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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...

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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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😬 www.science.org/content/arti...

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👍👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Picked the right weather for a long weekend by the beach

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

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

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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Looks accurate

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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

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Oops 😬

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

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

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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.

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Good one 😉

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

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

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

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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!

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

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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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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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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.

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

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#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

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

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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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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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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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www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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

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

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Managed to get some Xmas baking done just in time

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

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

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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...

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

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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

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