Chenxin Li, PhD
@chenxinli2.bsky.social
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
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...
My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
#MicroscopeMonday Cross-section of a Kalanchoe marnieriana leaf, with what appears to be emerging but dormant foliar embryo (a dome) near the top.
Kalanchoe marnieriana is a facultative cloning plant, which normally does not produce plantlets but do produce plantlets when leaves are detached.
Kalanchoe marnieriana is a facultative cloning plant, which normally does not produce plantlets but do produce plantlets when leaves are detached.
February 9, 2026 at 8:53 PM
#MicroscopeMonday Cross-section of a Kalanchoe marnieriana leaf, with what appears to be emerging but dormant foliar embryo (a dome) near the top.
Kalanchoe marnieriana is a facultative cloning plant, which normally does not produce plantlets but do produce plantlets when leaves are detached.
Kalanchoe marnieriana is a facultative cloning plant, which normally does not produce plantlets but do produce plantlets when leaves are detached.
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$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
A new report from Democratic members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee finds that the deployment of the National Guard in D.C. is costing $1.65 million a day, and over seven months has hit $332 million. The report is here: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
February 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
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Tiny plant, giant genome! 🌱🧬
We’re excited to share the final version of our paper in @GigaScience: the first complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly of the liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia.
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl
Check out the full open-access study here: doi.org/10.1093/giga...
We’re excited to share the final version of our paper in @GigaScience: the first complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly of the liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia.
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl
Check out the full open-access study here: doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Giant chromosomes of a tiny plant—the complete telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the simple thalloid liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia (Jungermanniopsida, Marchantiophyta)
AbstractBackground. The liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia, a dioicous, simple thalloid species, is notable for its cryptic diversity, habitat adaptability,
doi.org
February 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Tiny plant, giant genome! 🌱🧬
We’re excited to share the final version of our paper in @GigaScience: the first complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly of the liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia.
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl
Check out the full open-access study here: doi.org/10.1093/giga...
We’re excited to share the final version of our paper in @GigaScience: the first complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly of the liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia.
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl
Check out the full open-access study here: doi.org/10.1093/giga...
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Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾
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Aarhus University is seeking a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Bioinformatics/Co… https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/vacant-positions-and-career/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-associate-professor-in-bioinformatics-and-or-computational-biology-at-aarhus-university-denmark #job
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and/or Computational Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University
nat.au.dk
February 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Aarhus University is seeking a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Bioinformatics/Co… https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/vacant-positions-and-career/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-associate-professor-in-bioinformatics-and-or-computational-biology-at-aarhus-university-denmark #job
I wonder if we can manipulate meiosis in allopolyploids, such that instead of homologs separating, homeologs separate.
Take allopolyploid AABB, normal meiosis generates meiotic products w/ karyotype AB. What if we can manipulate it to make meiotic products w/ karyotypes AA & BB?
#PlantScience
Take allopolyploid AABB, normal meiosis generates meiotic products w/ karyotype AB. What if we can manipulate it to make meiotic products w/ karyotypes AA & BB?
#PlantScience
I wonder how many plant species have gone extinct, but their genomic legacy lives on as intact subgenomes of extant allopolyploids.
February 8, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I wonder if we can manipulate meiosis in allopolyploids, such that instead of homologs separating, homeologs separate.
Take allopolyploid AABB, normal meiosis generates meiotic products w/ karyotype AB. What if we can manipulate it to make meiotic products w/ karyotypes AA & BB?
#PlantScience
Take allopolyploid AABB, normal meiosis generates meiotic products w/ karyotype AB. What if we can manipulate it to make meiotic products w/ karyotypes AA & BB?
#PlantScience
I wonder how many plant species have gone extinct, but their genomic legacy lives on as intact subgenomes of extant allopolyploids.
February 8, 2026 at 1:12 AM
I wonder how many plant species have gone extinct, but their genomic legacy lives on as intact subgenomes of extant allopolyploids.
Don't really understand why societies would publish their society journal(s) with Elsevier or NatureSpringer.
Examples: Phytochemistry (Phytochemical Society of North America), J. Biological Chemistry (ASBMB), Molecular Plant ( Chinese Society for Plant Biology)
Examples: Phytochemistry (Phytochemical Society of North America), J. Biological Chemistry (ASBMB), Molecular Plant ( Chinese Society for Plant Biology)
February 7, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Don't really understand why societies would publish their society journal(s) with Elsevier or NatureSpringer.
Examples: Phytochemistry (Phytochemical Society of North America), J. Biological Chemistry (ASBMB), Molecular Plant ( Chinese Society for Plant Biology)
Examples: Phytochemistry (Phytochemical Society of North America), J. Biological Chemistry (ASBMB), Molecular Plant ( Chinese Society for Plant Biology)
Due to circumstances, I'm learning a lot abt thigmomorphogenesis (plant development in response to mechanical stimulation, e.g., touch) in Arabidopsis. My new postdoc Dr. Sungkyu Park joined the lab last month, who did a PhD on plant development in response to leaf removal & mechanical stimulation.
February 7, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Due to circumstances, I'm learning a lot abt thigmomorphogenesis (plant development in response to mechanical stimulation, e.g., touch) in Arabidopsis. My new postdoc Dr. Sungkyu Park joined the lab last month, who did a PhD on plant development in response to leaf removal & mechanical stimulation.
Hot take: Decency is a shared responsibility.
"We got our science budget so we can care less about ICE now" is poor form. As scientists we work to improve the human condition, and guess what, we can improve the human condition right away by abolishing ICE.
"We got our science budget so we can care less about ICE now" is poor form. As scientists we work to improve the human condition, and guess what, we can improve the human condition right away by abolishing ICE.
February 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Hot take: Decency is a shared responsibility.
"We got our science budget so we can care less about ICE now" is poor form. As scientists we work to improve the human condition, and guess what, we can improve the human condition right away by abolishing ICE.
"We got our science budget so we can care less about ICE now" is poor form. As scientists we work to improve the human condition, and guess what, we can improve the human condition right away by abolishing ICE.
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February 7, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Postdoc position available!!! We are looking for a creative postdoc to develop independent research directions in tissue morphogenesis using embryos, stem cell/organoid systems, and quantitative imaging and/or biophysics. Here are the details: livejohnshopkins-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
February 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Postdoc position available!!! We are looking for a creative postdoc to develop independent research directions in tissue morphogenesis using embryos, stem cell/organoid systems, and quantitative imaging and/or biophysics. Here are the details: livejohnshopkins-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
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If you know anyone who might have a few dozen North or South American squash genome assemblies lying around I’d love to get in touch for a fun collaboration on American domesticates. We have chile, maize, beans, sunflower, amaranth, cotton, tomato, and maybe even strawberry!
February 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
If you know anyone who might have a few dozen North or South American squash genome assemblies lying around I’d love to get in touch for a fun collaboration on American domesticates. We have chile, maize, beans, sunflower, amaranth, cotton, tomato, and maybe even strawberry!
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The latest preprint from @drericabiophd.bsky.social lab is now out! Chick out (check out) my lab mate Arvind's preprint for his single-cell atlas of the developing chick trigeminal ganglion!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:06 AM
The latest preprint from @drericabiophd.bsky.social lab is now out! Chick out (check out) my lab mate Arvind's preprint for his single-cell atlas of the developing chick trigeminal ganglion!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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CLE peptides in plant-biotic interactions
#TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
#TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
February 6, 2026 at 6:09 PM
CLE peptides in plant-biotic interactions
#TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
#TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
Sorry but I don't need genAI to summarize my email that is just
"File attached.
Thanks
Li."
"File attached.
Thanks
Li."
February 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Sorry but I don't need genAI to summarize my email that is just
"File attached.
Thanks
Li."
"File attached.
Thanks
Li."
By comparing a regenerative wheat cultivar vs a recalcitrant cultivar, authors found that SCR and LBD17 were involved in regeneration during tissue culture.
From: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#PlantScience
From: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#PlantScience
February 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
By comparing a regenerative wheat cultivar vs a recalcitrant cultivar, authors found that SCR and LBD17 were involved in regeneration during tissue culture.
From: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#PlantScience
From: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#PlantScience
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My image is up for a Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award! Vote on the 25 nominated images from the >61,000 submitted.
www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-...
A sargassum swimming crab on an unidentified species jelly in Indonesia that I shot in Nov2024
www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-...
A sargassum swimming crab on an unidentified species jelly in Indonesia that I shot in Nov2024
February 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
My image is up for a Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award! Vote on the 25 nominated images from the >61,000 submitted.
www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-...
A sargassum swimming crab on an unidentified species jelly in Indonesia that I shot in Nov2024
www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-...
A sargassum swimming crab on an unidentified species jelly in Indonesia that I shot in Nov2024
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Is it still submitted if you don’t open the rejection notification?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
February 5, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Is it still submitted if you don’t open the rejection notification?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
February 6, 2026 at 2:13 PM
The other day we were looking at houses.
Realtor: how long have you been in Michigan?
Me: since August.
Realtor: wow your English is very good for someone who has just been here for a few months.
Me: thanks.
Inside my head: no need to assume every Asian you met just came off the boat!
Realtor: how long have you been in Michigan?
Me: since August.
Realtor: wow your English is very good for someone who has just been here for a few months.
Me: thanks.
Inside my head: no need to assume every Asian you met just came off the boat!
February 6, 2026 at 1:50 PM
The other day we were looking at houses.
Realtor: how long have you been in Michigan?
Me: since August.
Realtor: wow your English is very good for someone who has just been here for a few months.
Me: thanks.
Inside my head: no need to assume every Asian you met just came off the boat!
Realtor: how long have you been in Michigan?
Me: since August.
Realtor: wow your English is very good for someone who has just been here for a few months.
Me: thanks.
Inside my head: no need to assume every Asian you met just came off the boat!
The only “higher plants” I will acknowledge are species that grow into tall trees. They are literally higher.
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The only “higher plants” I will acknowledge are species that grow into tall trees. They are literally higher.
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We're launching a research lab at SMART. Shenzhen Medical Academy for Research and Translation is a newly established institute with long-term funding mechanisms for internal and external investigators. At full capacity SMART aims to support up to 400 labs.
www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
Structural biologist Alexey Amunts launches new research lab in Shenzhen
‘Shenzhen adds another dimension; it is a place where ideas do not remain ideas for long,’ Amunts says of new position.
www.scmp.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 AM
We're launching a research lab at SMART. Shenzhen Medical Academy for Research and Translation is a newly established institute with long-term funding mechanisms for internal and external investigators. At full capacity SMART aims to support up to 400 labs.
www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every American needs to watch this:
Wow super interesting
New paper! From Sam Snodgrass and @genomeofforrest.bsky.social, w/ @druncie.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social, and a collaboration with Andres Moreno and @santiagogmm.bsky.social. Can we quantify the impact of humans on maize dispersal?
Plant yourself in a comfy chair and lend me your ear:
1/10
Plant yourself in a comfy chair and lend me your ear:
1/10
www.biorxiv.org
February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Wow super interesting