Ok I am unreasonably excited about this!

A research team from the @oconnorlab.bsky.social has made a breakthrough in elucidating the biosynthesis of plant natural products by combining scRNA-seq and scMS in the same plant cell. The study was published in @pnas.org. www.ice.mpg.de/516369/PR_Ka...

Very exciting to finally see our iridoid cyclase ICYC online @natplants.nature.com! A joined effort with Robin Buell’s lab with Josh Wood generating snRNA-seq, and my student Chloée Tymen performing the initial experiment. #natprod #PlantScience @mpi-ce.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.

Gotta love a wedding

Dumb-ass protein. 75% of the lysate went in the freezer as the column saturated.

Takes 2 seconds and at minimum requires the government to make an official response.

Been living here a couple of months now, and the new place is starting to be home.

Something weirdly liminal about waiting for a train in the UK countryside

When your equipment supplier gives you custom lego.

Finally online and open access! This revised version has a slightly different title and contains a number of additional supplementary figures, mainly in vitro enzyme assays. Kept me quite busy in the lab at the end of last year! #PlantScience #natprod www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm not crying you're crying.

yup, degree in physiology and PhD in developmental biology here - not once

It's not perfect but the new place is slowly getting there!

Vibes.

Hello Manchester, it's good to be back!

I'll always be slightly bemused by the duty free area of Berlin airport. Specifically the existence of a fish and chip shop directly above a Ralph Lauren

Ahhh DB, ever unreliable, even on my last day in Germany!

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Just finished up my last day at MPI. Thanks to the @oconnorlab.bsky.social for a great two and a half years of science! Next stop: Manchester

Welp this is 31 I guess.

Weird couple weeks ahead. Tomorrow I turn 31, and also start my last week working at Max Planck. The week after I make the move back to the UK and Manchester for a new chapter.

Don't make me tap the sign

We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable

*screams in apartment hunting*

Repost with a pic you’ve saved but haven’t found a use for

I feel like I'm starting to cultivate a bit of a captain haddock vibe...

Happy Weekend y'all

Tiger the MPI work cat sends you love and hopes you are having a Thursday as relaxed as he is!

Bird! Specifically a European Green Woodpecker (I believe, please correct me if I'm wrong)! I know they are common as chips but the plumage colouring is lovely.

This is gonna take a while and I'm sure won't lead to a problematically expensive hobby....but fuck it I'm a massive nerd!

Happy Holidays to all who celebrate! And for those which this time of year is a struggle my digital door is always open. Much love.

Happy Holidays all, featuring the fucking adorable cat ornaments my sister got me 😂

It's Crystal Time Baby! (Hopefully)

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Ok I'm genuinely proud of this western blot

When you forget your stock solution is 500x not 1000x and someone stupidly gave you access to a label maker.

When the polymerase you ordered comes in a straight up bottle.

Me in my teens: "oh I'm gonna be so grown up and sophisticated in my 30s!" Me at 30, listening to an audio essay on the 2015 phenomenon 'Left Shark' while cooking lasagna in my shorts: "I am a child and this is great"

A daily occurrence at this point

I'm honestly more impressed with the courier than anything else. This is a good 2m off the ground.

I've lived in Germany for 18 months now and I think I've settled in pretty well. However I will never get over the willingness of German pizza places to randomly add broccoli as a topping to an otherwise perfectly good pizza.

Got a cool new book today

I swear our Akta is cursed! On the second position of the column valve the connection to the column always leaks. I've replaced the tubing twice, replaced the connectors multiple times, used different columns. EVERY time it leaks 😩

As always this actually hurts to look at

Sending emails at work is weird sometimes.

Trying the Dune books again... current opinion: Shockingly Mediocre, which in their defense is an upgrade from my opinion of about 10 years ago