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Plant Molecular Biologist | Gene Editing, Silencing & Expression | Tissue Culture | 🚫DM
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Just 2 weeks to go! We’re at #Cereals2025 showcasing how locally adapted #barley can mitigate #ClimateChange 🌾🌑️ Joining us on our stand is #FieldenWhisky πŸ₯ƒ πŸ“… 11–12 June | πŸ“Heath Farm, Stand 1112 With - @intbarleyhub.bsky.social 🎟️: ow.ly/Kbcz50VZl6w

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We've been working on a small tool for vegetation index estimation from RGB images called Spriggles πŸ”² Select area of interest πŸ“ Export into Excel πŸ“‘ If images are taken with #GridScore, export your data straight back into the GridScore trial #phenotyping #webdev #rse cropgeeks.github.io/spriggles

β€œGrey-walking is where we don’t give any kind of emotional response, and it’s a strategy that works well to protect yourself around people who can be manipulative or toxic” apple.news/AknHuPu1BRPC...

I have created some #PlantScience resources here on Bluesky, including π‚π¨π§π­πžπ§π­ π…πžπžππ¬ & π’π­πšπ«π­πžπ« 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐀𝐬. The Feeds deliver plant science content with relevant hashtags to your timeline. The Starter Packs help you connect to other plant scientists. See this thread 🧡 for all feeds and starter packs πŸ‘‡

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This wonderful team from Pakistan is raising to get to the iGEM Jamboree and only have a few days left. They are 75% of the way to their goal. Please share, and if you have the means please donate. Every penny counts! www.gofundme.com/f/help-team-...

THREAD on the *desperate* medical situation in Gaza from a presentation by UNRWA director at the World Health Assembly. This thread was written by Prof Anthony Costello over on X - I think it's important to share as widely as possible, so I have transferred to here. Please read and share! 0/11

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OMG, nothing is immune from greed and corruption. How many things I have to boycott to live with myself without starving? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interested in writing about agriculture and innovation? Apply for this awesome fellowship. Yours Truly, along with others, would mentor you! rootsofprogress.org/write-about-...

Breakthrough in gene editing that will have huge impact in basic research, medicine and agriculture www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a powerful speech! Listen to it and take it to heart.

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WW2 couldn’t have been won without the US or the USSR, but it’s wrong to denigrate the French war effort. 567,000 French people died, compared with 416,000 Americans. French soldiers played a key part at Dunkirk, at a time when the US was dead set against fighting Hitler.

Breakthrough in gene editing that will have huge impact in basic research, medicine and agriculture www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SANTON: Sequencing Analysis Toolkits for Off-target Nomination www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬πŸ–₯️πŸ§ͺ github.com/VOR-Quantita...

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This is a really interesting article! It provides a very clear set of things to think about and suggestions to follow to move your idea from "idea" to something that actually is being used by society. One cool tip is to browse The Lens (www.lens.org) to explore the patent and commercial space.

Google Search quality has reportedly declined in recent years, this change was intentional 😱

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#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..

Tweeps, please spread the word. We're still looking at recruiting a structural biologist (any level) to study plant-pathogen protein complexes especially in the context of coevolution. Direct inquiries welcome. Please include a cover letter. Applicant from US welcome? medium.com/@kamounlab/2...

πŸ“œ In defense of funding foundational plant science πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al. πŸ“” @theplantcell.bsky.social πŸ”— academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience

Two years ago, we wrote a review article trying to capture the current understanding of #plastid diversity in vascular plants. We also dedicated a section to explain retrograde signaling and the nature of several of those signals... academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

🧬 Should #GeneEditing be allowed in Scotland? Director at our National Potato Innovation Centre, Ian Toth, spoke to STV News about the potential to grow climate-resilient crops. πŸ—£οΈ - β€œAs the climate changes we can produce crops that are fit for purpose going into the future.” More: bit.ly/4lXwr05

πŸ“œ CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al. πŸ“” @naturemethods.bsky.social πŸ”— www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods

A non-toxic, user-friendly buffer that enhances green fluorophore performance in conventional and super-resolution imaging by Wim Vandenberg and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

To restore the gut microbiome after antibiotics, the right diet (rich in carbohydrates, low in fat) was a better approach than fecal microbial transplants (in the experimental model) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture" Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed. Please share widely. academic.oup.com/database/art...

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πŸ’» How are future doctors learning today? A study of 1st-year MBBS students reveals a blend of textbooks & digital tools, with Wikipedia & mobile internet leading the charge.πŸš€ Challenges? Slow speeds & trust issues! πŸ”— pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12011279/ πŸ”Ž #MedEd #DigitalLearning #DHPSP

Why is the pigmentation of these foxglove flowers all spotty like that? And the spotting pattern is not the same between flowers.