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people judge it with AI tools that are trained on predatory journals like Frontiers, MDPI or alike that are practically not peer-reviewed???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... 😅

Structural basis for heat tolerance in plant NLR immune receptors. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.694812v1

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Fabbri et al. studied the Apennine brown bear population, which has coexisted with humans in Central Italy for millennia, showing these bears have reduced genetic diversity and selective signatures at genes associated with reduced aggressiveness. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf292 #evobio #molbio

New Preprint! As part of a MSc thesis we went to Serbia (support @daadworldwide.bsky.social) to collect small-spored Alternaria from potato and tomato and compare their populations and virulence properties with those from Germany and Poland! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...

New Preprint! As part of a MSc thesis we went to Serbia (support @daadworldwide.bsky.social) to collect small-spored Alternaria from potato and tomato and compare their populations and virulence properties with those from Germany and Poland! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

👏 Congratulations, Dr. Farooq Ahmad​! The postdoctoral researcher from the Institute of Phytopathology receives extensive #BMFTR funding to investigate forest adaptation strategies to climate change using the concept of assisted tree migration. #KielLifeScience #KielPlantCenter #KiTE #BioKreativ

Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

More great news! Farooq Ahmad has received funding to establish a junior research group in my department @uni-kiel.de He will focus on assisted tree migration to combat forest pathogens in a changing climate. www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n... He will be looking for PhD students soon!

Now officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Literally anything else more effective than AI for learning www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins...

Two really cool PhD positions available with Christina Barragan on Plant Pathogen evolution! Our dept. just moved to a brand new building with great facilities and we have an absolutely amazing team!

The EU will #GiveGenesAChance! 🇪🇺💚 www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres... #Trilogue #NGTs

Europa bekennt sich zur Wissenschaft! 💚 Natürlich sind noch nicht alle auf dem gleichen Stand. Deshalb stehen wir bei @oekoprog.bsky.social natürlich für alle Fragen bereit! 😌 #GiveGenesAChance www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...

2025 AG @rstam.bsky.social lab retreat success! Great science and company, seaside views, and a music quiz that revealed way too much about our teenage time... 😅🕺

AI model Helixer predicts eukaryotic genes ab initio, directly from a plain text FASTA file. No RNA-seq. No protein homology. No repeats, hints, or curated evidence. Raw genome → accurate gene models. Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Europe cannot afford to fall behind on innovation! We join 25 EU agri-food organizations urging policymakers to conclude #NGTs trilogue talks now. Science-based rules = resilient crops & global competitiveness. Act today! 🌱 euroseeds.eu/app/uploads/...

Did you ever wonder how #Solanum plants evolved quantitative disease resistance/ #QDR? I am really excited to share our recently published manuscript, where we tried to contribute to addressing this question! 🌱https://tinyurl.com/2vz23ck6

TUM Offers a professorship in Crop Production. Geat opportunity! portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess...

gggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ #Rstats

The department of biologie #usherbrooke is hiring. Faculty position open in the area of #Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology. www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...

I'm offering a PhD project together with Sarah McKim on temperature-controlled stomata formation within EASTBIO DTP www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #plantscience #plantscijobs Deadline 15 Feb. Please share/RP

Honoured that our article is now also accompanied by a commentary article. If you don't have time to read the whole paper, Ng does a great job summarizing! academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...