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Zhang et al. use the sexually polymorphic desert herb G. transversale to illustrate the relative plasticity of sex allocation to female & male function in various floral phenotypes. Read it here!⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/jse.... #PlantScience #evolution #EvoDevo #PlantDevelopment

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Quote this with a great TV father.

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Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

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EPIGENETIC HULK READY TO SMASH AGAIN! GET IN LOSERS!

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Tomorrow night I'm flying to Copenhagen to visit GBIF and hopefully The Globe, then next week I'll be in Cambridge for a 4 day long IUCN workshop. If anybody here reads this, happy to catch up :)

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I am saddened by this news. Atul was a vibrant colleague and tireless proponent of using data to unravel the complexity of disease.

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Inducible genome-wide mutagenesis for improvement of pDNA production by E. coli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.13.659583v1

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I am super excited to announce the first (brief) pre-print purely from my group: Start right to end right: authentic open reading frame selection matters www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This marks a return to NMD research for me. NMD detects early stop codons but we need to find the true stop!

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Humanized Caffeine-Inducible Systems for Controlling Cellular Functions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.13.659463v1

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Caffeine-regulated molecular switches for functional control of CAR T cells in vivo https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.13.659487v1

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Phage-Assisted Evolution of Allosteric Protein Switches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.12.659331v1

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I am super excited to announce the first (brief) pre-print purely from my group: Start right to end right: authentic open reading frame selection matters www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This marks a return to NMD research for me. NMD detects early stop codons but we need to find the true stop!

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New #RegRNALab #preprint alert! 📢📢📢 Transcriptome-guided annotation and functional classification of long non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.18.488676v1 Why reannotate A. thaliana's #lncRNAs you say? Well ...

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Start right to end right: authentic open reading frame selection matters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.10.658836v1

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Start right to end right: authentic open reading frame selection matters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.10.658836v1

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A synthetic jasmonate receptor agonist uncouples the growth–defense trade-off in rice www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #plantscience

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Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾

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Leveraging public AI tools to explore systems biology resources in mathematical modeling www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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1/10 New pre-print(s) from the Sternberg Lab in collaboration with Leifu Chang's Lab! We uncover the unprecedented molecular mechanism of CRISPR-Cas12f-like proteins, which drive RNA-guided transcription independently of canonical promoter motifs. Full story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ok, fine I'm willing to admit it now: Mimulus is interesting www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

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you know how people in Los Angeles have a right to object to an invading military force? i invite you to consider what other communities around the world might also have the right to object to the same thing

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#plantsci Random question for Arabidopsis people: has anyone compared the impact of selfing A.thaliana in labs over successive generations vs maintaining the same ecotype in wild environments (low level of outcrossing), on inbreeding depression? @plantevolution.bsky.social

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Engineering an RNA/protein‐binding module for higher transgene protein production and improved long‐term durability - Hung - 2025 - The Plant Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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💯 Rubber bullets can act like regular bullets at that range. The cop deliberately targeted and fired on a person who is obviously a journalist doing a TV report. #CopsDoingCrimesOnCamera

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🧬Investigations into the emergent properties of gene-to-phenotype networks across cycles of selection: a case study of shoot branching in plants doi.org/10.1093/insi... #model #PlantScience

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Interesting study on the cell size proxies of the genome size in land plants, which can be used for the genomic inference using purely paleobotanical fossil data. 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio doi.org/10.1017/pab....

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How adding mRNA to code for interleukin-12 markedly increased T cell immune response which could be used for vaccines vs infectious diseases and cancer @sciimmunology.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Our latest paper on wild sorghum and how crazy-drought tolerant they are - good reading for the King’s Birthday Weekend onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PT7KGW...

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Single-cell characterization of bacterial optogenetic Cre recombinases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.06.658346v1

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New Q&A "Advocacy for disability in STEM" Alyssa Paparella talks about her experiences with promoting accessibility in academia through her work with @disabledinstem.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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With the publication of a new preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) with collaborators @labschneeberger.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social and @jurriaanton.bsky.social, I feel it is timely to talk about what will probably be the most successful 'failed' experiment of my career.

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TESS: A Forward Simulation Framework for Studying the Role of Transposable Elements in Genome Expansion and Contraction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657780v1

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I’ve been studying gene regulation in primates for over 20 years, and using RNA-seq since 2008 to compare expression across species. We thought we were being careful. We used curated orthologous exons to minimize alignment bias and focused on biologically meaningful comparisons. We were wrong.

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No update from ARC about ongoing Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowships delays. On 29th May, ARC told @jsresearchpro.bsky.social they couldn’t "provide further detail”👇 Remember, they told us to wait for an update a month ago. Nothing since. Seems so out of touch. Just explain what's happening!

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New on @biorxiv!!!!!! We’re excited to share our latest paper on combining cell-free systems and machine learning to express full genome in vitro. Check it out now! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Catch us at SEED in Houston this June to discuss this work. #CellFree

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I repeat: nanopore accuracy is a software problem, not a chemistry problem or a hardware problem.

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I often send a little e-mail congratulating the corresponding author of a paper I really enjoyed reading. It's simple, quick and I think it's always nice to receive a positive message.

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P4S Chief Investigator Prof Ryan Lister and P4S Research Fellow Dr James Lloyd are part of a world-first effort to build an artificial chromosome entirely from scratch in plants. Read more about the project, which has received more than $12 million in funding from the UK’s ARIA 👉 lnkd.in/g6CX8JHD

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Programmable RNA acetylation with CRISPR–Cas13 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bryo-delic! Diverse bibenzyl cannabinoids in the #liverwort Radula marginata 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by @Phil_Carella on this article by Andre et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

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