Patrick Goymer
@patrickgoymer.bsky.social
Life Sciences Division Editor at @plosone.org. Former Chief Editor of Nature Ecology & Evolution. Trustee at @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social.
This study describes the mesocosm that Chang Liu is also using to probe the effect of invasive earthworms on soil microbial communities: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #canvas25
Invasive earthworms unlock arctic plant nitrogen limitation - Nature Communications
Arctic plant growth is predominantly nitrogen limited, where the slow nitrogen turnover in the soil is commonly attributed to the cold arctic climate. Here the authors show that the arctic plant-soil ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This study describes the mesocosm that Chang Liu is also using to probe the effect of invasive earthworms on soil microbial communities: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #canvas25
S’vani Campos demonstrates the effects of fire ants in two different Texas soil types on soil gas exchanges and water infiltration. #canvas25
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
S’vani Campos demonstrates the effects of fire ants in two different Texas soil types on soil gas exchanges and water infiltration. #canvas25
Kaitlin Gattoni (and coauthors Rachel Drobnak and @sprunger.bsky.social) demonstrate the positive spillover effect of prairie strips on nematode abundance and trophic diversity, and overall soil health. #canvas25
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Kaitlin Gattoni (and coauthors Rachel Drobnak and @sprunger.bsky.social) demonstrate the positive spillover effect of prairie strips on nematode abundance and trophic diversity, and overall soil health. #canvas25
Sheng Lu from Purdue University: using SEM and a 34-year-old field trial in the U.S. Midwest to explore effects of management intensity on soil chemistry, biotic networks and soil multifunctionality. #canvas25
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Sheng Lu from Purdue University: using SEM and a 34-year-old field trial in the U.S. Midwest to explore effects of management intensity on soil chemistry, biotic networks and soil multifunctionality. #canvas25
Excited for the launch of PLOS Ecosystems under Editor-in-Chief Henrique Pereira.
PLOS Ecosystems will be a multidisciplinary, open access forum for impactful research on the conservation, management, restoration, sustainability, and use of ecosystems across scales.
PLOS Ecosystems will be a multidisciplinary, open access forum for impactful research on the conservation, management, restoration, sustainability, and use of ecosystems across scales.
PLOS Ecosystems
PLOS Ecosystems publishes boundary-breaking research that uses digital tools, technologies, and data to advance every aspect of health care.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Excited for the launch of PLOS Ecosystems under Editor-in-Chief Henrique Pereira.
PLOS Ecosystems will be a multidisciplinary, open access forum for impactful research on the conservation, management, restoration, sustainability, and use of ecosystems across scales.
PLOS Ecosystems will be a multidisciplinary, open access forum for impactful research on the conservation, management, restoration, sustainability, and use of ecosystems across scales.
Excited to see the launch of PLOS Aging and Health, under Editors-in-Chief @jenschrack.bsky.social and @haggsara.bsky.social.
The journal will publish transformative work from researchers, clinicians, public health scientists, social scientists, and policymakers.
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The journal will publish transformative work from researchers, clinicians, public health scientists, social scientists, and policymakers.
journals.plos.org/agingandheal...
PLOS Aging and Health
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November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Excited to see the launch of PLOS Aging and Health, under Editors-in-Chief @jenschrack.bsky.social and @haggsara.bsky.social.
The journal will publish transformative work from researchers, clinicians, public health scientists, social scientists, and policymakers.
journals.plos.org/agingandheal...
The journal will publish transformative work from researchers, clinicians, public health scientists, social scientists, and policymakers.
journals.plos.org/agingandheal...
Reposted by Patrick Goymer
Local #mRNAtranslation in polarized cells is well studied in neurons but what about #microglia? This study shows that #inflammation enhances microglial #RNA localization & translation via RNA-binding protein IMP1/ZBP1, regulating morphology, motility & phagocytosis @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/486ZLMS
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Local #mRNAtranslation in polarized cells is well studied in neurons but what about #microglia? This study shows that #inflammation enhances microglial #RNA localization & translation via RNA-binding protein IMP1/ZBP1, regulating morphology, motility & phagocytosis @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/486ZLMS
Here’s the @projectdrawdown.bsky.social report Farming Our Way Out Of The Climate Crisis that Mitch Hunter is citing as the background to work on agroforestry and hazelnut development. #canvas25
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Farming Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis
“Farming Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis” details and quantifies the planet-healing potential of land use, agricultural practices, and food systems.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here’s the @projectdrawdown.bsky.social report Farming Our Way Out Of The Climate Crisis that Mitch Hunter is citing as the background to work on agroforestry and hazelnut development. #canvas25
drawdown.org/publications...
drawdown.org/publications...
Background reading in @plosone.org from this morning's #canvas25 keynote speaker Mitch Hunter, on nitrogen and cover crops, and yields and climate variability :
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Managing nitrogen through cover crop species selection in the U.S. mid-Atlantic
Cover crops have the potential to be agricultural nitrogen (N) regulators that reduce leaching through soils and then deliver N to subsequent cash crops. Yet, regulating N in this way has proven diffi...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Background reading in @plosone.org from this morning's #canvas25 keynote speaker Mitch Hunter, on nitrogen and cover crops, and yields and climate variability :
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journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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In a #canvas25 plenary that looks 40 years ahead, Mitch Hunter argues that food demand will not double, and population will peak at a lower level than generally predicted. Predicts 24% demand increase by 2065 followed by decline.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In a #canvas25 plenary that looks 40 years ahead, Mitch Hunter argues that food demand will not double, and population will peak at a lower level than generally predicted. Predicts 24% demand increase by 2065 followed by decline.
Reposted by Patrick Goymer
AlphaFold Database users can now temporarily integrate and visualise their own protein annotations, making the resource a more interactive and personalised platform for structural bioinformatics analysis.
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#AlphaFold
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#AlphaFold
AlphaFold Database launches custom annotations feature
The AlphaFold Database (AlphaFold DB) has introduced a new functionality that enables users to integrate and visualise custom sequence annotations. These annotations are processed in the browser for t...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
AlphaFold Database users can now temporarily integrate and visualise their own protein annotations, making the resource a more interactive and personalised platform for structural bioinformatics analysis.
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
#AlphaFold
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
#AlphaFold
Reposted by Patrick Goymer
PLOS One Academic Editor Xi Liang will be presenting two #canvas25 posters on Tuesday November 11 at 4-6pm - numbers 1046 and 1192.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
PLOS One Academic Editor Xi Liang will be presenting two #canvas25 posters on Tuesday November 11 at 4-6pm - numbers 1046 and 1192.
plos.io/43my5kx
plos.io/43my5kx
Reposted by Patrick Goymer
Obituary: Hamilton Smith (1931-2025) molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA
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Hamilton Smith obituary: molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA
Nobel laureate who helped to sequence the first bacterial and human genomes.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Obituary: Hamilton Smith (1931-2025) molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA
go.nature.com/4qWGNQE
go.nature.com/4qWGNQE
Here’s the background to Debra Smitherman’s talk on pigweed control - the glyphosate-induced increase in weed-control problems. #canvas25
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The silver bullet that wasn’t: Rapid agronomic weed adaptations to glyphosate in North America
Abstract. The rapid adoption of glyphosate-resistant crops at the end of the 20th century caused a simplification of weed management that relied heavily on
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November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Here’s the background to Debra Smitherman’s talk on pigweed control - the glyphosate-induced increase in weed-control problems. #canvas25
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
John Sedbrook is giving an overview of work to create a new oilseed crop, pennycress, by combining key domestication traits using CRISPR genome editing. Here's the preprint in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #canvas25
Creating a new oilseed crop, pennycress, by combining key domestication traits using CRISPR genome editing
Considerable offseason farmland lays fallow because there are few crops that can profitably fit between primary crops. To remedy, we employed CRISPR genome editing to the freeze-tolerant, rapid cyclin...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
John Sedbrook is giving an overview of work to create a new oilseed crop, pennycress, by combining key domestication traits using CRISPR genome editing. Here's the preprint in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #canvas25
Behzad Ghanbarian celebrates the open-source data revolution for promoting reproducibility, transparency, and collaboration across disciplines. 👏 #canvas25
Example given is spatiotemporal analysis of extreme precipitation events in the United States: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Example given is spatiotemporal analysis of extreme precipitation events in the United States: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Behzad Ghanbarian celebrates the open-source data revolution for promoting reproducibility, transparency, and collaboration across disciplines. 👏 #canvas25
Example given is spatiotemporal analysis of extreme precipitation events in the United States: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Example given is spatiotemporal analysis of extreme precipitation events in the United States: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Behzad Ghanbarian starts of the Nyle Brady Lecture with an overview of the history of soil physics. #canvas25
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Behzad Ghanbarian starts of the Nyle Brady Lecture with an overview of the history of soil physics. #canvas25
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Reposted by Patrick Goymer
Our Life Sciences Division Editor @patrickgoymer.bsky.social will be on the judging panel for the SASES Agronomic Issues Contest at #canvas25 today, 11am-1pm in the Marriott grand ballroom EF.
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Agronomic Issues contest | Science Societies
CANVAS Agronomic Issues contest
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November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Our Life Sciences Division Editor @patrickgoymer.bsky.social will be on the judging panel for the SASES Agronomic Issues Contest at #canvas25 today, 11am-1pm in the Marriott grand ballroom EF.
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Today at #canvas25 I will be at the morning plenary, then sessions on genomics & biotech and weedy & invasive plants, followed by being on the judging panel for the agronomic issues contest, and then the poster sessions. Reach out if you’d like to chat about @plosone.org and your research.
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Today at #canvas25 I will be at the morning plenary, then sessions on genomics & biotech and weedy & invasive plants, followed by being on the judging panel for the agronomic issues contest, and then the poster sessions. Reach out if you’d like to chat about @plosone.org and your research.
Kicking off #canvas25 with a moving land acknowledgement, some Back to the Future fun, and a future-looking panel discussion that ranged from funding and investment, to food equity and security, to advances in data and genetics, to the massive impact AI will have on agriculture.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Kicking off #canvas25 with a moving land acknowledgement, some Back to the Future fun, and a future-looking panel discussion that ranged from funding and investment, to food equity and security, to advances in data and genetics, to the massive impact AI will have on agriculture.
Reposted by Patrick Goymer
PLOS One Academic Editor Shyamal Talukder will be presenting a talk at #canvas25 today (Sunday) at 3.45pm in room 155 E.
‘Elucidating genomic regions associated with root hair density and length in rice seedling in response to nitrogen concentration’
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‘Elucidating genomic regions associated with root hair density and length in rice seedling in response to nitrogen concentration’
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November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
PLOS One Academic Editor Shyamal Talukder will be presenting a talk at #canvas25 today (Sunday) at 3.45pm in room 155 E.
‘Elucidating genomic regions associated with root hair density and length in rice seedling in response to nitrogen concentration’
www.sciencesocieties.org/canvas?q=can...
‘Elucidating genomic regions associated with root hair density and length in rice seedling in response to nitrogen concentration’
www.sciencesocieties.org/canvas?q=can...
Hash table method from @bayesictony.bsky.social for efficiently computing groups of loci in LD. Tested on indica, aus, japonica rice. Code here: github.com/tonymugen/vash #canvas25
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hash table method from @bayesictony.bsky.social for efficiently computing groups of loci in LD. Tested on indica, aus, japonica rice. Code here: github.com/tonymugen/vash #canvas25