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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 4h

See you next week, Purdue University ! 👋

Working beyond model organisms is challenging, but the discoveries are worth it 🥦🧬🪲

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Canadian Journal of Plant Science @canjplantsci.bsky.social · 1d

Revisiting the origins of glyphosate-resistant giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida L.) in Canada | Page et al.: buff.ly/mIBfYEm #OpenAccess

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 1d

This morning Wenbo Ma, senior group leader at TSL, gave the first talk at our Annual Science Meeting, one of the highlights of our scientific year!

Find out more about the Ma lab: tsl.ac.uk/our-work/sci...

@johninnescentre.bsky.social

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 21h

We couldn’t leave Calgary without visiting one of Canada’s most stunning places. Moments like this remind us why we work so hard for a more sustainable future: to protect this beautiful planet 🏔️🇨🇦🌿

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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 1d

Si vous voulez un formulaire simple à remplir pour écrire à M. Carney amnistie.ca/participer/2...

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 1d

Say 👋🏻

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 1d

Last day of the @canentomologist.bsky.social LeafHope team 👋🏻🪲

Curious about our latest entomology research? Take a look at these links:

🔗Molligan et al. 2025: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗Santos et al. 2025: academic.oup.com/ee/advance-a...
🔗Jacques et al. 2025: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Cell Reports Sustainability @cp-cellrepsustain.bsky.social · 2d

As differing communities are disproportionately affected by climate change and pollution, ensuring environmental justice across countries, regions, and populations becomes increasingly crucial. In this thread, we share a collection of opinion pieces and research from Cell Reports Sustainability⬇️

Cell Reports Sustainability: Environmental justice collection

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! 🙏

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Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 2d

Very cool #PlantScience on effectors and gall-forming microbes!

Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 2d

Our @elife.bsky.social Version of Record is now out 🎉 : elifesciences.org/articles/105...

Congratulations to @sohambio.bsky.social , @asimjaved.bsky.social , and @jiaxuwu.bsky.social on this beautiful work. We also wrote an easy-to-read eLife Digest for a general audience 👏

image promoting the paper representing a field, the pathogen and computer predicting proteins

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 2d

Our @elife.bsky.social Version of Record is now out 🎉 : elifesciences.org/articles/105...

Congratulations to @sohambio.bsky.social , @asimjaved.bsky.social , and @jiaxuwu.bsky.social on this beautiful work. We also wrote an easy-to-read eLife Digest for a general audience 👏

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 2d

The LeafHope trainees at @canentomologist.bsky.social annual meeting! 🪲
5️⃣ Oral presentations
4️⃣ Posters

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 3d

1/ We’re delighted to hear that our Reviewing Editor, Shimon Sakaguchi, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine today alongside colleagues Fred Ramsdell and Mary Brunkell: www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social · 4d

Getting set up with some spooky bugs for @nhm.org’s Haunted Museum event! 🐜🐞🎃🕸️

Megan, a brunette woman in an insect themed t-shirt, holds a drawer of colorful grasshoppers while standing in an aisle of entomology cabinets.

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 4d

Frost outside, leafhoppers inside, perfect day at the collection in Calgary 🪲

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 4d

At Calgary for the @canentomologist.bsky.social × EntSocAlberta joint meeting! LeafHope in the house, with more of our lab and project team arriving soon 👏

I can’t wait to see all the insect science happening in Canada! 🪲🇨🇦

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 5d

L’inscription au tarif préférentiel est encore ouverte jusqu’au 15 octobre !

Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · Apr 4

Valérie Fournier et moi avons le plaisir de co-présider le Congrès 2025 de la Société d’entomologie du Québec!
Rejoignez-nous les 20-21 novembre à l’ @ulaval.ca pour deux jours de découvertes et de passion entomologique!
Infos et inscription ici : event.fourwaves.com/fr/seq2025

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Alliance of Genome Resources @alliancegenome.bsky.social · 6d

Nature has published an article on the crisis facing MODs
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@zfinmod.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @yeastgenome.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social @ratgenome.bsky.social @geneontology.bsky.social @nature.com

Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures

Beyond the crucial data they contain, these digital archives have provided an important space for academic communities to exchange ideas and resources.

www.nature.com

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 6d

The 2025 #CSPB_ERM conference website is now ONLINE!
LINK: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025

Early registration: Oct. 24
Regular registration: Oct. 25-Nov. 12
Abstract deadline for oral/poster presentations: Oct. 24

Student/postdoc registration fees are heavily discounted. See you soon!

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! Let me know! Would be cool! Hahaha

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 6d

Oh my!

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! Construction started!

I curled for 2 years and then we stopped for 5 years 🥴 we are getting into the mojo again haha is fun and hard! Nelson curled for 15 years before the hiatus 😅

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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 6d

Merci!

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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 6d

Très inspirant @edelplopez.bsky.social

Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 6d

«Je me sens Québécois»

Merci à @lesoleil.com pour l’opportunité d’exprimer mon histoire d’immigration et mon amour pour ce beau pays 💙⚜️

www.lesoleil.com/actualites/2...

Immigrer au Québec: pour l’amour et la démocratie

LES VISAGES DE L’IMMIGRATION / Toutes les deux semaines, Les Coops de l’information vous proposent le portrait d’immigrants qui ont choisi le Québec. Parce que l’immigration, au-delà des chiffres et d...

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