I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Peace Action Wellington is calling a peace vigil on Monday, 2 March at 5:30pm meeting at the Cenotaph on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street. All people who oppose war are welcome.

#Antifungal resistance is a global threat, but epigenetic mechanisms drive rapid, reversible adaptation in fungi. This study shows that #RNAi or #heterochromatin driven #epimutations transiently silence the gene fkbA to confer FK506 #tacrolimus resistance in #Mucor @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qdttWc

Sic semper creepazoids Andrew’s existential dread is great. Acrylic on canvas board

We’re hiring! Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant @KamounLab “Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors” www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

“Tā Kim Workman spent 67 years working in the police and criminal justice system…he says, too little has changed in approaches to criminality and social harm. In fact, he says many of the attitudes and ideas that were prevalent when he joined the police force in 1958 remain entrenched today” #nzpol

This is one of the #ForestHealth topics that pushed me toward a career in #ForestPathology. Always a immense pleasure to see progress in restoring this keystone species to Eastern US deciduous forests

Delighted to see our work on the impact of drought on the oak microbiome featured on the cover of @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social Link to the article below this post 👇🏻

Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology. Deadline 09/03/2026. Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

This is excellent from @manucaddie.bsky.social & @newsroom.co.nz Absolutely well worth your time to read, it's evidence- & science- based, rooted in history and deep knowledge of the maunga. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/29/w...

NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This Saturday in Tāmaki Makaurau, join the call to unite and stand up for Māori, Transgender, Palestinian, Sikh communities and more who have faced attacks from govts and far right groups. Rally begins at Te Kōmititanga Britomart at 11am then march to Te Waihorotiu Myers Park. #nzpol

C. Brandon Ogbunu argues that incentives for flashy results over reproducible research have left science vulnerable to exploitation by movements like MAHA.

That RNZ 'New Gaza' article pissed me off enough to submit a complaint via RNZ's online complaint form and document how you too can submit a complaint and use my notes, if you wanted. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

PLEASE if you can help with funds for Te Araroa whānau to help Manaaki Matakāoa get shit done, helping whānau in need during the floods that have destroyed their whenua and have cut them off from everyone. www.manaakimatakaoa.com

#Plant pathogens secrete effectors to establish infections, but resistant crops select for resistance-breaking #pathogens. @mfseidl.bsky.social &co use #pangenome graph analyses of 19 resistance-breaking races of an #oomycete pathogen to identify several effectors @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qA6nKC

Reminder: regime voter suppression means you need to enrol early. vote.nz/enrolling/en...

This puts me in mind of pg. 28 (5§11) of a certain Simple Field Manual

Gift link - we all need to read this. Shoot this Resistance into my veins! After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇 🔗 www.hellodata.science #rstats #datascience #tidyverse

Thread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

A GIFT FOR YOU. A free download of the Cast Your Pod to the Wind lp awaits at www.TMBGshop.com. 23 TMBG rarities includes I’m Your Boyfriend Now, We Live in a Dump, Brain Problem Situation, and I Hear A New World w/ Robin Goldwasser. An Idlewild Recordings exclusive not to be on streaming sites.

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Venezuela #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nzpol

Weekly reminder to please be careful when resharing images and videos online because you might be sharing deepfakes. Here's some useful guidance I prepared earlier. When in doubt, it's better not to share! #nzpol www.1of200.nz/articles/how...

I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.

Remember the instructor, Mel Curth, who was fired from the University of Oklahoma due to giving a 0 for an essay that didn't have citations & wasn't on topic? She is going to the president of the University to fight for her job back on Friday, Jan. 2. Sign this petition to support her: unfiremel.com

OMFG, this is amazing. A foot-treadled Singer sewing machine hooked to a Hurdy Gurdy with a self-made mute (so he can play notes instead of the steady drone of the typical hurdy gurdy) using a theremin as a flange. I was instantly transported back to the 4th Doctor Who.

Friends and foes in the obligate plant pathobiome journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Sounds an interesting exploration of #Phytophthora threats to Seagrass. Hope a good student applies and makes headway.

Aotearoa: solidarity with trans people/trans kids BLOCK THE BAN National day of action Friday 19 December 6pm Western Park, Freemans Bay Tāmaki Makaurau (info from Block The Ban on instagram) poster features colours of trans pride flag (blue, pink and white)

GetGenome is proud to partner with @johninnescentre.bsky.social , @cimmyt.bsky.social , @gatesfoundation.bsky.social and #DEWAS to advance a bottom-up, equitable approach to access genomics 🌾 🧬 “Battling crop diseases without borders” www.jic.ac.uk/blog/battlin...

Reflections on the past, present, and future of quantitative plant disease epidemiology #LarryMadden doi.org/10.1146/annu...

I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building. medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...

🌿 Indigenous wisdom offers many ways: 10 diverse philosophies from around the world demonstrate how human-nature relationships can shift from domination to care. @IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment Read the report: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment

Significant new paper out from the Syngenta team. Guiding blight management. #Euroblight #Phytophthora New Mechanisms of Resistance to CAA and OSBPI Fungicides in Phytophthora infestans - Torriani - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dr. Lina Quesada (@NCState) joins host Matt Kasson to talk downy mildews, sweet potato diseases, and how her lab connects basic research to real grower needs. A great look at science and extension in action. 🎧 Listen now: https://www.plantopiapodcast.org/66

💯 one of my absolute favourite things in life. We love a gender-neutral salutation in this house.

Statement from Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa (Māori Medical Practitioners Association) expressing its condemnation of the banning of puberty blockers by the NZ government.

Pest survey card on #Phytophthora ramorum (non‐EU isolates) | EFSA www.efsa.europa.eu/en/supportin... @efsa.europa.eu #PlantHealth #PlantBiosecurity #InvasivePlantPathogens #Oomycete

🧵 1/ New preprint alert! From the FUTURE OAK project, led by the super talented @alejandra1909.bsky.social Large-scale culturing of the tree microbiome enables targeted disease suppression Here's what we found... 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#plur1bus posting (e3): if they have a "biological imperative" for complete coverage, why allow/encourage Carol's ~requests~ (which would diminish their physical capacity to meet their goal)? And why care about Carol's current mood if they're planning to assimilate w/o consent anyway?

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Add to that a modicum of pedagogy! At minimum, an understanding of how their audience engages and absorbs knowledge (a hint: not lectures)

Unravelling the diversity of soil fungal and oomycete communities in the Quercus ilex L. rhizosphere of dehesa grasslands: a metabarcoding approach #fungalcommunities link.springer.com/article/10.1...