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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 1d

Working on invasive organisms? Weeds, pests, pathogens or animals? Consider submitting your work to www.cabidigitallibrary.org/journal/ab/s...

CABI Agriculture and Bioscience - Special Issues: Invasive Pathogens| CABI Digital Library

An open access journal publishing multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary research that addresses global challenges in agriculture and the environment. The editors welcome research from a wide range of f...

www.cabidigitallibrary.org

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 5d

Australia has one of the best and most rigorous approaches and we can all learn from your experience. I like the thought of strategies to build and maintain social license and trustworthiness before, and during any outbreak and the period of response.

Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 5d

great Niklaus and happy to chat more ... you can see some of what we're doing in this space at plantbiosecuritycentre.edu.au/projects/ ... there are a couple of social science projects in there now and about to advertise another.

Our projects

Explore the projects have commenced in the ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity

plantbiosecuritycentre.edu.au

Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 5d

I love this suggestion. Both on the citizen science individual that can help and changing the behavior of those not engaged. Yes, let's stay in touch.

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 5d

I am leading an effort to identify gaps in plant biosecurity? Please let me know your thoughts on what is currently missing?

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 6d

Microbial phenazines: biosynthesis, structural diversity, evolution, regulation, and biological significance journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

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Science Magazine @science.org · 7d

Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

In 2020, Goodall spoke with Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp for a #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the 60th anniversary of her arrival in Gombe to study wild chimpanzees. Read more: https://scim.ag/472Chb8

"… Goodall’s … is a story of genuine scientific curiosity, determination, and respect for
nature and humanity …" H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 14d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 19d

@jpodwyer.bsky.social led this elegant and novel approach using genomic demography to make ecological predictions. I am excited to have played a small part in this elegant work:

Genomic demography predicts community dynamics in a temperate montane forest | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genomic demography predicts community dynamics in a temperate montane forest

Species population sizes fluctuate over time, and these temporal dynamics play a key role in governing the maintenance of biodiversity. Although modeling approaches have been developed to characterize...

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 20d

Genomic demography predicts community dynamics in a temperate montane forest | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genomic demography predicts community dynamics in a temperate montane forest

Species population sizes fluctuate over time, and these temporal dynamics play a key role in governing the maintenance of biodiversity. Although modeling approaches have been developed to characterize...

www.science.org

Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just brilliant. Also works for bureaucrats, not just deans www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fac...

Faculty, Rejoice: Gmail Can Now Translate “Deanspeak”

We are thrilled to announce that Google Translate has recently added “Deanspeak” to its suite of language-detection tools. In addition to offering ...

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · Aug 29

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

www.nature.com

Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · Aug 24

Scientists are removing words like “diverse” and “disparities” from hundreds of federal grant renewals to avoid getting flagged in the Trump administration’s focus on eliminating diversity

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · Aug 16

Out-of-pocket ACA premium payments will likely increase about 75% on average next year due to Congressional actions.

Liz Weston: Married couple faces likely 300% increase in their medical insurance premiums

Out-of-pocket ACA premium payments will likely increase about 75% on average next year due to Congressional actions.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Jul 21

ICYMI-- I did.

A study of software developers found it took them 19% more time to do their work when they used AI tools.

At the same time, they *perceived* they had saved time. They thought they would work faster and so they falsely "believed AI had sped them up by 20%."

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Aug 8

#NatMicroPicks

Hidden microbial world in trees🌳

Living wood hosts trillions of bacteria making trees a complex ecosystems with major roles in forest health and function.

#PlantMicro #MicroSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees - Nature

Microbiome analyses of living trees show that a single tree can host approximately one trillion bacteria, with microbial communities distinctly partitioned between heartwood and sapwood and with minim...

www.nature.com

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Aug 10

Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read!

academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · Aug 5

www.wsj.com/science/scie...

Scientific Journals Can’t Keep Up With Flood of Fake Papers

The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” businesses or individuals that charge fees to publish fake studies in legitimate journals.

www.wsj.com

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ben Hoyt conducting a population genomic analysis of the ‘bulldozer’ Phytophthora cinnamomi #planhealth2025

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AmirAli Toghani @amiralito.bsky.social · May 9

Happy to share that our Helixer deeplearning-based annotation of 230 superasterid genomes is now online on
@datadryad.bsky.social
💻🌱

doi.org/10.5061/drya...

Check out how we used 69 of them to study the molecular evolution of a plant immune receptor network here! 👇

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · Jul 28

www.science.org/content/arti...

USDA reorganization will cut agricultural and forest research

One of the agency’s largest and most storied research facilities will be closed along with most forest research stations

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David Cooke @llewelyn68.bsky.social · Jul 23

Formatted pdf now available. Over 100 authors from across the world agree to protecting the genus Phytophthora against burdensome and unnecessary taxonomic change apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · Jul 18

UC Irvine keeps expanding its focus on microbial ecology and microbiome science - an exciting place to work for any early-career people on the hunt for a job!

Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Jul 17

Preprint on antimicrobial prediction pipeline: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AMAPEC: accurate antimicrobial activity prediction for fungal effector proteins

Fungi typically occur in environments where numerous and diverse other microbes occur as well, often resulting in fierce competition for nutrients and habitat. To support fungal fitness in these envir...

www.biorxiv.org

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · Jul 16

In memory of our dear colleague, John McDowell, who left us all too early. RIP. doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®

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Shahid Mukhtar @smukhtarlab.bsky.social · Jul 16

We lost a Grangle family member, a friend, and a visionary scientist. “A note from Jeff Dangl: John McDowell was a former MPMI Editor and great membr of our community and that it is apt that his memory be recognized at the current #2025ISMPMI
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John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®

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