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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

When 2 life science discoveries converge: solving a ~3 decade mystery of extraordinary longevity and healthspan + an essential cell danger sensor
And related ongoing clinical trials!
erictopol.substack.com/p/a-long-awa...

A Long-Awaited Longevity Mystery Solved

Spotlighting an essential human biologic pathway targeted by drugs in clinical trials

erictopol.substack.com

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 4d

Our article "Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" is finally published @plantphys.bsky.social!
You can download the #OpenAccess PDF here:

doi.org/10.1093/plph...

But real connoisseurs of #AntimicrobialCompounds will want to get the vinyl boxset: #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

A vinyl box with six colored vinyl LPs sticking out of its right side. The Title "Guns in Rosettes" is on top, with the subtitle "The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" just below. Then there is an Arabidopsis plant with machine guns sticking out. Below is the statement "6-LP LIMITED EDITION COLORED VINYL BOX SET"

The back cover of the vinyl box set showing the tracklist:
1. Methionine-derived compounds
Aliphatic GSLs
2. Tryptophan-derived compounds (trptonites)
Indolic GSLs
Camalexin
Hycanite (4-OH-ICN)
3. Phenylalanine-derived compounds (phenylpropanoids)
Benzenic GSLs
Coumarins
Hydroxycinnamates
Flavonoids
4. Terpenoids
(E)-β-caryophyllene
α- and β-pinene
Thalianin, arabidin, and DMNT

And the statement "Recorded live in front of an audience in 2025"

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 4d

Max Koch's paper "On the popping sound and liquid sloshing when opening a beer bottle":
pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...

And some media coverage:
scitechdaily.com/scientists-r...

Scientists Reveal What’s Behind the “Pop and Slosh” When Opening a Swing-Top Beer

Researchers analyze the acoustics and physics behind the sloshing and popping sounds that occur when opening a swing-top beer bottle. In a fun experiment, Max Koch, a researcher at the University of G...

scitechdaily.com

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Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social · 5d

Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology

As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...

www.fz-juelich.de

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 6d

UNC Chapel Hill is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Per Jeff
Dangl MPMI candidates are also highly desired in the search. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill (https://bio.unc.edu/) is searching to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor to study critical questions in Plant Molecular Biology.We seek candidates wh...

unc.peopleadmin.com

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 7d

Fantastical flowers, synthetic biology, and storytelling.

Giving an accessible science talk tomorrow at 10:40 UK time... come join!

Register here for the link 👉 jic.link/NBIAST2025

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 7d

W3-Professur: Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen
@humboldtuni.bsky.social

Start: 1 Oktober 2026
Deadline: 24 Oktober 2025

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

W3-Professur für „Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen“

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de

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Jens Boch @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social · 7d

I completely disagree. Who came up with this idea to demonize science and why? There is practically no such activity, yet. Breeding animals is essentially the same. Saving ecosystems can and will be done without GMO, anyway.

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Jens Boch @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social · 11d

Wenn ich das gesehen hätte wäre ich aufgesprungen und hätte das sofort gekauft! 😃

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 12d

New preprint!
We looked at the genomes of Alternaria isolates collected from wild tomato hosts and found something really interesting!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evolutionary divergence in sympatric populations of the fungal pathogen Alternaria alternata across wild tomato hosts

Alternaria alternata is a globally distributed fungal pathogen with a broad host range, increasingly affecting both tomato crops and wild tomato relatives. The genomic basis of this ecological breadth...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jens Boch @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social · 14d

Very good! I have beautiful pictures of Xanthomonas infections on Cassava which can devastate a field. 😎🦠🧫

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 20d

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social · 24d

Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe!

Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾

#plantscijob

Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 26d

Sie haben eine Ausbildung als Biologielaborant*in oder Biologisch-technische*r Assistent*in? Und Sie haben
Erfahrungen in der molekularbiologischen Laborarbeit, insbesondere PCR und Klonierungen? Dann haben wir am @leibnizipk.bsky.social ein spannendes Jobangebot!

➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/2rkbby5t

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Jase Gehring @skyjase.bsky.social · 25d

very cool work and a milestone in synthetic biology. how impressive are the new phage genomes?

with generative bioML, i'm always looking at how similar the generated sequences are to known sequences. let's take a look

Samuel King @samuelhking.bsky.social · 25d

Many of the most complex and useful functions in biology emerge at the scale of whole genomes.

Today, we share our preprint “Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models”, where we validate the first, functional AI-generated genomes 🧵

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Jens Boch @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social · 26d

Please make a Baldurs Gate 3 movie with the original voice/motion actors. 🤩 The fans would love it and you are perfect for this. Lots of splatter possible! And, there are kids in it, too (ok…with horns)…!

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 28d

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities

www.biology.ox.ac.uk

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 29d

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Jens Boch @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social · 29d

Bernard Dixon, „Power unseen: how microbes rule the world“ Quite old (1980s) by now, but easy to read. My favorite is, of course, „Microbe hunters“, by Paul de Kruif, but that one is focused on the early Microbiologists and even older (1926).

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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · Sep 11

Professorship Plant Genetics. Kiel, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w-2-pro...

W 2-Professur für Pflanzengenetik - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU)

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) bietet Stelle als W 2-Professur für Pflanzengenetik in Kiel - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · Sep 11

Professorship Plant Genetics. Würzburg, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/univers...

Universitätsprofessorin / Universitätsprofessor (m/w/d) für Pflanzengenetik (W3) - Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg bietet Stelle als Universitätsprofessorin / Universitätsprofessor (m/w/d) für Pflanzengenetik (W3) in Würzburg - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jens Boch @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social · Sep 8

Unsere kids sind immer wissenschaftlich aktuell informiert. Auswandern bleibt die einzige Option für Nordeuropa.

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Jens Boch @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social · Sep 8

Awesome! Congratulations 🎉🍾🎈

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Jens Boch @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social · Sep 6

Me too…long, long time ago. There are male and female ones.

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Jens Boch @mikrobenjaeger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Awesome! Congratulations 🎉!

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