W3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology // University of Freiburg www.nature.com/naturecareer... The position holder will lead a research program that combines excellent basic research with clear perspectives for biotechnological and societally relevant applications. #BotanyJobs

Après 64 études, l'Espagne tranche : l’homéopathie ne sert à rien et 1 000 produits sont retirés du marché www.science-et-vie.com/corps-et-san...

Looming global food crisis, and Switzerland still wonders if a single mutation in a plant genome produces a GMO 🙄

"What we are witnessing today is not only a geopolitical crisis, it is a systemic shock to the global agrifood system," Qu said.

SPLICECRAFT v1.0 IS LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! Open your terminal and type in "pipx install splicecraft" if you want to try it out, then spam "splicecraft update" often as I push updates frequently. A labor of love for the community I adore. Enjoy! 💚

Proteins are the machinery of life. Billions of their sequences have been cataloged—but the biology behind most is still unknown. Today we're releasing ESMFold2, ESMC and ESM Atlas to help change that. Open source, open to every scientist. biohub.ai/esm/protein

Are you excited about understanding the molecular underpinnings of arbuscular mycorrhiza? Then this PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/4...

Does someone know why Helitron is often written in italic? It refers to a class of TEs so I guess it should be roman, no?

👋 Transposon lovers: registration is now open for the CSHL TE meeting! We have a 🔥 lineup of invited speakers and many slots for short talks selected upon abstract across all areas of TE biology. 🧬➰🧬 #TEsky Abstract deadline: July 10 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Roger Beachy, a renowned biologist and professor emeritus at WashU, was fired along with every member of the National Science Board on Friday.

The strongest El Niño in 150 years? That’s not hype, it’s the actual median forecast right now for the developing event later this year. It could rival — or even surpass — the legendary 1877 El Niño, the strongest on record, which was linked to widespread drought, monsoon failure, and food crises 1/

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent. We’ve seen record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers have been shrinking and snow cover melting. The evidence is unequivocal: climate change is not a ‘future’ threat. It is our present reality. ⬇️

Really interesting paper from @grey-monroe.bsky.social lab at UC Davis: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Genome degradation in plant tissue culture" #PlantScience The data presented have a lot of implications both on basic biology and applications.

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

Next step taken to #GiveGenesAChance in the EU 🇪🇺 Today, the European Council, i.e. the memeber states of the EU, has adopted the new regulation for plants obtained by New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). Next step will be the decision of the European Parliament on 18th May.

Le conseil de l’UE a voté en faveur de la nouvelle réglementation sur les NGT Au parlement maintenant www.consilium.europa.eu/fr/press/pre...

Today we mourn the passing of our beloved central dogma. It served Crick well. But it is time to let go. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through their research.” Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize winner and since this year ERC Scientific Council member.

Today was my last day at @agroscope.bsky.social Nyon. Although my experiment didn't work as expected, I am extremely grateful for the time I spent with Etienne @plantepigenetics.ch and the team! Luckily I also had a chance to enjoy sports. Goodbye, Mont Blanc. @pecinka-grp.bsky.social

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Our paper is now out in Nature: “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres. 1/14

Windows should be less political 🙄 @microsoft.com

So now there’s a thing called “paranormal citation” 🙄 where are we going??? this is totally nuts. You would not work with someone who’s permanently on LSD. AI is high all the time.

I’ll be spending the next four weeks at @agroscope.bsky.social Changins, working on the eccDNA identification in Arabidopsis. Big thanks to @plantepigenetics.ch who agreed to host me and OPJAK Tangenc @iebcas.bsky.social for funding the mobility 😉 🌱🥼🔬

nope, i am definitely not 100% there…

“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...

Time for a non-Fifa world cup that will take place somewhere else.

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

CERN Researchers Apologize For Destruction Of 5 Parallel Universes In Recent Experiment https://theonion.com/cern-researchers-apologize-for-destruction-of-5-paralle-1819579830/

Thinking of the movie Armageddon, it breaks my heart that somehow the US, instead of helping us saving our planet, it may have become our Armageddon. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JkK8...

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

Sad to hear that Oxford Nanopore wants to discontinue the P2Solo later this year in favor of the P2i (the very pricey P2Solo that comes with a GPU to do the basecalling in it) It feels like such a big step in the wrong direction. They are a great sequencing company, not a great GPU upseller...

Hey USA! Not a single country on this planet likes you anymore (oh, OK, maybe Russia does). I think you should do something about it. And you should do it now before ICE is fully armed. Afterwards it will be too late.

The speed at which Oxford Nanopore is cancelling support for their devices is just mind boggling 😳 P2 solo will be decommissioned soon!!! This is not sustainable! @nanoporetech.com

EU readies €93bn tariffs in retaliation for Trump’s Greenland threat ft.trib.al/5Qfqifp

Please Europe, put a 1000% tax on all @microsoft.com products! That would immediately result in a massive productivity increase!

On my governmental computer, @microsoft.com Office takes at least one minute to open a 140kb file! My Atari is faster than that!

Gott ist tot. — Friedrich Nietzsche

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

Maybe a tip for speakers who tend to have a dry mouth while giving presentations (like me, yeah I am too nervous): what really helps me are Fishermen’s Friend. maybe that helps someone out there…

Am I the only who feels extremely uncomfortable sending a presentation for a conference several days in advance? For me it affects the spontaneity and the vibe…

OK, so the US are now declaring war on Europe.

We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Kudos to Dana Kennedy, for making this lovely, pressed flower cover image for her paper. "Pressed-flower art representing heterochromatin gene silencing in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Each distinct flower symbolizes HP1/Swi6, Clr4, nucleosomes, and post-translational modifications (cont)

Considering the disgusting things going on over at X: Why doesn’t the EU apply the precautionary principle??? It never hesitated to ban other inventions that pose zero danger to the community with this principle.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

And if you want a list of the reasons that have been given for keeping Musk as FRS, there's this piece deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve...