Easily one of my favourite outreach activities. Engaging students and meeting other STEM professionals in short bursts in slots that you can work into your schedule fairly easily. Totally encourage anyone to apply!
This is fantastic to see! Looking forward to digesting this preprint (and the final form of the article as and when), congratulations @ccilelorrain.bsky.social and @iglavincheska.bsky.social ! ๐ฅณ #ZymoPreprint #FungalGenetics
Swiss Alps seen from Neuchatel
Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland๐จ๐ญ?
We have several postdoc positions open at the moment!
Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs
Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
Sun setting behind trees. Foreground daffodils and rolling grass hills.
Plenty of fantastic sunrises and sunsets lately. Photo doesn't quite capture the magic of daffodils dancing in the gentle breeze between setting sunbeams.
Hey friends,
What's a reliable workhorse RT PCR machine you'd recommend? I'm asking for a researcher in Nigeria that won't be able to source it on the US used market. Any models to look out for or Ali Baba alternatives? I don't have much experience with those. TYIA! Please RT. ๐
Sharing to #PlantSciJobs #plantsciencejobs
Image of person at a microscope with text explaining the BSPP Undergraduate Vacation Bursary. Projects run 6-8 weeks in the summer, students receive ยฃ450 per week. Students do not have to be BSPP members.
The @bspp.bsky.social Undergraduate Vacation Bursary Scheme applications are open๐
Delighted to see the fantastic projects on offer! (I'm a little more biased than usual this year ๐)
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Deadline: April 14th
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Sequencing the genomes of >100 liverworts has uncovered ancient plant adaptation mechanisms, with researchers pinpointing genes linked to temperature and rainfall changes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/groundb...
@dromius.bsky.social @davidjhoey.bsky.social
A brilliant example of the tradeoffs between soil health and weed control when thinking about min till
Proud to say my PhD work has been published in PLOS pathogens and is accompanied with a short press release! Please have a read if you are interested in the use of transcriptomics for the control of fungal diseases ๐พ๐โ๐ซ๐ฉโ๐ป๐ฉโ๐ฌ www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/killer-...
Agree. It is also totally bizarre at the moment I am in a unit that is meant to teach about discussing the news and one of the phrases is about either poor Owen or Dylan getting killed by one! (I normally screenshot the parsnips translations as it is a saga but I must have been tired)
The Welsh Duolingo has a thing for parsnips (pannas).
Very interesting new paper on pop genomics of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici by the @rstam.bsky.social lab in Kiel! Great to see this field growing!
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PhD opportunity with Manchester Fungal Infection Group at University of Manchester looking at mycobiome in response to fungicides๐โ๐ซ๐
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
We were delighted to see Stevie Thompson's art installation "Mycelium Network" made of glass fiber at Uppsala Light Festival ๐๐ฒ๐
#fungi #mushroom #fungifriends #mycology #art #scienceart
Massive back catalogue (I think I started listening whilst i was writing my thesis ๐) about some truly terrible folks from history to modern day.
Was hooked to the show/host dynamic after listening to "The Russian Scientist Who Helped Kill 30 Million People" episode 31. Does have ads.
Image shows the top five podcasts listened to by Hannah. 1. Behind the Bastards, 2. Oh God, What Now? 3. Off Menu, 4. Always Be Comedy and 5. Ologies
In case my lab/office mates wonder what I'm listening to on my ridiculous headphones. #podcasts
Am impressed (and delighted) that @alwaysbecomedy.bsky.social made it as a recent-ish addition to the rotation ๐
Last days to apply for www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #PhD The enemy of my enemy. Answers to "why does Zymoseptoria infect wheat but not wheat's worst weed blackgrass?" BBSRC #SWBioDTP studentship for 2025. Closing midnight 11th December 2024. @rothamsted.bsky.social @quietscientist.bsky.social
Close up on face of green dragonfly (think it is a female Hawker) sitting in the grass on edge of a small wildlife pond. She returns to the same spot repeatedly making photographing easy!
An empty dragonfly nymph larva case loosely clinging to a green reed amongst the reed bed. The case has completely dried a mix of brown shades, and the exit point on the back where the dragonfly will have emerged.
Been a while since I posted some of my photography. Dragonflies are my favourite annual challenge, and the small wildlife pond lets me get very close. #naturephotography #wildlife #dragonfly
Interesting work! #ZymoPapers
Happy World Soil Day! #WorldSoilDay
#environment #science
This links to a really fun bit of bakeoff themed science communication from Cฬถaฬถpฬถtฬถaฬถiฬถnฬถ ฬถCฬถaฬถrฬถbฬถoฬถnฬถ Dr. Jonah Prout and the @rothamsted.bsky.social Comms team ๐๐
www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...
๐ Beyond Asexual: Genomics-Driven Progress in Unveiling Sexual Reproduction in Cereal Rust Fungi
๐งโ๐ฌ Shideh Mojerlou, Mareike Moeller, @schwessinger.bsky.social, Julian Rodriguez-Algaba
๐ Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
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There was a phase in thesis/paper writing that my catchphrase/the only thing people heard me say was "ggplot hates me" followed by "this worked before I don't understand why changing [insert aesthetic change or daring to try to add significance codes] breaks that".
Ant head imaged with scanning electron microscopy
Here's the head of an ant imaged with scanning electron microscopy during my PhD (back in 2018 ๐ฅฒ) ๐ ๐งช
So cool!
Welsh pennies* on the go for the Rothamsted thanksgiving.
*Smaller Welsh cakes (originally so the RRes kids could try without commitment) but dark chocolate chips instead of sultanas (because *I* am a child).
Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions - Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54537-y
Hey, and likewise, hope all is going good for you! Glad to see you here ๐ #zymolife
