how is it possible that all Meta products aren’t immediately banned in Europe???

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 7h ago

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

I am tempted to accept the invitation to give a talk about an active Helitron in wheat at the Obesity conference 🤔

Happy to finally see this out in a peer-reviewed form 🧬🌱 Congrats to everyone who contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dual trxG/PcG protein ULTRAPETALA1 modulates H3K27me3 and directly enhances POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 activity for fine-tuned reproductive transitions - Nature Plants

This study reports a bivalent factor, ULTRAPETALA1, that can counteract as well as promote PRC2 activity at hundreds of developmental genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. The pro-PRC2 activity of ULTRAPETAL...

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véraison in action 😎 wish you all a very nice day!

With Research Briefing: "Epigenetic changes and heat stress activate Helitron mobility" rdcu.be/foNSn Activation of an Helitron family in wheat leads to extrachromosomal circular DNA formation and novel somatic insertions, driven by a single autonomous element.

New OA Letter: "An active Helitron transposon family in wheat" rdcu.be/foNPA Heat stress and reduced DNA methylation can mobilize a Helitron family. Its mobilization is genetically linked to a specific full-length member catalysing the full Helitron life cycle. #PlantScience

Another nice example of natural GMOs: Horizontal gene transfer of mitochondrial genes from the host plant to the parasitic plant. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Die #Feuer in Frankreich gehen weiter: jetzt mussten schon über 250.000 Menschen evakuiert werden. Hier eine Karte der Lage am Sonntagmorgen und mein Foto von der Fahrt nach Bordeaux am Freitagabend. Warum die #Erderhitzung die Brandgefahr eskalieren lässt: scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...

Please share! 🌱🤖 Permanent W2 Professorship in crop & plant sciences @ PhenoRob, University of Bonn. Especially encouraged: crop genome engineering, sustainable pest control, or sustainable disease control. Expertise in one area is enough. Apply by Sept. 30, 2026. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

AI companies burning books. The aim is obvious: centralise all knowledge in a single place and limit access. Exactly like the monasteries did in the middle ages 😑

Labrys of Aëlla@aellalabrys.bsky.social · last mo.

"Die physische Zerstörung ist dabei der Kern einer perfiden Finte: Die Konzerne berufen sich auf das US-amerikanische „Fair-Use-Prinzip“, das die Nutzung geschützter Werke für Forschung oder Bildung unter bestimmten Bedingungen erlaubt." www.fr.de/ratgeber/buc...

Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

Thrilled to have received an ERC Advanced Grant to investigate the mechanisms and biological impact of small RNA mobility in plants. A huge thanks to my team for making this possible, and to the reviewers for their support and confidence in the project. Looking forward to getting started!

Tobias Lortzing@tlortzing.bsky.social · last mo.

ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu for @maxplanck.de Director Claudia Köhler @claudiakohler11.bsky.social! She receives 2.5 million euros to study how mobile small RNAs can impact adaptive functional traits in plants. Congratulations!

Targeted DNA insertion remains a major bottleneck in plant engineering. We developed an avian R2 retrotransposon as an efficient plant genome editor to precisely insert large DNA payloads at targeted sites: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to @kimuchenje03.bsky.social and the team! 🧵👇

Funny how the NGT vote in the EU parliament made like zero news here in Switzerland 🤔

can’t work because of Windows updates 🙄 i am loosing my precious time because Microsoft programmers can’t do a proper job…

My personal comment on the EUs decision on new genomic techniques in crop breeding 🧑‍🌾 #NGT @snsf.ch

Novel crop breeding techniques will finally be allowed in Europe! 🥳🧬🌱

We just published our new paper about an active Helitron transposon in wheat 🌾🧬 We found that it can be mobilised by heat stress when DNA methylation is reduced. We document its full lifecycle: RNA -> circular DNA -> integration www.nature.com/articles/s41... #TEsky

An active Helitron transposon family in wheat - Nature Plants

Helitrons are a recently identified category of transposons. This study reveals that heat stress combined with reduced DNA methylation can mobilize a Helitron family in wheat. Its mobilization is gene...

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W3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology // University of Freiburg www.nature.com/naturecareer... The position holder will lead a research program that combines excellent basic research with clear perspectives for biotechnological and societally relevant applications. #BotanyJobs

W3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology - Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg (DE) job with University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) | 12859402

The future position holder will lead an internationally recognized research program that combines excellent basic research with clear perspectives for

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Après 64 études, l'Espagne tranche : l’homéopathie ne sert à rien et 1 000 produits sont retirés du marché www.science-et-vie.com/corps-et-san...

Après 64 études, l'Espagne tranche : l’homéopathie ne sert à rien et 1 000 produits sont retirés du marché

Découvrez pourquoi Boiron voit ses ventes fondre en Espagne après qu'un rapport officiel a conclu à l'inefficacité totale de l'homéopathie.

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Looming global food crisis, and Switzerland still wonders if a single mutation in a plant genome produces a GMO 🙄

Virginia Gewin@virginiagewin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"What we are witnessing today is not only a geopolitical crisis, it is a systemic shock to the global agrifood system," Qu said.

"What we are witnessing today is not only a geopolitical crisis, it is a systemic shock to the global agrifood system," Qu said.

Strait of Hormuz: Time running out to avert global food security crisis, FAO warns

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu addresses event on Middle East conflict with Spain Prime Minister

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SPLICECRAFT v1.0 IS LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! Open your terminal and type in "pipx install splicecraft" if you want to try it out, then spam "splicecraft update" often as I push updates frequently. A labor of love for the community I adore. Enjoy! 💚

Proteins are the machinery of life. Billions of their sequences have been cataloged—but the biology behind most is still unknown. Today we're releasing ESMFold2, ESMC and ESM Atlas to help change that. Open source, open to every scientist. biohub.ai/esm/protein

Are you excited about understanding the molecular underpinnings of arbuscular mycorrhiza? Then this PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/4...

Does someone know why Helitron is often written in italic? It refers to a class of TEs so I guess it should be roman, no?

👋 Transposon lovers: registration is now open for the CSHL TE meeting! We have a 🔥 lineup of invited speakers and many slots for short talks selected upon abstract across all areas of TE biology. 🧬➰🧬 #TEsky Abstract deadline: July 10 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Roger Beachy, a renowned biologist and professor emeritus at WashU, was fired along with every member of the National Science Board on Friday.

Ex-WashU professor surprised when Trump fired National Science Foundation board

Roger Beachy, a renowned biologist and professor emeritus at WashU, was fired along with every member of the National Science Board on Friday.

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The strongest El Niño in 150 years? That’s not hype, it’s the actual median forecast right now for the developing event later this year. It could rival — or even surpass — the legendary 1877 El Niño, the strongest on record, which was linked to widespread drought, monsoon failure, and food crises 1/

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent. We’ve seen record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers have been shrinking and snow cover melting. The evidence is unequivocal: climate change is not a ‘future’ threat. It is our present reality. ⬇️