SMBE2026 Symposium 3 | Genome plasticity and evolutionary innovation 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

Thrilled to be hosting this session with @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social 🥳 Already looking forward to @danielcroll.bsky.social's talk and the other talks and posters that'll form part of this session! 🤩

A great genomics paper from my friend and colleague @drandiwilson.bsky.social on the expansion of heat stress related proteins in Rhizina undulata bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Excited to share our newest article, out in BMC Genomics! We looked at genomes of a bunch of Pezizomycetes without & without associations with fire to figure out how Rhizina undulata survives fire 🔥 R. undulata needs high temperatures for germination = fire is important for its life cycle 🔥

Attending the annual #PlantBiologicalsNetworkMeeting in Copenhagen today ✨️

The most elegant diagram to explain what the scientific process and the average research project looks like ✨️ So many side tracks that eventually don't make it into the final story, but are an integral part of the process. From Yanai & Lercher (2025) in Nature Biotech

56 RNAseq samples done and ready to be shipped! 🥳🧬🧫🧪🔬

Seeing Jennifer Doudna speak this afternoon at the Black Diamond in Copenhagen 🧬🧫🔬 Appropriately dressed in my #CRISPREngineer shirt from @thermofishersci.bsky.social 🧬💁‍♀️

10 years ago, I published my first, first-author paper 🤩 In some ways, it feels like just yesterday and I'm still a baby masters student 🥹 In other ways, it feels like this was 100 years ago 👵 Either way, the joy of seeing your work published never goes away ❤️

Blood. Sweat. Tears. Locust & root media. 🧪🔬🧫 🦗🌾

Super excited to share our newest paper, out in Current protocols! A collab btwn FABI & UCPH, we put together protoplast extraction protocols for 5 different fungal genera! 🍄 With applications for genome editing & long read seq, we hope this will be super useful! 🧪🧬

It's taken a while, but I'm finally trying a #MigraineHat.. 😅 I've been an icepack girlie for a very long time, but this 360° cooling effect is 👌 Not to mention the sound and light dulling effect too 😎 #Migraine #ChronicMigraine

And with that, another 4000-odd seeds have been sowed again 🌱💪

This little plate and its tiny bacteria left me heartbroken on Wednesday evening 💔 After months of planning and preparing, a pre-pilot trial and a pilot trial, I started my large RNAseq experiment last week 🥳 If everything went to plan, I'd be done by 28 March. But biology had other plans... 🧬

Safety first ⚠️ #Mycology #MolecularBiology #RNAseq #LiquidNitrogen

And I can finally say that my pilot experiment starts tomorrow 💪🌱🦗 If everything goes according to plan, the full experiment starts week after next! Let's go! 🤩 #MycoSky #FungiSky #RNASeq

The hardest ~35g I've ever worked for 😅🌱 Harvesting roots for this experiment has been a challenge 💪 Turns out that 360g of wet weight barley root = 36g dry weight 😂 But we've got the goods and the pilot experiment is underway!

Genomic divergence across the tree of life | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Hard relate. Decided not to go for good reasons, but the fomo is still real- especially when I know so many of my favourites fungi people are there! 🍄

Know anything about mycoviruses or fungal plasmids? Come see me at #ECFG17 and help me figure out what this circular element is I keep finding in Ascochyta pathogens of lentil and chickpea.

Never gonna get bored of : 1) "Dear Dr Wilson" 2) "... accept your manuscript" 🥳🥳 Happy Monday! 😅

When you’re chronically ill, it can be incredibly hard to maintain a baseline. There’s so much pressure to pretend that you’re better. To smile and deliver a convincing “I’m fine”. To play through the pain. Sometimes the best thing you can do for your body is rest, yet it’s so hard to do:

The world of #RNA #academicsky #scisky #bluesci

Two open positions for a lab manger and a laboratory technician. Applications from displaced federal employees are welcome. Lab manager position: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/410... Lab tech position: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/391... Please email [email protected] if you have questions

🌿✨ We are excited to announce that the official website for the 1st International Summer School on Plant PathoGenomics is now online! ✨🌿 Explore the details & apply now: www.2p4s2f.com #PlantPathology #Genomics #Bioinformatics #ResearchTraining #2P4S2F

Do you know what never fails to improve my mood? Talking to someone really smart about a thing they know really well, and learning about that thing from them.

Interesting Nature News Feature on Migraine and treatments 🧠 Happy that researchers have recognized that the CGRP meds aren't the be all end all, and that they'll be looking into other pathways too ✨️ Just hope I don't need to wait until I'm 70! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Living our best lives near Tromsø 🌌

Living my best life in Tromsø ❄️🩵

☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!

Okay, the #MEvoSky tag and feed is pretty damn cool if molecular biology and microbial evolution is your bag. Check it out.

🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project! 🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/] 📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/] Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject

When you’re chronically ill, your baseline is everything. Managing it can be a full time job. Non disabled people can’t understand how hard we work to ration energy, avoid infections & minimize setbacks. Even when you do everything “right”, progress can be wiped out in an instant 🧵

And then! You select "Accessibility" - and you'll see this screen:

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪 🥼🔬 Longing for the day when funding is ample, jobs are steady, and autocorrect stops changing "Curie" to "cutie". #academicsky

Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 👩‍🔬 May your experiments work, may your research be impactful, and may those papers be accepted with minor revision 🧬

Wonderful piece, @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social! Keep flying that flag! 🇿🇦 www.nature.com/articles/d44... #SouthAfrica #Africa #representation #palaeoanthropology #anthropology #evolution #paleosky #scisky #palaeoproteomics

And even better when the pilot experiment works exactly as you'd hoped 🥰 New student starting next week has an awesome project to get going on! 🤩🍄 #MycoSky #AcademiaSky #PassionProject

Another 1650 barley seeds sown over the weekend 🤩💪🌱 Hopefully the last (maybe second last...) batch 🤞

Are you an ECR or a Prof in Polar Marine Science? The Kristineberg Center for Marine Research & Innovation, Sweden, is offering two funded visitorships for 2025. Stay for up to one month in 2025, with all travel, accom & local costs covered! Deadline: 30 March 🦑🧪🌎🐠 www.gu.se/en/kristineb...

Little barley seeds have germinated and are doing well 🌱 Almost ready to harvest and for another 1600 seeds to be sown over the weekend 🤩 Will soon have enough root material to get going on my RNAseq experiment! 🤞 #ScienceSky #AcademicSky #BarleySeeds

For the last 2 months, we've had an incredible bachelors student in the lab 🤩 Last week, Victoria presented research on growth and germination rates in entomopathogenic fungi grown in different media types🍄🦗 So proud of her and everything she achieved 👩‍🔬 #AcademicSky #MycoSky

1540 barley seeds, individually sown into their hand sewn germination pouches 🌱🥰 #WednesdayWIP #SciSky

Surely one of the best parts of academia is getting to work on side projects that bring you joy 🍄 🧬 #AcademicSky #MycoSky

A mutation reveals chemical signals that help wheat plants attract beneficial fungi to their roots #mycosky #fungifriends #plants www.science.org/content/arti...

So it turns out that #NCBI SRA doesn't take pod5 raw files from Nanopore runs 🫠. Where are people putting their raw files then? #bioinformatics #Nanopore #genomics #sciencereproducibility #OpenScience

One thing I don't see discussed much about #ChronicIllness is the boredom and tediousness of it all. The last 2 weeks have been ROUGH migraine wise and I am SO. DAMN. BORED. OF. IT. So over it.

So tell me, how is your Friday going? 🙈🙈 I feel betrayed by my beloved tea 🥲

If you’re worried about the state of healthcare under the Trump administration, you should wear a mask. It won’t just protect you from COVID! A respirator protects from all kinds of viruses, wildfire smoke, pollen & more. It sends a clear message that you care about your health & health of others