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Chenxin Li, PhD

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Or just “Li” | Assist. Prof. @ Plant Bio Michigan State U. | Also post data visualization | Lab: https://cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ | GitHub: https://github.com/cxli233

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Nov 12

Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs.

My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...

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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · 18h

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 2d

Hi bioinformatics, genomics and CS friends! Please help me spread the word. I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work on cutting edge method development in algorithmic genomics with me and my group at @umdscience.bsky.social! 🖥️🧬

Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 4d

And it's posted! If you're interested and eligible, please consider applying through the UMD portal: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j....

If you're a PI working in algorithmic genomics (& you can recommend my lab to your top graduating students ;P), please let them know!

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Joao Pereira @jdpereira.bsky.social · 1d

Any idea what this is? I’m kind of worried that the babies will grab them thinking they are blueberries.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

“U.S. wine exports to Canada dropped 96% in the second quarter—from nearly $111 million last year to under $4 million this year—and the U.S. wine trade surplus with Canada has flipped to a deficit for the first time ever.”

California’s Wine Industry Is in Crisis

Changing drinking habits, falling prices, tariffs and the weather are forcing winemakers to do the unthinkable: rip up the vines.

www.wsj.com

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I had a dream about looking at whole plasmid sequencing results and saw a transposon landed in my plasmid and had to rebuild the plasmid

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 2d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Henryk Straube @hstraube.bsky.social · 1d

🌿 Postdoc in Algae Biochemistry – University of Copenhagen

Join the Algae Biochemistry Group to explore molecular biology, synthetic biology & metabolomics in eukaryotic microalgae.

📅 Apply by 1 Nov 2025

🔗 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=164971

#Postdoc #Algae #Biochemistry #SyntheticBiology

Postdoc in Algae biochemistry

employment.ku.dk

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 3d

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

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

Early career group leaders

We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

www.crick.ac.uk

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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 2d

Hybrids reveal accessible chromatin trans genetic associations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681407v1

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 2d

There are a lot more stuff to take care of as a PI, but the income is also a lot higher, so I am not complaining.

Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 2d

Guarding the tree

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 3d

海のちいさな生き物シールを発注しました
来週の「いきもにあ」で販売します🫧

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 2d

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 3d

Folks who think "cats are not loving" have never been loved by a cat.

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Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social · 2d

In mind-bending twist, ‘magic’ mushrooms evolved twice independently

www.science.org/content/arti...

In mind-bending twist, ‘magic’ mushrooms evolved twice independently

Study identifies entirely new suite of enzymes that can make psilocybin

www.science.org

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Mike Grillo @mikegrillo.bsky.social · 2d

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics

The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 2d

I am sure university admin understands game theory and prisoners dilemma. If no one accepts the deal, no one has advantage or disadvantage relative to others.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d

This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk.

Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.

MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Pallavi Singh Lab @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social · 3d

We are excited to welcome Ella Whiteley, our new Master's student, to the Singh Lab! 🌱 Ella will be joining us to explore aquaporins and water transport to improve water-use efficiency in rice🌾
#PlantScience

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 3d

Friday Flower 007: Petunia 💮✨

Petunias carry the active transposon dTph1, which powers mutant screens and paints stripey patterns as it jumps.

Their five petals are fused, with diverse color designs tracing the corolla’s fusion seam.

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 3d

For more on petunia transposon patterns check out this paper or go follow
@atinygreencell.bsky.social
who designs petunia in his home lab!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 3d

President Donald Trump’s administration has terminated $352 million in grants and contracts this year to the Research Triangle Institute, the United States’s third largest independent research organization, a report estimates.

Cuts in global health and climate hit Research Triangle Institute hard

“Financial drubbing” underscores reliance of some independent research organizations on federal funding

www.science.org

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Robert Aboukhalil @robert.bio · 3d

Just published an interactive article about a magical algorithm known as the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, which powers sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa: sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt

It's also notoriously unintuitive so I'm hoping this article helps you build that intuition.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 3d

"Make the proof" colloquial phrase that means fabrication of data

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to share our new preprint!

🧬 Large-scale Phylogenomics Reveals Systematic Loss of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Genes at the Family Level in Cucurbitaceae

👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A deep dive into the genomic evolution of color in cucurbits 🎃🍉 — feedback welcome!
@puckerlab.bsky.social

Synteny plots supporting loss of DFR, ANS, and arGST in Cucurbitaceae. Reference: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.06.680802

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of good answers in the comments section. It’s more important now to teach understanding (rather than just syntax). If the experimental design was inadequate, it doesn’t matter if the coding was perfect. If the interpretation was wrong, it doesn’t matter if the statistics were done right.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 4d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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