Resequencing hundreds or thousands of individuals from the same species has become routine... but processing all those genomes efficiently? Still a headache! Here's my solution that used to be lab-internal but that I am happy to share: crolllab.github.io/genomepanel_...

Krankenkassen jammern über Milliardenlöcher – aber zahlen weiter für Homöopathie ohne Wirkungsnachweis. Wilde Idee: Vielleicht fangen wir mit dem Sparen einfach da an, wo es medizinisch exakt nichts bringt?!

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Great to see this out! It was really nice to be part of this from setting up the field near Munich and on the Alps all the way to final publication.

#GiveGenesAChance in UK 🌾 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/rothams...

For our project in the context of the Excellence Cluster GreenRobust @greenrobust.de we look for 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc in the area of plant molecular and evolutionary ecology. Deadline: 15 April Reposts are welcome #plantjobs #plantscijobs

Scientists: In the hypothetical situation that you were invited to present a proposal for a large ECR grant and you would have to present yourself, your career, ánd proposal in 15 minutes; would you or would you not include 'academic metrics,' and why? I lean to no, but am not sure what's common.

Now out! We show that TEs can be horizontally transferred between fungal species via Starships. Once transferred, these TEs can become active, changing the genome organization and affecting the lifestyle of the recipient fungus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @oggenfussursula.bsky.social #TEsky

What if a super successful fungal plant pathogen has little evidence of structural variation, horizontal gene transfer or their ilk? It’s just a nice Mendelian meiosis and inheritance, etc. does that make it the odd one?

Good. We need more. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

China increases science funding again (by at least 7-% over the next 5 years) as it pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Zehn von zehn Alle noch im Wettbewerb befindlichen Exzellenzuniversitäten bestehen die Evaluation. Was die Entscheidung der Exzellenzkommission über Selektivität, Strukturpolitik und die Zukunft des Wettbewerbs verrät. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/03...

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

New Preprint: Alternaria atra from distinct ecological roles share functional genomic repertoires www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A while ago we sequenced A atra collected as pathogen from wild tomato. We compared this with new genomes of strains that grew endophytic in Tillandsia.

That's a good name for software: MKado: a toolkit for McDonald-Kreitman tests of natural selection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please share with potentially interested colleagues :) #Bioinformatics #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology

🌾 We have an open postdoc position in Plant Genomics in our group at HHU Düsseldorf! If you enjoy computational biology, asking big questions, and the satisfaction of code working on the first try, check out schneebergerlab.org/career/ Apply by Mar. 31 | 3-year postdoc | German skills required

Hey everyone joining us @ #MBP2026 in mid March, we just released the conference program. Please check it out here: syncandshare.lrz.de/dl/fiPnsPinb... we are super excited to see you all soon and to talk 🌱🔬🥼 over 🍻all night long!

After a long drive into Central Java, we set up the mobile lab in the plantation office

We have a new insect parameter set for unmasked genomes and a new fungal parameter set for unmasked genomes. Both deliver accuracy superior to previous models for insects and fungi. #genomeannotation #geneprediction github.com/Gaius-August...

<steps to microphone> <taps microphone> Most microbes do not coevolve with *hosts* even when found associated with hosts

Wondering why there was so much noise coming from the department kitchen... Turns out both the uni HPCs aredown, so it's break time... 🙈

PhD opening Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary project the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de, working on CRISPR/Cas in poplar to understand how trees cope with climate stress. Apply here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social

Professorship Molecular Botany. Bremen, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/profess...

Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing: "Cookbook for plant genome sequences" doi.org/10.1186/s128... #Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Applications for our MSc programme Agrigenomics are now open! Are you interested in learning about genomics methods (molecular and computational) in the context of agricultural sciences (either on crops or animals), consider applying! www.uni-kiel.de/en/aef/study...

Great news — forward looking voices are finally prevailing in the discussion on genome editing in crop plants!

ECRs in plant–microbe interactions: Join us in Norwich for an intensive, interactive 1.5-week Summer Conference at TSL (20–31 July). Lots of opportunities for networking and deep discussions. (We also plan to offer hands-on practical sessions using our technologies 🔬🧬)

Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.

Gold OA: the gift that keeps on giving

Host microenvironment in potato–Phytophthora infestans interaction revealed by single-cell spatiotemporal transcriptome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear @dfg.de So, I will spend months writing a grant and you will let people judge it with AI tools that are trained on predatory journals like Frontiers, MDPI or alike that are practically not peer-reviewed??? Is this how you will select cutting edge science??? #idiocracy

Towards a quantitative view of NLR evolution in genome space -- check out where we think the field of #NLR #evolution research is heading in this review led by Luzie Wingen and Aurélien Tellier. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #plantscience

🌍 Internationale Studierende: Der globale Markt ordnet sich neu USA, Kanada, Australien und Großbritannien ziehen die Bremse. Der Gastbeitrag von Britta Baron zeigt, wer davon profitiert – und wie Deutschland einen Sonderweg geht. Im Wiarda-Blog: 👉 www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/01...

I can't say I am surprised. I once had a brief chat with LLMs about my own profile, and it made up several papers and journals that I had not written or submitted to. This BS will be the new normal. It already is. And we are totally letting it happen.

Just wow...

Mistake I often make is worrying about the two or three most knowledgeable people in the audience and what will they think. Have to remind myself that if I present just to them I lose the other 95%.

Job alert! Farooq Ahmad is recruiting PhD students for his new research group in my department! He's looking for people interested in assisted migration of oaks to ensure climate and pathogen resilience for our future forests. Ad text is here, English at bottom: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

The Alexander von Humboldt foundation has a call for Climate Protection Fellowships. Information event is tomorrow! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/i... If you are interested in working on a project related to quantitative disease resistance and climatic trade offs, I could possibly be host!

“We recently conducted three separate searches for Data Scientist positions. Each received more than 500 applications… But the problem was not just the number. It was how alike they all felt.” #higheredjobs

'Although AI is helping Science catch errors that can be corrected or elements that are missing from a paper but should be included, such as supporting code or raw data, its use and the evaluation of the output require more human effort, not less.' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Open Senior Bioinformatician position at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Tree of Life, to work on the Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative with @marakat.bsky.social and me. 📅 Apply by January 18 🔗 sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco... Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Reading paper with link to deposited data in Dryad, but link didn't work. Author said they'd deposited data thinking it was free, but were then asked to pay. They didn't & Dryad took data down. So DOI doesn't ensure a persistent dataset. Has anyone else experience of anything like this? #opendata

I admire the Dutch for many reasons, one of which is that they celebrate the New Year with doughnuts. I’ve taken a leaf out of their book, and so Oliebollen, the doughnuts in question, are #RecipeOfTheDay. And Happy New Year! www.nigella.com/recipes/new-...

That you MUST publish to meet your financial targets, which makes a mockery of working on a quality-only basis. At @openlibhums.org, the finances work the other way around. Libraries pay in advance, so we know how much money we have. That sets the cap on how many articles we can publish.

In our latest study, we took a critical look at #fungal family #Nectriaceae by analyzing 1,530 #genomes! We built a robust #phylogenomic backbone that supports current taxonomy but also reveals gene-tree discordance and unresolved boundaries. More info www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

So wild. Ein Bundesministerium, das seine Position auf den tendenziösen Umfragen von NGO und wirtschaftlich involvierten Labelbetreibern aufbaut 🫣 Man stelle sich ein solches Vorgehen bei anderen neuen Technologien vor, z.B. bei Impfstoffen oder regenerativen Energien. Ist doch crazy

With help of international colleagues at @jgi.doe.gov, @oregonstate.edu, and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social, we are relasing new parameters for Tiberius. Thx to Lars Gabriel, @tomasbruna.bsky.social, Samuel Talbot, @chriswheat.bsky.social, @masta.bsky.social - and many others. github.com/Gaius-August...

The university updated my institute's website. It looks great. www.phytopathology.uni-kiel.de I am just a bit disappointed that the stock image they used contains a hydroxyl group instead of a cyclic ring... 😅