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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ

@asherpasha.bsky.social

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Vegan | Plant Biologist | System/Database Administrator at the BAR at U of T. Follow me for BAR (unofficial), IT (hardware, networking, cybersecurity, etc) and vegan stuff.

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Mar 11

Hi all, I am Asher. I am a plant biologist at the Bio-Analytic Resource at U of T, Canada. You may know me from the dead bird app (asherpasha) and Instagram (vegan_asher).

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Aug 16

Debian Linux was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. That's 32 years of stable, free, and opensource computing. From a single kernel, it has grown to parent some of the most popular OSes in the world. Happy 32nd birthday to the beloved mother of all distros! 🥰 🍰

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Aug 13

You know you're an old school Linux user when... you still try to use `ifconfig` and get a "command not found" error, followed by a moment of silent grief 🤬

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm at the CSPB 2025 conference in Halifax, NS, Canada. I'm presenting the BAR poster (P1-98). Please visit if you have any questions.

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C-SPIRIT @c-spirit.org · Aug 4

Congrats to Sean Robertson, Asher Pasha, Nick Provart, & Olivia Wilkins on their article "Growth-limiting drought increases sensitivity of Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaves to heat shock through physiological & spatially distinct transcriptomic responses"!

Read: doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
#PlantScience

New Publication!
PhD Student in Biological Sciences within the Wilkins Lab
University of Manitoba
Research Associate within the Provart Lab & Department of Cell and Systems Biology
University of Toronto
Read the article!
Sean Robertson
Asher Pasha
Olivia Wilkins
Associate Professor within the Department of Biological Sciences
University of Manitoba
Congratulations to C-SPIRIT Members Sean Robertson, Asher Pasha, Nicholas Provart, and Olivia Wilkins as well as their colleagues on the publication of their article Growth-limiting drought increases sensitivity of Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaves to heat shock through physiological andspatially distinct transcriptomic responses!
Nicholas Provart
Professor and Chair within the Department of Cell & Systems Biology
University of Toronto

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Jul 13

You can see the pictures and videos on the Toronto Animal Rights March Instagram: torontoanimalrightsmarch.

#vegan #animalrights #toronto #govegan

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Jul 13

Today, the humidex in Toronto was ~40°C (104°F), bright and sunny, not a cloud in the sky. That didn't stop us from marching ~3.6 km on the streets of Toronto. I attended the Toronto Animal Rights March 2025 (and yes, the full march).

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Jul 9

BAR ThaleMine has been upgraded to version v5.1.0-20250704. So, we have InterMine software v5.1.0 and data as of 4th July 2025.

Cc: @bar-plantbio.bsky.social

#arabidopsis #plantbio #intermine

Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦

Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congrats Nick 🎉

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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · Jun 17

I am honoured to have received a "Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge" award by NAASC at #icar2025, along with 3 others! Thanks to @asherpasha.bsky.social for tending the BAR and to the many students who have helped in this dissemination over the years, and to you for citing us!

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · May 30

If you use Asus routers, check out:

#Asus

Botnet hacks 9,000+ ASUS routers to add persistent SSH backdoor

Over 9,000 ASUS routers are compromised by a novel botnet dubbed "AyySSHush" that was also observed targeting SOHO routers from Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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C-SPIRIT @c-spirit.org · May 21

🌿 Big congrats to C-SPIRIT researchers Maria Camalle, Hannah Reish, Anthony Schilmiller & Aleksandra Skirycz (MSU) + team for their new paper on cyclo(His-Pro) in Arabidopsis! 🧪

Turns out this stress-linked molecule isn't just in animals — it helps plants, too. 🌡️❄️🧂

📖 qrco.de/bg10cW

#PlantScience

New Publication!
Research Associate Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Michigan State University
Research Technologist
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Michigan State University
Read the full article!
Maria Camalle
Hannah Reish
ALeksandra Skirycz
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Michigan State University
Congratulations to C-SPIRIT Members Maria Camalle, Hannah Reish, Anthony Schilmiller, and Aleksandra Skirycz as well as their colleagues on the publication of their article Characterization of the cyclic dipeptide cyclo(His-Pro)
in Arabidopsis!
Anthony Schilmiller
Associate Director of Mass Spectrometry & Metabolomics Core Michigan State University

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · May 14

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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · May 13

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · May 12

I recently attended the IT@UofT conference in Toronto. It was awesome. Huge thanks to organizers, sponsors and speakers.

#UofT #Toronto #IT

Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · May 4

Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you!

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C-SPIRIT @c-spirit.org · Apr 29

Second up in our Institutional Feature Series: University of Toronto!

We have three C-SPIRIT members affiliated with @uoft.bsky.social who work to advance our Aims 2 and 3.

🔗 Learn more about our Aims: c-spirit.org/research/

#PlantScience #PlantStress #PlantResilience #InstitutionalFeature

Institutional Feature: University of Toronto
Aims: 2: Metabolite Annotation & Database Development
3: Gene & Pathway Discovery

C-SPIRIT Members:
Nick Provart
Asher Pasha
Vincent Lau

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Apr 28

Looks like OpenBSD 7.7 is released. OpenBSD is awesome. Check it out:

#OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.7

www.openbsd.org

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Apr 21

Python's new t-strings: Template strings, also known as t-strings, have been officially accepted as a feature in Python 3.14, which will ship in late 2025. 🎉 I’m excited; t-strings open the door to safer more flexible string processing in Python. davepeck.org/2025/04/11/p...

davepeck.org

Dave Peck's home on the web. Dave is an independent software developer, investor, and civic technologist.

davepeck.org

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Apr 14

Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach

The car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.

tcrn.ch

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · Apr 9

Fortinet FortiSwitch has an "extremely critical" vulnerability (CVE-2024-48887) with a CVSS score of 9.3. An unauthenticated user could exploit it to change the password for an administrative account, gaining administrative privileges on the device. Fortinet has issued an advisory.

Fortinet FortiSwitch "extremely critical" vulnerability

Fortinet has issued an advisory for its Fortinet FortiSwitch product. An unauthenticated user may be able to exploit a vulnerability in the web administration interface to change the password for a...

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Apr 4

Good news: Earthling Ed's vegan restaurant is back. I had a 3D-printed vegan steak burger when I was there. It was awesome. Check out the new menu:

#Vegan #London

Unity Diner | Featured in Vogue Best Vegan Restaurants in London

Featured in Vogue Best Vegan Restaurants in London. We’re proudly vegan, non-profit + sustainable. “The most amazing vegan burger I have ever tried! The desserts are mind-blowing. Best vegan food in L...

www.unitydiner.co.uk

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · Apr 3

From May 5, 2025, Outlook will require high-volume email senders (over 5,000 emails daily) to implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. Initially, non-compliant emails will go to the junk folder and may eventually be rejected if issues persist.

DMARC is now mandatory if you send emails to Outlook, Live, and Hotmail Email Addresses

Hi all, FYI : Mandatory Rule After May 5, 2025 : For domains sending over 5,000 emails per day, Outlook will require compliance with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. Non-compliant messages will initially be ...

reddit.com

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Alyssa Miller 🦄👩‍✈️ @alyssam-infosec.com · Apr 1

PSA to the devs out there, BYOD and Zero Trust are not the same and are neither is dependent on the other.

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Asher 🇨🇦🌿☮️🎗️Ⓥ @asherpasha.bsky.social · Mar 28

Story of my life 😭

Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · Mar 27

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University of Toronto @utoronto.ca · Mar 26

Melanie Woodin, an internationally recognized neuroscientist who studies the mechanisms underlying learning and memory in the brain, has been named #UofT’s 17th president. ➡️ uoft.me/uoftpres

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