Juliet Coates

'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.

A global, mass disabling pandemic
Poverty
Precarity
Unemployment
Housing problems
Social change
Conflict
Political unrest

All are major issues that'll cause or worsen mental distress. Why the desire to downplay all these?

Life being stressful can MAKE you ill.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A GP saying “life is stressful and we need to deal with it” comes from a place of relative financial privilege compared to many of their patients . I see the same thing with some academics and their students.

Nice paper from @leonardojo.bsky.social @kaisakajala.bsky.social @bradylabs.bsky.social @marianasartur.bsky.social and others. #tomato #suberin #exodermis #MYB 🍅 🧬 💚🌱❤️

Nice perspective piece from @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social 🌱💚🧬

New genomic techniques: Council and Parliament strike deal to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of our food systems Council and Parliament reach provisional deal on a set of rules for new genomic techniques, aiming to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and support the sustainability of our food sys...

www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Awesome

Eyeing that pile of papers you told yourself you would read it might be tempting to hand them over to ChatGTP or another AI and ask it to distil the message form it.
#AcademicWriting #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today I learned that the genes that are active during the maturation, or ripening of a seed are quite young compared to those involved in embryo development and seed germination. 🧵1/3

#PlantScience

The range of equipment and measures which could be useful in supporting voters at polling stations has been expanded to include the British Sign Language (BSL) Video Relay interpreting service and training for polling station staff on the 'see a mask, wear a mask' protocol to support clinically vulnerable voters.

📢 Clinically Vulnerable Families is delighted to announce that

"See a mask, wear a mask"

is the new protocol to support Clinically Vulnerable voters, following our advocacy efforts.

Amazing work by the @electoralcommission.org.uk !

More goings on in eukaryotic ancestors, this time from @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and friends. The data is coming thick and fast! #actin #nucleus #LECA #asgard #mitochondria #phylogeny

Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex ar...

Interesting study suggesting that nucleus, cytoskeleton, and endomembranes preceded acquisition of mitochondria, during eukaryogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cerrado: biodiversity and ecosystem services under severe threat by misguided restoration

🌱Check the newly published article ‘Cerrado: biodiversity and ecosystem services under severe threat by misguided restoration’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Giselda Durigan 🧵(1/10)

👉 doi.org/qgxp

#SavannaRestoration #CerradoConservation
#TropicalEcology #AoBpapers

Triticum aestivum in USA by Bonnie Semmling / iNaturalist CC-BY

Modern wheat grows deep

🌾 Now in @botany.one 🌾
botany.fyi/t7tlf4

Full paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Window now open to apply for a BSBI grant for 2026!
We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses (our online course #Identiplant & courses from external providers), and for Plant Study & Research.
Find out which grant is right for you: bsbi.org/learn/grants

#Archaea #ArchaeaSky #MicroSky

exceptional work, hiro & team 👏👏👏
it's wonderful to see 𝘓. 𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘮 dancing. live videos reveal so much more than stills!

ALT source: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I hate to say it, but in terms of HE a very sizeable number of staff appear to believe that disability accommodations are unnecessary, a nuisance, and have gone 'too far'.

Toxic, precarious and competitive university environments (that ignore staff welfare) lend themselves to this kind of thinking

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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance

Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.

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Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees (Barbara Karpinska, Rosa Sanchez-Lucas, Andrew Plackett, A Rob MacKenzie, Christine Helen Foyer) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

🌱✨ Excited to share our latest work exploring the role of CYCP3s and style morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana. Our findings offer a new step forward in understanding the fundamental mechanisms that shape plant reproduction and organ development.

@jamileqra.bsky.social

More soon—stay tuned! 🌿🔬

Thanks for the online option too! Fantastic talks today 🌱💚

Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
#mimuluspropaganda

Four images, including a monochrome photograph of two white women, head and shoulders and three paintings, one of tulips, one of a lighthouse in semi abstract style and one of an abstract design in black and red

Have you heard of US painter Ida O'Keeffe? Her work was largely overshadowed by that of her much more known older sister Georgia.... #womensart

An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...

It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#PlantSciences

INDEHISCENT Arabidopsis > Brassica

A shorter green-leafed plant on the left, marked "Ctrl" is about half the size of a similar looking plant on the right.

Scientists have identified a protein in poplar that, when turned off, results in increased growth, stronger cell walls and trees that are more disease-resistant.

More: jgi.doe.gov/user-science...

@jbei.lbl.gov @axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

Ohh yes that would make sense and would explain why it didn’t quite look like the selection in Keble Martin!

Some small cluster ls of white wild carrot flowers (or related umbellifer)against mixed green foliage

Five mauve scabious flowers against green foliage

Closeup of an oxeye daisy with white petals and a yellow centre against mixed green foliage

Something carroty, some scabious and an oxeye daisy all hanging on for #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
🥕 🌼 🌺

The phylotranscriptomic profile of angiosperm seed development follows a reverse hourglass pattern Angiosperm seed development exhibits a reverse phylotranscriptomic pattern, with early and late stages showing greater conservation and mid-phase showing h

Absolutely happy to share our latest publication!🥳🎉
The first manuscript of the first PhD candidate of my team! 🥹🤩
Huge congratulations to our brilliant Asif Ahmed Sami for his excellent work! ✨️

academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance

Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.

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The leaves of the moss Dicranodontium denudatum break off easily and act as vegetative propagules. They are very "sticky" too, at least when wet. Was perhaps an even more efficient method of dispersal when more large animals like deer, boar, and moose roamed our woodlands. @bbsbryology.bsky.social