Denis Janocha

We’re hiring!

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant @KamounLab

“Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors” www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage Your tax dollars fund the research. You pay again to read it.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/we-need-to-talk-about-the-billion-dollar-industry-holding-science-hostage/ #academicpublishing

This poster appeared at a bus stop near Tesla's flagship London store overnight… 👏🏼

Our editors write:

- "Plant immunity: Engineering RLP receptors from the C side" rdcu.be/ePaS1

A brief highlight of this Article in @natbiotech.nature.com :
"Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance" about swapping C-term domains rdcu.be/ePaTW

eLife Assessment This important study reports the results of efforts to replicate two phenomena of significant interest to early-career scientists and scientific policymakers: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. Several previous studies of these effects have focused on early-career researchers with grant proposals that fell just below or just above a funding threshold. Those just above the threshold were more likely to be successful when they applied for funding later in the career (an example of the well-known Matthew effect), while those just below were more likely to go on to have stronger publication records (the early-career setback effect). In this study the Matthew effect was found to be robust across funders, and to generalize from those close to the funding threshold to the whole population. The early-career setback effect was not robust across funders and did not generalize to the whole population. The evidence reported is convincing.

Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
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Solid graphic.

Just tried it on a manuscript that as been reviewed earlier and found magnitudes better than the human reviews. In several cases it fails to acknowledge the accuracy of claims that are based on published data.
Generally really useful tool, congratulations !!!

Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...

👉Also Sorbonne bsky.app/profile/sorb... pulled out of 'THE' University Ranking 👇

Important step in times of massive, systematic gaming by Universities, being a main incentive for Hyperprolific Publishing, Citation Cartels, Paper Mills & Junk Science!

#researchintegrity, #Chemsky, #CompChemSky

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves.

A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations The ROOT & SHOOT project in the plant sciences has produced guidelines to help scientific societies organize conferences that are more inclusive and offer more supportive environments to all attendees...

We are incredibly excited & proud: our first publication is out in eLIFE!
"Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations"
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
This project was a team effort involving contributors from seven professional societies. #PlantSci

Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration In Arabidopsis, transcriptional factors LEC2 and SPCH enhance local auxin biosynthesis, establishing a transcriptional framework that enables differentiated single somatic epidermal cells to regain to...

Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

How to be a scientist in a post-journal world When we created this site to write about things in science that need to be fixed, we chose not to start with publishing, even though it has been our preoccupation for decades.

'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world'

@pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍

#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience

This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion Recently, I exchanged views with a prominent Ivy League scientist who was complaining about the minority students and junior faculty applying to his program. He claimed that the university, through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, was ...

This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Combined generalist and host-specific transcriptional strategies enable host generalism in the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea How generalist pathogens infect phylogenetically diverse hosts remains a central question in plant-pathogen biology. In particular, the extent to which broad host range is enabled by genetic variation...

The first in a coming array of papers looking at the co-transcriptome of 72 Botrytis genotype in 10 different host plants is out. Summary is the pathogen uses a combination of general virulence and host specific plasticity (not new genes) to infect dicots. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Early-career researchers: you make up a majority of the scientific workforce! How can you leverage that to advocate for change?

1/ 🧵 Here are 6 tips for success 👇
#ECRChat #PhDLife #AcademicChatter

Watch the webinar for more:
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Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚

Not a single government entity should be using a Microsoft product!
US authorities can get full access to your data even when stored in Europe! That is none of their effing business!
How naive from Europe. Let’s immediately switch to open source!

Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.

A brilliant Banksy.

Screenshot from the GitHub page of eyedroppeR, showing an image of sunset on the coast and a palette that has been extracted.

eyedroppeR, a package to automatically extract color palettes from images.

github.com/doehm/eyedro...

I fear there is deep truth here.

Hypothesen werden für gewöhnlich widerlegt. Ist dies für die von Ihnen erwähnte der Fall?

❗Science is under pressure everywhere❗
I know a Hungarian researcher who was fired already some time ago because he did not support the "right" party.
One main reason: Politicians dislike scientific facts that don't support their views/interests. It is Lysenkoism all over again. So...

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Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis - Nature Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and chromatin-accessibility analyses in rice (a C3 plant) and sorghum (a C4 plant) provide insight into how C4 photosynthesis evolved in bundle-sheath cells, revealing th...

Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New from the Ecker lab in collaboration with the Hibberd lab. Congrats all!

I feel for talented students who end up in toxic lab environments—another drop lost from the academic pipeline.

Students, please do your research before joining a lab! Don’t be swayed by empty promises or appearances. Your growth and well-being matter!

We are hiring! See adverts below. Such tenured positions come with permanent funding for usually 2 postdocs, technician, secretary. Great research environment for plant sciences at HHU!
Send mail for details if your are interested. Please resend through your network, mine is still too small....

After reading papers across vastly different fields of biology, I really don’t think there is a singularly best style. Oddly, the idea that there is a singularly best style is a significant inhibition on integrative papers.

Here, a job advert for junior group leader position in Molecular Biology of Plants, especially with focus on cell division, cell cycle, chromosomes and DNA repair.

Please spread the word.

stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/d...