A million seconds is 11.6 days A billion seconds is nearly 32 years A trillion seconds is nearly 32,000 years

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

Now that Im finally here, I'm excited to announce that I've joined @salkinstitute.bsky.social as a postdoc with @lmueller.bsky.social Keep your eyes open for everything AMF symbiosis, peptide biogenesis, and the apoplast!

878 billion. Can fund NSF (check math) for 87 years. Yeah wrap your head around that.

Turns out we can harness apomixis to develop self-reproducing sorghum hybrids. Our newly published paper with Corteva Agriscience @cortevaagriscience.bsky.social Paper available in Plant Biotechnology Journal today: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🧪

Interested in doing a postdoc on fundamental problems in plant biology? Apply for our Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology. Due 12/4/25: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/13/applications-for-simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology-now-open/ #biology #lifesciences

"Postdoctoral fellow Plant Molecular Biology/Biotechnology at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=osena_11-5-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3… rdcu.be/eNEf4 A short thread:

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

1/ Preprint alert:
 🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social

brings to mind a Nigerian saying: “knowledge was chasing him, but he was faster”

So UW Madison posted this today. "A dissertation shy of finishing his doctorate." ...that's ..the whole doctorate?!

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

Tried a PCR twice. Failed twice. Guess what. You are never too experienced to forget to reverse complement the reverse primer. 😂

Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect? The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded. EU should turn on the tap marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

🧪 so many bioactive compounds ⏰ so little time

Growth-coupled microbial biosynthesis of the animal pigment xanthommatin — Led by Leah Bushin, featuring M. Gracia Alvan, @danielvolke.bsky.social @oscarpuiggene.bsky.social in a fantastic collaboration w/Brad Moore @labnikel.bsky.social @natbiotech.nature.com 🦑 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A word that has become a euphemism for promoting and selling things without data or evidence

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUzR... Documentary: from chili pepper to red pepper oil. (English subtitle)

Repeating what I said last year at this time--there is a special place in Hell for the person who decided we should rate 20 characteristics of a person to submit a grad school recommendation--talking about you Liason and IU which uses it

A quick search I found this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38500495/ "Identification of dihydromyricetin as a natural DNA methylation inhibitor with rejuvenating activity in human skin". Dihydromyricetin DHM is a plant derived flavanonol natural product. This is the active ingredient?

Active ingredient 5-azacytidine?

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

Good (long) Sunday read about how the “AGI narrative” works — spoiler: “It’s not utopia or hell—it’s OpenAI and its peers making a whole lot more money.” Here are a few more quotes/important points I likes to read:

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

will kim is still in ICE detention

[johnny cash ‘a boy named sue’ voice] a gene named ass

🧬🧪Research Technician Position Open🧬🧪 HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

🧬🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱🧬 -Please spread the words HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based analyses/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

At this point I am surprised there aren't more protests against Johnson. They (House GOP) really don't give a shit, do they?

Food banks will be able to do more with a cash donation than a donation of food. They can buy in bulk and get way more stuff than you can for the same dollar amount. But if you have an emotional need to give something physical, a few things to consider:

This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie. Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.

Rachel Riley has a PhD in Social Policy from Oxford - no scientific research or naval experience. The Admiral has a PhD in Computer Science. More of the Trump assault on science.

Made the first 5 constructs of the lab last week. All (at least 1 clone of each) came out correct after whole plasmid sequencing.

The Arabidopsis RPS5a promoter has a homopolymer run and unclear how many A's are actually there.

Golden Promise-rapid, a fast-cycling barley genotype with high transformation efficiency https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685778v1

Excited to introduce Auxenochlorella as a new algal reference organism for fundamental plant science and bioengineering. A paper in two parts: a genetic toolkit for site-specific genomic manipulation, paired with the most unusual genome I’ve ever worked on academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

The GRAPE selection escapes from slow in planta directed evolution #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱

The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @mskcancercenter.bsky.social 🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬 annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)

So close! TCP is GGNCCC.

Escaped Arabidopsis found outside the Biochemistry Building.

What (which TF family) does this motif looks like to you?

Our lab’s variegated peperomia makes green flecks on leaves, but only on the abaxial side. It’s the typical sandwich: L1 green-L2 yellow-L3 green, so guessing flecks are L1-derived cells dividing periclinally into L2. But how only on the abaxial side? Something to do with the super thick epidermis?

Good morning and happy #FungiFriday

There's a year-old problem with looping movies in Powerpoint on Mac. Movie plays once, jitters and then shows blocky artefacts. Same pptx works fine on Windows. Problem seems to be Mac-side (QT?) but 15.7.1 and 26.0.1 both show this behaviour. A solution, in case it helps anyone: 1/2

TET1 non-catalytic activity shapes the chromatin landscape that directs de novo methylation establishment in the male germline https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685418v1