Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

This seems worse than crashing...

Important read if you use LLMs for science knowledge discovery around plants "What Large Language Models Know About Plant Molecular Biology" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... As per usual LLMs appear to propagate biases.

And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true. That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe! Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾 #plantscijob

It seems like it’s dangerous for scientists to speak out against Colossal’s “de extinction research”. www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...

Is there some pattern in who uses allele frequency spectrum (AFS) instead of site frequency spectrum (SFS)?

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...

Placing signposts in a text helps your reader follow your thoughts. In my new post I show you how you can use those signposts in an academic article. aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/taking-the... #AcademicWriting #BetterWriting

Déjà vu in clubroot resistance: same genes, new names: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Resistance gene enrichment sequencing refines the Brassica napus NLRome url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

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!

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

I am excited to share the news that Cristina Barragan @cbarragan.bsky.social got awarded an Emmy Noether Fellowship to start her own research group in my department @uni-kiel.de to explore population dynamics of fungal cereal pathogens!

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

EFSA just released their first scan of new scientific data on #NGTs, confirming that no new hazards or risks were identified beyond those previously considered. Fulll report accessible via the link 👇

Nature is cool

Job Coordinator position: Science Communication #SciComm In Excellence Cluster @ceplas.bsky.social "SMART Plants for Tomorrow’s Needs" @hhu.de ‬ www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

I think proper planning and carefully thinking about an approach beforehand is as much an essential part of achieving "good hands" as the "practical" part. Poor planning and rushing will always wreak havoc. Teaching how to plan and prepare is key.

Every few months the "good lab hands" thing comes up and it misses a key point: you can learn to have good hands. Training matters. Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill

Our review article on the "Potential and challenges for application of microbiomes in agriculture" is published @theplantcell.bsky.social [1/n] doi.org/10.1093/plce...

We’re a bunch of amateur psychologists… #AcademicChatter #phdchat

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

"Perverse incentives, inflated metrics, the ‘publish or perish’ culture, and systemic tolerance for weak scholarship all allow paper mills to flourish" "unless publishers, funders, and people in charge of hiring and promotion pay attention and penalize this behavior, it will continue" Yes.

New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards. We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

Wei, @rstam.bsky.social et al. characterized CNVs in a wild tomato adapted to dry habitats, using WGS, finding more CNVs in diverging populations occupying stressful habitats, and environmental associations linked CNVs to climatic variables. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf191 #evobio #molbio

Orthogroup analysis shows that very few genes are truly conserved across all plants, vascular or not. So are the important genes really the ones that are conserved? Or are they simply the minimal backbone on which all the important genes function?

Copy number variation in Solanum chilense affects (A)biotic stress-response and flowering-time genes. We find divergent CNV patterns between populations from divergent habitats, linked to climatic variables. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

A tiny silly fun thing in the midst of all the chaos... We're on the hunt for a mate for Ned, a 1 in 40,000 left-spiralling snail. www.nzgeo.com/stories/lets...

🪲🦠 Volgens keuringsdienst NAK trekt het #fytoplasma sterk op door toenemende vectorendruk. Doordat het warmer wordt, hebben glasvleugelcicaden een grotere overlevingskans. Het IRS trof in juni de eerste vondsten aan van een vergelijkbare ziekte.

Nein, soetwas war nie und ist auch heute in Europa mit dem hiesigen Rechtsrahmen aus Patent- und/ oder Sortenschutz nicht möglich. www.pflanzen-forschung-ethik.de/kontexte/164...

Looks like someone was really desperate for those Leaf samples and field trip notes we left in our car...

Looks like someone was really desperate for those Leaf samples and field trip notes we left in our car...

Now that Nature just launched a few dozen new journals, they need your support more than ever. Make sure to provide your unpaid labour (in your free time) to ensure the successful optimization of their trickle-down economy and to secure the >500M€ profit for the company and shareholders!

...as we cross the grim milestone of adding supplementary fig. S50, I am beginning to wonder where it all went wrong 🫠

Your research brings together fundamental plant biology & applied research to enhance crop traits? 🌱🌾🎓🏭 Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social Please PM if you got questions. stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

It's critical to switch off ethylene signalling once it has done its job during developmental transitions and stress acclimation. Excited to see this work led by @eleazarrodriguez.bsky.social now on BioRxiv. Happy @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social and I could contribute a bit to the story! #plantscience

A wealth tax is doable, popular, and doesn't "scare off investment" if you don't govern based solely on the behest of your donors One thing I wish governments would learn is to learn from others www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Plants are such tricky critters - love it. Linalool-triggered plant-soil feedback drives defense adaptation in dense maize plantings | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

As global temperatures rise, insect vectors like whiteflies can increasingly shift their range. Regions once considered too cold may soon become suitable habitat—bringing plant viruses (and other pathogens) along for the ride. #PlantVirology #ClimateChange #InsectVectors #PlantHealth #Whiteflies

Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Just ask an LLM. Sure most of the citations and half of the info will be made up. But on the plus side, 80% of people clearly don't care.