Sophien Kamoun
@kamounlab
Biologist @ The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens & evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer. Web | Medium | GetGenome
When your lab mates publish a paper and you’re not a coauthor #AcademicChatter #Phdchat #ScienceCrisis
“CNS worship is academic version of religious fundamentalism — truth flows from elite gatekeepers and only chosen few are heard. The Church reveres the Holy Trinity of Cell, Nature, & Science, where publication is canonization, dissent is heresy.”#AcademicChatter kamounlab.medium.com/stop-display...
Specialités bourguignonnes: moutarde Fallot, fromage époisses, pain d’épices… 🇫🇷 #FrenchFood
Nick’s enthusiasm is literally radiating. Follow link to read more about it kamounlab.medium.com/community-sp... @NickDesnoyer #OpenFlower #SummerSchool
Vue sur Pernand-Vergelesses et les alentours Bourgogne | Burgundy 🍷🇫🇷 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgund...
Always good to meet new people… 🌱 Plant BioProTech 2026 s’achève après trois jours d’échanges, de science et de rencontres à Reims ! Bioeconomy For Change a eu le plaisir de réunir à Reims les acteurs engagés dans le développement de solutions innovantes pour la bioprotection des plantes.
No models. No satellites. Just 50 years of Burgundy harvest dates: ~4.1 days earlier every decade. Climate change, written on a cellar wall. 🍷 🇫🇷 🧫
When the email says: “we receive many more interesting papers than we can publish” #AcademicChatter
VAR review complete. Egypt’s goal is disallowed because of this foul. ⚽️
The four session themes are: AI in Science Structural Biology NLR Biology & Evolution Design & Engineering Attendance is free of charge, but places are limited. Please email Sophien or Adeline for the registration link. www.tsl.ac.uk/our-work/sci...
Martijn Rep on the effectors of Fusarium oxysporum, a pathogen of many plants 🍉 🍅 🌴 🍌 🧅
Francine @francine_govers continuing the long tradition of distinguished Dutch women professors of plant pathology. “Werken en feesten vormen schoone geesten.”
Wimbledon banned Turkish player Zeynep Sönmez from wearing a Palestinian flag pin, even though Ukrainian flags and symbols were allowed. Selective neutrality, true to its colonial legacy 🇵🇸 🍉 She used a loophole and the journos spin this as a good thing 🤷♂️
My first IS-MPMI @ISMPMI Congress was in Interlaken 🇨🇭 just after Alcapolco 🇲🇽 I don’t remember that one… 😆 😝 Check out the new website 🙌 ismpmi.org
Botanicon was not coined by a French speaker www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/impact/plant...
Jain dietary law strictly prohibits the use of foundational flavor bases like onions and garlic, as well as texturally significant root vegetables like potatoes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_ve...
Magic benthi! 🍄 🌱 Psychedelic Nicotiana benthamiana wasn’t on my 2026 synbio bingo card www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mixing genome annotation pipelines can drastically inflate lineage-specific gene counts. You're not comparing biology — you're comparing pipelines. Paul Klee knew about harmonized fights. So do we. Check new blog with @YuSugiharaY @amiralito_ 👇🏾
WELKOM IN EEN APARTHEID VRIJE ZONE WELCOME TO AN APARTHEID-FREE ZONE 🇵🇸 🇧🇪
#ELSEVIL strikes again with this beauty. Surfaces and Interfaces: current article processing charge (APC) for Gold Open Access is US$2,290 #sciencecrisis