Daniel Wood

Mean ABV of my drinks

Ash trees showing autumn colour at Kew Gardens

A view of Kew Gardens with a small ash tree in the foreground

A large ash tree at Kew Gardens, with leaves turning golden for autumn

A close-up of ash tree seeds

I chose a good day to check for seed in our Fraxinus collection at @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌞🌳🍁 Looks like a bumper crop for most species - these are valuable material for @forest-protection.bsky.social funded research to tackle threats to ash trees 🌿 #Fraxinus #ashtrees #treehealth

Can you replace ground sesame seeds with ground flax seeds the short answer is no the long answer is noooooooooooooooooooo

Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Stephinancialtimes Bush!

Blue four-lobed flower with fringed edges

More blue four-lobed flowers

Four-lobed fringed blue flowers

Eight years ago today 🌿

Gentianopsis thermalis, our Rocky Mountain Fringed Gentian, blooming along the South Platte near Garo #nativeplants

I enjoyed The Conjuring: Last Rites, although I did have low expectations

Reminiscent of Magneto's prison in X Men 2

💻 You can now view our spring webinar series which showcases the results from some of our Phase 1 projects. Our 2024/25 cohort of interns also gave a short talk about each of their projects.

🔗 You can find links to the webinars & talks here: www.forestprotection.uk/2025/09/03/s...

We need more trees 🌳 But - believe it or not - simply planting more won’t necessarily help and could lead to forests that are vulnerable to disease, drought & heat.

Learn how we're working with nurseries to grow forests that are more resilient to a warmer future
👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

Regulatory features determine the evolutionary fate of laterally acquired genes in plants Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is widespread in eukaryotes, including in animals and plants where it can fuel adaptive evolution and innovation. However, the factors that influence the integration and lo...

Awesome work led by @cfcollins.bsky.social looking at the factors that influence the long term retention of laterally transferred genes! A huge amount of work and awesome first PhD chapter

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This pizza took ages

As someone able to maintain the same role for entire generations of fans, the answer is obvious: the HBO Harry Potter series

Yes it's definitely good to have a publication with this as its main focus otherwise it can just get lost

European ash pangenome reveals widespread structural variation and a diverse genetic basis for low ash dieback susceptibility European Ash ( Fraxinus excelsior ) is a keystone forest tree species, whose populations are being decimated by Ash Dieback disease (ADB). Uncovering the genetic basis of low susceptibility to this de...

Very nice study! Possibly of interest - most of the "dispensable" genes in our pangenome for European ash were not associated with sequence differences/SVs, even when using the same annotation pipeline, which seems consistent with what you're finding doi.org/10.1101/2025...

How annoying would this be to cook at home is surely a key meal choice criterion

(I don't know what a restaurant is, I'm in way over my head)

Both are correct, you should bring your ingredients to a restaurant and cook them there

"The Pope? What percentage of GDP spends he?"

Robert Dodecagon, disgraced shape designer

Check out our preprint presenting the construction and application of a pangenome for European ash @laura-j-kelly.bsky.social @rbuggs.bsky.social

📢 FINAL CALL📢

🌳 Applications for our #treehealth and #forestprotection internships close this week! Have you applied yet?

⏰ @rbgkew.bsky.social close: Tue 22 July (tomorrow!)
⏰ @forestresearchuk.bsky.social close: Thu 24 July

For more information, please visit: lnkd.in/eh6GgQh9

#Internships

Friends are reported as saying "oh no"

0 days since last incident

Young woman in a green coat uses a microdrill to measure wood density in a tree trunk.

📢 INTERNSHIP ALERT 📢

Join @forestresearchuk.bsky.social @edinburghnapier.bsky.social to help detect internal defects in oak trees using cutting-edge tech 🌳🧪

📍 Midlothian, Scotland
🗓️ Oct 2025–Mar 2026

Apply now 👉 t.co/rREVbgpCaX
#Internship #PlantScience #TreeHealth

📢 INTERNSHIP ALERT 📢

🌳 Join @rbgkew.bsky.social as a CFP intern to help future-proof UK ash trees against ash dieback using genomics & bioinformatics🌳🧬

📍 Richmond, London
🗓️ Oct 2025–Mar 2026

Apply now 👉 www.forestprotection.uk/2025/07/04/c...

#Internship #TreeHealth #Bioinformatics

📢 INTERNSHIP ALERT📢

Passionate about forests, climate resilience & plant science?

🌲 Study Scots pine responses to drought/waterlogging in a glasshouse trial.

📍 Midlothian, Scotland
🗓️ Oct 2025–Mar 2026
Apply now 👉 www.forestprotection.uk/2025/07/04/c...
#Internship #PlantScience #Ecology

Non GM dinosaurs ominously disturb glasses of water etc whereas huge GM dinosaurs had their sound genes removed allowing them to gallivant silently through the fog