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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · Feb 20

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐏𝐉 Ecological divergence of sibling allopolyploid marsh orchids is associated with species-specific plasticity and distinct fungal communities
💮 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70001
by @katieemelianova.bsky.social @ViePlantGenom @univienna
@sebiology.bsky.social

Ecological divergence of sibling allopolyploid marsh orchids is associated with species specific plasticity and distinct fungal communities

This study highlights the role of phenotypic plasticity in the persistence and distribution of sibling allopolyploid marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza majalis s.l.). By examining gene expression and the di...

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Kidney International @kidneyint.bsky.social · Mar 5

Mitochondrial dysfunction and mitophagy blockade contribute to #renal #osteodystrophy in chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder

doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2025.01.022

@katieemelianova.bsky.social
#OpenAccess #NephSky #MedSky #CKD #MBD #chronickidneydisease #mineralbonedisorder

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Feb 9

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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Katie Emelianova @katieemelianova.bsky.social · Jan 30

Great to see the Norman Wickett give the fanciest of inaugural lectures at the University of Vienna 💅

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · Jan 24

New pre-print!!! What types of genes end up on plasmids and why? The take home message of this paper is that beneficial genes move from plasmids to chromosome, causing the ecological value of plasmids to decay over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Chromosomal capture of beneficial genes drives plasmids towards ecological redundancy

Plasmids are a ubiquitous feature of bacterial genomes, but the evolutionary forces driving genes to become associated with plasmids are poorly understood. To address this problem, we compared the fit...

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KhongSam Chia @khongsamchia.bsky.social · Jan 24

JIC Friday seminar by @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · Jan 23

Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology
Contact: [email protected]

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Pierre-François Lenne @pflenne.bsky.social · Jan 17

Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus!
Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Dec 31

New! @jenncoughlan.bsky.social kindly shared their MIRA NIH award with our github repo. If you have a successful grant app you're willing to share, please contribute! github.com/RILAB/statem...

GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants

Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Dec 21

I really believe more folks should start off staring at a kinship matrix rather than STRUCTURE, PCA, etc. Such a rich visual of the data.

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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · Dec 16

The fact that 41% of Americans have no favorite dinosaur is a national scandal and there should be congressional hearings to get to the bottom of what went wrong.

YouGov America @today.yougov.com · Dec 16

% of U.S. adult citizens who say ___ is their favorite dinosaur:

T-Rex: 19%
Velociraptor: 6%
Brontosaurus: 6%
Triceratops: 5%

41% of Americans say they don't have a favorite dinosaur. today.yougov.com/entertainmen...

A bar chart showing the percentage of Americans who say each of various types of dinosaurs is their favorite. T-Rex leads with 19%, followed by velociraptor at 6%. 41% don't have a favorite.

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Rashmi Sasidharan @rsasidharan.bsky.social · Dec 23

Our #hypoxia FI is online! @plantphys.bsky.social featuring this stunning cover image by @moeabbas.bsky.social Check out the fantastic lineup of Updates, Topical Review & research articles @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plphys/issue...

Volume 197 Issue 1 | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic

Plant Physiology is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · Dec 21

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Dec 20

Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.

F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea

Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.

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Megan McDonald @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social · Dec 7

HI old friends! Finally took the leap here to say I have several open positions going in my lab at the moment (and more to come).
1) PhD studentship in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society (genomics)
2) Biochemistry Postdoc to understand how Starships move

Check out the links below!

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · Dec 13

Hi Bluesky community! 👋

Are you looking forward to 2025 as much as we are? 👀

We just updated our 2025 Annual Poster to include even more events for you to join, so go and have a look!

➡️ s.embl.org/poster-bl

#EMBLEvents #molecularbiology #lifesciencetraining

The 2025 EMBL Annual Poster, listing all of the courses and conferences taking place in 2025 at EMBL

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Dec 12

📜 Ectomycorrhizal fungi of Douglas-fir retain newly assimilated carbon derived from neighboring European beech

🧑‍🔬 Michela Audisio, Jan Muhr, Andrea Polle

📙 @newphyt.bsky.social

🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #Forestry #Mycorrhiza #CarbonCapture

Ectomycorrhizal fungi of Douglas‐fir retain newly assimilated carbon derived from neighboring European beech

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi distribute tree-derived carbon (C) via belowground hyphal networks in forest ecosystems. Here, we asked the following: (1) Is C transferred belowground to a neighboring...

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Daniel Noble @danielwanoble.bsky.social · Dec 12

Check out our cool new findings showing how developmental temperature and corticosterone have long term impacts on mitochondrial efficiency that coincide with consistent differences in body size through life! A fantatsic team effort doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

From eggs to adulthood: sustained effects of early developmental temperature and corticosterone exposure on physiology and body size in an Australian lizard

Highlighted Article: Incubation temperature and prenatal corticosterone exposure have independent sustained effects, but not interactive effects, on morphological and physiological traits in the delic...

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Katie Emelianova @katieemelianova.bsky.social · Dec 10

I had a great time presenting at the fabulous EcoEvoDevo seminar series at my alma mater Queen Mary University of London, incidentally downstairs from where I sat my biochemistry exam over a decade ago 👶

Marcus Hicks @marcushicks.bsky.social · Dec 10

Another busy edition of our departmental EED (EcoEvoDevo) meetings, with special thanks to @katieemelianova.bsky.social for a great talk about TEs and radiations!

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · Dec 10

Starlings- evening roost.
Funnelling down into the reeds on the Somerset levels.

#somerset #starlings #ukwildlife #birds

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Mario Torralba @mrio-torralba.bsky.social · Dec 9

Job Alert📢! We are looking for a postdoc looking into how to reconcile Food Systems Sustainability and Biodiversity Conservation. Apply to work with us at VU Amsterdam

Position for 36 months. Deadline: January 9th. Please apply/ Share

workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...

Vacancy — Postdoc on Reconciling Food Systems Sustainability and Biodiversity Conservation

Are you interested in research that promotes a transformation towards sustainable and regional food systems dominated by agroecological practices, fair value chains, and responsible consumption? Then ...

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Katie Emelianova @katieemelianova.bsky.social · Dec 10

What an absolute treat to return to my undergraduate stomping grounds to give a seminar on my work on the persimmon genus Diospyros 🌱 nostalgia galore!

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · Dec 9

Postdoc opportunity: Drivers of biodiversity change across time 🌿 🦅 🌍
Come work with fabulous Naia Morueta-Holme (and a bit with me)
2-year position starting March 1, 2025
Naia's lab page: lnkd.in/drHQBGdU

Apply here (deadline 5 Jan 2025) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Postdoctoral Researcher on Drivers of Biodiversity Change Across Time at the Section for Biodiversity, Globe Institute

Postdoctoral Researcher on Drivers of Biodiversity Change Across Time at the Section for Biodiversity, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen We are seeking

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Katie Emelianova @katieemelianova.bsky.social · Dec 8

The best presentations are made on a train on the way to give said presentation 🎁

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · Dec 3

R targets is the best thing that has ever happened to my projects -
the reviewer wants us to substantially change about a third of the input data for my classification paper, so all classifiers had to be rerun (DONE), but all their output had to be reanalysed.
All I had to do is targets::tar_make()

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · Dec 2

Paradox: there are so much talks about genomics of polyploids during recent years (at least 5), but still very few reliable computational instruments to work with them.

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