I am annoyed that scrolling through YouTube now just regularly includes videos entitled "Recent Film You Haven't Seen - Massive Spoiler Scene (Clip 1/10)"

Want hands-on experience in nanobody discovery? Join a 5-day practical course at the Rosalind Franklin Institute this October, covering how nanobodies are discovered, engineered and applied. Share with your colleagues and apply by 30th June: www.rfi.ac.uk/latest/event...

Can only be Frank Welker

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

Inside me are two wolves, one is saying awoooooooooooooo which has obviously prompted the other one to say awooooooooooooo as well

Should have been Moldova or Australia

Moldova, Moldova, Moldova

Genetic variation underlying plasticity in physiological traits mediates response to climate in a Populus hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.13.724884v1

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

Come work with me @rbgkew.bsky.social with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on the Conservation Genetics of orchid populations! 🧬🌿 Apply for the Harding PhD studentship "Surviving small: genetic diversity, symbiosis and resilience in orchid populations", deadline 31st May www.kew.org/science/trai...

Thanks very much for coming and giving a great talk, and much interesting discussion!

Happy National Plant Health Week! 🌱🌳

Genetic mapping of Dutch elm disease resistance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.28.721446v1

You should try duck

#InternDiarySeries – Week 3/8 📖🌳🔬 Today we are highlighting Cas who worked with our Investigating ash health genomics after long-term ash dieback exposure team! Find out more about Cas’ experience creating recombination maps using population genetics data: www.forestprotection.uk/2026/04/22/i...

🍃 Join @annbot.bsky.social Special Issue celebrating 60 years of discovery in C4 photosynthesis, edited by Rowan Sage & guest editors Marj Lundgren, Robert Sharwood & Luke Dunning. (1/4) @marjorielundgren.bsky.social @luketdunning.bsky.social #C4Photosynthesis #PlantScience #CropScience

#InternDiarySeries - Week 2/8 📖🌳🔬 Today we are highlighting Liam, whose internship involved working to investigate ash health genomics after long-term ash dieback exposure. Read about Liam's experience here: www.forestprotection.uk/2026/04/15/i... 🔗

You can do it

Yes!

Breaking news: With more than 70% of the votes counted, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party is projected to win a two-thirds majority in Hungary's election ft.trib.al/a7M8jyZ

It is officially summer

Join the University of Sheffield as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in plant-genome analysis, focusing on horizontal gene transfer in flowering plants. Apply by April 23: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ547/research-associate-plant-phylogenomics #postdoc

Happy to share this paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social, now published in Molecular Biology and Evolution! Using replicated hybrid zones, we explored patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce and found strong signals even at very fine geographical scales! doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Using up the last of those pesky cabbage + kale leaves/flowers etc

Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ547/r...

Silly dog

Dog says: Together, anything is possible

Proud that this work is now published! We hope it helps orient future #Nanopore long-read sequencing studies hunting for structural variants Also really happy to share eight new high-coverage (>100x) long-read read pools and assemblies with the #Drosophila community! doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

It's that magical time of year once again

Genomic basis for resistance to acute oak decline and mildew infection in English oak https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709495v1

Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? 🎓 Dr @laura-j-kelly.bsky.social is offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social building on @forest-protection.bsky.social research 🪲🪾 Find out more and apply below ⬇️

"Don't smile because you got a treat - cry because you ate it" - ancient dog proverb

Collins et al. combined expression, methylation, and genomic data to investigate long-term persistence of laterally acquired genes in the grass Alloteropsis, showing that those capable of regulating their own expression are more likely to persist. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag042 #evobio #molbio

Cold Storage: fiiiiiinnneee I guess, probably would have been improved if they'd removed the entire Liam Neeson storyline and perhaps made the rest of it better. But at least they tried

Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? I’m offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social to build on @forest-protection.bsky.social research on pest and pathogen risks to trees 🪲🪾🦠🪾 Apply by 13th March! www.kew.org/science/training-and-education/placements-for-phd-students

Crop scientists have long recognized that reproduction is going to be the first point of failure for plants with rising global temperatures. However, this has often been overlooked by those studying natural populations. In this new review, we try to change that. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🌳🔬🥳 In our latest blog, we shine the spotlight on six of our talented researchers who represent a variety of scientific disciplines across a range of our projects 🔦 Read their reflections on working in forest science here: shorturl.at/WmZzc

Something almost spiritual about having a dentist appointment at two thirty

See staring at this for hours is the sort of thing AI being great at coding could take from us - a travesty

Watching Tàr and Thor Ragnarok turns out it's Cate Blanchett season

These are by @probablyday.bsky.social and as a long-time aficionado of Jeeves and Wooster I am DYING with how on-brand these are. Even if you are unfamiliar with them, you will love this thread, they are all bangers.

I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)

Our very own Centre for Forest Protection Lead Jess Allan, and CFP-funded PhD student and former intern Phoebe Swift will be speaking at the @rsb.org.uk #BioscienceCareersDay 🎓 Bookings close 2 March- don't miss out⏰ 🔗 For more information and to book your place, see www.rsb.org.uk/bioscience-c...

Please remain in the queue, your HPC job is very important to us

Tired: geopolitics Wired: Gee! Oh! politics

Looking forward to my new oven door handle arriving so I don't have to keep prising the door open with a spoon. Picture unrelated