There are too many independent softwares called "targetfinder"...

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

Bioinformaticians / computational biologists take note - know where you should take your OS tool chain from and do not introduce backdoors.

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

In my experience, conference speakers are generally people who know stuff worth hearing, and not people who are great at public speaking. Listening to the content while ignoring whatever annoys you about the delivery is a good skill to cultivate, and you owe it to your intellect.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

this is so strange!!!!!!!

@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

reviewing for a major international journal and 1 in 6 refs are papers written in Chinese. Titles, journal names, and abstracts are English, so you don't realize it from the ref. list.("Journal of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers".) I can't judge these.. Journal updating policy on ref language.

SynCom of maize root bacteria: in team work, they detox differently. Interacting they redirect the metabolisation to an alternative degradation product. Credits: @lisathoenen.bsky.social, Dr. Christine Pestalozzi & teams @unibas.ch and @unibe.ch. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

this seems like a very good idea actually

1/2 What's best: a field-first or lab-first approach? No easy answers but differences between lab and field should not be seen as failure but motivate further inquiry and allow complementary discovery. Read our thoughts on this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... How much environmental chaos to embrace in plant-microbe research, and to what end? A commentary on setting (with all choices OK as long as all options considered) w/ bergelsonlab.org, @fabriceroux7.bsky.social, @plantevolution.bsky.social, tkarasovlab.org

This extension turns off google AI on the chrome browser, for any others who don't want to read the often-wrong AI overview! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bye-b...

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab. Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements. Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... 🧵

Come join EEB at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Evolutionary Genomics, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2026 apply.interfolio.com/170735 functional and evolutionary genomics in any system 🌱, 🦠, or 🦌 (including 👫)

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Our magnetic separation rack for PCR strips is now available in many different colors! 🎨🌈 custom-lab.de/products/mag... All other tools are also available in color on request.

#2025ISMPMI has been great, so many connections made and re-established. I found this on the railway bridge.

Nature lovers at the #2025ISMPMI will be pleased to learn that earlier today, the Confex Hall Butterfly (apparently an Aglais io) was safely captured by me and released to the flowerbeds outside. Pictured here, feasting on my honeyed tea dregs before flying away.

This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A PhD position is available in my group @_SLU. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden to work on plant regeneration and graft hybrid formation! Details below. Please share! #plantscijobs #PlantScience

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due to contracts our department must purchase a small battery with $270 taxpayer money from a scientific company (and wait for delivery) even though it is available for $7 from local retail stores. Legal alternatives are an employee donation or buying a cheaper product just for the battery.

Small cheap life hack to check whether the gel has run long enough without taking it out from the chamber. Blue light torch + Some leftover amber acrylic + Midori Green Advance stain

Everyone knows Sweden does winter hard, but did you know it also does summer hard? Long comfortable days that end only because you decide to sleep..there is a balance

Last chance to apply for an Associate Professor position in our Plant Biology Department at SLU. Deadline Jan 20th. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a great start to the year 2025. Just published online is our PNAS paper - Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pbaldrich.bsky.social @meghahs28.bsky.social @inneslab.bsky.social

Sad news. John McDowell has passed away. He was not only a brilliant scientist, he was one of the kindest people I have ever met. He worked hard, did a tremendous job in plant pathology and was a wonderful colleague. He is gone way too soon. www.mccoyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/J...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social

Hydnora: the strangest plant in the world. I was excited to see the accounts of Seb Hatt's adventures in search of Hydnora published today in The Linnean. Seb's PhD focuses on Hydnora (a lifelong fascination of mine), and we've already described a new species thanks to his rare talent for taxonomy.

Working with data from a collaborator who sent DNA to the Genewiz / Azenta 16S-EZ service. The company prepares amplicons and sequences. It is horrible! 1) All the amplicons all start in a different place. It seems they use some kind of cocktail of primers to amplify V3 + V4 variable regions. 1/4

I want this: Genome-edited Chardonnay grapes resistant or tolerant to mildew & powdery mildew! Did you know that grapes are grown on only ~5% of European agricultural land, but account for ~2/3 of all fungicide sprayed in Europe? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #plantscience

this is Arabidopsis thaliana* *a few alterations, see thread

literally crab flakes

Three positions as assistant professor in #Biodiversity You could become my colleague. I'll be at the #BES2024 conference from tomorrow Wednesday if you want to chat about it. Maximum 7 years since phd . Excellent package comes with the positions #stockholmUniversity 🌍🧪 www.su.se/english/news...

Scared to share this after 10 freaking years of waiting, but here we go: We found that temperature *perception* can change the biology of the next generations, even when “it’s just in the parents' head”. Read how C. elegans neurons control epigenetic inheritance! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Look at this crazy thing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

labs on a budget: check prices here. small business 3d printed stuff. really good value and well made. we use them! conflict of interest I do know the creator (it's not me or my group!) but they didn't tell me to post this!

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Workshop "Plant science in the Anthropocene" (PLANT), March 24th to April 4th 2025 @ University Paris-Saclay, deadline for applications 17th of December eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/events/works... #plantscience

Annual reminder to the wind, mannitol is not simply an osmoticum shift, at least Arabidopsis can directly perceive it to induce signaling. So probably not the best drought mimic or dehydration comparison. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Huge news for academics and science! Very excited to see that Bluesky is being recognized as THE app to replace what used to be good social media science comms back when Twitter was Twitter