An “oldie “but like the featured pic @plant-sci.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social

As an AuDHD woman (how original, who isn’t?), I find it hard to show leadership by selling 2% accurate science wrapped in 98% performative packaging and BS. I’d love the UK academia to recruit leaders who are subject-matter experts, not big-picture pitchers. @ukri.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Who has ever used AI for dating advice, or to decode mixed signals from a crush? 🙋‍♂️ Guilty. Just be careful with sycophancy. AI is often very good at telling us what we want to hear, not necessarily what we need to hear. #AI #Dating #Relationships #Psychology

A minimal transcription factor network is sufficient to drive paclitaxel biosynthesis | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very interesting... @natplants.nature.com @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social @plantbiotechj.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/marek-...

Reviewer 2 on my paper: “Rejected. I skimmed the conclusion and want unrelated experiments.” Editor on a paper I reviewed carefully and rejected for lacking a proper negative control: “Accepted, partially based on your review.” When rigorous peer review is randomized...

Note to scientists. If you go to a seminar, don’t bring your laptop to do some work on it. If you think you look cool, you don’t. You just look impolite and disrespectful! #research, #science

FYI. If you read in the author contribution that “XX provided early insights” or “XX contributed intellectually”, it means “XX mansplained the obvious and claimed authorship for this manuscript” @nature.com @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social @plantbiotechj.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com

youtube.com/watch?v=7DTT... The positive side is that anyone with a flat brain can become President

When I met with BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA a couple of weeks ago, I wish I had asked him to show me his VERY WELL made HOLLYWOOD MASK that he wore to sometimes do press conferences while impersonating "Joe Biden"!! Everyone now knows that. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MISSED OPPORTUNITY.

Nobody: “I want an amber drink that looks like it captured the golden hour.” Biophysicist: “Hold my Beer–Lambert.”