Many thanks to Detlef's host @plantevolution.bsky.social. Our students from China Agricultural University had a great day 🎉🎉🎉 at MPI @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social.

PlantEvolution 🌱🌾@plantevolution.bsky.social · 4d ago

Very happy to be able to host a student delegation from China Agricultural University led by my friend @wangshengzhu.bsky.social 🇩🇪🇨🇳 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

One of the many things I love about @ascbiology.bsky.social ,my favorite scientific society, is that it recognizes there are many ways to contribute to science, including mentoring, education, outreach and advocacy. This year's Fellows represent that. 1/n www.ascb.org/society-news...

Eerie similarity between NodeGWAS and our gfa2bin tool. Uses same public data (curated by my lab), same comparison against previous method from my lab & even same programming language, Rust. gfa2bin preprint went online 5 months before NodeGWAS was submitted. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here are the Quislings who helped: "Andrew Martin at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow at Arizona State University, Doug Girod at the University of Kansas and Ronald Daniels at Johns Hopkins University." I was relieved NOT to see Lee Roberts name there

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Many years ago, my lab helped to discover YUCCAs. Later, Jia-Wei Wang in the lab sussed out the role of miR156s in a range of developmental processes. And now YUCCA and miR156 reappear as partners in this beautiful paper from the Lenhard lab! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

DWD-Attributionsstudie zum Hitzeereignis im Juni 2026 zeigt: Ein solches Ereignis wäre in einem um 1,3 °C kälteren Klima nicht möglich gewesen. Erwärmt sich das Klima um weitere 0,7 °C auf 2,0 °C, nimmt die Intensität ähnlicher Hitzewellen demnach deutlich zu. 💡 Zur Studie: t1p.de/or6dj

If you have an NIH or NSF program officer, post a comment!

I-270, Exit 1@i270exit1.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨🚨 FEDS and everyone else 🚨🚨 🧵Tomorrow is the last day to comment on the Office of Personnel Management rule, “Promoting Employee Accountability" at www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... This rule eliminates employee protections and rights, and hastens the firing process. Specifically, it... 1/4

Very happy to be able to host a student delegation from China Agricultural University led by my friend @wangshengzhu.bsky.social 🇩🇪🇨🇳 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

What could possibly go wrong? AI autonomously designing nuclear reactors. Aren't out-of-distribution events a big deal for nuclear reactors? www.science.org/content/arti...

I stand with Dr. Fauci, one of the most consequential scientists of the last century.His ability to listen to the Act-up community helped change the response to HIV/AIDS & his leadership in the response to Covid saved millions. A Gig poster from Bob G thanking St Anthony (Fauci) hangs outside my lab

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

Good evening from Tübingen.

This looks like a nice tool — but why is it advertised as CNS??? Not worth it to make nice figures for other journals???

Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · last wk.

cnsplots: Publication-Ready Scientific Plots for Cell, Nature, and Science Journals github.com/faridrashidi... really cool work here from a postdoc at NIH.

Congratulations to @sheilaroitman.bsky.social, postdoctoral researcher in Detlef Weigel’s department @plantevolution.bsky.social, on receiving the Women’s Postdoctoral Career Development Award in Science from the Weizmann Institute! Her research explores how viruses shape plant microbiomes.

Career Development Award for Sheila Roitman

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Our latest mini-review is now published! Strengthening global biosecurity for synthetic nucleic acid technology: from sequence screening to risk-based governance in the AI era. Read: doi.org/10.3389/fbio... More: synbioforall.org/research-pub...

Job opportunity! 🌱 At KWS Einbeck (Germany), we have an exciting opening for a Group Lead for Molecular Trait Analysis & Genomics. 👉 Read more & apply online: jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

Friday afternoon = Fix Your Bike time. 🚲 Behind FixYourBike is a group of colleagues who invite the whole campus to their repair sessions. The motto: bring your bike, learn to fix it yourself. And now there’s a bike repair station on campus too! 🔧 Thanks for keeping our bikes rolling!

Is it useful to measure “biological” v “chronological” age? economist.com/science-and-... from @economist.com

Is it useful to measure “biological” v “chronological” age?

You will get data, but perhaps not knowledge

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Explosive in more than one way!

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2w ago

Cyclospora asymptote cyclo-resources.pophive.org

BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

A fundamental question in disease ecology remains unresolved: How can an acute, immunizing virus persist in nature? Theory says viruses like measles need huge pools of susceptible hosts. Our new preprint offers an answer. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Persistent, Multi-Species Outbreaks and Long-Range Transmissions of a Measles-Like Virus

Canine distemper\---|a measles-like disease with high mortality and presently without a cure\---|poses a major threat to wild and domestic carnivores globally. Domestic dogs are generally considered t...

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This editorial is indeed blunt, in your face, sweary, and absolutely 100% correct. I'm happy Science published it. It needs to be spread far and wide, because it strips away all the usual mealy-mouthed crap when it comes to discussing Trump and makes it clear who he is and what he's doing.

Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a blunt assessment of what the Trump regime is proposing for US science: they plan to take all the funding, essentially collapsing university-based research, in order to give that money to themselves, and they are lying about it.

Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

Very excited to share our new manuscript by Arif Maulana @arf-mln.bsky.social on 338 beetle genomes. It shows how beetle genomes have evolved and how this compares to fly and Lepidoptera genome evolution. It was a great pleasure to collaborate with @kamilsjaron.bsky.social and his team on this.

KamilSJaron.bsky.social@kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 2w ago

New preprint: 338 coleopteran genomes reveal exceptional rearrangement variation compared to other insect orders. Big congrats to @arf-mln.bsky.social, for getting this giant piece together. Big collaboration of @joanameier.bsky.social's and my groups. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Excited to share our latest publication! 🎉 Here @sophiezoe.bsky.social reveals an early developmental time window determining initial growth direction of lateral roots. Wonderful collaboration with @wabniklab.bsky.social and @matesf.bsky.social lab www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @cibss.bsky.social

SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 9 links sensory timing to the initial lateral root growth angle | PNAS

Plants strategically respond to gravity and actively set defined growth angles. These gravitropic set-point angles (GSAs) shape the width and depth...

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From the folks complaining about improper interpretation of Greek works: ‘federal agencies “should prioritize foundational research in the biological over the life sciences.”’ Biology, derived from Greek, literally means ‘science of life’. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

I'm excited to share our paper on natural variation in the Arabidopsis circadian clock, published in @plantphys.bsky.social with Anna Philippova, @adaevo.bsky.social and @hikemaydon.bsky.social 🌱🕐. Thread below (🧵1/6) academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

A noncoding SNP in ELF3 alters ELF3β expression and confers adaptation of Arabidopsis to a continental climate

A naturally occurring variant in the Arabidopsis core clock gene EARLY FLOWERING 3 alters temperature responsiveness and has been selected for in regions o

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