@sheilaroitman.bsky.social from Detlef Weigel's lab @plantevolution.bsky.social presents a cool and innovative talk on the uncharacterized members of the plant microbiome: phages!! So many bacterial 16S studies but very few people study the plant phagome #PMS2025

The Dobzhansky Prize recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The awardee will present the Dobzhansky Prize plenary at #Evol2026. Apply by December 1! shorturl.at/p70wY

Hybridisation breaks species barriers in long-term coevolution of a cyanobacterial population. buff.ly/EaJskBA

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

The 1st pregnancy via A.I. detected sperm (by finding 5 motile sperm in 2.5 million images) from a 39-year-old man with infertility. @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Pumpkin carving contest 2025🎃 Creative pumpkins from labs across @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social Our lab's @plantevolution.bsky.social "Carveolution" evolved it's way to 1st place 🏆

DeSantis orders Board of Governors to ‘pull the plug’ on H1-B visas in universities floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/29/_...

The quest (by Lana Sushko)

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

Football ⚽️ in San Diego. Impressive fan base in San Diego FC’s inaugural season. A fun playoff win against Portland last night.

VERY HAPPY to share our last publication...In a world full of SNPs...k-mers made the most biological sense out of the complex wheat genome! 🌱🧬 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Grateful to Benjaming Jaegle for the trust, & co-authors for their collaboration!

Shout out for former postdoc @plant-trx.bsky.social, who just started his own lab at the Weizmann institute! Yoav is working on several awesome studies! www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voich...

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! Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics #pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🥹 Afghan women who escaped Taliban slavery have formed a football team in Australia. Today, in Morocco, they are making their debut in official FIFA friendly matches under the Afghan flag.

Großflächige Photovoltaik in der Wüste wirkt sich positiv auf die lokale Ökologie aus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The “Art of Longevity” — is it by any chance left-handed DNA?

1/2 Ich kenne keinen Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund der/die in Deutschland lebt und keine rassistische Erfahrung hatte! Selbst wenn man hier geboren und sozialisiert ist und die beste Ausbildung hatte und noch so anerkannt ist, muss man sich von Rassisten Sprüche anhören lassen....

Google Scholar has introduced a 'Sh-index' metric that scores papers higher if you are first or last author. Apart from the fact metrics are generally bad, this one explicitly punishes PIs who often collaborate, publishing with 2 or 3 equal PIs at the end of the list. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So to bacteria, plants are simply another environment albeit with a weird element of hierarchical information sharing across environments that gives a dash of predictive benefit at least transiently. Close?

At @nationalacademies.org annual meeting. An award recipient (92 years old, born in Slovakia) just reminded us, in her acceptance speech, “Science always survives - it even made it through Stalin. Don’t let your curiosity be diminished.” 🌼🧪📈🩺

I was thinking of the work in primary metabolism with basically all small effect loci. Although even the glucosinolates have dozens to hundreds when you mask the major. Although I am never clear when oligo and poly begin and end as the definition of poly I hear is almost mathematically impossible.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were migrants too who fled an oppressive regime in order to seek a better life. They serve as the archetype for today’s migrants who look for a new place to call home.

Best poster I saw so far

I haven’t the froggiest idea why…

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

We come to similar conclusions (we cite them in our discussion), but they say - in a somewhat hopeless way - that paralog divergence is an obstacle to genotype-to-phenotype prediction. We actually think paralog divergence is quite predictable. We’re now trying to find and test such predictors.

Our team is Legend (wait for it) dary! Ohio State, Stanford, UW Madison, UW Seattle, UC Santa Cruz, Arizona State & of course the Native Bio Data Consortium within the borders and legal jurisdiction of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation! Woop woop! First time ever! The FOUR BANDS lead the way again!

Our paper on the evolution (duplicated) gene expression divergence in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes is now out @theplantcell.bsky.social w/ @yvdp.bsky.social #PlantSci #Evolution academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Paper alert. In which we study FT-like genes in #Cannabis and #hops doi.org/10.1186/s128...

#Intercropping & #CropRotation are ancient #agricultural practices that increase yield & #DiseaseResistance in #crops. This Essay discusses the role of plant-derived metabolites & microbes in these systems and how they can contribute to #SustainableAgriculture @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4op7k6W

😮😮😮 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

PENN IS OUT! That means both institutions that signed prior agreements with the administration have said no. We're at 3 rejections. I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Accurate somatic small variant discovery for multiple sequencing technologies with DeepSomatic www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eLny0) github.com/google/deeps...

NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS: Our new MSc in Environmental Change and Policy (ECP) at Oxford’s @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social Programme starts 2026. Apply here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

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Some people tend to think that life nowadays is worse than in the past. Objectively (statistically) speaking this is just wrong. HDI measures education, life expectancy and purchasing power. In some countries (e.g. US) the improvement is mild, in others (e.g. China, India) it's dramatic.

🚨🧬Next Generation Sequencing scientist position! Shorter link for easier access! tinyurl.com/SRA-81640 🙏Appreciate the sharing! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

While California is at the forefront of the battery storage revolution, this trend is now being adopted worldwide. Global capacity projected to increase by 67% to 617GWh this year alone and is expected to grow tenfold by 2035. By 2027 massive increase in capacity is forecasted for major economies.

Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research. If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

So a we’ll-known scientist founds a company that has RNA-seq as its core tech. Publishes a paper on a new RNA-seq data set with this conflict of interest statement. What gives?

Paris is beautiful — clean, few unhoused, limited car traffic. Is that because that’s what they are reading?

Great PhD opportunity for cutting edge research in a supportive, well resourced lab!

Great piece by Joachim Frank, a Nobel laureate at Columbia from Germany who has been standing up for science and democracy throughout this year. www.usnews.com/opinion/arti... 1/2

New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

What is likely to happen is more insidious Which journals are included in PubMed? You should expect to see the NIH director’s bloggy pseudo journal pop up there soon based on these criteria

Uncertainty in joint Ancestral State Reconstruction: Improving accuracy and biological interpretability of ancestral state prediction doi.org/10.1101/2025...