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Are you looking for an exciting postdoc on quantitative disease resistance in Quinoa in collaboration with @kjschmid.bsky.social and others?? Apply now. The project can start as soon as possible!

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New blog post - Writing a book with Quarto: Turn a collection of RMarkdown documents into a book in <1 hour using Quarto doi.org/10.59350/9qj... Here's the book: Biological Data Science with R bdsr.stephenturner.us #Rstats

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Absolutely thrilled to see Dr. Brandon Gaut receive the inaugural @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Mentorship Award! 🏆🎉 Brandon brings humanity back to science, supports inclusive training, and pushes back on the publish-or-perish culture. So well deserved—congrats! 👏🙌 genestogenomes.org/distinguishe...

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Interesting discussions in this thread on student attendance in lectures in the era of availability of recordings. We are struggling with the same issues here. My two cents: some students love being in class. Some hate it and prefer to watch at 2x from home. I don't mind. -> 1/9

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I just released a preprint reporting on my experiment with generative AI in my Engineering Computations course. TL;DR: It was a mess. The biggest issue? The "illusion of competence." #GenAI #education #edtech

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what’s interesting about this is that it highlights that we need to have a much deeper conversation about the value of learning beyond ‘it will get you a job’ (will it? it might but really the degree might suffice) it will make you experience of the world richer if you let it is a harder sell

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Wir Omas sind vernetzt und machen kontinuierlich überregionale Zoom Meeting. Die Berichte der Omas aus dem Osten unserer Republik sind erschreckend und diese Omas haben unseren größten Respekt. Lest selbst: Döblin- AfD Anteil 45%. Ärzte, Lehrer, Beamte, Nachbarn, jeder 2. wählt die AfD. Die...

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The Trait Discovery Group @kwsgroup.bsky.social is looking for a new Leader. "The candidate will lead a team focused on identifying and characterizing genes for genome editing that contribute to key trait product launches in KWS crops." #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

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Last ski climb and dance with the snow of the winter season in the beautiful 🇨🇭 mountains. Gives sore muscles but also new energy to deal with to-do lists and deadlines😉

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Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows. data-for-good-team.org

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We still have a few spots left for the GRC Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tuscany this summer (July 13-18). Lots of great speakers already lined up, and we'd love to hear from you! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

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I have a simple solution to this. Grade students entirely by means of three hour hand-written exams in a big hall with no computers. If they all fail because they never learned to write without AI, sucks to be them

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Please share: Registration is now open for EUCARPIA Biometrics in Plant Breeding 2025 highlanderlab.github.io/EUCARPIA2025...

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🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨 Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change. Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left. 👇1/n

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

Na gut, ich markiere dann nur kurz jedes schiefe Argument aus diesem Text. Aufgrund der Dichte ist das zeitraubend genug. 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

submitted 18 days ago • 2349 comments

Yesterday Tr*mp froze all NSF funds, today he announced a 56% budget cut. This is going to devastate science in the US. I've spent the morning calling my reps to raise hell and applying for jobs as it's clear I can't sustain my freelance scicomm business on NSF funding anymore (1/n) #scicomm #nsf 🧪

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Informativer Hintergrundartikel auf der @republik.ch über den Rechtsdrift der @nzz.ch, einer früher für ihren Blick von aussen sehr geschätzten liberalen Zeitung. www.republik.ch/2025/04/30/a...

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Just saying www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/afd-t...

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Die Frage, ob man seine begrenzte Zeit im akademischen Betrieb für Forschung & Lehre oder für die Entwicklung zum Verwaltungsprofi & selbstoptimierten Leader (👇) nutzt, muss man jeden Tag aufs Neue für sich beantworten.

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Ich habe die letzten Tage über Landwirtschaft & Umwelt aus der Produktionssicht geschrieben. Aber natürlich hängt das, was und wie angebaut wird, wesentlich davon ab, was und wie gegessen wird. Die Bedeutung von Konsumentscheidungen sollte man nicht unterschätzen: bartoszbartk.com/2023/02/24/d...

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Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

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Das Schweizer Pflanzenzüchtungszentrum sucht einen Geschäftsführer. Ausschreibung: www.spbc-plantbreeding.ch/fileadmin/sp... Webseite: www.spbc-plantbreeding.ch #plantscijobs #plantjobs

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New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles 159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist) 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Der Präsident der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ist gerade aus den USA zurückgekehrt. Wie schlimm ist die Lage? Er habe seine Kolleginnen dort noch nie so verunsichert erlebt.

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Peak doomscrolling, with a glimpse of hope. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart seeks a Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics. Applications due by June 15, 2025. More info: https://biodiversitysmns.wixsite.com/rpereiralab #job

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🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Kurt Vonnegut man

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I brought back the dire lotus from extinction by using CRISPR in Arabidopsis! Same Arabidopsis thaliana species, just four mutations..

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Crucial thread for all of us in academia today

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Awesome syllabus. Keep it going!

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"Save our Seeds", das Berliner Büro der Anthroposophie-nahen GLS-"Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft", hat eine E-Mail-Aktion an die Verhandlungsführer*innen @spdfraktion.de und Union gestartet. Es geht um die Pläne für eine neue Regulierung für Pflanzen, die mittels CRISPR & Co. gezüchtet wurden. 1/2

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Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday. Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice. To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/

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Tidier.jl 1.6.0 is on its way to the #julialang registry! - It makes it possible to seamlessly work across dataframes and databases without needing to manually dispatch to the correct TidierData vs. TidierDB macro. - It newly re-exports TidierIteration.jl (akin to the #rstats {purrr} package)

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The collaborative paper on adding selection to stdpopsim is out! Learn about how to easily simulate realistic population genomic data with background selection and sweeps, plus some benchmarking of methods for demographic history, DFE, and sweep inference. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Online-Webinar-Tipp morgen: „ #CRISPR-Cas für eine nachhaltige Zukunft der #Landwirtschaft“ mit Prof. Dr. Holger Puchta, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften (JKIP) @kit.edu. Bitte beim @vbio.bsky.social anmelden: www.vbio.de/aktuelles/de... #blueLZ

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Sometimes working in academia feels like playing an elaborated glass bead game. It became obvious to me during the pandemic when we were asked to implement the numerous rules imposed on organisations and somehow carry on instead of joining forces to contribute solutions to an urgent issue.

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"Ich bin fest davon überzeugt, dass wir auch die grüne #Gentechnik brauchen, um Antworten auf die großen Herausforderungen wie den Klimawandel [...] und den Verlust an Biodiversität geben zu können." Unser Direktor Prof. Nicolaus von Wirén heute im Interview mit @muellerjung.bsky.social in der FAS:

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US-Präsident #Trump verhökert die #Ukraine und pokert mit #Putin um #Europa. Die klar besseren Karten hält der Kreml-Potentat. Die europäischen Spitzenpolitiker? Können nur zuschauen und auf Zeit spielen. #Tauchsieder @wiwo #Koselleck #Hegel #Nietzsche www.wiwo.de/politik/ausl...

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0.000008% of the federal budget. And utterly, irreplaceably, priceless.

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We condemn the destruction of the researchers' field trials at the Universities of Verona and Milan. These incidents are not only an attack on the work of researchers, but also an attack on the freedom of research. Our statement: oekoprog.org/en/attack-on...

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Wir verurteilen die Zerstörung der Feldversuche der Forschenden der Universitäten Verona und Mailand. Diese Vorfälle sind nicht nur ein Angriff auf die Arbeit von Forschenden, sondern auch ein Angriff auf die Forschungsfreiheit. Unser Statement: DE: oekoprog.org/angriff-auf-...

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VERY excited to announce a pre-print that represents the culmination of several years of work*: “On ARGs, pedigrees, and genetic relatedness matrices” doi.org/10.1101/2025... Led by Brieuc Lehmann with contributions from @epigenci.bsky.social Luke Anderson Trocme Jerome Kelleher and Peter Ralph

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Travel permits of all US government employees (USDA, NSF) have been revoked shortly before the the maize meeting affecting: - The chair of the meeting - The winner of the most prestigious McClintock award - A plenary speaker - Two short talk presenters - 22 scientists presenting posters. #MGM2025

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