Peter Solomon

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

Nothing at all to be concerned about here ... 🙄https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02221-6?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=07bf0162d5-nature-briefing-daily-20250716&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-48945063

A real treat to have Professor Yong-Hwan Lee from Seoul National University presenting at #APPS2025 in Sydney, Aus. As many would know, Yong-Hwan is a pioneer in the rice blast field and always a pleasure to hear his journey through his career as well as his many recent advances.

Swiss Alps seen from Neuchatel

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭?

We have several postdoc positions open at the moment!

Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs

Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

Excited to announce that Tek Tay will be delivering a plenary presentation at #strompath2025. Tek is a leader in understanding the genome diversity of invasive insect pests inc FAW and CRB. Please click on the link for more information and registration details for the meeting. tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2

#APPS2025

Great talk by Chris Nellessen from the AUS Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry using MALDI-ToF as a biosecurity diagnostic. @arc-pbtc.bsky.social is working with DAFF to develop improved fruit fly diagnostic approaches - an important project with significant biosecurity implications.

#APPS2025

Always interested in an early morning talk on coffee rusts! Great overview by Cathie Aime at APPS 2025 ...

Whoops … noticed a typo … @thamlab.bsky.social

Happy to announce that registration for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology (and plant pests!) conference at ANU is now open (Nov 27-28). Plenary speakers confirmed include @yasukadota.bsky.social, Cecile Segonzac and@thamlab.bsky.social. Please go to tinyurl.com/2rdxuap3 to register - all are welcome!

We are pleased to welcome AUSVEG as a new partner in the ARC Training Centre for Plant Biosecurity. Representing Australia’s vegetable, potato, and onion industries, AUSVEG will support our efforts to train postgraduates to address the growing threat of pests and diseases. @arc-pbtc.bsky.social

Bloody disgraceful ...

agree completely ... good golf course too!

The ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity @arc-pbtc.bsky.social is pleased to introduce postdoctoral research fellow Elle Saber to the Training Centre! Elle is a statistician working on quantitative methods in biology and values opportunities to collaborate with researchers from different fields.

I read this letter and it simply wreaks of the derangement that is operating at many levels of the current government. They only way forward (at our level) is to be openly critical of these policies and highlight the benefits of what we do and the outcomes from research funding, over and over again!

We're officially launching the ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity on the International Day of Plant Health, May 12. This is a 5yr, $10M investment into postgrad research training funded by Australian Research Council, 3 unis (ANU, JCU & UC) and 27 partner organisations @arc-pbtc.bsky.social

Not science but am having a lovely time visiting my daughter at GSU in Atlanta … weird times in this part of the world but still heaps of nice people that give me hope that they’ll see this through …

Chicago sunrise …

Awesome array of skills and techniques on display by @yithengchooi.bsky.social on mining for secondary metabolites in fungi. An exciting ride about to start! #ecfg17

Brilliant story presented by Naoyoshi Kumakura @ecfg172025.bsky.social #ecfg17 on how dihydroxyhexanoic acid mediates pore sizes in appresorium … see more here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#ecfg17

Nice story by @ifudal.bsky.social at @ecfg172025.bsky.social talking about conserved cooperating effectors in L. maculans

📣 Short-term #postdoctoral #position in plant disease epidemiology modeling @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-save.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Please share it! 🙏
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Arrived in Dublin for @ecfg172025.bsky.social … keen for the meeting to start - but while I’m waiting …

‘It’s very lonely’: what are Australia’s university students missing out on? Many start their studies hoping to find friends, themselves and intellectual stimulation. More and more are finding they’ve been sold something else

A pretty damning indictment on university student experience - hard to see how this changes (other than fund universities properly and provide free education ...) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Really looking forward to ECFG17 in Dublin @ecfg172025.bsky.social ... outstanding program ... pdf-program.abstractserver.com?congress=ecf...

You weren't old in Korea!

Assembly and Evaluation of a Confocal Microscopy Image Analysis Pipeline Useful in Revealing the Secrets of Plant-Fungal Interactions | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® The ability of laser scanning confocal microscopy to generate high-contrast 2D and 3D images has become essential in studying plant-fungal interactions. Techniques such as visualization of native fluo...

Awesome to see this study out from @ashleycnelson.bsky.social ... great technique to use with our beloved wheat necrotrophs! apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life — but with a twist.

This is truly incredible ... D and L amino acids and all the required nucleotides ... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Renewables break record for share of Australia’s main energy supply in December quarter, data reveals Australian Energy Market Operator also reports year-on-year price spike linked to an increase in coal outages

Renewable energy sources counted for 46% of Australia's energy supply in the last 3 months of 2024 - BRILLIANT! This can only get better! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...