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Fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew working on Ash genomics. All views my own.
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Looking for a PhD? Come work with us on Horizontal Gene Transfer in crops! Deadline 14th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Exciting News! New research has found a plant’s past adaptations can help it survive pollution 🌿 Kew's Mike Fay & partners at Bangor University found Silene uniflora’s salt tolerance helped it adapt to toxic mine waste, giving hope for nature’s recovery! 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

PDRA opportunity at Kew - chance to work on an exciting new project with a wonderful boss! (speaking from first hand experience ☺️)

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This sounds very exciting! My group is investigating the role of SVs in adaptation of ash trees to the ash dieback epidemic in our @ukri.org and @forest-protection.bsky.social funded projects so looking forward to reading this soon 😀

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Here is our preprint on metal cross-tolerance evolution in yeast! @sarperotto.bsky.social Penny Kahn, Eully Ao, and Joel Campbell www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Molecular convergence analyses identify candidate genes for low susceptibility to the ash dieback pathogen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.08.637240v1

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

A new preprint from our team 🌳🍂🍄‍🟫 #ashdieback #fraxinus

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Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Lol

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Just generating some content I guess

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Spooky walkies

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When the terminal window is not responding

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Haha yeah I can work without a second screen temporarily, obviously, no problem

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Very happy to see this out! A big thanks to everyone involved, especially Jan Hackel, Bat Vorontsova, Toby Kellogg, Robert Soreng, Bill Baker and P-A Christin! doi.org/10.1111/nph.... +

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

Thrilling new purchase. The old dehumidifier had stopped stopping once the tank was full so having it on was like that bunker in Lost where they had to keep pressing the button or the world would end

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning Bluesky. Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer. go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

submitted 111 days ago • 295 comments

Scully has recently become afflicted with usefulness (she can tell when someone is knocking on our door rather than next door, when I can't) and she's taking it very hard

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Getting ready to send two sets of samples to two sets of addresses on the same day. What could go wrong?

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Strange recent sites

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Postdoc at Kew being advertised, working on ash pangenome - good project, good boss, cool place to work etc etc. Please rebluesky or whatever it's called careers.kew.org/vacancy/post...

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And so I says to him I says

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"Ok I think we finally lost him, hopefully he's still on Twitter endlessly boring Elon with pictures of his dog" - you, naively

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