Nikolai Adamski

Day 356 of #GeorgiaProtests was full of the American flags.

The Georgians request 🇺🇸 support for freedom and democracy in Georgia, and sanctions against the pro-Chinese, pro-Iranian Russian regime that is the Georgian Dream.

#MEGOBARI

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM! 🧪⚒️

In 1979 there are cars parked on both sides of the road, with ars driving on the tram track and people cycling between them. Today the street is pedestrianised, with two tram tracks

Reguliersbreestraat, Amsterdam in 1979 and today. Once two car-parking lanes, a single tram line with cars queueing on it, and bikes squeezed between it all. Now it’s two tram lines with generous pedestrian space. Cities reflect the priorities of the politicians who shaped them.

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
www.propublica.org/article/andr...

A Banner that shows the open call for the international PhD program on interdisciplinary Plant Biology in Cologne Germany between University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. A button reads "apply now!".

We’re #hiring! Our #IMPRS @mpipz.bsky.social & @unicologne.bsky.social recruits 4 PhD students. We look for candidates with a keen interest in experimental & computational plant biology to join us in 2026!

Find details at www.mpipz.mpg.de/imprs/imprs-... and apply by Jan 5.

#PlantSciJobs

Register - iwc2026 25 – 29 May 2026 • Bologna, Italy An event by Patrons An event by Patrons Registration Registration for the 4th International Wheat Congress is now open. Please read the information below before you…

The speakers lineup for the 4th International Wheat Congress is shaping up beautifully - and the advanced registration deadline is fast approaching! 🌾
Join us for #IWC2026Bologna.
Register now: www.iwc2026.com/register/

"Don't want no Samsung" Plus: Scroll down to see what might be the strangest new artwork in the capital and read more on our investigations into the capital's landlords.

The brutal reality of life as an Android owner in London: First you’re shocked as you’re mugged. Then you’re humiliated as the thief returns the device. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader

Closing date 27th November

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

With the world heating up, why are more SUVs being sold? Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads.

With the world heating up [and more pedestrians being killed], why are more SUVs being sold?

“It’s the industry that has driven the demand through huge marketing & advertising campaigns in recent years. SUVs offered the industry a simple way of charging more for a vehicle that does the same thing.”

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

Like math and plant community ecology?

I am recruiting one or two new Ph.D. students to work on theory and its integration with data in the areas of forest dynamics, species coexistence, or plant community ecology more generally.

Deadlines for the EEB and Plant Biology programs are Dec. 1.

Nuance? I mean yeah I guess generative AI could be good if it didn't depend on stolen data and used an unsustainable amount of electricity that fucks up the environment and the result didn't fucking suck and also didn't also miss the whole point of art being derived from human skill and experience

CRISPR/Cas7-11 tool for RNA targeting in Xenopus laevis CRISPR/Cas systems are defense mechanisms in prokaryotic cells to induce the cleavage and degradation of nucleic acids derived from bacteriophages. Among the different classes,...

Link for the full CRISPR Cas7-11 protocol: www.protocols.io/view/crispr-...

With the full CRISPR 7-11 protocol here :)

How much protein do you really need? What the science says Fitness influencers promote super-high-protein diets, but studies show there’s only so much the body can use.

How much protein do you really need? What the science says
Fitness influencers promote super-high-protein diets, but studies show there’s only so much the body can use.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEWS - Influential group leaders placed among world’s most highly-cited researchers

The pioneering science of Prof. Cathie Martin FRS and Prof. @anneosbourn.bsky.social OBE FRS NAS has been recognised in a @clarivate.com publication listing the world’s most highly cited researchers.

Augmenting Urban Tree Canopies with Mistletoe: Enhancing Air Quality, Biodiversity, and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate at University of Essex on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Augmenting Urban Tree Canopies with Mistletoe: Enhancing Air Quality, Biodiversity, and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate at University of Essex, listed on FindAPhD.com

A fully funded, fun PhD to enhance urban tree canopies with mistletoe to increase air quality, biodiversity, and well-being - all within a creative, collaborative molecular physiology and synthetic biology research environment.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Details of the three PhD projects on offer: Primed for Protection: Cell Wall Modifications in Plant Defense and Long-Term Immunity, Engineering Stomata: How Shape Informs Function: and Signalling Complexes and Cell Wall Changes during Plant Reproduction

Interested in plant development and/or cell walls? We (Sam Amsbury, Andrew Fleming and I) have three PhD positions at the University of Sheffield open for applications until 7th January. We offer a friendly, jointly-run lab, great facilities, an affordable city and proximity to the Peak District!

People arriving here by small boat are desperate, often traumatised. Latest figures are 68% of boat arrivals granted asylum (see link)

The idea of the govt stripping people of their valuables & then hawking it off literally makes me sick to my stomach

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

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Do you have (or are close to completing) a PhD in Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biotechnology, or a related discipline?

Check out our current vacancy ⤵️

💷 £37,500 to £40,240
🗓️ Apply by 30 November 2025
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Hands holding vitamin D enriched tomatoes

✅ Are you aged over 18?
✅ Live within 40 miles of Norwich?
✅Think you might be low in vitamin D?

Join the ViTaL-D study and help us understand if John Innes Centre tomatoes biofortified through gene editing could help boost vitamin D levels 🍅

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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to establish gut-brain/gut-CNS microfluidic chip systems to enable the study of the role of microbial products in regulating gut-immune-CNS communication 🔬

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 28 November 2025
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A social card with an illustration of DNA and the text "Research Scientist, to develop new experimental methods to better understand horizontal gene transfer in the gut microbiome, salary: £37,500 to £43,350, Contract length: 2 years, Apply by 30 November 2025."

🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Chris Quince based at the Quadram Institute and @earlhaminst.bsky.social in the Food, Microbiome and Health programme 🔬

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 30 November 2025
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I feel like "grift" is the one term that summarises most of what has happened the last 10, 15 years in the 'Western' world. It's all just suits running around contributing nothing, just assuming the underpaid nurses and supermarket staffers and teachers prop up the system by burning themselves out

A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death

"Postdoc in the job market"

By radiating plants, one begins to unlock new floral forms, enabling our understanding of the underlying patterns written in their DNA and developmental programs.

Familiar forms re-emerge, and evolutionary routes towards recognisable systems reveal themselves 👇

Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Dropping off absurd number of packages, and a man in line asks “What do you have that’s selling so well??” So I was like “Um…*gulp* eel …facts…adventcalendsrs”

“Oh! You’re squid facts!”

My city gets me 🥰