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...

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.   Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.   Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

"We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do." ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.

Want to dive into the datasets from our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper? 🌱📊 Check out this step-by-step guide on how to explore and analyze the #drought #recovery #datasets with Omnibusx: Check out the paper and datasets: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Tutorial: youtu.be/YI0RVFiQnMs

Gee, I wonder why. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

A pensive Minerva contemplating the precarious state of science in the world.

Insurance companies have actuaries who have crunched the numbers & know that it’s cheaper to pay for the vaccines than for a hospital stay & expensive drug therapies.

"But it cannot be utterly foolish to resist injustice when you so clearly see it, as, I presume, you must."

Hiding the truth.

Selbst denken ist schwer & voraussetzungsvoll. Es braucht Ruhe, Zeit, Konzentration, Ausdauer & die Lust, seine kognitiven Fähigkeiten weiterzuentwickeln. Diese Bedingungen werden Mangelware wenn ChatGPT & andere kostenl. #KI -Anwend. immer schneller Einzug in d. Lebensalltag vieler Menschen halten.

Good read www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Solar panels now cost peanuts (under 10 cents per W) in most of the world. Carbon dioxide emissions in high-income countries are now falling, and there's reason to believe other countries will be able to develop much more sustainably than those did. ourworldindata.org/grapher/annu...

Also a champion of important work done by Joanne Chory and the Harnessing Plants Initiative at @salkinstitute.bsky.social www.redfordcenter.org/films/plant-...

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social. This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more! 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Education is the enemy of fascism.

-Violence has no place in liberal democratic politics. Differences must be settled through the law and free elections. -The U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to debate politics without any government retaliatory action. -The Pres and VP should refrain from encouraging division and violence.

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"Considering the long history of liars winning debates by lying, you would have thought that intellectuals might have learned to stop debating liars." @hormiga.bsky.social ...from old timey creationism "debates", to climate etc. social media today. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/debating-is-...

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

“The work of McKnight and Görlich is a testament to curiosity-driven research.” William G. Kaelin, Jr writes about this year’s Basic Research #LaskerAward winners in the @pnas.org #Lasker2025 collection. @mpi-nat.bsky.social #phaseseparation #biophysics www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Worth reading Maria Leptin's doc on the drivers for proposed changes to the ERC application & evaluation process. One goal is to try to rescue high risk/creative proposals from being weeded out too early (without prolonging the evaluation cycle or overburdening evaluators)

The #Drosophila Dscam1 gene generates 10000s of isoforms, but only a small fraction supports neuronal functions. This study shows that #fitness & #immunity are the likely primary evolutionary drivers of Dscam1 isoform diversity in #arthropods @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4gp8cWd

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding. More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

I am excited to announce that we are looking for a Lab Manager @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel. If you want to be part of a growing team investigating development and tissue formation, and are enthusiastic about helping set up a new lab, please check out the role: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Those Russian drones penetrated very deep into NATO territory, far deeper than should ever be considered acceptable.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation Penicillium solitum over 8 years in a cheese cave => green-to-white shift @currentbiology.bsky.social from @benwolfe.bsky.social with @kellerlab.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

In the MSCA global fellowship there is a mandatory "outgoing phase", for mobility from the chosen european host to an "outgoing country" out of Europe and back.. EU bureaucratic language can be misleading :)

Chart from last year... No big change in % of US applicants, or? . marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

Australia has a similar fellowship called DECRA www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese.... Get in touch if you are interested in applying early next year.

check the fotos and geo-locations in Flora Incognita, the MPI Leipzig citizen science app for flowers - every scan gets deposited many allow sharing of photos (me) floraincognita.com/news/

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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...

I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.

@UniBasel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

SINGER is a fantastic method for ARG Inference and based on some of the analyses I've seen definitely the best trade off between accuracy and sample size

University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

1/2 Many years ago, @plantylisasmith.bsky.social identified an Arabidopsis hybrid incompatibility due to interaction between different alleles at the OAK receptor-like kinase (RLK) locus, but it was unknown why there is so much sequence diversity at this locus journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Today Lucía takes you by the hand and walks you through the entire ERC #evaluation process — from panel selection to interview. Learn who reviews your #proposal, how decisions are made, & how to best increase your chance of success. 👇 #research #funding #grant #AcademicSky

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

Massive congratulations to @canaztekin.bsky.social for being awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu ! 🎉 His "Signal to Regeneration" (SigReg) project will explore the potential of limb regeneration in mammals. Read more and watch Can introduce his project: s.gwdg.de/cLAmJE

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Our data stewards have started recommending that we no longer use US-based infrastructure for #openscience practices, given the risk of (near-future) censorship, from pre-print and data hosting to preregistration and more. That includes OSF.

Biology never ceases to amaze!

It quite the world‘s fastest train (TGV)

As someone recently promoted to full prof, I don't think I was ready for the deluge of tenure/promotion requests. I am writing more this year than in all prior years put together! Super rewarding and cool work (I am so proud of my colleagues' contributions!), but definitely takes some effort.