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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 13h

New algorithm address the challenge of inferring GRNs from time series transcriptome data. This approach generates cohesive networks with minimal user input, revealing biologically meaningful neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantBiology #Transcriptomics #GRN

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 11h

Ermagerd, my husband works the night shift but he's off Saturday night...I'm going to see if he wants to go!

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 14h

Open House Chicago is October 18-19, and I will be volunteering at Four Star Mushrooms, 320 N. Oakley, on October 19 from 11:45-2:30. Come by and say hi! www.architecture.org/open-house-c...

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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 21h

Wonderful opportunity to work with Martin Howard and my group trying to understand how chromatin influences gene transcription and expression. Integration of theory, modelling, and experimentation. Come and join the team!
Please repost!

jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

John Innes Centre

jobs.jic.ac.uk

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 19h

It's #WorldOctopusDay! These beauties from our collection are both by French pharmacist and naturalist Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800-65).

Octopus vulgaris - the common octopus, which can grow to 9kg and change colour to match its surroundings.

Common octopus with brown and yellow colouring with hints of blue. It has yellow eyes and fills the image.

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 1d

"Multiple Positions: Predoctoral, Master, and PhD Student Positions (ERC-funded), Postdocs, Lab Manager/Research Assistant at FORTH-IMBB, Crete, Greece"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_ERC.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 1d

No kidding. Imagine how many people could start small businesses and change jobs if not locked to family health care. It’s a drain on the economy and a leash.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 1d

This is why we don't have universal healthcare––they have us by the health insurance. 😡

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 1d

And rain!!

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James | that funny little trans guy on BlueSky @jimmyswings.bsky.social · 1d

This is perfect. Let's all do it!

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 1d

Treated myself to a new cookbook and every recipe looks so delicious. Anyone on #CookbookSky tried this one? #Kapusta 📚 www.alissatimoshkina.com/kapusta

Cover of the book "Kapusta: Vegetable-forward recipes from Eastern Europe". The cover is pink with green details and an enormous green head of cabbage with lots of leaves around it.

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Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 1d

Kudos to our journal clients who are (for now) using our post-acceptance editing services to make sure that authors have uploaded their data to the relevant repositories. #SciComm

Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 1d

My personal favorite is "data are available upon reasonable request".

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 4d

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 12d

Data is available upon request … but only in the form of one hundred non sequential 3.5” floppy disks containing a segmented zip file, inside of which are confusingly named files that can only be opened using the 1996 application StatView for Apple Mackintosh. Enclose a cashiers check for postage.

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 1d

My personal favorite is "data are available upon reasonable request".

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 4d

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 1d

Just started reading Maize for the Gods––so good! Had not heard the theory about maize initially being used to make beer from the sugary juice in the stems. Thanks for the recommendation, @jrossibarra.bsky.social Wish there was a newer edition--this one is 10 years out of date! 📚

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.ucpress.edu/books/maize-...

Maize for the Gods by Michael Blake - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the 🧵 ! Tagging for the #PlantScience feed!

Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 1d

#DeadTree appreciation for that nest o' twigs!

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

Osprey flying into #TalonTuesday with landing gear lowered. Just look at those fishhooks!

Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025

📸 #birds #osprey #OSPR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

A brown and white osprey is frozen in mid-air with its wings spread wide and its legs and talons extended as it descends toward its nest below.

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 1d

Standing on a #DeadTree –– It's not just for raptors!

Dennis Waldron @wphoto.bsky.social · 1d

A Great Blue Heron watching a plane on a low approach to the airport.
#heron
#birds
#nature
#photography
#birdphotograpy

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

Link is a disability advocate who has tirelessly advocated for alt text

Alt text DESCRIBES THE IMAGE

it is not ooo bonus content

That's how you know he wasn't making any sort of tee hee death threat.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

Faculty positions in animal morphogenesis that may be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in one of my favorite Departments" Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. 1/n
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 2d

A Chicago poem:
I was talking with the letter carrier
When a rat ran by.
It looked really sick like it had been poisoned.
It disappeared behind the vines on the front of the house.
So if something stinks next week
That's what it was.

Leaves plants and vines on the side of a brick house

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for the 🧵 ! Tagging for the #PlantScience feed!

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 2d

~12 years after we coined it EPP1 with @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social one afternoon when we were postdoc with @jeanmichelane.bsky.social!

Congrats @melaniekrich.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social et al. for the hard work!

EPP1 is the fourth member of the Common Symbiosis Pathway 🍄🌱!

Mélanie Rich 🌱🍄 @melaniekrich.bsky.social · 2d

So happy to see the latest preprint of the team out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years ([Delaux and Schornack 2021][1]). Because of their intracellular nature, th...

www.biorxiv.org

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