Concours chercheurs et chercheuses IRD 2026 : 37 postes ouverts | Site Web IRD Les concours chercheurs/chercheuses de l’IRD vous offrent une opportunité unique de vous investir dans des projets de recherche et de formation coconstruits avec nos partenaires situés dans les région...

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“Monsieur le Président,

On meurt dans vos Universités. On meurt dans mon Université.

Dans mon université, en 5 ans, il y a eu 4 suicides de personnels titulaires (le précédent remontait à 25 ans), 3 crises cardiaques au travail, 2 AVC”

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To all TE-addict colleagues 😊: have you already seen a clear excision of a plant MITE? We see them jumping in but not out..🤷‍♀️

Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells How did eukaryotic cells with complex architecture evolve from simpler prokaryotic cells? DNA analyses offer possible answers.

How did eukaryotic cells with complex architecture evolve from simpler prokaryotic cells? DNA analyses offer possible answers

go.nature.com/4sEMwLH

Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous components of the genome whose mobility can be triggered by environmental stress and influenced by genotype…

Have we been overstating the role of transposable elements in adaptation to local or rapidly changing environmental conditions? Happy to share my (somewhat unpopular?) opinion paper on this matter: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thanks to those who already shared the link!

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...

And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org
#PlantScience
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Perspective here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant MITEs: miniature transposable elements with major impacts - Mobile DNA Miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are short, non-autonomous transposable elements that have attracted considerable attention over the years due to their ubiquitous presence and f...

Happy to share a review on powerful plant MITEs written with Abirami Soundiramourtty! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Oatk: a de novo assembly tool for complex plant organelle genomes - Genome Biology Plant organelle genomes, particularly large mitochondrial genomes with complex repeats, present significant challenges for assembly. The advent of long-read sequencing enables the assembly of complete...

Oatk: a de novo assembly tool for complex plant organelle genomes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

PEEER: Publishing for an Ethical and Equitable Environment in Research No Researcher Left Behind

Great point. But, we academics should ideally be able to avoid/not comply with that. Ultimately, we submit, we review, we evaluate…and together can build #BetterPublishing:

peeer.net

Personnels enseignants : Recrutement - Université Perpignan Via Domitia

L'Université de Perpignan a ouvert une Chaire de Professeur Junior en Biologie Végétale, poste à pourvoir à l'automne 2025: www.univ-perp.fr/upvd/concour...

Personnels enseignants : Recrutement - Université Perpignan Via Domitia

Our lab (LGDP) is recruiting a Young Professor in Plant Biology in Perpignan! Apply before Sept 1st
www.univ-perp.fr/upvd/concour...

📣📣📣 PCI Plants @pciplants.bsky.social has been launched!!!
@bourgeoisyann.bsky.social @mangolab.bsky.social @francoissabot.bsky.social @jorisbertrand.bsky.social

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z

Exclusive: NIH to cut grants for COVID research, documents reveal Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature.

The termination of COVID-19 research is a “real slap in the face of the many patients struggling with the long-term health effects of COVID infections”, says Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

https://go.nature.com/4c2QfuJ

Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article) Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

"Whatever your diet, from chicken nuggets to organic tofu, the food you consume is the result of generations of work by agricultural scientists and plant breeders to meet the ever-changing needs of farmers and consumers."

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

#PlantScience #PlantBreeding #Sustainability

TULIP International Summer School 2025
"Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems"

🗓️ From June 21 to 27
🏔️at Germ, French Pyrénées

Registration OPEN ✅
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Open to PhD students, masters students and postdocs.

Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering - Nature Gene duplication and subsequent paralogue diversification are major obstacles to genotype-to-phenotype predictability.

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump » Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...

Un scientifique français a été refoulé à l'entrée des US après que son téléphone et son ordinateur, fouillés, ont révélé des échanges dans lesquels il exprimait une opinion personnelle sur la politique de l'administration Trump en matière de recherche
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Exclusive | Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants The university faces a Thursday deadline to yield to the administration’s demands.

L'administration Trump impose 9 "demandes" pour restaurer le financement récurrent de l'université de Columbia (400M). Parmi lesquelles : interdire les maques, la mise sous tutelle de certains départements de recherche, renforcement de la police sur le campus, etc.
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⚠️JOB ALERT ⚠️

@lipme-toulouse.bsky.social is hiring an @inrae-france.bsky.social tenure-track Associate Professor on the genetics of sunflower 🌻 - 🐝 polinator interactions 🔽

Come and join us in Toulouse!

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Not enough to cut funding. Now a list of over 20 health and life science topics that cannot be published by National Cancer Institute scientists without "oversight" (i.e. censorship).

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

L’IRD soutient le mouvement #StandUpForScience et l’ensemble de nos partenaires scientifiques dans le monde.

Face aux grands défis mondiaux, la science a un rôle central pour le développement social, environnemental et économique des sociétés, et nécessite une coopération internationale renforcée.

Very happy to present our latest study on heat-induced transcription of transposable element in A. thaliana. Using Oxford Nanopore, we tested the extent to which read-through formation is important in the regulation of adjacent genes. More here 👇
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