Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Just awesome.

Sending two PhD students into the world. Well done Viet D Nguyen and Benjamin Wee

Explains how I feel... 😄 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trying to submit a paper: Step 1: Build pdf from pdfs - fail Step 2: Please upload Supp Tables in Excel 2000 format... 😱

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Stolle done

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨 🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿 📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi 📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025 📄 We welcome contributions! Got an manuscript in mind? Contact JXB office 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

🚀 New preprint! We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1 #Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean

Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Tripping stones / Stolpersteine in Rome

If you have tickets and really want to get in, just wait 2 or 3 hours standing in the sun, but we might close it in the meantime... Only God knows...

Yeah, it's all nice, but the Westfalenstadion is still better

A day in Rome 1/n

First day in Rome

Palermo

Cefalu

Castelbueno

Valley of the temples, Agrigento

Villa Romana del Casale

Was hard to see Mt Etna today, even from closeup

Catania, day 2

Catania

Last meal in Germany

Diez

Crossing the Rhine by ferry in St. Goar, then on to Koblenz

Markus and Rüdiger wrapping up #SWS2025 with awards and prizes. Thailand it is in three years.

Arrived in Heidelberg for the International Plant Sulfur Workshop #SWS2025