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Filippo Binci

@filbinci.bsky.social

Post-Doc at UniPD. Working on calcium signalling in plant development and plant-microbe interactions #PlantScience #MPMI

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Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo ago

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs

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Nature Plants@natplants.nature.com · 5mo ago

New OA Brief Comm: "Cross-kingdom RNA interference promotes arbuscular mycorrhiza development" rdcu.be/e72nc Symbiotic fungi forming widespread arbuscular mycorrhiza symbioses use cross-kingdom RNAi to silence plant genes and promote their colonization of host roots.

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Marco Giovannetti@magiovan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy and proud to share the first first-author paper from @arianna-kr8.bsky.social! Lettuce phenotypes strongly influence leaf-associated microbiota. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Plant phenotypic differentiation outweighs genetic variation in shaping the lettuce leaf microbiota - Environmental Microbiome

Lettuce, a widely consumed raw vegetable, harbors leaf-associated microbial communities whose understanding and prediction are crucial for plant and human health. While environmental factors are known...

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Yasin Dagdas@plantophagy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So, throw the trainees under the bus and keep the PIs unscathed?!? What if the PI created a toxic environment leading to this behaviour? What if the institute creates a toxic environment glorifying CNS papers??? Will you mention these at the retraction note?

Magdalena Skipper@magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility. In this week’s editorial we argue that when things go wrong & a retraction is needed, if it is clear who among the authors is responsible they should be named in the retraction note. COPE agrees 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Paolo Crosetto@paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
Katharina Melkonian@katharinamel1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses! A thread ... #PlantScience

Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants

Symbioses have been fundamental to colonization of terrestrial ecosystems by plants and their evolution. Emergence of the ancient arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis was followed by the diversification o...

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Yasin Dagdas@plantophagy.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Dear @dfg.de & @erc.europa.eu Why don't you do the same? What's stopping us from adopting this model to all tax-payer funded research in Europe? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates

Preprint servers are a low-cost mechanism for providing free access to research findings, and can also significantly accelerate research itself by making results available immediately. This Perspectiv...

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Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 11mo ago

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Filippo Binci@filbinci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

1/6) Third effort from my PhD with @magiovan.bsky.social and @lorellanavazio.bsky.social, happy to see it online! We show that a symbiotic clade IV MLO (LjMLO4) regulates root development and responses to endogenous RALF34 via calcium signalling in Lotus japonicus www.biorxiv.org.

A symbiotic MLO gene regulates root development via RALF34-triggered Ca2+ signalling in Lotus japonicus

Mildew Locus O (MLO) genes, initially identified as powdery mildew susceptibility factors, are increasingly recognized as multifunctional regulators implicated in diverse processes including plant rep...

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Derek Severi Lundberg@derekseveri.bsky.social · 11mo ago

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals

This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.

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Ivan Radin@radinbio.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This might be one of the simplest images I captured, but very fascinating nonetheless, as it shows how tight the cytoplasm in a plant cell is. The cytosol and all other organelles are squished between the plasma membrane (magenta) and the central vacuole (its membrane is green) #MicroscopyMonday

The image shows one straight magenta line and, close to it, another wavy green line.
Filippo Binci@filbinci.bsky.social · last yr.

"If you’re a scientist, you’re in the business of producing and communicating knowledge. It’s worth reminding ourselves: the goal isn’t simply to publish papers. The goal is to produce knowledge that yields predictable outcomes — science that stands the test of time"

Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · last yr.

I just published: Data vs hypothesis driven research: the false dichotomy This post is adapted from a talk I gave @plantae_org Find out more 👇 medium.com/p/data-vs-hy...

Sabine Brumm@binebrumm.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share that our preprint has found a home in Science Advances. We show that intrinsically disordered regions determine the functional diversification of actin-regulatory SCAR proteins in Medicago. 🧵 1/3 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs

Functional divergence of plant SCAR/WAVE proteins is determined by intrinsically disordered regions

Intrinsically disordered regions in SCAR/WAVE proteins drive diverse functions in root hair and leaf trichome development.

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Simon Stael@simonstael.bsky.social · last yr.

What started as a 'funky' observation back in 2017 while visiting the lab of @labcosta.bsky.social, and after skilfull execution of Dominic Kuang, Shanna Romand, and many more, now found a home in Current Biology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The burning glass effect of water droplets triggers a high light-induced calcium response in the chloroplast stroma

Plants rely on water and light for photosynthesis, but water droplets on leaves can focus light into high-intensity spots, risking photodamage. Excess…

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Filippo Binci@filbinci.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud to have contributed to this during my MSc thesis @carogutj.bsky.social lab. Thanks to Michi Paries and congrats to all involved!

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology 🌱🧪@mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social · last yr.

🌱 New discovery in plant-fungi symbiosis: @carogutj.bsky.social and team have identified the Gene Activator Complex that promotes the exchange of nutrients between plants & fungi. 📖 Read more: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Scienza in rete@scienzainrete.bsky.social · last yr.

In molte città italiane il 12 maggio scorso i precari delle università sono scesi in piazza. Al centro del dibattito c’è il contratto di ricerca istituito dal governo Draghi in sostituzione degli assegni di ricerca. Contestate le modifiche proposte dal governo www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/con...

Contratti per i ricercatori: sciopero contro tagli, precarietà e guerra

Torino, Milano, Siena, Bologna, Roma, Palermo, Napoli, Venezia e molte altre città il 12 maggio scorso hanno visto scendere in piazza i precari delle università. È stato il primo sciopero nazionale ad...

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Sagar Bashyal@sagarbashyal.bsky.social · last yr.

Absolutely thrilled to share our story—please take a moment to check it out! Huge thanks to all the contributors and my amazing supervisor @lmueller.bsky.social . This was truly a team effort! #peptides #mycorrhiza www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Lena Maria Müller@lmueller.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

Sabina Leonelli@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · last yr.

Italian readers: articolo intervista sul “lato umano della scienza” e la relazione tra #scienza e #filosofia, messo insieme da Sofia Belardinelli a Padova: ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scie... #philsci 🧪

Il lato umano della scienza: la ricerca come attività sociale | Il Bo Live UniPD

La scienza è neutrale? I dati sono solo una rappresentazione dei fatti? A queste questioni si dedica la ricerca di Sabina Leonelli, filosofa della scienza, a cui abbiamo posto alcune domande sulla nat...

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