Our current economy is rigged. It just is. A new report shows that 88 of the largest companies in America, including: Amazon Citigroup Haliburton Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Disney paid ZERO corporate income tax last year.

Thinking about a Master's in plant pathology? BSPP is offering up to 5 bursaries of £4,000 each to support students on MSc, MRes, or MPhil courses with a plant pathology focus. You don't need to be a BSPP member or based in the UK to apply. Deadline: 30 June 2026 bspp.org.uk/funds/mscmres

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

A walk in the park—Identifying healthy #greenspaces using scents Kay at al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @williamkay.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk #PlantScience

A walk in the park—Identifying healthy greenspaces using scents - I'm chuffed to get our early work (with Kathy Willis et al) out there: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to @naturerecovery.bsky.social for funding and support. @biology.ox.ac.uk @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social

A walk in the park—Identifying healthy greenspaces using scents - I'm chuffed to get our early work (with Kathy Willis et al) out there: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to @naturerecovery.bsky.social for funding and support. @biology.ox.ac.uk @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

a column on the brave, brave comedians who went to saudi arabia and told jokes about gay people and women drivers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kemi Badenoch said earlier this year that “silencing free speech harms democracy and “we must fight for it”. Unless of course its the free speech of a news organisation she happens to disagree with bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Jimmy Carter never needed redemption The former president, who has died at age 100, knew that America should not confuse restraint with weakness. By Mark Damazer www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Happy to announce our new Zymo paper (with @quietscientist.bsky.social) which looks at the amazing long-term survival of asexual spores (blastospores). We argue that primary disease inoculum doesnt have to come from wind-blown ascospores.... bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Tagging #PlantPathology #PlantScience and #MicroSky - and I nearly forgot, the first author of this work is here on Bluesky now, so congrats to @williamkay.bsky.social on the publication of this paper!