Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱 Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!

My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting! 🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution 🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible) 📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de ⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... Do get in touch or share 😊

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

"Additionally, the author stated that they have used AI tools for generating some images, including Fig. 1." Reviewers and editors could not work that out for themselves. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The main value added by the publication is ostensibly the peer review and editorial curation process. If this sort of thing is passing review, what is the journal even for? How is subscribing to this journal any better than monitoring a preprints feed? Subscribers should demand their money back.

Want good Bioinformatics resources for Phytopathogens? Plant pathology community at @bspp.bsky.social and @britmycolsoc.org.uk please take the time to complete the Phytopathogen Genomics Resources Survey:- 🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1 Your input is important for FungiDB/@veupathdb.org & Ensembl @ebi.embl.org.

Good morning, sleepyhead. You asked me to remind you that your thesis won’t write itself, no matter how long you hide under the duvet.

Eigentlich irre, wie das so eine Meldung unter vielen ist. »Ein trauriger Tag für Deutschland. Wir haben einen Kulturgut, den Dorsch in der deutschen Ostsee, verloren.« www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-fangquote...

I guess it’s testament to the vanity of scientists that the “Nature Scientific Reports” trick worked so well on us.

Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu... That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.

🤫Registration for #MBP2026 will start very soon. Please tell all your friends 🌱.

We finally managed to take a lab picture! The last one was almost 2 years old. I'm so grateful to work with this amazing bunch of people!

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows. The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets. 🧵⤵️

Professorship in plant genetics. The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See: www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

Interesting post (and discussion in thread below....)

Now with official press release. I'm very much looking forward to welcome @cbarragan.bsky.social in January www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Very happy to see this work finally online! Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!

Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

I had a couple of great days at our first @plantscochallenge.bsky.social annual meeting. Inspiring to discuss diverse aspects of multiple stress responses with colleagues from other parts of the plant sciences www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n... Big thanks to @estukenbrock.bsky.social for organising.

Very happy to see this work finally online! Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!

This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

New preprint! We looked at the genomes of Alternaria isolates collected from wild tomato hosts and found something really interesting! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

Assistant Professor Plant or Fungal Genomics. Univ of Wyoming. eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Anika in my department is looking for a Phd student on buckwheat stress responses. Maybe this is something for you? #plantjobs www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...

This looks interesting: Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social has revealed that modern barley has a “mosaic origin”, meaning it stems from several wild populations across the Fertile Crescent. The findings were published in @nature.com. ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/ytzyn4re ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/5e2v7cp5

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply! Please repost!

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 👇