2019, 2021 and 2024: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social

We extended the functionality of DMRcaller ( bioconductor.org/packages/DMR...) to incorporate ONT data directly from Dorado aligned bam files and maintain the information of the read the modification was detected on.

Apple is entering the protein folding arena. SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think arxiv.org/abs/2509.18480 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/apple/ml-sim...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Later TODAY at 15:00 CEST! Efficient evidence-based genome annotation with EviAnn 🧬 👉 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/efficie... #genomeannotation #genomes #seminar #research #EviAnn @ebpgenome.bsky.social

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I am editing a collection on "plant epigenetic regulation" for BMC Plant Biology. If you think that your paper might fit there please contact me or send it through the submission system to our collection: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

Postdoc opportunity with @tomasbruna.bsky.social here at @jgi.doe.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov: Develop, benchmark, and apply Plant Genomic Language Models (gLMs) 🌿🧬💻 jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/computa... #AI #PlantGenomics #gLMs #Postdoc

Happy to be able to finally share our NLR pangenome paper, out now in CHM. "Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution" www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... #plantscience #plantimmunity #pangenomes #science #nlr

Prompt-based bioinformatics: a new interface for multi-omics analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41... read free: rdcu.be/eAnf4 Vibeoinformatics... computational vibeology... 🧬🖥️🧪

Oxford Nanopore @nanoporetech.com CEO will leave the company in 2026 after 20 years in the role.

I am opening scientific illustration commissions! Below are some examples of my work. Please contact me via [email protected] if you are interested!

Decoding nature’s grammar with DNA language models. #Genomics #LLMs #AI @pnas.org 🧬 🖥️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...