@pyhatanja.bsky.social
Professor in Forest Genomics and Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland Loves gymnosperms and bad behavior, best when combined!
Foreseen already by e.g., author Sami Tissari in his great dystopic book Krysa.
05.12.2025 08:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What a memorable day to give and listen to inaugural lectures of new professors at University of Helsinki! Here we are after the lectures with colleagues Fred Stoddard and Anne-Maria Pajari and the dean Ritva Toivonen from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. @helsinki.fi
05.12.2025 06:37 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is a little bit depressing that 80 % of papers applying population genetic methods typically estimate π (nucleotide diversity per bp) wrong, and even worse, do not realize that when looking at the point estimates.
20.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Baffling failure of a well-studied trade-off in plants to survive the transfer from greenhouse studies to the open field. Intriguing study from @derekseveri.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social and colleagues in @plosbiology.org
16.07.2025 09:28 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
26.06.2025 08:01 — 👍 12 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0Beets, 🥕, 🌰, pickles, 🍎, sometimes also herring.
06.07.2025 20:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And I thought that Finnish Chrismas salad "rosolli" was weird.
06.07.2025 16:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh my god...
06.07.2025 16:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You know over the years what I have been really bothered by? When I was in college, bryophytes were taught as if they were relics of the past. Its sole purpose was to demonstrate trait progression leading to angiosperm, w/o mentioning their importance in nature, research, or potential in biotech.
04.07.2025 13:06 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Googlen NotebookLM on alkanut tehdä suomenkielisiä pocasteja. Nais-AI:n ääni kuulostaa karmivan samalle kuin Tuija Pehkonen. Pehkonenhan on ollut radiossa paljon äänessä.
04.07.2025 12:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
26.06.2025 08:01 — 👍 12 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0Who started this ridiculous habit of using K for thousands? 10K run? 10 kelvin run is freezing! And now in scientific writing too. I know there are big battles going on now, but I will focus on this one instead.
26.06.2025 07:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The de-extinction of the dire wolves?
"Colossal Baloney"— @stemcells.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
@latimes.com by @hiltzikm.bsky.social
NSF Q&S highlighting response to question "Are you still funding research on misinformation?". RESPONSE: NSF will not support research with the goal of combating "misinformation" "disinformation" or "malinformation" that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the US
The NSF discontinuing “misinformation” research b/c it threatens free speech is laughable. 9/
24.04.2025 00:56 — 👍 307 🔁 73 💬 3 📌 6Still waiting for a reimbursement from a US University that invited me there to give a talk last August. My advice: do not ever pay the travel expenses yourself when invited and promised reimbursement.
23.04.2025 10:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me to my lab members: "No need to stress about your Lab Meeting presentation. Just show us where you are at in your project". Also me: *spending 8 hours to prepare my own lab meeting presentation and getting nervous about it*.
02.04.2025 18:24 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today I have spoiled myself with reading just single review paper all day, taking pauses to think. Luxury!
31.03.2025 11:37 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pictures of two dichogamy morphs in Pterocarya trees, a graph visualizing flower dimorphism, and a phylogeny of the Juglandaceae family showing divergence times and origins of genetic systems for heterodichogamy.
I'm excited to share our new preprint on the molecular evolution of heterodichogamy in two wingnut genera of Juglandaceae. Heterodichogamy features two morphs synchronously alternating male and female flowering phases in time to generate disassortative mating.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
"Yleisradion perinteiset alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset Radio Suomessa ovat loppuneet."
"[---] Ylen johto tapaa parhaillaan aluetoimitusten henkilöstöä ja kertoo heille heidän työsuhteensa kohtalosta."
www.lapinkansa.fi/yle-lopetti-...
The Oxford Nanopore Technologies stock performance on the GBX exchange, showing a strong downward trend.
The newer sequencing tech, Oxford Nanopore, is traded on the London exchange as part of the FTSE 250, and it is likewise having a rough day, down 10% today so far, 42% since Trump took office.
These tools are how we genotype cancer, flu, measles, etc., by the way.
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
28.02.2025 22:46 — 👍 8846 🔁 2464 💬 324 📌 205I do not talk about politics a lot here. But the way Trump and Vance talked to Zelenskyi is the most disgusting thing I have seen for a long time. So sad, we are not able to really stand up for Ukraine. We could do so much more.
28.02.2025 20:17 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
28.02.2025 19:15 — 👍 16036 🔁 4307 💬 285 📌 131Watched meeting between Trump and Zelensky and all I can say is that I have never ever seen something like that. IMO, disrespectful were Trump and Vance, not Zelensky. And not only to the US but to Ukraine and Europe as well.
28.02.2025 19:14 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2seriously, how did nobody question (from the ethics review stage to publication) this 🔽 research using and abusing rats! #AnimalEthics #AnimalWelfare
14.02.2025 06:18 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
A flowering stem of hazel alder, Alnus serrulata with long yellow catkins of male flowers and smaller bright red female flowers against a light-dappled background. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
A few warm days stimulate early-flowering trees. This hazel alder, Alnus serrulata, has opened long yellow catkins - male inflorescences - to release pollen to the wind. The red female inflorescence opens a bit later on an individual tree to minimize self-pollination. Are you seeing tree flowers?
06.02.2025 17:43 — 👍 146 🔁 12 💬 15 📌 0
