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@plantevolution
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Many years ago, my lab helped to discover YUCCAs. Later, Jia-Wei Wang in the lab sussed out the role of miR156s in a range of developmental processes. And now YUCCA and miR156 reappear as partners in this beautiful paper from the Lenhard lab! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience
Very happy to be able to host a student delegation from China Agricultural University led by my friend @wangshengzhu.bsky.social 🇩🇪🇨🇳 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
What could possibly go wrong? AI autonomously designing nuclear reactors. Aren't out-of-distribution events a big deal for nuclear reactors? www.science.org/content/arti...
From the folks complaining about improper interpretation of Greek works: ‘federal agencies “should prioritize foundational research in the biological over the life sciences.”’ Biology, derived from Greek, literally means ‘science of life’. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Potatoes are on the right track. (As empiricist, had to check what they currently look like. Let’s give them a few more weeks.)
Essays, written on the same occasion but a decade apart, by two lovers of genetics ❤️ @genetics-gsa.bsky.social @schacherer.bsky.social
I very much doubt that there aren’t enough indirect pointers to retain all this information for the algorithm. I would think that it would need active training of the model to remove any inferences based on author history.
What a reflecting pool can look like. Normandy American Cemetery.
“unfortunately did not make it into The 1%.” This assumes that the goal was to be in the top 1%. Our work often paves the way for general interest studies. It doesn’t mean that everyone has to read our foundational papers. Also, “The 1%” seems very Trumpian. @qedscience.bsky.social
@borglab.bsky.social discussing fascinating idiosyncrasies of both brown and red algae when it comes to gene silencing and chromatin marks. Continuing his studies soon in his new lab in Kiel. #epigenetics
I’ve Ben looking forward to this talk by @thanvisrikant.bsky.social, who is speaking about her postdoctoral work with @kbomblies.bsky.social on the effect of #polyploidy on #chromatin architecture!
Machine-generated irony? (More seriously: thanks for sharing this!)
25 years at @maxplanck.de! (Really 40 years, if you count that I started my graduate studies exactly 40 years ago at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology under the guidance of my beloved mentor (and friend) Herbert Jäckle.)
My comments on proposed OMB Rule "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance", written from the perspective of someone who became a naturalized citizen 25 yrs ago bc he believed in the US as a country of exceptional openness, opportunity & merit-based advancement drive.google.com/file/d/14Bbb...
Amazing! This report suggests that a gall aphid injects into their plant host an enzyme that manipulates auxin levels in the host and thereby induces galls. #plantscience #plantsci www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thank you, @larsostergaard.bsky.social & @eunyoungchae.bsky.social for a wonderful visit to Oxford! An honor to give a lecture named for G. E. Blackman, Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy from 1945-70. I spoke about the tension between lab & field work; see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Präventive Nachricht von @deutschebahn.com, dass nicht damit zu rechnen ist, dass ein geplanter Umstieg von 6 Minuten am selben Bahnsteig gegenüber realistisch ist…
Erfreulich, dass moderne Züchtungstechnologien in der Hightech Agenda des Bundes als Flagschiff-Maßnahme hervorgehoben werden. Vielleicht geht den Deutschen doch noch ein Licht auf, dass wir in einer Polykrise aufgeschlossenes Denken und Handeln brauchen. www.bmftr.bund.de/DE/Technolog...
The authors also thought of the role of AI generated reviews:
Peer review crisis — this seems to make sense: A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Exciting new work on parallel #evolution: — genetic variants across butterflies are located in similar noncoding regions in ivory and optix. — in … more distant moths, a large inversion containing ivory, closely mirroring the supergene architecture of Heliconius. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Habe neulich eine ähnliche Erfahrung gemacht, aber es ist mir gelungen, einen Ersatz Dichtungsring zu besorgen, und ein Fachbetrieb, den ich über TaskRabbit fand, hat es sauber eingebaut.
LLMs are making me a better reviewer. After I write my review, I often ask an LLM whether there are things that I might have overlooked, both in the narrative and evaluation criteria. The typical outcome is that my review becomes more positive. I seem to be good enough at spotting flaws. 😎
What could be better than seeing a former member of your lab elected to the US National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org? Huge congrats to Kirsten Bomblies @ethz.ch! Here are the two of us with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social , who was first a PhD student in my lab & then a postdoc with Kirsten.