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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 17h

Inside a thylakoid membrane

The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
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Jens Südekum @suedekum.bsky.social · 1d

Betriebserben ist dank eines Steuerprivilegs (aka Verschonungsbedarfsprüfung) seit 2021 #Erbschaftsteuer in Höhe von 7,6 Milliarden Euro erlassen worden. Vermögen in Höhe von rund 24 Milliarden Euro wurden so nahezu steuerfrei auf die Erben übertragen.

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Handelsblatt

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Greg Copenhaver @copenhaverlab.bsky.social · 2d

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

This.

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Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · 1d

So überrascht war ich lange nicht mehr von einem Politiker der #CDU. 😲

Der Einfall für dieses Produkt hing mit Adenauers politischer Tätigkeit während des Ersten Weltkriegs zusammen. Als Erster Beigeordneter war er seit 1914 für die Lebensmittelversorgung der Kölner Bevölkerung zuständig. Fleisch war damals Mangelware. Genau da setzte die Erfindung an: „Der Zweck, der verfolgt wird, ist, dem viel billigeren Pflanzeneiweiß in größerem Maße wie bisher im Verzehr Eingang zu verschaffen, nicht neben, sondern an Stelle des tierischen Eiweißes. Der Zweck soll dadurch erreicht werden, dass dem Konsumenten das Pflanzeneiweiß gewissermaßen unter der Maske der Fleischnahrung gegeben wird, weil das Volk die Fleischnahrung kennt und liebt. Dies lässt sich erreichen durch eine beliebte Form der Fleischnahrung, durch die Wurst“, schrieb Adenauer seinem Patentanwalt Dr. Julius Ephraim am 10. Mai 1915.

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Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 🤣🤣

Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

www.theguardian.com

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 1d

Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Democrats @democrats.org · 3d

Reminder: The Trump administration is giving Argentina a $20 BILLION bailout as Americans struggle to afford groceries.

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 3d

Not mentioned in our 1990 letter (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), but I noticed the similarity between Drosophila fkh and rat HNF3A while reading the paper from the Darnell lab in G&D and looking closely at fig. 5! No computer involved…

One of the coolest moments in my scientific career.

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 3d

The Vienna BioCenter PhD Program application deadline is approaching: October 10!

Join one of Europe’s premier life science campuses, home to cutting-edge research across all areas of biology.
Apply and start your scientific journey in Vienna!

training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/

#PhD #LifeSciences

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for sharing this, Harmit!

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Kirk Amundson @kirkamundson.bsky.social · 4d

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply!

careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology

The Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Plant Physiology. The successful can...

careers.massachusetts.edu

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Roland Faure @rfaure.bsky.social · 5d

Our preprint on our new metagenomic HiFi assembler Alice is out 🥳 Based on a *new sketching method* (🧵1/6)
👉 Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 Github github.com/rolandfaure/...

Alice: fast and haplotype-aware assembly of high-fidelity reads based on MSR sketching

We introduce Mapping-friendly Sequence Reduction (MSR) sketches, a sketching method for high-fidelity (HiFi) long reads, and Alice, an assembler that operates directly on these sketches. MSR produces ...

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Xian Chang @xian-chang.bsky.social · 6d

🦒Long read giraffe is out!🦒
Mapping long reads to pangenome graphs is ~10x faster than with GraphAligner, with veeery slightly better mapping accuracy, short variant calling, and SV genotyping than GraphAligner or Minimap2

bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 7d

Rapid, accurate long- and short-read mapping to large pangenome graphs with vg Giraffe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.678807v1

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 9d

Do you know ~60% of human SVs fall in ~1% of GRCh38? See our new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.23057 and the companion blog post on how we started this project and longdust: lh3.github.io/2025/09/29/o.... Work with Alvin Qin

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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · 16d

Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar!
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 10d

Do you want to raise the profile of your research, and share it with over 10,000 members of the public? The call for proposals to exhibit at the 2026 #SummerScience Exhibition is still open: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition/call-for-proposals-2026/

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

Wonderful news, Thanvi! Looking forward to what your group will discover!

Thanvi Srikant @thanvisrikant.bsky.social · 13d

Excited to share that I’ve been awarded an @snsf.ch Ambizione grant to begin my independent research, starting summer 2026 at the Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich! I will use (epi)genomics to study altitude adaptation in Arabis alpina - stay tuned for more updates & PhD opportunities!

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 22d

Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU

Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly

Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 22d

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.

Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.

Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 21d

"We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do."

ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 22d

Want to dive into the datasets from our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper? 🌱📊
Check out this step-by-step guide on how to explore and analyze the #drought #recovery #datasets with Omnibusx:

Check out the paper and datasets: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tutorial: youtu.be/YI0RVFiQnMs

Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation - Nature Communications

Post-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance.

www.nature.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22d

Gee, I wonder why.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 21d

A pensive Minerva contemplating the precarious state of science in the world.

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