🚀🧬 MY former colleague @micamer.bsky.social who I worked with in the early years of my career has released a BLAST service (GUI + API options) which replicates the NCBI services but with faster response times.
Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....
"Artist’s impression of John Edmonstone teaching Darwin to preserve birds." A Black man appears to work on a piece of cardboard that will become a preserved bird's wing. He wears a workman's apron, and Darwin, young and also wearing an apron, stands nearby with a tool in one hand a dead bird in the other. CREDIT: State Darwin Museum
In 1825, a skilled Black artisan taught a young medical student, Charles Darwin, how to preserve animal specimens via taxidermy, a skill he used in his exploration of the Galapagos.
John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
Try our new in silico PCR (sPCR) tool sharkmer- github.com/caseywdunn/s.... You give it primers and fastq reads, it gives you sequences that would be amplified by PCR. Works in minutes on a laptop for high copy regions like rRNA, great for species id etc. Feedback welcome. #bioinformatics #ngs
Honest question to all the #botanists out there.
Frontiers in Plant Science. Is it predatory? Aye or nay? What are our thoughts nowadays?
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Sengires Fondas (Ancient Woods Foundation) in Lithuania wrote about our collaboration in discovering insects🪲 and fungi 🍄in deadwood. Spoiler alert: Metabarcoding!
Go check out their facebook post
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9...
Vertical Ultra cold freezer in a corridor
SaproXDNA's new toy! We are building a DNA collection of (initially) deadwood-associated #coleoptera #diptera and friends 🐞🪰🐝🕷🦟 in #Lithuania 🇱🇹 (going ⬇️ to -80)
Bottom row 😀
Coming up in December, @datavizsociety.bsky.social's reading club is focusing on papers instead of books. Come chat all about Visual Villainy - thinking about the ways #dataviz can be used to mislead intentionally or unintentionally. www.eventbrite.com/e/dvs-reader...
Dr. Gytis Dudas stading near a screen with slides, about to start a talk about viruses.
At Utena 🇱🇹, @evogytis.bsky.social is giving a talk about his virus research: "genome detectives"
Pretty cool science labs for schoolers in the area!
I couldn’t find a starter pack for POCs working in STEM, so I started one myself - my network here is still small and I didn’t want to assume how people identify, so please reply or DM me if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/BJkKQVR
I’m recruiting 2 fully funded PhD students for October 2025 to investigate multiple stressors in wetlands: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come join our lab! 🧪🌍
Genomics, evolution, and more starter pack!
Help build community with this starter pack.
This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that!
go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU
Painting of a cowboy riding a tarantula hawk wasp lassoing a tarantula
Rug made to look like a carpet before
Color drawing it painting of several leaf beetle large and their fecal shields
A book with cutouts of butterflies from the edges of pages
There were some AMAZING entries in the #EntSoc24 Juried Art Show
WOW! 😍🥰 I think they're all winners
The Chromosome Biology Department of @raphmercier.bsky.social here at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne (@maxplanck.bsky.social) is looking for a new group leader!
jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #GroupLeader #NewPI #PlantChromosomalBiology
Right. I enjoyed the mental peace of leaving X for >1yr. It is time to build my community here by asking for help!
I can't seem to reach the UNITE database (fungal spp). Is it just me? Am I dreaming? Should I wait a few days? what's going on?
Answers and follows are welcome!
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The European honey bee may have originated from eastern Africa. This bee is pictured in Tanzania. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim 12mm long Apis mellifera, Apis mellifera. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee#/media/File:Apis_mellifera_Tanzania.jpg
Honeybees understand the concept of zero, or "null set", putting them in the same cognitive class as parrots, dolphins and primates in that regard.
What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT.
The experimental design is what I want to focus on:
Fascinating life story of Colombian physician scientist Francisco Lopera 🧪
GIFT LINK 🎁 🔗
Some people may be wondering—if the collections are going to end up in another herbarium, what is the big deal? The specimens and their data will still be protected, right? But that isn't the whole story... 1/n
New paper in PLOS Biol with @graciellehigino.bsky.social et al.: "Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work". We argue that ensuring that post-docs receive proper credit for ALL their labour would benefit all academia.
If you are attending Botany 2024 next year (US) there are five days left to propose a cool workshop to help level up the skills of your fellow botanists! 🪴
Botany 2024 Workshop Submission Deadline is November 1, 2023! Share your expertise at this vibrant conference with hands-on sessions like software demos, data analysis tutorials, botanical drawing, and more.
For details, visit: botanyconference.org
Our researcher @koltai.bsky.social spoke to Insider News recently about the misinformation circulating online around the current Israel-Hamas war and how our team at Bellingcat works to verify claims. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9h...
Flier with text: "Applying to grad school Q&A panel" at the top. The middle text reads: "Are you interested in applying to a graduate program in botany or the plant sciences? Join us for an informational 1-hour panel on September 26th, 3pm U.S. eastern (virtual). Panelists will represent a diversity of institution types and backgrounds and will be available to answer attendee questions. Register using the QR code." At the bottom are the BSA and Botany 360 logos, along with the text "Sponsored by the BSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee."
Hey plant people of the Sky, do you know someone contemplating applying to graduate school? The BSA is hosting a "how to apply to grad school" panel on Sept. 26th 3pm eastern. Register here: uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Check out the collection of awesome papers that #AppsPlantSci put together to celebrate their 10 years of publishing methods and tools for #plant biology and #bioinformatics
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Enjoy!! 🌴🌴🌴
