🫜 Looked for an S-locus by investigating the genome of Beta vulgaris, found really weird stuff! Shamelessly repeatedly telling you about this latest publication. I'm also looking for a new position practically anywhere in Europe, so please forward! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Identification of a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beet (Beta vulgaris) - Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Key Message This study provides the first genomic evidence for a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beets (Beta vulgaris), identifying T2/S-RNase candidate genes and a complex S-locus on beet chr...

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Delighted to share that this is now published: Identification of a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beet (Beta vulgaris) This was a deep bioinformatic search for the so-far-undescribed SI system in Beta, and like all SI systems, we found complexity! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Identification of a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beet (Beta vulgaris) - Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Key Message This study provides the first genomic evidence for a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beets (Beta vulgaris), identifying T2/S-RNase candidate genes and a complex S-locus on beet chr...

link.springer.com

"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common "I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you

Update: very pleased so far, several software issues have improved, package management is quite sane. 8/10 needs larger community support.

Gil Yardeni@gilyardeni.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is the day I give Debian a go on the 6-year-old, always-Ubuntu laptop. Wish us luck! ✨

Noooo, this is not how spiders work 😢

A few words about chestnuts. Autumn is setting in much faster this year and the days turned suddenly cloudier, suddenly colder. Luckily, the beautiful succession of trees changing follows: leaf senescence, the yearly dance of leaf colors. The earliest are the chestnuts, Aesculus hippocastanum.

Hello, I'm an evolutionary biologist in a film. I can identify any species from 30 base pairs of DNA, including human-alien hybrids. I quote Darwin and Gould ad libitum to compensate for my lack of emotional depth. Inexplicably, I'm unable to correctly pronounce 'genome' or 'drosophila'.

Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello, I’m a historian in a film. I can instantly decode ancient Near Eastern scripts, and am fluent in 23 dead languages, yet my primary field is 16th century European portraiture

Today is the day I give Debian a go on the 6-year-old, always-Ubuntu laptop. Wish us luck! ✨

🌱 Phylogenomics, hybridization and species network in our latest paper 📜 The explosive radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) has been accompanied by pervasive hybridization ⭐ Open Access! Also w/the excellent @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social

Dear Colleagues, I'm asking for help: do you have contacts at #OUPAcademic ? We asked for a change of corr. author over 40 days ago, received no answer or support, & upcoming deadlines means publication will not proceed - so we're pretty worried >>> @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1038/s415... Just finished reading this amazing manuscript and what a ride! This is a great reminder to what collaborative work can achieve. Excuse the corny tone: we do amazing things when we work together. Also, will Chloranthales ever behave?

Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms - Nature

Phylogenomic analysis of 7,923 angiosperm species using a standardized set of 353 nuclear genes produced an angiosperm tree of life dated with 200 fossil calibrations, providing key insights into...

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Community gardening update: In spring, we fought hard to eliminate Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) from the bed and give wildflowers a chance. It seems like we've lost 🥲 So it's an excellent opportunity to talk about invasive species - and to enjoy some beautiful sunflower in summer!

Dear German postdoc I worked with in 2015: I was wrong about density plots, please forgive me

Manuscript accepted with minor revisions - after a revision that lasted a year, analyses that lasted 3 years, before repeating mapping twice, DNA extractions that took a year, and many things that went "wrong". This is for your, whoever is in an infinite project. This week, we celebrate!

Chicory, Deutsche Flora, 1894.

Rude plants, in random order: Mint - all varieties. Pretends it's a fun herb, really contemplates world domination. Palms - look like trees, technically are giant grasses (debate me). Home of rats. birch - the whole genus. Nice tree, its male gametes (pollen) cause unbelievable allergies. Rude!!

No matter how bleak things look or how unemployed you are (hint: me), your local community gardens are a great way to connect with people and other fun organisms. Experience shows that everyone loves a scientist on their gardening team🌱

(whispers) No.

Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler@rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why do plants have to alternate generations like that. Just pick one

Onychiopsis psilotides, a fern from 130 million years ago (Lower Cretaceous English Wealden). #FossilFriday 🌱🌿🧪⚒🌏

Quick, post your giant tree photos. That's me on February 26 in Apuglia, Italy, with an oak.

we always got Ursula Le Guin

Did not expect to spend a whole year on paper revisions but here we are

Breakfast today is 8/10, Pinguicula flowering is 9/10. It seems to pick any random time to flower, even so close to solstice. This one was a gift from a student, too

This is your annual reminder to update that git repository now and preferably every day. Closely documenting code improved my life and can do the same for you.

Not sure why I gained so many followers in a month but hi everyone! No nice to see you again! I'm an evolutionary biologist studying plant reproduction and hybridization, and I'll try to post more frequently!!

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have several filtering steps remember to update your INFO fields after each

One of those days

Especially if you want your descendants to be funny

Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 3y ago

we need more lamarckism jokes imo

Looking for advice on handling multi-mapping mRNA reads. Got a genic region with duplications, <97% similar, nothing maps uniquely even when PE mates are merged. How do you approach this? Random assignment?

big tillandsia vibes