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Plant/Computational Biologist | Genomics & Phenotyping | @ARC_MedAg_Hub @latrobe | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺 ⚽️🖤💛🏉
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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...

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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👍👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Picked the right weather for a long weekend by the beach

When things seem at their darkest, it can still get darker.

Plasmodesmata act as unconventional membrane contact sites regulating intercellular molecular exchange in plants: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Wow 👍👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The update is here! Now you can score two plots at a time, export any visualization to PNG and SVG format, utilise barcodes even better and export more data via #BrAPI #phenotyping #bioinformatics #webdev gridscore.hutton.ac.uk

In an ideal world the President of the United States, the world's richest man, and the two worst humans alive would be four different people.

Journal just gave me back some time on the weekend, yey. Quote: "If you have not started the review, then you can relax and cross it off your "to do" list." I did start, thanks for wasting my time... 😡 Then editor thanks me for my review and shares 'all' received comments.

To US colleagues who have lost or are in imminent danger of losing their jobs: please DM whether we can accommodate your research.

Looks accurate

The Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) is now on bsky as well as X: @asps-oz.bsky.social. Latest Phytogen issue: www.asps.org.au/archives/51978

Oops 😬

In these dark times, good to see an ad sponsored by diverse corporations and non profits: Germany = Togetherland #zusammenland

Creationism makes a lot more sense than believing 3 billion years of evolution climaxed in YOU.

Every day over 50,000,000 people on the far-right tweet a blatantly made-up fact followed by the phrase "Let that sink in". Let that sink in.

Good one 😉

REVIEW: "Improving transformation and regeneration efficiency in medicinal plants: insights from other recalcitrant species" - Praveen Lakshman Bennur et al., doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Try not to take yourself too seriously. After all, you're an idiot.

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Always good when yummy stuff gets sequenced onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Melbourne Plant Science Community! We have an opportunity to get together again for a seminar of Prof Christine Raines, a pioneer in genetic engineering of plants for improved photosynthesis and growth. Come on Feb 18, 10.30am to LaTrobe City Campus, room 2.15. Please repost & share with colleagues!

REVIEW: "Genomic and cell-specific regulation of benzylisoquinoline alkaloid biosynthesis in opium poppy" - Uyen Vu Thuy Hong et al., doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Brilliant work by Takeharu Nagai and team: Creating coveted bioluminescence colors for simultaneous multi-color bioimaging www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Professor Ute Roessner AM FAA has been appointed as ARC CEO by the ARC Board. They are Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research, at ANU at the moment. Their appointment starts 31st March and lasts for 5 years.

Could be a game changer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#WissXit: Wissenschaftliche Institutionen verlassen Plattform X Mehr als 60 deutschsprachige Hochschulen, Universitäten und weitere Forschungsinstitutionen haben sich zusammengeschlossen, um ein Zeichen zu setzen: Gemeinsam verkünden sie, ihre Aktivitäten auf der Plattform X einzustellen. #exit

Wow, three plant papers in Cell this week www.cell.com/cell/issue?p...

ANAC044 orchestrates mitochondrial stress signaling to trigger iron-induced stem cell death in root meristems | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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So I spent the first three days of the year between bed and toilet. On the upside, 2025 can't get any worse. Right? RIGHT??

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You’ll be pleased to know Santa’s sleigh runs on 100% renewable reindeer shit.

Special issue on Medicinal Plants is out in @jxbotany.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/issue/76/1

Managed to get some Xmas baking done just in time

You can't just say "Goddammit!" and expect Me to damn it. There's a procedure. File the paperwork.

Always a fun read when Hans et al go on a rant 😆 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

A new biosensor is born 👼 The NAPstar family of genetically-encoded sensors for live NADP redox monitoring🔋🪫 Jointly with the Morgan lab & @riemerlab.bsky.social we looked in vitro, in yeast, plants & mammalian cells 🧪🦠🧫🌱 Where to go next? @naturecomms.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

GAME changer www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

About time I reshared this. Over 50 on the list now but so many still missing from the old place. Spread the word. go.bsky.app/AiLTKHH