Sheesh, petunia is gettin a little crowded. Might pivot to something else at this rate. Feels weird; might revisit the carpathian bellflower and/or foxglove. Let's see how long until that gets crowded too lol. Gotta love inspiration..
Sebastian S. Cocioba
@atinygreencell.bsky.social
Flower Designer at Neoplants 🌺 Researcher at Binomica Labs Degreeless Heathen Petunia and Snapdragon Breeder Open Lab Notebook: http://tinyurl.com/ATGCFFE
Sample of whatever tf is growing in my duckweed containers has been collected and pickled in Zymo Research's Zymo Shield. Ready to ship to @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social for microbiome analysis tomorrow morning. $45 for seq and $15 for extraction. $75 with shipping and everything. Exciting!
#PlantSci Review: Anthocyanins and betalains in evolution: Why mutual exclusion remains the best-supported model – contrary to recently published reports By @bpucker.bsky.social and MI Khan Read more #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci DOI: doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Anthocyanins and betalains in evolution: Why mutual exclusion remains the best‐supported model
Anthocyanins and betalains are plant pigments produced through different biosynthetic pathways and are generally considered mutually exclusive. We examine claims of their co-occurrence, arguing that ...
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Off to Chicago to tour Ball Horticultural and give a talk on all the cool stuff we're up to at Neoplants! Excited to talk flower design, Ai driven morphological exploration, and the deeply universal desire to bring beauty to this world by learning from nature. Let there be flowers.
Shiba Inu Gently Pets a Flower
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Bioengineering is just so cool. Poking at a cold fire that's been burning for billions of years, trying to get it to burn in a particular way, is nothing short of real practical magic.
Cozy Campfire in Dark Woods
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🌱SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS🌱 #AppsPlantSci is accepting proposals for a special issue highlighting video & imaging techniques that are driving novel research in plant science Proposal deadline: 5 Oct 2026 More info: bit.ly/4c3rLCw @noraflora10.bsky.social @drfloeem.bsky.social #botany
I repurposed my old Samsung S10+ as a duckweed growth monitoring server without any extra hardware. All processing done via termux on the phone. Thank you Claude for the from-scratch blob detection bc no termux OpenCV packages available. Needs work but not bad for a oneshot!
Ive been using this in my golden braid reactions and might actually go isothermal, speeding up a lot of my cloning runs. Only $8 more expensive than regular T4 Ligase. @NEBiolabs knocks it out of the park, yet again.
So cool to see a successful meristemic pocket hit. Root is red and a lil stunted. Getting closer. Also nice example of the stunting phenotype RUBY causes due to heavy tyrosine sink.
AC broke down and we had a baaad heatwave while I was away. This is why I dont like working with Arabidopsis. Meanwhile petunia could care less, lol. At least some survived...
Plot twist!!!! It's the root veggies that make the strain this color! Color not fully developed yet, and it gets darker as the veggies boil longer, not because of new ingredients, imo. #bluesoup
Elinne Becket, PhD@bielleogy.bsky.social · 2w agoSuccess!! Now to inoculate the strain when I get back to lab 😈
PHEW! Did an insane amount of physical therapy last week and took a lil time off to recover. Finally making inroads to fixing my spine and not be in endless pain. Excited to be back at the helm and continue my (mis)adventures in plant bioengineering. Let's do this.
Spinal Column Model Demonstration
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Tek et al. report chromosome-scale genome assemblies for four duckweed species; comparative phylogenomics with land plants and the seagrass Zostera marina reveals a coherent, non-random program of gene loss. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag163 #genome #societyjournal
Chromosome-Scale Genome Assemblies of Duckweeds Provide Insights Into Genomic Plasticity, Aquatic Adaptation, and Morphological Reduction
Abstract. Duckweeds (Lemnaceae) present a striking example of convergent genome evolution following the return from land to water. As the smallest and fast
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@atinygreencell.bsky.social Genomes!
Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 3w agoTek et al. report chromosome-scale genome assemblies for four duckweed species; comparative phylogenomics with land plants and the seagrass Zostera marina reveals a coherent, non-random program of gene loss. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag163 #genome #societyjournal
Hey microbio ppl, how bad is the cyclosporiasis outbreak? Should I be worried and avoid produce rn?
Manifesting getting my crap together to one day afford this comfortably. Also analog synthesizers inspire my device design style profoundly. I want all my science tools to control like analog synths; I even use headphone jacks (TRRS) as I²C interfaces. More on that soon!
It's wild how actually useful my chemistry courses have been in my bioengineering uncareer. One of the few value adds my brief experience with undergrad education afforded me. Gen chem, orgo, and obviously biochem were excellent at Stony Brook University. Top shelf chem dept!
SpliceCraft's main constraint of "it must work in *any* terminal" has been a really fun challenge so far. Had to make some compromises, but constraint breeds creativity. It's an exercise in accessibility that often is an afterthought these days. Low Res High Tech
Pixel Art Serene Mountain Lake Landscape
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@plasmidsaurus.bsky.social never sleeps. Handed my pack to UPS around 5pm and its already in their robots in Kentucky by 630am the next morning. Incredible.
A call out to our former postdoc John Mallon (not in social media), who contributed to both device development and “biology” :). John evolved a salt-loving archaeon to love salt a bit less (2.6M down to 1.3M!). Cells recovered growth rate AND cell morphology. Congrats Phil, Sebastian, and John!
Sebastian S. Cocioba@atinygreencell.bsky.social · 4w ago@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
OooooopenEvo! What a journey building this @atinygreencell.bsky.social , our baby is born! We hope this serves as a nice research tool as well as a teaching tool for biology, electronics and more!
Sebastian S. Cocioba@atinygreencell.bsky.social · 4w ago@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We are lil clumps of atoms feeling our way down a road that randomly ends one day, but along that road are other clumps of atoms to play with and love and experience. Such a strange reality, but I'm glad y'all are in it. Have fun, be kind, and love as much as you can. 💚
@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
OpenEvo: An Open-Source Platform for Automated Evolution and Analysis
Here we introduce OpenEvo, a fully open-source, low-cost turbidostat platform for automated continuous culture and directed evolution experiments. Existing tools are expensive, complex, or lack open-s...
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