The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social role in the AI Collaborative: Food Security highlighted at The TSL Autumn Symposium
Sophien Kamoun
@kamounlab.bsky.social
Biologist @ The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens & evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer. Web http://kamounlab.net | Medium https://medium.com/@kamounlab | GetGenome http://getgenome.net
I just published: If I could start over as a PhD student today, in 2026, what would I do? A conversation with a PhD student on deciding career trajectories, how to actually do science, science communication, and why bioRxiv is where the real record lives. kamounlab.medium.com/if-i-could-s...
If I could start over as a PhD student today, in 2026, what would I do?
A conversation with a PhD student on deciding career trajectories, how to actually do science, science communication, and why bioRxiv is…
kamounlab.medium.com
Tuesday’s midterms will test the “It’s the economy, stupid” theory. US 🇺🇸 averages: regular gas $4.17/gallon; diesel $6.30. Up 37% and 71%, respectively, from a year ago. stocks.apple.com/A7fQF-GBwQuS...
Stock Futures Rise With Tuesday’s Midterms Looming — Barron’s
U.S. stock futures are rising Sunday evening following last week’s tech-fueled market drop as the midterm elections loom. It’s the start of a new week and month of trading in New York, featuring anoth...
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Whatever you do will never be enough, but that’s no excuse to do nothing.
Kyle Broflovski: 'You Got To Do Something'
ALT: Kyle Broflovski: 'You Got To Do Something'
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Ironic. “China made Mbappé apologise (for calling Mao a dictator) - but many don't know exactly what he said.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China made Real Madrid's Mbappé apologise over Mao remark - but many people don't know exactly what he said
His comment about Chinese leader Mao sparked anger but censorship left many wondering what exactly happened.
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Just published The Sainsbury Laboratory joins the AI Collaborative: Food Security TSL is part of a multi-stakeholder effort to strengthen the resilience of global food systems kamounlab.medium.com/the-sainsbur...
The Sainsbury Laboratory joins the AI Collaborative: Food Security
TSL is part of a multi-stakeholder effort to strengthen the resilience of global food systems
kamounlab.medium.com
Just published The Sainsbury Laboratory joins the AI Collaborative: Food Security TSL is part of a multi-stakeholder effort to strengthen the resilience of global food systems kamounlab.medium.com/the-sainsbur...
The Sainsbury Laboratory joins the AI Collaborative: Food Security
TSL is part of a multi-stakeholder effort to strengthen the resilience of global food systems
kamounlab.medium.com
“…whatever coalition comes to power is going to still oppose Palestinian statehood, is still going to support the siege of Gaza and the slow-motion ethnic cleansing” — Stephen Zunes, chair of the Middle East studies programme at the University of San Francisco 🇵🇸 aje.news/smbodj?updat...
Netanyahu urges ‘strong, right-wing’ government as vote counting continues
Exit polls show no outright winner, but suggest Netanyahu's coalition is tied with the main Jewish-led opposition bloc.
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Cell Press调查主编被指索贿，Kamoun发文评论 bioinfosoul.com/story/0817df...
Cell Press调查主编被指索贿，Kamoun发文评论
Cell Press正调查一名期刊主编，该主编被指从作者处索取贿赂；调查结果尚未公布。这一消息由Retraction Watch报道，植物科学家Sophien Kamoun在社交平台转发时称，他原以为这是公司政策。 Kamoun随后发表评论文章《The Church of Impact Facto
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Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · last wk.I just published: The Church of Impact Factor is selling indulgences Bribery allegations at Cell Press. The open secret of scientific publishing is out. I'm shocked. I'm not surprised. #CellOnions #Elsevil #ScienceCrisis kamounlab.medium.com/the-church-o...
Tired of those cookie-cutter AI-generated PowerPoints? Try this prompt. Yes, #BringBackComicSans Turn the material I provide into a compelling, editable .pptx Make this look unmistakably different from a standard Claude presentation Use Comic Sans MS throughout: titles, body text, figure labels
Idolmaster Jupiter Dancing with Comic Sans MS
ALT: Idolmaster Jupiter Dancing with Comic Sans MS
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Road to Jeju: Our open call closes on 2 November, and applications have already arrived from 18 countries across five continents! getgenome.net/callforproje...
GGRoadToJeju2026 | GetGenome
GetGenome is excited to announce #GGRoadToJeju2026 "Road to Jeju" Call for Projects - an open call to support research communities across the world, to generate and interpret sequence data of plant-a
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GetGenome@getgenome.bsky.social · last mo.You select the isolates, we sequence the genomes — for free! 🧬 Inspired by @ismpmi.bsky.social #MPMI2027 we announce that the latest @GetGenome Call for Projects is now open! @GetGenome “Road to Jeju” #GGRoadToJeju2026 invites applications from global community getgenome.net/callforproje...
State of the nation 🇺🇸 And Arabs don’t win the Wolf prize is my fave. 🤡
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last wk.RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
I just published: The Church of Impact Factor is selling indulgences Bribery allegations at Cell Press. The open secret of scientific publishing is out. I'm shocked. I'm not surprised. #CellOnions #Elsevil #ScienceCrisis kamounlab.medium.com/the-church-o...
The Church of Impact Factor is selling indulgences
Bribery allegations at Cell Press. The open secret of scientific publishing is out. I’m shocked. I’m not surprised.
kamounlab.medium.com
Who am I?🧪🌳🥾😉 - I am a proud teacher, loving my students. - I have worked for 12 years as a molecular biologist and geneticist, mainly studying forest trees. - I am vegetarian because I love Earth. - I voraciously read about science. - I spend all my spare time hiking. I like mountains and canyons.
Cocaine: “a drug of choice for the far right” So much for “law and order” 🇬🇧 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
How cocaine conquered the UK: in pubs, festivals and workplaces the drug has become an everyday habit
Previously considered a middle-class drug, price drops have made cocaine more widely available, and created a new set of problems
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A beautiful Ceiba speciosa, the floss silk tree (formerly Chorisia speciosa) | Malvaceae | in the streets of Lisbon 🇵🇹 It's related to the baobab. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiba_s...
Sacha Baron Cohen can caricature and stereotype entire communities (Blacks, Arabs, Kazakhs) and it's very funny. But if someone did the same with a Jewish character, would the mainstream media call it funny? Racism is racism. Period. apple.news/AVfy0XFjVTB2...
Call me a Neanderthal — but Ali G is a very, very funny film — The Times and The Sunday Times
What’s the middle-aged Sacha Baron Cohen doing resurrecting his sexist, puerile idiot from Staines? Actually, a surprised Hadley Freeman says, it’s wicked
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More botanical treasures from a Lisbon market! 🌱🇵🇹 Meet chayote (Sechium edule), family Cucurbitaceae, known locally as chuchu. Originally from Mesoamerica. Fun fact: Unlike most cucurbits, chayote has single large seed that can germinate inside fruit while still attached to the plant. Vivipary!
Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · last wk.A little tropical botany at a Lisbon market! 🌱🇵🇹 Left: Taro (Colocasia esculenta), family Araceae, known locally as inhame. Right: Cherimoya (Annona cherimola), family Annonaceae, known as anona.
A little tropical botany at a Lisbon market! 🌱🇵🇹 Left: Taro (Colocasia esculenta), family Araceae, known locally as inhame. Right: Cherimoya (Annona cherimola), family Annonaceae, known as anona.
This is the oldest known writing found in the Iberian Peninsula Dating to the 7th c BC, this Phoenician stele (stone slab) marked the grave of Wadbar, son of Ibadar. lisboaromana.pt/en/epigraph/...
Al-Afiyah (العافية) — holistic, all-encompassing well-being. 11-12c. Al-Ushbuna (الأشبونة) 🇵🇹
