Ben Long
@botbml.bsky.social
Cyclist. Scientist. Synthetic biology in plants. Carboxysomes and chloroplasts. Ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
He/him
Group leader: Biological CO₂ Capture Lab
Awabakal and Worimi country ⬛🟡🟥
University of Newcastle, Australia.
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/ben-long
He/him
Group leader: Biological CO₂ Capture Lab
Awabakal and Worimi country ⬛🟡🟥
University of Newcastle, Australia.
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/ben-long
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A must read ....
Feeding from the sun 🌞—Successes and prospects in bioengineering #CO2 fixation and #photosynthesis for food security
#RubisCO
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Feeding from the sun 🌞—Successes and prospects in bioengineering #CO2 fixation and #photosynthesis for food security
#RubisCO
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A must read ....
Feeding from the sun 🌞—Successes and prospects in bioengineering #CO2 fixation and #photosynthesis for food security
#RubisCO
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Feeding from the sun 🌞—Successes and prospects in bioengineering #CO2 fixation and #photosynthesis for food security
#RubisCO
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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A cowpea study (genetic mapping of photosynthetic responses associated with cold stress) I was involved with a while ago. Good to see it in print!
☀️🧬 RESEARCH 🧬☀️
This work introduces Linkage Integration Hypothesis Testing (LIgHT) for mechanistic studies of natural variations, exemplified by photosynthetic regulatory mechanisms that underlie natural variations to abiotic stress - Hoh et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
This work introduces Linkage Integration Hypothesis Testing (LIgHT) for mechanistic studies of natural variations, exemplified by photosynthetic regulatory mechanisms that underlie natural variations to abiotic stress - Hoh et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A cowpea study (genetic mapping of photosynthetic responses associated with cold stress) I was involved with a while ago. Good to see it in print!
Feeding from the sun—Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Feeding from the sun—Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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⏰ Starting very soon at #ASPS2025!
🏆 Peter Goldacre Award Talk
📅 Tuesday 11:00am | Chair: Brent Kaiser (UoS)
🎤 Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
One of our most prestigious awards - don't miss it!
#AusPlantSci #PlantScience #PeterGoldacreAward
🏆 Peter Goldacre Award Talk
📅 Tuesday 11:00am | Chair: Brent Kaiser (UoS)
🎤 Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
One of our most prestigious awards - don't miss it!
#AusPlantSci #PlantScience #PeterGoldacreAward
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
⏰ Starting very soon at #ASPS2025!
🏆 Peter Goldacre Award Talk
📅 Tuesday 11:00am | Chair: Brent Kaiser (UoS)
🎤 Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
One of our most prestigious awards - don't miss it!
#AusPlantSci #PlantScience #PeterGoldacreAward
🏆 Peter Goldacre Award Talk
📅 Tuesday 11:00am | Chair: Brent Kaiser (UoS)
🎤 Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
One of our most prestigious awards - don't miss it!
#AusPlantSci #PlantScience #PeterGoldacreAward
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Day 1 wrapped! So many amazing sessions, but the real highlight was the student-led discussions, such sharp ideas and energy!
Capped off the evening with a great welcome mixer. Excited for the rest of the conference! 🧬 #ConferenceLife #ASPS2025
Capped off the evening with a great welcome mixer. Excited for the rest of the conference! 🧬 #ConferenceLife #ASPS2025
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Day 1 wrapped! So many amazing sessions, but the real highlight was the student-led discussions, such sharp ideas and energy!
Capped off the evening with a great welcome mixer. Excited for the rest of the conference! 🧬 #ConferenceLife #ASPS2025
Capped off the evening with a great welcome mixer. Excited for the rest of the conference! 🧬 #ConferenceLife #ASPS2025
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📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢
🌍 JXB Issue 20 of 2025 is out now 🌍
🍇🔥 On the cover: Wildfire smoke lingers in a vineyard in Davis, California in August 2020 - see Paineau et al. in this issue 🔥🍇
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
🌍 JXB Issue 20 of 2025 is out now 🌍
🍇🔥 On the cover: Wildfire smoke lingers in a vineyard in Davis, California in August 2020 - see Paineau et al. in this issue 🔥🍇
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢
🌍 JXB Issue 20 of 2025 is out now 🌍
🍇🔥 On the cover: Wildfire smoke lingers in a vineyard in Davis, California in August 2020 - see Paineau et al. in this issue 🔥🍇
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
🌍 JXB Issue 20 of 2025 is out now 🌍
🍇🔥 On the cover: Wildfire smoke lingers in a vineyard in Davis, California in August 2020 - see Paineau et al. in this issue 🔥🍇
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
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ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
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Session 2 - Plant Organelle & Energy Biology
Invited: Maria Ermakova (Monash)
Invited: Maria Ermakova (Monash)
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Session 2 - Plant Organelle & Energy Biology
Invited: Maria Ermakova (Monash)
Invited: Maria Ermakova (Monash)
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The Trump administration has said that the U.S. passports of transgender people must now reflect the sex on their original birth certificate, reversing a decades-old policy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
New Passport Rule Sends Blunt and Sweeping Message to Trans Americans
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The Trump administration has said that the U.S. passports of transgender people must now reflect the sex on their original birth certificate, reversing a decades-old policy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
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Recent advances in the mechanism, transduction and function of oxygen sensing in plants
#nendrule #hypoxia #plantscience
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#nendrule #hypoxia #plantscience
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Recent advances in the mechanism, transduction and function of oxygen sensing in plants
Abstract. Response to reduced ambient oxygen is a key component of plant adaptation in natural and farmed environments and is regulated by oxygen dependent
academic.oup.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Recent advances in the mechanism, transduction and function of oxygen sensing in plants
#nendrule #hypoxia #plantscience
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
#nendrule #hypoxia #plantscience
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
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🧪 EXPERT VIEW 🧪
🚜 One of the main challenges facing agriculture is the control of plant development without using chemical compounds harmful to the environment.
💡 Here, Thuleau et. al. present regulatory peptides as interesting potential alternatives.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
🚜 One of the main challenges facing agriculture is the control of plant development without using chemical compounds harmful to the environment.
💡 Here, Thuleau et. al. present regulatory peptides as interesting potential alternatives.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🧪 EXPERT VIEW 🧪
🚜 One of the main challenges facing agriculture is the control of plant development without using chemical compounds harmful to the environment.
💡 Here, Thuleau et. al. present regulatory peptides as interesting potential alternatives.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
🚜 One of the main challenges facing agriculture is the control of plant development without using chemical compounds harmful to the environment.
💡 Here, Thuleau et. al. present regulatory peptides as interesting potential alternatives.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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A huge effort finally coming to fruition for B and their group. So excited to give this a whirl esp now that my cloning projects have ramped up substantially. Check this out 👇👇
Delighted to report that our group's passion project over the last 6+ years to make DNA cloning more accessible, efficient, and scalable using a software-assisted workflow called CloneCoordinate is now out in ACS Synbio!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
CloneCoordinate: Open-Source Software for Collaborative DNA Construction
Custom DNA constructs have never been more common or important in the life sciences. Many researchers therefore devote substantial time and effort to molecular cloning, aided by abundant computer-aide...
pubs.acs.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A huge effort finally coming to fruition for B and their group. So excited to give this a whirl esp now that my cloning projects have ramped up substantially. Check this out 👇👇
LCI9 is required for normal pyrenoid starch sheath formation and efficiency of the CO2-concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
LCI9 is required for normal pyrenoid starch sheath formation and efficiency of the CO2-concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
LCI9 is required for normal pyrenoid starch sheath formation and efficiency of the CO2-concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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"if you don't have to work at getting the knowledge, it won't stick"
This is the single most important, yet most frequently ignored, fact about teaching and learning.
This is the single most important, yet most frequently ignored, fact about teaching and learning.
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"if you don't have to work at getting the knowledge, it won't stick"
This is the single most important, yet most frequently ignored, fact about teaching and learning.
This is the single most important, yet most frequently ignored, fact about teaching and learning.
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Are there any women who
haven’t experienced such things - I had my thigh grabbed as recently as last year - and I’m old! I was chasing funds and said nothing 🤷🏻♀️
www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/li...
haven’t experienced such things - I had my thigh grabbed as recently as last year - and I’m old! I was chasing funds and said nothing 🤷🏻♀️
www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/li...
‘Piggy’ insults and bananas as gifts? Women’s cool professionalism should have a limit
The first humiliation in my career was also the most low-key. Almost inconsequential. It was just that it kept happening, and I did nothing about it. Kept smiling, kept hating it, kept it to myself.
www.theage.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Are there any women who
haven’t experienced such things - I had my thigh grabbed as recently as last year - and I’m old! I was chasing funds and said nothing 🤷🏻♀️
www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/li...
haven’t experienced such things - I had my thigh grabbed as recently as last year - and I’m old! I was chasing funds and said nothing 🤷🏻♀️
www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/li...
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We are seeking additional judges to judge the great posters created by our students at our annual conference, which will be held next week in Adelaide. If you are attending this event and are interested, please contact us. Dr. Ghazanfar Khan at [email protected].
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
We are seeking additional judges to judge the great posters created by our students at our annual conference, which will be held next week in Adelaide. If you are attending this event and are interested, please contact us. Dr. Ghazanfar Khan at [email protected].
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We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
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Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher-yielding photorespiratory bypass crops
Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher‐yielding photorespiratory bypass crops
Photorespiration is a major source of photosynthetic inefficiency in C3 crops. In photorespiration, the oxygenation rather than carboxylation of RuBP by Rubisco triggers an energy-expensive pathway t....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher-yielding photorespiratory bypass crops
This is a remarkable dataset and worth thinking about.
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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November 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This is a remarkable dataset and worth thinking about.