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Remco Stam
@rstam.bsky.social
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Professor of Phytopathology | Kiel University
| Crop wild relatives and their pathogens | Likes quantitative and qualitative resistance mechanisms & popgen
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sev1panier.bsky.social
Did you ever wonder how #Solanum plants evolved quantitative disease resistance/ #QDR?
I am really excited to share our recently published manuscript, where we tried to contribute to addressing this question!

🌱https://tinyurl.com/2vz23ck6
Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen
Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto
tinyurl.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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huckelhovenr.bsky.social
TUM Offers a professorship in Crop Production. Geat opportunity!
portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess...
TUM - Professor in » Crop Production «
Studierenden- und Mitarbeiterportal der Technische Universität München
portal.mytum.de
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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stephenturner.us
gggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ #Rstats
A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics
An extension of ggplot2 for creating complex genomic maps. It builds on the power of ggplot2 and tidyverse adding new ggplot2-style geoms & positions and dplyr-style verbs to manipulate the…
thackl.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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moffettpeter.bsky.social
The department of biologie #usherbrooke is hiring. Faculty position open in the area of #Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology.

www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
Professeure ou professeur en biologie moléculaire végétale
Offre d'emploi : Professeure ou professeur en biologie moléculaire végétale, Sherbrooke, Campus principal, Université de Sherbrooke
www.usherbrooke.ca
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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transcription.bsky.social
I'm offering a PhD project together with Sarah McKim on temperature-controlled stomata formation within EASTBIO DTP www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #plantscience #plantscijobs Deadline 15 Feb. Please share/RP
EASTBIO - How plants breathe in a warming world: unravelling temperature control of stomata development at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO - How plants breathe in a warming world: unravelling temperature control of stomata development at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
rstam.bsky.social
Honoured that our article is now also accompanied by a commentary article. If you don't have time to read the whole paper, Ng does a great job summarizing!

academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 15d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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brunalab.bsky.social
UF researchers coauthor more papers with authors based in China than with those based in any other other country in the world. This policy would wreck US science.
environmicrobio.bsky.social Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 12d
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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samtmugford.bsky.social
Google scholar citation count has just tipped over the 2024 number so that's the start of my christmas break i don't make the rules
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
rstam.bsky.social
My team is adapting to work in Northern Germany. Besides tomato, we started a project on Quantitative Disease Resistance in Rapeseed. The field's looking good, let's catch some pathogens!
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
rstam.bsky.social
Two really cool PhD positions available with Christina Barragan on Plant Pathogen evolution!

Our dept. just moved to a brand new building with great facilities and we have an absolutely amazing team!
cbarragan.bsky.social Cristina Barragan @cbarragan.bsky.social · 23d
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!

🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution

🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)

📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025

🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

Do get in touch or share 😊
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November 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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milanchytry.bsky.social
Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
"Hey boss, I have some stock photos here for the article that shows that longer walks beat several shorter walks. Which one do you want?"

"Uh, good, just whichever one is on top"

"I dunno, this one has a guy with a walker taking his pony..."

"I said WHICHEVER ONE IS ON TOP."
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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ahancock.bsky.social
Applications due by Dec. 1
ahancock.bsky.social Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · 18d
I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
PhD advert
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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bjesseshapiro.bsky.social
Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.

Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.

Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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marischuster.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱

Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Shedding light on receptor kinase processing
journals.plos.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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cbarragan.bsky.social
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!

🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution

🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)

📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025

🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

Do get in touch or share 😊
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www.uni-kiel.de
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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izzysaurlab.bsky.social
Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.

jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
jobportal.uni-koeln.de
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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smutclyde.bsky.social
"Additionally, the author stated that they have used AI tools for generating some images, including Fig. 1."

Reviewers and editors could not work that out for themselves.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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digthatdata.bsky.social
The main value added by the publication is ostensibly the peer review and editorial curation process. If this sort of thing is passing review, what is the journal even for? How is subscribing to this journal any better than monitoring a preprints feed? Subscribers should demand their money back.
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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mcsukai.bsky.social
Want good Bioinformatics resources for Phytopathogens?
Plant pathology community at @bspp.bsky.social and @britmycolsoc.org.uk please take the time to complete the Phytopathogen Genomics Resources Survey:-
🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1
Your input is important for FungiDB/@veupathdb.org
& Ensembl @ebi.embl.org.
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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thephdplace.bsky.social
Good morning, sleepyhead. You asked me to remind you that your thesis won’t write itself, no matter how long you hide under the duvet.
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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fjmurau.bsky.social
Eigentlich irre, wie das so eine Meldung unter vielen ist.

»Ein trauriger Tag für Deutschland. Wir haben einen Kulturgut, den Dorsch in der deutschen Ostsee, verloren.« www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-fangquote...
Meeresbiologe Froese - „Den Dorsch haben wir verloren“
Der Ostsee-Dorsch ist vom Aussterben bedroht: Meeresbiologe Froese warnt, doch trotz gefährdeter Bestände gibt es Widerstand gegen strengere Fangquoten.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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mehta-lab.com
I guess it’s testament to the vanity of scientists that the “Nature Scientific Reports” trick worked so well on us.
richardsever.bsky.social Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 29d
Scientific Reports meanwhile on course to publish 40K papers = >$100M pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Scie...
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM