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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Aug 20

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Aug 18

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The FORGENIUS genomic resources: new genotyping tools and genomic data for 23 forest tree species and their Genetic Conservation Units

Genetic diversity is a critical but often overlooked component of biological diversity. The European H2020 FORGENIUS project is precisely aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of genetic data t...

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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · Jul 16

Baffling failure of a well-studied trade-off in plants to survive the transfer from greenhouse studies to the open field. Intriguing study from @derekseveri.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social and colleagues in @plosbiology.org

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jul 15

In the greenhouse, #Arabidopsis with hyperactive ACD6 have stronger pathogen defenses but are smaller & make fewer seeds. @derekseveri.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social &co show that in the open field both advantages & disadvantages of the allele disappear @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/465XPDR

A hyperactive ACD6 allele reduces growth and causes necrosis only in the greenhouse. Top: Representative Arabidopsis thaliana rosettes from different genetic backgrounds. Yellow and blue labels represent descendants of a heterozygous ACD6 HIF line that are homozygous for either the Est-1 or the Col-0 allele of ACD6. Green and purple labels represent the Est-1 accession and the isogenic acd6 knockout null allele in that accession. Plants were grown in Tübingen in the greenhouse (GH-Tü), outdoors in the field in Tübingen (F-Tü), or outdoors in the field in Zurich (F-Z, a GMO-approved facility). Note the necrotic older leaves for greenhouse plants with the ACD6-Est-1 allele (red arrows). Bottom: Rosette size of individual plants, calculated by quantifying green pixels from images similar to those in the top panel. The line within each box represents the median. Boxes enclose the interquartile range (IQR) with whiskers extending to up to 1.5 times the IQR. Brackets indicate Mann–Whitney U-test results, with * indicating P < 0.05 after Benjamini–Hochberg correction for multiple testing across the four comparisons. Dotted lines extending from the mean of each distribution span the observed effect size, and a bootstrapped distribution of computed effect sizes [30] is shown in gray, centered on the mean of the second box in each pair (red dot). The black bar extending vertically from the red dot represents the 95% confidence interval of the effect size.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Jul 6

Beets, 🥕, 🌰, pickles, 🍎, sometimes also herring.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Jul 6

And I thought that Finnish Chrismas salad "rosolli" was weird.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Jul 6

Oh my god...

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Jul 4

You know over the years what I have been really bothered by? When I was in college, bryophytes were taught as if they were relics of the past. Its sole purpose was to demonstrate trait progression leading to angiosperm, w/o mentioning their importance in nature, research, or potential in biotech.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Jul 4

Googlen NotebookLM on alkanut tehdä suomenkielisiä pocasteja. Nais-AI:n ääni kuulostaa karmivan samalle kuin Tuija Pehkonen. Pehkonenhan on ollut radiossa paljon äänessä.

Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Jun 26

Who started this ridiculous habit of using K for thousands? 10K run? 10 kelvin run is freezing! And now in scientific writing too. I know there are big battles going on now, but I will focus on this one instead.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Apr 27

The de-extinction of the dire wolves?
"Colossal Baloney"— @stemcells.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
@latimes.com by @hiltzikm.bsky.social

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · Apr 24

The NSF discontinuing “misinformation” research b/c it threatens free speech is laughable. 9/

NSF Q&S highlighting response to question "Are you still funding research on misinformation?". RESPONSE: NSF will not support research with the goal of combating "misinformation" "disinformation" or "malinformation" that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the US

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Apr 23

Still waiting for a reimbursement from a US University that invited me there to give a talk last August. My advice: do not ever pay the travel expenses yourself when invited and promised reimbursement.

Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Apr 2

Me to my lab members: "No need to stress about your Lab Meeting presentation. Just show us where you are at in your project". Also me: *spending 8 hours to prepare my own lab meeting presentation and getting nervous about it*.

kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .

ALT: kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Mar 31

Today I have spoiled myself with reading just single review paper all day, taking pauses to think. Luxury!

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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · Mar 11

I'm excited to share our new preprint on the molecular evolution of heterodichogamy in two wingnut genera of Juglandaceae. Heterodichogamy features two morphs synchronously alternating male and female flowering phases in time to generate disassortative mating.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Pictures of two dichogamy morphs in Pterocarya trees, a graph visualizing flower dimorphism, and a phylogeny of the Juglandaceae family showing divergence times and origins of genetic systems for heterodichogamy.

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Outi Länsman 🌲 Májjo Jovnna Ilmár Outi @outilansman.bsky.social · Mar 11

"Yleisradion perinteiset alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset Radio Suomessa ovat loppuneet."

"[---] Ylen johto tapaa parhaillaan aluetoimitusten henkilöstöä ja kertoo heille heidän työsuhteensa kohtalosta."

www.lapinkansa.fi/yle-lopetti-...

Yle lopetti radion alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset vähin äänin – johto ei kommentoi sanallakaan

Yleisradion perinteiset alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset Radio Suomessa ovat loppuneet. Esimerkiksi Yle Lapista ei tule enää itsenäistä iltapäivälähetystä.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Mar 5

www.aka.fi/tietysti/tie...

Metsäpuihin kohdistuva huippututkimus tähtää hiilinielujen lisäämiseen

Yrjö Helariutta (oik.) toimii huippuyksikön johtajana. Ryhmänjohtajista mukana kuvassa Tanja Pyhäjärvi, Maija Sierla, Ari Pekka Mähönen ja Teemu Hölttä. Su...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Mar 4

The newer sequencing tech, Oxford Nanopore, is traded on the London exchange as part of the FTSE 250, and it is likewise having a rough day, down 10% today so far, 42% since Trump took office.

These tools are how we genotype cancer, flu, measles, etc., by the way.

The Oxford Nanopore Technologies stock performance on the GBX exchange, showing a strong downward trend.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Feb 28

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Feb 28

I do not talk about politics a lot here. But the way Trump and Vance talked to Zelenskyi is the most disgusting thing I have seen for a long time. So sad, we are not able to really stand up for Ukraine. We could do so much more.

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · Feb 28

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · Feb 28

Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · Feb 28

Watched meeting between Trump and Zelensky and all I can say is that I have never ever seen something like that. IMO, disrespectful were Trump and Vance, not Zelensky. And not only to the US but to Ukraine and Europe as well.

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Feb 14

seriously, how did nobody question (from the ethics review stage to publication) this 🔽 research using and abusing rats! #AnimalEthics #AnimalWelfare

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