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Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺 @plantepigenetics.ch · 13h

France is starting to ban copper-based fungicides. Was about time to ban this heavy metal from agriculture!

Charlie Merland @charliemerland.me · 17h

« Nous pourrons exclure la bouillie bordelaise à condition que l’on nous propose une alternative viable. Il ne peut y avoir d’interdiction sans solution en face. »

C'est marrant, quand les agri disaient la même chose pour les néonicotinoïdes ils en prenaient plein la gueule…

Pimuusu @umami.blue · 18h

"Des alternatives permettent pourtant de réduire l’usage des pesticides. L’agroécologie et l’agriculture biologique reposent sur la diversification des cultures, l’agroforesterie, les rotations ou les circuits courts."

Le bio :

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Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 1d

The demo of course takes place early on, when the world has to feel quite dark and oppressive, but the further you get, the more the story becomes one of found family, of outcasts coming together, and having the power to make the world a better place. Or, y'know, don't do that. #ChoicesMatter...

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The Global Plant Council @globalplantgpc.bsky.social · 18h

🚨REGISTRATION OPEN!🚨

Join us for the International Safe Cassava Network 2025 Symposium

📅 27–28 October 2025
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🕑 2 sessions per day | 1.5h each | 30min break between

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🔗 Register now to secure your spot!

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Ana Pineda, PhD @anapineda.bsky.social · 19h

As hard as it sounds...Not every lab member is a good fit 😅
Learn how to spot red flags, raise standards, and lead your research team without burnout.
We're hosting a free class with @glia-leadership.bsky.social + @stefanierobel.bsky.social
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#NewPI #TenureTrack #AcademicSky

From Good To Great Research Teams Free Webinar

Free webinar for PIs and future PIs: hire right, prevent conflict, raise standards without burnout. Practical tools you can use immediately.

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 21h

New pre-print from the team!

The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses.

Have a read!

#PlantScience
@johninnescentre.bsky.social

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 1d

Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.681807v1

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 22h

Sweet pdoc fellowship! Would be really excited to work with someone interested in applying ancestral recombination graphs to messy, real-world data in plant genomes. Happy to chat if you might be interested!

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Wolfgang Busch @rootstrapping.bsky.social · 1d

🌿 Amazing opportunity for scientists from any field to move into plant biology! I might host a fellow in the area of root-microbe or root-environment interactions (DM me). 👉 simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology

#PlantScience #ClimateChange #HarnessingPlants

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

simonsfoundation.org

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1d

Muse - Can't Take My Eyes off You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYH2...

(If you didn't know this existed, you're quite welcome. It is perfection.)

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Excited by this breakthrough work led by Dr. Lauren Stanley (now Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University). Lauren was able to develop for the first time floral dip/spray transformation methods in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium‐mediated transformation in two ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus

Premise Stable transformation is the biggest barrier to studying gene function in plants. In most species, transformation requires tissue culture and regeneration methods that may be arduous and cau...

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Rainer Melzer @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social · 1d

Check out the new flowering newsletter and why California poppy flowers are @plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social's 'favourite flowering image'.

Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 1d

🌾🌼 Flowering Newsletter 2025 🌼🌾

"Flowers come in all shapes and sizes, from inconspicuous wind-pollinated grass flowers to the large flowers of California poppy with its bright petals" - @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social

🔗 bit.ly/JXBFNL?utm_so...

A 🧵 incoming...

#FNL25 #PlantScience 🧪
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Flowers of California poppy (Eschscholzia californica). Two fused sepals form a hat-like structure that has already dehisced, while four free bright orange petals adorn the blossom. Inside the flower, though not visible from this perspective, are numerous stamens arranged in several whorls and a gynoecium composed of two carpels. The gynoecium is surrounded by a floral cup forming a wide rim, which can be seen on the lower left, once all other organs have fallen off. (Image credit: Annette Becker.)

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this year's articles:
🌾 Editorial
@ucdflowerpower.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

🌼 My Favourite Flowering Image. The brightest orange: California poppy flowers as windows into evolutionary developmental genetics
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🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Nikolai Adamski @nikolaiadamski.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic work!! Huge congratulations on getting this out! 👏 🥳
#wheat #spatial #transcriptomics #singlecell

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Dubcovsky Lab @dubcovskylab.bsky.social · 1d

Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!

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Carole Hom @clhom.bsky.social · 5d

Op-ed on CRISPR as potential therapy for rare diseases, written by Celena Lozano, a PhD candidate in neuroscience at @ucdavisnews.bsky.social, NSF GRFP fellow, and alumna of PREP@UC Davis. www.statnews.com/2025/10/09/c...

Parents of children with rare diseases ask: How long until our CRISPR miracle?

How to better manage expectations around gene editing drugs for families of children with rare diseases.

www.statnews.com

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Celena on this superb and heartfelt explanation of the promises of pediatric CRISPR cure

Carole Hom @clhom.bsky.social · 5d

Op-ed on CRISPR as potential therapy for rare diseases, written by Celena Lozano, a PhD candidate in neuroscience at @ucdavisnews.bsky.social, NSF GRFP fellow, and alumna of PREP@UC Davis. www.statnews.com/2025/10/09/c...

Parents of children with rare diseases ask: How long until our CRISPR miracle?

How to better manage expectations around gene editing drugs for families of children with rare diseases.

www.statnews.com

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 1d

But I am just a plain simple menswear guy

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Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social · 1d

Pflanzenzüchter- und-forscher*innen wissen um die Bedeutung der genetischen Vielfalt, erforschen und nutzen sie bewusst zur Verbesserung der Sorten. Nur ist das eine langwierige Angelegenheit. Da könnte Gentechnik helfen, aber das ist nun nochmal ein anderes Thema.
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Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social · 1d

Im globalen Süden dominieren teils noch lokal weitergegebene Landrassen statt moderner Sorten und eine verbesserung des Saatgut hängt vor allem von öffentlichen Zuchtprogrammen ab.

Insgesamt bin ich bei der Pflanzenzüchtung also optimistischer als der Tenor der Sendung.
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Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social · 1d

Domestikation, Grüne Revolution, Inzuchtdepression - #MaiThinkX beleuchtet Vor- aber vor allem auch Nachteile der Züchtung von Tieren und Pflanzen.
Dazu @maxbierhals.bsky.social endlich mal wieder in seiner Paraderolle! 🌽 Unbedingte Empfehlung!

Ein paar Anmerkungen habe ich aber noch: 🧵
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Kaputt gezüchtet: Von Tierqual bis Hungersnot

Der Mensch züchtet Tiere und Pflanzen – das ist nicht immer gut. Mai spricht über tierisches Leid und schwindende genetische Vielfalt bei Pflanzen.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

My quote of the day

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 2d

The one that gets me is that most of the citrus fruits you know are hybrids.

From the Wikipedia entry for the genius "Citrus": "Many cultivated Citrus species are natural or artificial hybrids of a small number of core ancestral species, including the citron, pomelo, and mandarin. Natural and cultivated citrus hybrids include commercially important fruit such as oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes, and some tangerines. The multiple hybridisations have made the taxonomy of Citrus complex."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

This is such a thorough take down of Bari Weiss and the vapid shill she is for oligarch billionaires. He especially shreds the Free Press over it's coverage of trans issues and the so called whistleblower Jamie Reed.

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, @jxbotany.bsky.social has ten (!!!) amazing special issues open for submission. academic.oup.com/jxb/pages/sp...

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Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · 1d

The Nighthawks demo has arrived!

During Steam Next Fest, seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts.

Your second life begins tonight!

store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

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