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Henryk Straube
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Plant biochemist & molecular biologist | Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellow @KU_PLEN @GeuFloresLab |🏳️‍🌈
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martinreich.bsky.social
Vieles, das weitläufig als faktisch bewiesener Vorteil des Ökolandbaus wahrgenommen und verbreitet wird, ist einfach nur sehr gutes Marketing.
Wir sollten weder der einen, noch der anderen Lobby glauben. Sondern auf Wissenschaft vertrauen und im Zweifel auf ihre Ergebnisse warten.
December 3, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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forscherrobert.bsky.social
Im Interview mit @jostmaurin.bsky.social in der @taz.de stellt die Demeter-Bäuerin und Co-Initiatorin einer Petition gegen die geplante neue Regulierung für NGTs, Pola Krenkel, eine Reihe gängiger Falschbehauptungen auf, die ich aus diesem Anlass in einem kurzen 🧵 debunke:
#GiveGenesAChance
forscherrobert.bsky.social Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social · 2d
Ganz unabhängig davon, wie man zu den Neuen Genomischen Techniken (NGTs) steht, gibt es natürlich einfach grundlegende Fakten, die man nicht einfach ingnorieren kann.
Leider stellt Frau Krenkel in dem Interview einige Falschbehauptungen auf:
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December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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lukasdaubner.bsky.social
@taz.de gebt ihr @forscherrobert.bsky.social Raum für seine Einwände?
Ihr würdet einen Genossen, dem etwas an evidenzbasierter Information liegt, glücklich machen. @jostmaurin.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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nickdesnoyer.bsky.social
The hidden danger of Biorender

(& the death of scientific illustration)

A short thread 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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maitecolinas.bsky.social
How to stop the revolving door of German academia www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to stop the revolving door of German academia
Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
hstraube.bsky.social
Exciting preprint on unlocking accessibility of rare gibberellines by @russellcoxchem.bsky.social and @frankelab.bsky.social labs.

Special congrats to Ahmed! 🥳

doi.org/10.26434/che...
Chemoenzymatic Synthesis with Plant Oxidases and Metabolic Engineering Enable the Total Biosynthesis of Rare Gibberellins
Gibberellins are structurally complex diterpenoid plant hormones with widespread agricultural applications. However, of the 136 known congeners found in nature, very few are easily accessible, prevent...
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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katherinedenby.bsky.social
Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!

www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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cenmag.bsky.social
A research team has found multiple lineages of archaea that have fully repurposed the TAG stop codon to encode the noncanonical amino acid pyrrolysine. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
These archaea built a distinct genetic code to put pyrrolysine in proteins
That feat has synthetic biologists excited
cen.acs.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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axelvisel.bsky.social
🔥Hot🔥 new preprint: Amoeba happily replicating at 63°C

Led by @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social, with @jgi.doe.gov’s Tomáš Tyml and @fmschu.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A modified version of the “This is fine” meme, which usually shows a cartoon dog sitting calmly in a room that is on fire. The flames are labeled 63°C. In place of the dog’s face, there is a grayscale microscopic image of a heat-tolerant amoeba from the new preprint. A speech bubble above the character still reads “This is fine,” implying that the amoeba is unbothered by extreme heat. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690213v1
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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reskilab.bsky.social
Merck geht mit Milliarden in Parkinsondeal
Merck hat eine strategische Partnerschaft mit dem #Biotech Valo Health geschlossen, um mit Hilfe von Künstlicher Intelligenz neue Wirkstoffe gegen #Parkinson zu entwickeln. Die Vereinbarung ist bis zu 3 Mrd. US-Dollar schwer.
transkript.de/artikel/2025...
Merck geht mit Milliarden in Parkinsondeal
Merck setzt auf KI und schließt einen Milliarden-Deal mit Valo Health zur Parkinson-Forschung.
transkript.de
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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oliverberkowitz.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis
The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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reskilab.bsky.social
Heidelberg University has identified preparations for a widespread attack on its IT infrastructure. This requires the immediate implementation of necessary precautions. These measures include, among other things, an immediate change of passwords.
www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...
Attack on IT infrastructure: Precautionary measures - University Computing Centre Heidelberg
www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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vdlorenzo.bsky.social
Despite the tidy maps found in textbooks, metabolism is still full of unresolved mysteries. Few people are better at uncovering these overlooked but essential puzzles than Antoine Danchin. Here here an analysis of the intriguing guanidine enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Metabolic Origin, Role and Fate of the Denaturant Guanidine
The origin of metabolic guanidine is largely a mystery. We suggest it is created when guanine-containing nucleotides are oxidised by molecular oxygen instead of being broken down into urea as purines....
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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amreibahr.bsky.social
Wer in D nicht Prof wird, ist fürs dt. Wissenschaftssystem irrelevant. Wo Ihr nach Rauswurf bleibt, dass Ihr Eure (auch finanziellen) Entbehrungen während prekärer Beschäftigung nicht nachträglich durch Verbeamtung kompensieren könnt, Altersarmut, Eure Verdienste für Wissenschaft: Egal. #IchBinHanna
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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kunzlab.bsky.social
Hi EU 🌱 scientists, if you want to get Catch&Release 🎣vectors doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... hassle-free & pay only a small handling fee, please visits the so far little known great community resource to order DNA plasmids www.plasmids.eu kindly hosted by @dkfz.bsky.social & @telemanlab.bsky.social . Thx
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November 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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hartman-plantlab.com
Stuck in the US as a postdoc due to the current political nightmare? Consider to join us in Freiburg @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social #plantscience
kleinevehnlab.bsky.social KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 20d
If you know postdocs in the US whose work is restricted or becoming difficult, there are new fellowship possibilities in the south of Germany. Please, forward this information to them:

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Our lab in Freiburg can also serve as a host — happy to discuss options.
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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botanicaljim.bsky.social
Very happy that my PhD student can grow such happy plants! It's a simple thing that is very underappreciated and very important.
A tray of 14 happy Arabidopsis plants at the rosette stage in 7cm pots. Black covers preventing the compost from being visible.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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chenxinli2.bsky.social
New paper is online! We used single cell RNA-seq & phylogenetics to identify 2 additional cell type specific TFs that control late-stage vinca alkaloid biosynthesis. The key insights originated from Camptotheca, another species that produces alkaloids. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience #SecMet
A gene regulatory network built from single cell co-expression, orthology, transactivation, and overexpression. The TF IDB1 activates itself the TF IDM1. IDM1 and IDB1 together activates IDM4, which in turn activates biosynthetic genes.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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plantteaching.bsky.social
Please share, deadline approaching soon!
root-shoot.bsky.social ROOT-SHOOT RCN @root-shoot.bsky.social · 29d
The 2026 plant science conference travel award program is open!
Awards are given to student/mentor pairs.
At lease one of the pair must be a member of SACNAS or MANRRS or AISES.
Please share, applications due by Dec 5, 2025.
@sacnas.bsky.social
rootandshoot.org/2026-root-sh...
ROOT & SHOOT 2026 travel awards. Q. Member of MANRRS, SACNAS, or AISES? Q. Curious about plant science? A. Apply for a ROOT & SHOOT travel award! Up to $3000 to attend a plant science conference in 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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thesainsburylab.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce that @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social has won the Young Investigator Award by the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists.

The award ceremony and the recipient's lecture will take place at the next Tokyo Annual Meeting on 14 March 2026.

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November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
hstraube.bsky.social
🌱🌿🫘

Exciting publication on plastid ribose transport in plants, including discoveries in Arabidopsis but also in important legume crops (soy and common bean), with implications for nodule symbiosis.

Interesting to see that a glucose transporter has a dual role in ribose salvage.

rdcu.be/eOVRW
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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seancasten.bsky.social
Perfectly captures Trump’s empathy for his fellow man.
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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sisyphus43.bsky.social
Always remember that the divide isn't between Islam and Christianity. Its between western values of freedom and democracy v. religious totalitarianism.
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
hstraube.bsky.social
I usually don't post non-scientific stuff, but maybe I can interest you into supporting a small photo-artist. I really enjoy his pictures and would love to see his campaign succeed:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...

There are also english translations on his campaign page.
der tauchende Kater
A photo book by Jonas Völpel
www.kickstarter.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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plantepigenetics.ch
It would be great if researchers would work more on crops than Arabidopsis for a start…
Then field trials will automatically become more common (if legislation permits for GM!).
natplants.nature.com Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Oct 28
New Correspondence: "Rethinking the need for field trials" rdcu.be/eM96P
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM