Peter C. McKeown

a speech bubble that says " trans women are women " ALT: a speech bubble that says " trans women are women "

On the UK Supreme Court's decision yesterday - lots of people are erroneously taking it as evidence that trans women are not women. This misunderstands the fact that the law of any country does not control the concept of gender. No trans woman in the UK or beyond is any less of a woman now. 👇

17.04.2025 08:47 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d

08.04.2025 12:09 — 👍 62    🔁 76    💬 1    📌 5

#CGIARScienceWeek #WithScienceWeCan #OneCGIAR

07.04.2025 07:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fantastic start to the CGIAR Science Week here in Nairobi, looking forward to many interesting talks and collaborative opportunities. @uniofgalway.bsky.social

07.04.2025 07:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction - Nature Spontaneous parthenogenesis in sunflower has been used to develop a scalable doubled haploid breeding system.

Nature research paper: Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction

https://go.nature.com/4hYpSY3

03.04.2025 14:14 — 👍 38    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Sorghum aerial roots producing mucilage and hosting bacteria that fix nitrogen from the air

Our latest article on biological nitrogen fixation on the aerial roots of sorghum has been published in @plosbiology.org. We thank the @energygov.bsky.social for supporting this exciting project.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

04.03.2025 13:45 — 👍 99    🔁 43    💬 4    📌 4

A portrait of Daisy Roulland-Dussoix from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Roulland-Dussoix

Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her.
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01.02.2025 15:28 — 👍 263    🔁 127    💬 7    📌 23

An avoidance segment resolves a lethal nuclear–mitochondrial targeting conflict during ribosome assembly - Nature Cell Biology Oborská-Oplová et al. report a conserved mitochondrial avoidance segment in the cytosolic ribosomal protein uS5 that prevents mistargeting of uS5 to the mitochondrial matrix and ensures cytosolic ribo...

An avoidance segment resolves a lethal nuclear–mitochondrial targeting conflict during ribosome assembly

31.01.2025 18:55 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape - Nature A massively parallel assay developed to map the essential photosynthetic enzyme rubisco showed that non-trivial biochemical changes and improvements in CO2 affinity are possible, signposting further enzyme engineering efforts to increase crop yields.

Nature research paper: A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape

https://go.nature.com/4apFJNf

23.01.2025 12:24 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0