We're recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow at ANU to help strengthen Australia's preparedness for wheat blast. The project spans plant pathology, genetics, breeding and biosecurity, with collaborators in Australia and Brazil. Apply here: tinyurl.com/25zcj9yy #PlantScience #Postdoc #Biosecurity

Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $91,546 - $114,906 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full-Time, Continuing (Contingent Funded) Note: This position will be primarily based at the N...

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It's not hyperbolic to say that these companies are literally the enemies of humanity. novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/a...

AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them

The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.

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No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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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...

Status of #Phytophthora infestans populations in Europe updated. Helping late blight IPM on potato crops. Sunshine may be a good fungicide but I imagine many thirsty crops about. @hutton.ac.uk EuroBlight final data release, 2025 share.google/PhwBZllqrWdE...

EuroBlight final data release, 2025

EuroBlight announce the final results of 2025 monitoring – despite the low blight pressure 2025 season over 1700 samples from 27 countries across Europe were genotyped.

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Stomatal closure, a conserved spore concentration-dependent response mediated by different Stb genes to avirulent isolates of #Zymoseptoria tritici doi.org/10.1111/ppa....

Did I mention that I love my job? It's fascinating to see all the systems in my department. There's oak for Farooq's group outside, wild tomato for my team in the glasshouse, and rice for Cristina's group in the growth chambers. 😁

Der Kanzler meint, unserer Wirtschaft ginge es am besten, wenn wir in DE entwickelte Top-Technologien hätten, die so gut sind, dass andere sie auch nutzen wollen. Mir fällt da spontan die Wärmepumpe ein. Buderus, Viessmann, Stiebel Eltron, Vaillant, Wolf etc. Soll keine Marktübersicht werden. ↘️

A tomato MIK2‐clade receptor is involved in the perception of a Fusarium‐derived elicitor - Maroschek - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A tomato <fc>MIK2</fc>‐clade receptor is involved in the perception of a <fi>Fusarium</fi>‐derived elicitor

Fusarium elicitor responsivness and MIK2-clade proteins are conserved across plant families.

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woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P...

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position to work on plant robustness in an interdisciplinary project. Great for somebody with experience who can take a central role, coordinate experiments and co-supervise students, and contribute conceptually. @greenrobust.de @unituebingen.bsky.social Please re-post.

We have a funded 4-year wet/dry PhD position (UK applicants) available to work with me at Strathclyde, and Ashleigh Holmes and Sonia Humphris at the James Hutton Institute. Closing date: 3rd August 2026 🧵 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.ibioic.com/skills-train... 1/5

PectoCAZy: mining plant pathogens for industrially-relevant enzyme mixtures at University of Strathclyde on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - PectoCAZy: mining plant pathogens for industrially-relevant enzyme mixtures at University of Strathclyde, listed on FindAPhD.com

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We had a great project meeting for our BarleyCopa project: co-pan-genomics of host and pathogens. Cool to see close to 200 genotypes in the field ...and computational and wet lab biologists looking for disease symptoms. 😅

A high-quality peer review should always be standard. But paying reviewers seems reasonable, especially when journals charge such substantial publishing fees and the reviewing process is so important

Nature@nature.com · last mo.

A biology journal trialled paying their reviewers and found it led to faster first editorial decisions – and increased review quality. go.nature.com/446SaLu

Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

Group Leader in Theoretical Biology (m/f/d)

Experience in Theoretical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics

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Yay, grant accepted; celebration time! With @sev1panier.bsky.social the group will venture into quantitative resistance against Phytoplasma! Looking forward to seeing this project take shape in the coming years.

"Why paying peer reviewers works" Very cool initiative by @biologyopen.bsky.social and EiC Daniel Goerlick. Paying vetted(!) peer reviewers increased turnaround time & quality of #PeerReview! I continue to be a big fan of the Company of @biologists.bsky.social & their work. 👍 #SciPub

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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Happy to see this paper out! This started after Moses pointed out that our 2024 review overlooked sub-Saharan Africa. The writing was eye-opening and highlighted how unevenly research capacity is globally. Maybe contributes, in a small way, to a more balanced picture. doi.org/10.1094/PDIS...

Tomato Early Blight and its Management in sub-Saharan Africa | Plant Disease

Early blight (EB) and related diseases are caused by various Alternaria species and pose a serious threat to global tomato production. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), EB remains largely underreported and...

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Happy to see this paper out! This started after Moses pointed out that our 2024 review overlooked sub-Saharan Africa. The writing was eye-opening and highlighted how unevenly research capacity is globally. Maybe contributes, in a small way, to a more balanced picture. doi.org/10.1094/PDIS...

Tomato Early Blight and its Management in sub-Saharan Africa | Plant Disease

Early blight (EB) and related diseases are caused by various Alternaria species and pose a serious threat to global tomato production. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), EB remains largely underreported and...

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klasse, dass uns fruchtschorlen und kopfbedeckungen empfohlen werden, aber wer empfiehlt eigentlich rwe endlich aufzuhören kohle und gas zu verbrennen?

Der Tankrabatt kostete den deutschen Steuerzahler 1,6 Mrd. Euro. Der Einbau einer Klimaanlage in ein Klassenzimmer kostet im Durchschnitt rund 5000 Euro. Bedeutet: Für 2 Monate billiger Tanken hätte man sage & schreibe 320.000 Klassenzimmer hitzefit machen können. Prioritäten…so wichtig!

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Katherina Reiche zerstört mit ihrer Politik gezielt Tausende von Arbeitsplätzen … und die angebliche Wirtschaftspartei CDU lässt ihr das durchgehen. #Energiewende #Solar #Wirtschaft #Arbeitsplätze

Bertelsmann Stiftung: Energiepolitischer Kurswechsel der Bundesregierung gefährdet tausende Jobs - pv magazine Deutschland

Die Erneuerbare-Branche beschäftigte 2025 in Deutschland 436.000 Menschen. Die Politik hat großen Einfluss auf den Arbeitsmarkt, so die Bertelsmann Stiftung: Union und SPD setzen mit EEG-Novelle, Netz...

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Leadership.

Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌@parentsforfuture.de · last mo.

"For scientists it is unequivocal: humans are to blame. All this is entirely consistent with predictions and repeated warnings. The only surprise is the speed of the change. Climate change is here. It is terrifying and it is just the beginning." — António Guterres 🧵1/3

Professorship Agricultural Bioinformatics. Gießen, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #Plantsciencejobs www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

W3-Professur für Agrarbioinformatik - Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen bietet Stelle als W3-Professur für Agrarbioinformatik in Gießen - jetzt bewerben!

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🌾🧬 An atlas of cloned wheat genes is now available for CRISPR based improvement. This resource accelerates trait discovery and breeding for stress tolerance and quality. A roadmap for genome engineering in wheat #plantscience @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Potential unlocked: an atlas of cloned wheat genes for genome engineering and breeding

Strategies for introducing genome edits into a wheat breeding program and their effects on cultivar longevity.

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Wer hier spart, verliert Einfluss Das BMZ will internationale Hochschulkooperationen beenden und gefährdet damit Netzwerke, Vertrauen und die deutsche Außenwissenschaftspolitik. Ein Gastbeitrag von Claudia Roth und Ayşe Asar. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...

‼️Job alert📢🚨 We are recruiting a Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, jointly hosted by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and our Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "Plant Proteoform Diversity – SNP2Prot."

🌱 A big step for plant breeding in Europe The EU has approved the #NGT Regulation — creating “clear conditions for applying modern breeding approaches”, says our CEO Felix Büchting. A step towards more resource‑efficient, sustainable agriculture 🌎 Our Press release: www.kws.com/corp/en/medi...