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Nikolai Adamski
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Senior Post-doc in Cristobal Uauy's lab at John Innes Centre. Studying plant development in wheat.
Views are my own.
He/him.
https://www.jic.ac.uk/people/nikolai-adamski/
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philcarella.bsky.social
PhD opportunity in our lab - deadline passes on Dec 2nd - don’t miss out!
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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amy-newell.bsky.social
Excited to share that I passed my viva on Thursday afternoon!! 🥳

Thank you to my examiners for a lovely discussion 😊
Amy, Karen, the examiners and IMPS colleagues celebrating in the Halliday lab after the viva wearing brightly coloured party hats
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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robertfinger.bsky.social
Vacancy: University of Göttingen, W1 Professorship in Machine Learning in Agricultural and Food Economics

uni-goettingen.de/en/700615.html
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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grundislav.games
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November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Quite right too.
Hands off history.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Demolition of Cambridge art deco cinema blocked by inspector
The 1930s cinema in central Cambridge had faced demolition under plans to build a new office block.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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helsenjana.bsky.social
Curious about how this story came to be (we never planned to study centromeres!)? Here’s a glimpse behind the scenes of how a naive method to count chromosomes unlocked the rules behind centromere evolution.

P.S. There are cartoons!

👉 tinyurl.com/4rz4ve6u
Counting Chromosomes: The Simple Idea That Unlocked the Rules Behind Centromere Evolution
tinyurl.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
This headline in Politico says it all: this is all about Trump's personal gratification and wish to be the star of a big show on the international stage, not about getting a fair or durable agreement.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:

A 6–8% hit to GDP

That's £180bn-£240bn a year

It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.

Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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plantevolution.bsky.social
We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.

Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download
Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes
docs.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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samtmugford.bsky.social
It's the anniversary of Darwin publishing Origin of Species, if you've not read it just skip to the final paragraph. It slaps
"It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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globalplantgpc.bsky.social
Global project unearths new species of wildflowers

A long-term study compiled from field work on four continents over five decades has unearthed new species of kangaroo paws and related genera.

buff.ly/xSEUPhP via @universitywa #PlantScience
Image: Haemodorum subg. Gemina. Dissected flowers exposing the purple and white/cream stamens of selected populations of Haemodorum spicatum. A – Mt Lindesay. Credit: Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium (2025). DOI: 10.58828/nuy01088
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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minyaaa.bsky.social
Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
#mimuluspropaganda
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“At first glance, these revelations appear to confirm what researchers & close observers have long known: that foreign actors (bots or humans) are posing as Americans & piping political-engagement bait, mis- & disinformation, & spam into people’s timeline.”

A “worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.”
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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daniellebeckman.bsky.social
Keep in mind, we could have already advanced so much in this field if, for political reasons, mRNA vaccines were not severely attacked over the past 5 years. We are closer than ever to a cure for #MultipleSclerosis, and that involves preventing #EBV from damaging the brain.
Common virus jab could be key in fight against multiple sclerosis
The vaccine will be trialled in patients recently diagnosed with MS
www.independent.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
The Chosen One. Animated by @rdstonowhere.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Smurfs were created by Belgian cartoonist 'Peyo' in 1958 as "Les Schtroumpfs". He described them as "no more than three apples tall."

Fruit flies (Drosophila) are considerably smaller: typically 3-4 mm long. And these fruit flies have been SMURFED.

Let's talk about Smurf assay in fruit flies.🪰
From a Linkedin post, a cartoon of Papa Smurf, two flies showing the blue smurf phenotype, and a bar graph showing the progression of control and long-lived flies towards smurfness.
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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johninnescentre.bsky.social
📣 Applications are NOW OPEN for our International Undergraduate Summer School 2026

🗓️ 29 June - 22 August 2026
📍 John Innes Centre, NR4 7UH

⏰ Deadline: 16 January 2026

Find out more and apply: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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ruthdeyermond.bsky.social
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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noelreports.com
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”

Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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profjacob.bsky.social
🚨🚨This is no "peace" plan, it is a recipe for further suffering and #Russian imperialist expansion in the #west. It is difficult to appreciate just how much damage the #trump administration has done to #Ukraine and its war efforts. It is disgusting beyond words. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social
"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation"
earlymodjustice.bsky.social Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 8d
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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womeningenomics.bsky.social
Join us for a conversation with Pamela Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social , a universally recognized leader in plant genetics, a food security pioneer, and an enthusiastic advocate for sustainable agriculture.

🗓️ 🗓️ 18 December | 🕗 11:00 am US EST

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November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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whataweekhuh.bsky.social
Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM