"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. " www.wired.com/story/poems-...

🚨 Research Fellow Opportunity 🚨 Join @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social & @quadraminstitute.bsky.social to explore the Brain-Gut Axis. 📍 Norwich Medical School ✅ £48,822–£56,535 📅 Apply by 1 Dec Lead pioneering research at the neuroscience–microbiome interface. 👉 vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...

"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacentres, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What makes port so rich and complex? Discover the chemistry behind your festive favourite, from sun-baked grapes in Portugal’s Douro valley to the sweetness provided by fortification.

Need for a shared language and minimum information standards for bioprocess development - @ucl.ac.uk go.nature.com/3X3ZG6q

Join our PhD position at UEA, working on glycoprotein biopharmaceuticals, automated multi-step flow chemistry and enzymatic glycoengineering. With @robfieldlab.bsky.social and Dr A Beekman. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Home students (UK only)

Are you looking for a PhD in Plant Science? Check our our project on barley canopy architecture. Combine genetics and physics to understand how awns influence barley grain development. Find out more here: lnkd.in/eWhWammJ Apply by 14th December. #PhDPosition #PlantSci @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Thought-provoking final paragraph here on the social cost of carbon. "From that perspective, the question is less, “Why are flights so cheap?” and more, “Who actually pays for them?” " www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available go.nature.com/479Sni6

‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Study for life

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet. If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S. Read this in @bloomberg.com👇 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

Non-catalytic functions of ISOAMYLASE 1 and 2 affect the proportion of insoluble and soluble α-polyglucans in maize (Tracie A Hennen-Bierwagen, Martha G James, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team! They will work on homeolog-informed approaches to tackle cold tolerance in wheat @johninnescentre.bsky.social Please find out more and apply here: jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?... #plantsciences #plantscijobs

Happy birthday, Rex!! 🥳🎂 Yesterday, Rex the JIC #Science Cat celebrated his 10th birthday. Rex has been an iconic figure at the JIC for the last five years, greeting visitors at reception and proudly prowling around the NRP 🐾

Why do cats insist on eating grass, when it only seems to make them throw up? Scientists have proposed many theories over the years, but the latest may be the one that sticks—literally. https://scim.ag/4ntn8VB

🚨Happening in three days, Friday, September 26, 2025, at 12:00 pm Eastern Time. Join us!🌱 👉Free registration at plantae.org/plantaeprese... #PlantScience

The putative endo-1,4-β-D-glucanase GLU3 regulates cellulose biosynthesis in barley roots (Li Guo , Serena Rosignoli , Magnus Wohlfahrt Rasmussen , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

📢 Join us for the next GlySpace Alliance Webinar! 🗓️ Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | 10 AM ET 🎙️ @dbojar.bsky.social‬ presents: “Structure, Function and Everything in Between: Glyco-AI goes 3D” 🔗 Info: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All... #glycotime #bioinformatics #cfde

Our collaborative review article on the latest strategies and applications of synthetic cell communication is now out! With Allen Liu (+group) Published in Nature Chemical Biology @natchembio.nature.com #syncell #syntheticcell @syncelleu.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An interesting sentiment; bringing more critical thinking, analysis, and interdisciplinary work across all courses is crucial to develop and empower students in the age of AI.

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

'Put simply, we have a really strange system in higher education, where nobody admits how much things actually cost, nobody admits who’s paying for what, research is kept alive on the toil and goodwill of underpaid academics....'

Norwich Pride 2025 Norwich Research Park

Plastidial starch phosphorylase regulates maltodextrin turnover during starch granule initiation in Arabidopsis leaves (Liping Wang , You Wang , Regina Feil , Gregory J MacNeill , John E Lunn , Ian J Tetlow , Michael J Emes) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Non-profits wade in where for-profit life science investment fears to tread www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Over the past few years, our PlastChem team has worked tirelessly to map the chemical complexity of #plastics. Today, we publish the findings in @nature.com. We hope this evidence propels the development of safer plastics to protect human health and environment. 1/4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬🌿 DARWIN REVIEW 🧬🌿 🧱 Fuertes-Rabanal et al. compare the cell surfaces of plant, algae, and microbial cells, known as cell walls, which, despite being different, also share designs and functionalities 🧱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

I've spent the past few months researching and writing (what I think is) the biggest pub guide ever published by a national newspaper (50,000 words!) - and today its been published! www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/best-...

Meeting with your PI

New research shows that simply changing how a reaction vessel is positioned on a magnetic stirrer can significantly change a reaction's speed and product quality, influencing the reproducibility of results. #ChemSky #ScienceSky #EduSky

The UK isn't alone in its chemistry department cut-back woes. From New York to California, the alarm bells are ringing, with tariffs and a tense political climate feeding a climate of concern.

A Perspective by Mark Howarth @howarthsci.bsky.social‬ discusses click biology as an analogy to click chemistry, examines reactions using building blocks present in living cells, and highlights opportunities for fundamental research and synthetic biology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is a world without #beer, #wine #sake #bread, #cheese livable or even imaginable? All of these delights & more, we owe to the domestication of one particular kind of #fungi by our ancestors. Jose Paulo Sampaio & Ana Pontes review the biology of #yeast domestication www.cell.com/current-biol...

Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.12.659391v1

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Plant proteins: functions, regulation, production and utility🌱 👉 buff.ly/1Mm5ULh #PlantScience

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years! The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Our latest work found that homoeolog expression bias is inherited for ~26% of triads in wheat. Intriguingly we found that new patterns of homoeolog expression bias are more frequent when one of the parents is a landrace. Read more in Genome Biology: rdcu.be/eokf2 @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Join my lab as a postdoctoral research scientist to investigate the diversity of drug-resistant #Salmonella and how #bacteriophages can help future food safety. Apply by 2 July, details below!

Food for thought. Field trials are undoubtedly valuable for assessing the real-world performance of crop lines and give confidence that findings are useful? In biomedical science, a paper would rarely have full clinical trials for new mechanistic drug discoveries. rdcu.be/enXn4 #plantscience

🆕 Norwich Research Park putting Norfolk on the map for science 📰Today's EDP highlights how Norwich is at the front of a new science revolution⤵️ @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @nnuh.bsky.social ‬ @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social ‬

If u ever had to depict proteins as schematics in papers, u know the dilemma: how to create a pretty “blob”? If structure ends up big & central, u’ll render it with PyMol et al, but for a truly schematic depiction u want a biorender-style icon, but for YOUR protein. Think I’ve finally found a way.

In advance of the forthcoming Immigration White Paper, CaSE and 36 other organisations have written to select Westminster Parliamentarians to restate our collective view of the importance of attracting international talent to the UK’s R&D and university sectors for economic growth.

Gold Nanoparticles functionalized with ABO Blood Sugar Antigen as Nanotools for Biomedical Applications #glycotime #CarbohydrateResearch

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Research Highlight: Engineered E. coli creates biodegradable plastics www.nature.com/articles/s41...