This interesting study concerns aging in WORMS 🪱. Why is it that only PLANT 🌱 researchers put their organisms’ names in paper titles? Gedankenexperiment: Who would NOT feel deceived if a plant aging paper did not mention plants in the title?

Please share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026. Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

For years, Republicans have urged environmentalists to put their money where their mouths are. Stop suing. Stop lobbying for new regulations. Respect property rights and buy the land you want to protect. Well, one conservation group took that advice & the administration just punished them for it.

Aliya Rahman testifies about ICE's abuse against her. Please watch youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

From the good old days of German railways. When they had not three but four different classes of service and separate waiting rooms for the third and fourth class. Granted, today it feels like all the classes are fourth class. As seen in Oldenburg. After having missed yet another connection.

A new paper on the genetics of fluctuating asymmetry... An old collaborative work finally published!! Thanks to Fred Peronnet and co and reviewer Ian Dworkin academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”

Wissenschaft als Zukunftsvertrag Vier mögliche Zukünfte, ein gemeinsames Zielbild: Wie Politik und Wissenschaft im Wissenschaftsrat über Krisen hinweg eine Agenda entwickelt haben, um die Wissenschaft für das Jahr 2040 auf Kurs zu bringen. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/02...

More from Finland 🇫🇮… Is it possible to map a country's entire #bird population in real-time? 🧵1 of 3 🌍 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Birds #CitizenScience #AI #GIS #Ornithology #EuropeanBirds #NatureJournal

Experiments involving 276 soil-derived microcosms reveals that the ecological process of necromass recycling promotes diversity maintenance in bacterial communities 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

European Scientists who said NO to Epstein-funding are the heroines of this hour🦸‍♀️ They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Local train honoring wife of Karl Marx, Jenny Marx née von Westphalen, who was born in Salzwedel, a town in this area.

Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Bruno Studer argues that strict NGT laws favor big corporations by creating high entry barriers. To keep Swiss breeding local and innovative, we need science-based regulation, not more hurdles. 🌾🚫 Thank you, "Schweizer Bauer", for the comprehensive interview! 👇 #PlantSciences #NGT

A small breeder's perspective on what the silver lining for #NGT approval in the EU means for them. www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/co...

Danke, Frau Lübcke MdB, für diesen ausgewogenen und wohl überlegten Beitrag! #NGT andrea-luebcke.de/presse/gente...

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.

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

This talk tomorrow on disinformation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social will take place at a slightly later time than originally advertised. Join us live at 6pm CET/12pm EST to ask your own questions. discord.gg/rDW7Z6aQ?eve...

My sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

RP 1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social

Last chance to apply - the deadline is tomorrow!

orthogene: a Bioconductor package to easily map genes within and across hundreds of species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Rstats bioconductor.org/packages/ort...

ICE detained Purple Heart veteran William Vermie for hours at the Whipple Federal Building. He says he’s speaking out because he’s white, he has privilege and if he doesn’t use it to stand up for others, who will? That is what solidarity looks like.

Are you a postdoc in plant biology? 🌾🧪 We invite you to join a community of 500+ postdoctoral researchers around the world. plantpostdocs.com/join-us/

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

2 postdoc openings in my lab: anelab.wisc.edu/join-us.html One for a maize geneticist and one for a bacterial geneticist Picture featuring @manishbiotechie.bsky.social, @balptekin.bsky.social and @sairamnagalla.bsky.social. The first two left my lab over the last few months to start their own labs!

“The Germans have a word for that” bro they just shoved two preexisting words together to make a new word. We can do that too. Don’t be Deutschdazzled.

Breast milk isn't just nutrition – it delivers live bacterial strains that colonize the infant gut and persist for months. Happy to share our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains between 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/

very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

Professorship Plant Ecology. Regensburg, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

Are you working on ancient plant DNA? 🌿 We are organising a symposium on Ancient plant genomics at #SMBE2026 in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Join Nathan Wales, Shuya Zhang, Marcela Sandoval Velasco, me, and our fantastic speaker Logan Kistler from the Smithsonian Institution. Help us spread the word!

What is the major role of anthocyanins—painting flowers, acting as sunscreens, responding to stress, or defending against pathogens? Our latest paper dives into the diversity and ecological functions of anthocyanins 🌈🌿 doi.org/10.1186/s128... #PlantSciences #Anthocyanins @bpucker.bsky.social

OPPORTUNITY: McGill Plant Science is looking for an expert in plant pathology, plant breeding, or horticulture in the context of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program (senior established researcher). Contact: www.mcgill.ca/plant/contact Program: lnkd.in/eavfNu7e Please re-post.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

Out after peer review, led by @shanshanwang3.bsky.social. Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

More academics should follow opera singer Denyce Graves’ example www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

“We did our absolute best to get the best possible outcome from these products.” but “The biggest surprise of anything is that nothing worked anywhere,” says Naeve. “Even among cynical people like me, that was really shocking.” Me too. blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu/2026/01/do-b...

Totally agree. We need exemplary initiatives how to provide emeritus status based on contributions to academia other than maintaining a lab (which at the end of someone’s career is often understaffed/-funded and thus not very productive anymore). (I have such plans for when the time comes!)

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

This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New low for @deutsche-bahn.bsky.social: Email informs me that planned 9 hour trip from London to Berlin, with 2 transfers, no longer possible. New itinerary suggested by Deutsche Bahn: 24 hour trip with 12 transfers. Really?