Happy to share a review on powerful plant MITEs written with Abirami Soundiramourtty! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Oatk: a de novo assembly tool for complex plant organelle genomes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great point. But, we academics should ideally be able to avoid/not comply with that. Ultimately, we submit, we review, we evaluate…and together can build #BetterPublishing:

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L'Université de Perpignan a ouvert une Chaire de Professeur Junior en Biologie Végétale, poste à pourvoir à l'automne 2025: www.univ-perp.fr/upvd/concour...

Our lab (LGDP) is recruiting a Young Professor in Plant Biology in Perpignan! Apply before Sept 1st
www.univ-perp.fr/upvd/concour...

📣📣📣 PCI Plants @pciplants.bsky.social has been launched!!!
@bourgeoisyann.bsky.social @mangolab.bsky.social @francoissabot.bsky.social @jorisbertrand.bsky.social

Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z

The termination of COVID-19 research is a “real slap in the face of the many patients struggling with the long-term health effects of COVID infections”, says Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

https://go.nature.com/4c2QfuJ

"Whatever your diet, from chicken nuggets to organic tofu, the food you consume is the result of generations of work by agricultural scientists and plant breeders to meet the ever-changing needs of farmers and consumers."

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

#PlantScience #PlantBreeding #Sustainability

TULIP International Summer School 2025
"Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems"

🗓️ From June 21 to 27
🏔️at Germ, French Pyrénées

Registration OPEN ✅
www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul...

Open to PhD students, masters students and postdocs.

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

Un scientifique français a été refoulé à l'entrée des US après que son téléphone et son ordinateur, fouillés, ont révélé des échanges dans lesquels il exprimait une opinion personnelle sur la politique de l'administration Trump en matière de recherche
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

L'administration Trump impose 9 "demandes" pour restaurer le financement récurrent de l'université de Columbia (400M). Parmi lesquelles : interdire les maques, la mise sous tutelle de certains départements de recherche, renforcement de la police sur le campus, etc.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

⚠️JOB ALERT ⚠️

@lipme-toulouse.bsky.social is hiring an @inrae-france.bsky.social tenure-track Associate Professor on the genetics of sunflower 🌻 - 🐝 polinator interactions 🔽

Come and join us in Toulouse!

resana.numerique.gouv.fr/public/share...

Not enough to cut funding. Now a list of over 20 health and life science topics that cannot be published by National Cancer Institute scientists without "oversight" (i.e. censorship).

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

L’IRD soutient le mouvement #StandUpForScience et l’ensemble de nos partenaires scientifiques dans le monde.

Face aux grands défis mondiaux, la science a un rôle central pour le développement social, environnemental et économique des sociétés, et nécessite une coopération internationale renforcée.

Very happy to present our latest study on heat-induced transcription of transposable element in A. thaliana. Using Oxford Nanopore, we tested the extent to which read-through formation is important in the regulation of adjacent genes. More here 👇
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...