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For example, did they consider copper or pyrethrum, two highly toxic “natural” pesticides beloved by organic farming?

...nothing against the work, but I wonder how useful such information is as long as the alternatives are not considered. Plus, how does it stack up against natural compounds that we come in touch with every day?

Ja, hat ordentlich geregnet und das Wasser reicht gut an die Beobachtungsverstecke ran!

Good morning from La Doñana

Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics This article explores the legacy of eugenics and its harmful impact on Indigenous peoples of North America. It examines how genetics research historically

"Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics" is a particularly important essay given the recent spate of human genetic engineering startups...

🧪 #Science #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky

academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

@nytimes.com “The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

🧬🛡️How are new immune mechanisms created?

We show how Lamassu antiphage system, originated from a DNA-repair complex and evolved into a compact and modular immune machine, wt Dinshaw Patel lab in @pnas.org.
👏 @matthieu-haudiquet.bsky.social, Arpita Chakravarti & all authors!

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Delphine Pott (left) and Marco Incarbone (right) standing in front of a yellow wall and next to a window facade in an office building. Both are smiling.

Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅

Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏

The reductionist days of "good" and "bad" cholesterol are over.
We've learned so much more about Lp(a), APOB, HDL and more
economist.com/science-and-...
as I reviewed in Super Agers tinyurl.com/3w76us9a

That’s the plan. Synteny is of course in the eye of the beholder (i.e., the MSA algorithm and parameters used).

Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes

We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.

Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Trump essentially said loyalty to the Constitution is punishable by death. Those are dangerous words coming from the President of the United States, but I’m not going to be intimidated.

Screenshot of the de.NBI project for our upcoming courses. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#denbi2025

Getting ready for our #PlantGenomics courses! 🌱🔬
The course is almost full, so check out the details soon if you want to join and learn about the power of long-read sequencing and cloud-based data analysis.
Feel free to spread the word!

👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#...
@puckerlab.bsky.social

Hybrid fertility and the rarity of homoploid hybrid speciation Abstract. Hybrid speciation is increasingly being recognized as an important driver in diversification. Of the two forms of hybrid speciation, polyploid hy

♻️ Drought tolerance of cowpea is associated with rapid abscisic acid biosynthesis via VuWRKY57 in root by Misaki Tochihara-Tanaka and co-authors.

Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp...

#PlantScience

I had a fantastic day with the @royalsociety.org at #LondonPride this year. I loved seeing people respond to us specifically.
I have fantastic acceptance as a scientist, but I do and have faced discrimination. It's had an impact my career. But far less that others I know. Let's make #ScienceForAll

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

YouTube video by NowThis Impact Fox News Tried Going After Denmark. Big Mistake. | NowThis

Remember this? Fox News tried going after Denmark's social safety net. This Danish politician's legendary fact check shows us all how it’s done. Via @nowthisimpact.bsky.social x.com/nowthisnews/...

"I was (...) surprised to learn about the #childcare #grants available through EMBO. Not many other institutions provide these opportunities (...)” says Sheila Roitman, EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: https://www.embo.org/people/a-resilient-journey-through-science/ 🧪 #funding

So grapevine no different than Arabidopsis, where century-scale methylome stability was demonstrated 10 years ago...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

from 2005!!!! Potential photosynthesis gene recombination between Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus via viral intermediates enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university Democratic governments must resist authoritarian states trying to co-opt their institutions, writes Laura Murphy

A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university (gift link)
economist.com/by-invitatio...

Gibt es irgendwo ein Beispiel von jemandem, der "sanktioniert" wurde, weil er "Putzfrau" sagte, oder "Erzieherin"? Hat irgendjemand jemals für so etwas echte Schwierigkeiten bekommen? Wisst ihr, wer täglich echte Schwierigkeiten hat? Die Frauen, die tatsächlich putzen. Oder auf Kinder aufpassen.

Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train.

One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.

Unsere Mitglieder suchen immer motivierte Menschen, die mit Leidenschaft, Neugier und Teamgeist etwas bewegen wollen. Vielleicht ist bei den aktuellen Stellenausschreibungen unserer Mitgliedsunternehmen euer nächster #Traumjob dabei! 👉 www.bdp-online.de/de/Service/K...

I see you are a disciple of the dialectical method. So am I.

We're hiring faculty at the interface of climate systems engineering and ecology -- climateengineering.uchicago.edu/opportunitie...

After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.

👏 👏 👏

www.wunc.org/education/20...

An empirical approach to evaluating the prevalence of long-lived balancing selection in humans--and important limitations. Work by @hannahmm.bsky.social