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I'm looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on the function of #circadian clock proteins in wheat. I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity. #plantscience Postdoc applications close on 2 April. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...

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To me, this is incredibly beautiful and wonderous. Such clean, small liquids are holding a plethora of molecules I leveraged nature to create exactly as I want them. Picturing it in my mind then making them in these invisible liquids is just incredible to me. This is why I'm a molecular biologist.

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Message to my 11 followers in Bluesky: We are pleased to announce that registrations for the International EMBO workshop Ribosome Synthesis: from Mechanisms to Therapy 13th Edition are now open! Details and registration: www.eventsforce.net/hg3/frontend... The Organizing Committee

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Two years ago, mRNA vaccine science was deservedly recognized with the nobel prize for medicine and physiology. This week, we are seeing the threat of funding cuts of federal funding of mRNA vaccine research. The latest illustration of the profound stupidity of our current timeline.

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It's alive! Our work combining experiments and computational models to show that "Root stem cell homeostasis in Arabidopsis involves cell-type specific transcription factor complexes"! Amazing collaboration with Vivien Strotmann and @yvonnestahl.bsky.social! 🌱🌱 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Hi plant epigenetics fans! I have updated the Plant Epigenetics Starter Pack to include additional researchers in the field: @jacobsenucla.bsky.social @pecinka-grp.bsky.social @manavellalab.bsky.social Please let me know if you wish to be added to the Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/HyTwdc2

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I know that the mRNA is larger than the protein it codes for but I don't believe it

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👋 We're the Pittsburgh Phage Program (P3)! Based at Pitt, we advance precision medicine using phages—viruses that kill bacteria. We fight antibiotic resistance through compassionate use & clinical trials. Follow for 🔬research, 💡phage facts, 📢success stories! #PhageTherapy #P3

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🚨 New #Breakthrough research article "A new level of RNA-based plant protection: dsRNAs designed from functionally characterized siRNAs highly effective against Cucumber mosaic virus" #RNA 👉 Read here: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Pictured: Selma Gago-Zachert, Torsten Gursinsky and Sven-Erik Behrens

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I didn't see that Orthofinder v3 was released a few months ago! github.com/davidemms/Or... Adds --core/--assign, so you can make an initial run with a few diverse species and then add hundreds more later. SUPER useful for our larger fish genomics datasets

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We're hiring for a bioinformatics lead at the OceanOmics Centre! L7, come work with all of the cool genomics data! HiFi, HiC, Illumina, a PromethION, it's all there. Sequence all of the marine vertebrates! #bioinformatics external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

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Toward single-molecule protein sequencing using nanopores - @unigroningen.bsky.social go.nature.com/3FL0g3k

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Hello Bluesky 👋 Follow along for the latest news and research from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S). Learn more about P4S: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUVp...

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Creating a new oilseed crop, pennycress, by combining key domestication traits using CRISPR genome editing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.15.643467v1

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PWO proteins are associated with PRC2 since their emergence in vascular plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.15.643013v1

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1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

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We are excited to update you on two distinct auxin oscillations (local & systemic), revealing how root architecture adapts to fluctuating conditions! @cibss.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Women to save thousands of dollars a year as new fertility and endometriosis drugs listed on PBS

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If you're a plant, and your roots hit rare earth elements in the soil, can you take them up and use them for fruitful photon or electron energy conversions? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Method for transient expression in various plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Thank you, @einsteinberlin.bsky.social, for recognizing the importance of raising concerns about scientific papers. Often, science sleuths face professional, personal, and legal threats. Awards like these are vital to acknowledging the significance of our work.

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"these approaches estimate the number of ribosomes on a transcript, the translation initiation rate, and the overall number of translation events before its decay, all in a genome-wide manner" #rnasky #ribosome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New preprint! We worked with @msftresearch.bsky.social and @broadinstitute.org to see whether large language models (LLMs) can be useful to variant scientists in deciding whether genetic variants seen in a patient are responsible for their disease. tl;dr yes they can: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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After a lot of work, we are finally able to share this project about the cell cycle in Marchantia from the Haseloff lab. If you want to find out how cell division is controlled, you can’t miss out this one… #PlantScience #Synbio #EvoDevo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Thrilled to see this out! 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🌿🧬 Silencing immunity genes boosts transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana! Congrats to all involved! A #PlantChemetics story first on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, now in @PlantBiotechJ. #TransientExpression #MolecularPharming

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Since I've been working on some lycopsids recently, here's a diagram I made several years ago for a blog post I never got around to finishing. So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy! #FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology

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ALL RESEARCHERS ❗️Speak up❗️ if you have opinions, critique or ideas on proposed changes to Australian Research Council grants. Discuss & distill ideas, sure, but to be considered you MUST make a submission ▶️ submit.dese.gov.au/jfe/form/SV_... It’s EASY! Answer these questions in the form👇

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Our updated preprint now on bioRxiv: Production of human papillomavirus type 16 virus-like particles in #Physcomitrella photobioreactors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 💡 Fern-tastic discoveries: CLAVATA3 and WOX signaling pathways in fern gametophyte development 🌿 🖊️ @GwenKirschner 📖https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70093 Original manuscript by Kelley A. Renninger et al @IowaStateU in thread

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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes sheds light on their deep evolutionary ancestry—suggesting that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) may have had an excavate-like cell architecture. 🧵🔬 (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Direct connection between RNA m6A and histone modification during transcription in plants genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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