And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

Around the equinox, we see an increased interest in how biological rhythms are affected by light. UK #Chronobiology academics have been communicating the research on this for over a decade now - check out this timeless podcast episode on rhythms: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #SciComm 🧪

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... UK first clinical trial for genetically edited food

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) A circadian transcriptional subnetwork and EARLY FLOWERING 3 control timing of senescence and grain nutrition in bread wheat nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check this #scijob --Postdoc--Biotechnological Innovations for Red Palm Weevil apply.workable.com/iita/j/286D0...

Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk “Language of violence” in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Are you a biologist or an ecologist with a research interest in pathogens, bacteria and symbionts? Join our upcoming residential meeting in Manchester on obligate intracellular bacteria on 3-4 November 2025. royalsociety.org/science-even...

BLOG - Data harvesting down on the experimental farm In our latest blog, read about the 2025 harvest at the John Innes Centre’s field trials and experimental farm - the earliest on recent record, befitting a pattern of extreme weather variation due to climate change. www.jic.ac.uk/blog/data-ha...

Read this superb thread if you are interested in #microbialevolution #foodmicrobiology #cheeseproduction #naturalproduct #whytoarchivemicrobialsamples or you just want to learn about this cool cheese rind microbiome project published from @benwolfe.bsky.social lab

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms: congratulations to Jack Dorling, Isobel Banks and Georgia Love from the lab for writing this review #CurrOpinMicrobiol @microclockerc.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The 2025 agar art contest is open and accepting submissions until Oct. 26! The theme is “Microbes Make the World Go Round.” Submit your artwork and showcase the vital role microbes play in our daily lives. All are welcome to apply! See contest details: asm.org/events/asm-a...

Our @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Friday seminar today is hosted by Hyeonmin @Hynmn_Jeong / Susana Coelho on the curious world of brown algae 👀

EVENT - 4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 🗓️ 12 December 2025 ⏰ From 9:30 am 📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge... 💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6 @philcarella.bsky.social

Join us for the 4th annual NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

I'm really looking forward to visiting Norwich again and sharing my perspective on why plants are the most amazing and important organisms in the universe! 🌱💚

🚨 Applications are open for the 2026 JXB Editorial Internships! 🚨 🌱 Designed for ECRs, you will gain behind-the-scenes publishing experience, write commentary pieces & join the JXB Editorial Board meeting next year 👩‍💻✈️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns #PlantScience 🧪

EVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges! Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025 💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025

I am not entirely convinced about ChatGPT's response

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

One year anniversary of our third #ERCSyG interview that led to @microclockerc.bsky.social We are privileged to work on chronomicrobiology in the next 6 years and explore the time keeping mechanism in Bacillus subtilis together with @marthamerrow.bsky.social and @antdodd.bsky.social

New publication from our lab, in Science Advances: Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded the Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award 🙏 £1.4m over 5 years. The start of an exciting new journey 🚀

Did you know that over 20% of all oxygen in the sea is produced by just one organism? It's called Prochlorococcus and it's a type of bacteria! They're fundamental to the ocean but rising temperatures are a growing threat. Find out what this could mean for marine life👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

This might be one of the simplest images I captured, but very fascinating nonetheless, as it shows how tight the cytoplasm in a plant cell is. The cytosol and all other organelles are squished between the plasma membrane (magenta) and the central vacuole (its membrane is green) #MicroscopyMonday

The home grown tomatoes have been brilliant this year. Quite pleased with myself for actually growing something successfully!

Please re-post: Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Abstract deadline: 30 September

🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards. www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Applications for the 2026 Pivot to Plants Fellows Program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are now open. Location: St. Louis, MO Application Deadline: October 15, 2025 Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026 Estimated Stipend: $37,275 Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

We are very happy to announce the seven pioneering researchers who are the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships, long-term awards that support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...

What is it with all the massive spiders in Norwich at the moment?

Had to look up an old paper to get the doi. It still completely boggles my mind that TWO Nobel prizes have been given for small RNAs and this work wasn't recognized by either. Abstract is literally like "yeah, we found these tiny antisense RNAs and think they're probably causing gene silencing"

Global phenology maps reveal the drivers and effects of seasonal asynchrony | Nature share.google/GZ5X7WR40b8K...

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

Sacrifice him! youtube.com/watch?v=Dqw2...

Double the discovery, double the momentum 🚀 Europe doubles down on research competitiveness with a major boost to #HorizonEurope: €95.5 billion foreseen for 2021-2027 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 €175 billion proposed for 2028-2034 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

Born #OnThisDay in 1797 was author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who wrote the Gothic novel 'Frankenstein' in 1818. The book is considered by some to be one of the first sci-fi novels, with protagonist Victor Frankenstein using both science and alchemy to create a living creature from dead bodies.

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

If you've never been to continental europe it's hard to understand how temperate it is relative to a lot of the u.s. we should try to keep this place liveable for the people to come. what else are we doing, business data analytics? plz. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

NEWS - Professor Yiliang Ding awarded prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship These long-term @royalsociety.org awards are worth £8m over 10 years to support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. Congratulations @yiliangding.bsky.social 👏 👉 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍

Sexually dimorphic and clock gene-specific effects of artificial light at night on Drosophila behavioural rhythms #ProcB #OpenAccess #Behaviour #Neuroscience royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

For those of you leaving #EBRS2025 the trains to Hamburg are a bit disrupted. Makes me feel quite at home to be honest…