Oh look, more evidence of MDPI and Frontiers being troublesome publishers that you should avoid.

🚀 Reminder: €50 million funding call for climate adaptation innovation The European Innovation Council and the Mission are offering successful applicants up to €2.5m in grants to solutions that boost Europe’s climate resilience. 🔗ow.ly/4sEM50XJuU8 #MissionClimateAdaptation #MIP4Adapt

Two manuscripts out in bioRxiv 🥳 They describe our work on carrot storage diseases and factors behind it. Big thanks to project leaders Terhi Suojala-Ahlfors and Satu Latvala, and to other co-authors Minna Haapalainen, Sannakajsa Velmala, @tainapennanen.bsky.social & Minna Pirhonen.

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

We're experiencing an unbelievable deluge of submissions. At our journal we got ~200 per year in 2020. Last year it was 600. This year it's 800 with several months to go. So that's why we're slower to get stuff out for review.

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Telomere-to-telomere Genome Assembly of the Clubroot Pathogen Plasmodiophora Brassicae url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Happy May Day eve from empty late-afternoon office! What am I doing working late before holidays? Well, plating a few dozen Pythium samples from lettuce roots collected on Monday. @marikara.bsky.social shows a great example of possible symptoms: small roots and slow growth despite green color. 😊

📣OPEN #RESEARCH #POSTDOC POSITIONS!📣 -Ecohydrology -Agroecology and soil microbiology -Land use and fish populations -Diverse farming practices -AI in primary production -Bio-based products, sidestreams -Policy design and ESG implementation Here at @luke.fi, Finland 💙💚. You´ll love it!😊 More info 👇

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

This week we launched field work on our forest demonstration sites at SW Finland! #ClimateAdaptation solutions and roadmaps coming up for end-users through our #Precilience #EuHorizon project @luke.fi

Two weeks ago we had a wonderful consortium meeting of #Precilience project in Tartu, Estonia. It was great as ever, insipiring people and disucssions, learning a lot of new facts and ideas. This is definitely the best part of my role as project coordinator! 🥰🤯🤓

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you. Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

#Sciencejob Alert! Scientific career with excellent publication record, international network & leadership experience? Fluency in English and one Swiss language? We are looking for a new head of the #forest #resources and #management #research unit. apply.refline.ch/273855/1725/...

A simplified and integrated view of disease control in varietal #mixtures using the #phytobiome framework doi.org/10.1111/pce.... @lauramathieu.bsky.social

Great fieldtrip in Estonia with our #precilience consortium #eu #horizon #climateadaptation amazing people, amazing project.

Wonderful consortium meeting of #Precilience in Tartto, Estonia! Big thanks to the organizers at Estonian University of Life Sciences! We had intensive discussions and workshops on project progress and plans, and a lot of socializing of course. Now heading to the field excursion!

Mielestäni nyt on asiallisen ja kriittisen katsauksen paikka. - Miksi tuota 👇 päätöstä on -ihan perustellusti- kyseenalaistettu? Tämä on rautalankaa viäntävä ketju sinulle joka mietit mistä tässä mesotaan. Lähdetäänpäs kävelylle metsään... 🧵 1/15 #metsä #luonto #Suomi yle.fi/a/74-20150656

4/15 On, mutta esim. Etelä-Suomessa ne metsät ovat nuoria ja vanha talouskäyttö näkyy: ne eivät tarjoa kotia luonnontilaisten metsien uhanalaisille lajeille. Alla on esimerkki Leivonmäen nuoresta kansallispuistosta. Nättiä metsää, mutta *vuosisatojen* päässä luonnontilasta. Ongelma onkin: aika ⏳

Plz RP. The Oomycete Molecular Genetics Network (OMGN) Meeting 2025 is now open for registration! Join us in Cologne to discuss the latest in oomycete biology, genomics & host interactions. Saturday 12 July, before MPMI conference #OMGN2025 #PlantPathology 🔗 omgn2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Estimated yield reductions and economic #losses on #wheat caused by #disease from 2018 through 2021 doi.org/10.1094/PHP-...

Anybody working on petitioning publishers to mention the people who brought up the concerns in the retraction notice? It's an issue that keeps coming up, and now it looks like my concerns are the reason for a coming retraction,

Hey #chemsky and other science-skys. I am looking for people to participate in the next #YoungScientistNetworking Participants write a thread describing their journey in science and how they have gotten to where they are today. 1/2

AgPlenus announces discovery of a new mode of action for #fungicides against #Zymoseptoria tritici agfundernews.com/agplenus-ceo...

Sexual recombination in #cereal #rust fungi: Knowns and unknowns of pathogen evolution and adaptation doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#Septoria tritici blotch resistance gene Stb15 encodes a lectin receptor-like kinase doi.org/10.1038/s414...

oh this is so good

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...

Wheat Pathogens webinar, March 20th! Dr. Daniel Croll, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, will talk about “Understanding mechanisms of crop pathogen emergence using large genome panels”. Please share! buff.ly/45ttOjL @karchuntan.bsky.social @ReemWheat

Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science openrxiv.org/introducing-... @openrxiv.bsky.social

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Plz Repost. We @slcuplants.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with proven protein biochemistry & cell biology expertise & strong interest in plant processes targeted by Phytophthora effectors. (apply before 2 April) [Image: Alex Guyon] www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50570/

Last week I had the pleasure to visit NIBIO plant pathologists at Ås to collaborate on InNoBaHort project analysing and modelling ascospore release data of European canker / Neonectria ditissima. Thanks to Dalphy O. C. Harteveld and others. A productive week in a beautiful environment!

Todella hyvä juttu👇. Tutkijaan osui: "Yhteisöjen tulisi kannustaa kilpailun sijasta yhteistyöhön" Parhaissa tutkimushankkeissa eri tieteenalojen osaajat kohtaavat ja tekevät aitoa yhteistyötä yhteisen tavoitteen eteen. Narsisteille ja egonsa pönkittäjille ei ole tällä kentällä tilaa eikä tarvetta.

Mallinnus ei ole huuhaata. Hieno tiivis kuvaus Luken hiilimallien taustasta, kirjoittajina tutkimusprofessori Aleksi Lehtonen ja tutkimuspäällikkö Juha Mikola. www.maaseuduntulevaisuus.fi/mielipide/6b...

Join our Plant Health group as entomologist! A 3-year-position to promote sustainable pest management in agriculture and horticulture - open for applications immediately. Read more and apply here: 🇬🇧: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese... 🇸🇪: valtiolle.fi/se/jobbar/fo... 🇫🇮 valtiolle.fi/fi/tyopaikat...

My single most important reason for leaving X and avoiding Musk-associated brands is Musk himself. Education, honesty, research, law, decency, modesty.. You name it and he has wiped his 🍑 with it and/or abused it for personal gains. Arrogant, spiteful, immature.. a manchild with a Jupiter-sized ego.

The project Precilience will develop precision solutions with farmers, foresters, landowners, and other actors to increase climate resilience. Björn Andersson and Anna Berlin will develop data to describe how farmers and forest owners view the risks of climate change. www.slu.se/en/departmen...

📣 Short-term #postdoctoral #position in plant disease epidemiology modeling @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-save.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Please share it! 🙏 eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...

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NIH hoitaa tieteen hakukoneita, jotka ovat joka päivä välttämättömiä bio/lääketieteessä koko maailmassa. Ne ovat nyt kaikki kumossa. Ei liittyne siihen, että DOGE veti eilen töpselin kokonaiselta valtion IT-osastolta. Mutta muistuttaa, miten tärkeä USA on koko maailmalle - eikä vain sotahommissa.

Trump is a disgrace. That's what happens when you elect a known liar and a person with no moral nor self-control into power.

Happy to start tweeting in Bluesky by announcing that we have just started a new Horizon Europe project SafeNet we’re coordinating at Luke with my dear colleague Jukka Forsman and me. Aiming at improving biodiversity and protecting old-growth forests of Europe. Regards from the kick-off @luke.fi

You can now find out researchers in one place: go.bsky.app/D9HTTYb

All kind of fancy structures built by my Pythium, but what on earth is growing out of those plated dill roots? Fairy rings? 😄🍄

Länsimaiset arvot, orjuutuksen arvot? Luonnon, kansojen, itsen orjuutuksen arvot. Alistamme kaiken, koska "olemme varmoja teknologiamme, edistyksemme, kapitalismimme ja moraalimme ylemmyydestä". Hyvä teksti. Essee | Länsimaisista arvoista ei kannata paljon ylpeillä www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

Please spread the word - I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social to study diversity and interactions of plants and pathogens in wild and working landscapes! More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...

Hyvää ruuneperiä! Johan Ludvig Runeberg is the national poet of Finland and he greatly influenced creation of the Finnish national identity almost 100 years before independence. youtu.be/3V4ra_VKUJQ?...

Nice field trip, or rather a road trip, to collect some samples. Beautiful infections, although not so great for the grower... It's always a struggle: are you siding with the disease or with the plants / producer :D