Adrian
@aconga.bsky.social
PostDoc at EEP-Lille. Interested in the repetitive, but complex, fraction that make up most of the genomes. Fan del Sol
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My co-conspirator and fellow PhD student Lila writes for The Conversation about how plants have separate sexes, sometimes. Ever wondered something about plant sexual systems? How to start learning about it? I'd say start with this.
Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine
The amazing variety of plant reproductive systems.
theconversation.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:49 AM
My co-conspirator and fellow PhD student Lila writes for The Conversation about how plants have separate sexes, sometimes. Ever wondered something about plant sexual systems? How to start learning about it? I'd say start with this.
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🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
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The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM
The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.
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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!
Thanks to those who already shared the link!
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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!
Thanks to those who already shared the link!
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Greetings! I decided to make a YouTube video of my AlphaFold workshop that I've given a few times in the past year. Caveats aside, people seem to find this useful for thinking about how to model protein interactions and how to interpret various AF outputs 1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63o...
David's AlphaFold WorkShop 2026
YouTube video by David Fay
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Greetings! I decided to make a YouTube video of my AlphaFold workshop that I've given a few times in the past year. Caveats aside, people seem to find this useful for thinking about how to model protein interactions and how to interpret various AF outputs 1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63o...
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Buenos días,
Hoy hace un año, el Dr.Hussam se puso delante de los tanques de Israel para impedir que atacaran el hospital Kamal.
Está en la cárcel, sin cargos, ni juicio, desde entonces.
No olvidemos a Palestina.
Hoy hace un año, el Dr.Hussam se puso delante de los tanques de Israel para impedir que atacaran el hospital Kamal.
Está en la cárcel, sin cargos, ni juicio, desde entonces.
No olvidemos a Palestina.
December 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Buenos días,
Hoy hace un año, el Dr.Hussam se puso delante de los tanques de Israel para impedir que atacaran el hospital Kamal.
Está en la cárcel, sin cargos, ni juicio, desde entonces.
No olvidemos a Palestina.
Hoy hace un año, el Dr.Hussam se puso delante de los tanques de Israel para impedir que atacaran el hospital Kamal.
Está en la cárcel, sin cargos, ni juicio, desde entonces.
No olvidemos a Palestina.
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This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
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"The only kind of thinking that matters in science is structured thinking. The only way to give structure and substance to your thoughts is to write them down. Writing. Is. Thinking."
Thinking about this in the context of AI tools....
Thinking about this in the context of AI tools....
An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write
www.nature.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"The only kind of thinking that matters in science is structured thinking. The only way to give structure and substance to your thoughts is to write them down. Writing. Is. Thinking."
Thinking about this in the context of AI tools....
Thinking about this in the context of AI tools....
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✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
PhD position to study epigenomic diversity and altitude adaptation in Arabis alpina
jobs.ethz.ch
December 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
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Wow. Cells ratcheted up the Transposon Arms Race a notch further than we'd realised.
December 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Wow. Cells ratcheted up the Transposon Arms Race a notch further than we'd realised.
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WOW! Very promising new tool to facilitate collaborative manual curation of TEs link.springer.com/article/10.1...
ColabCuraTE: an easy-to-use, web-based pipeline for the manual curation of transposable elements - Mobile DNA
Background Transposable elements (TEs) are widespread mobile DNA sequences that shape genome structure, function, and evolution. Although automated tools exist for the de novo identification and class...
link.springer.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
WOW! Very promising new tool to facilitate collaborative manual curation of TEs link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Wendy Valencia-Montoya and team uncover thermal infrared as one of the most ancient pollination signals uniting plants and animals. From the field to single proteins.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Wendy Valencia-Montoya and team uncover thermal infrared as one of the most ancient pollination signals uniting plants and animals. From the field to single proteins.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501
A colorful legacy of hybridization in wood-warblers includes frequent sharing of carotenoid genes among species and genera
Introgression between species can shape evolutionary trajectories in important ways. This study of the entire family of the colorful wood-warblers (Parulidae) uses whole-genome sequencing to reveal fr...
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501
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Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation?
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation?
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Have you ever wondered how new DNA methylation patterns are established?
Paradigm shift ahead! We discovered a new mode of DNA methylation targeting in plants that relies on transcription factors and sequence motifs rather than chromatin modifications to regulate the methylome. rdcu.be/eQ6L5
1/8
Paradigm shift ahead! We discovered a new mode of DNA methylation targeting in plants that relies on transcription factors and sequence motifs rather than chromatin modifications to regulate the methylome. rdcu.be/eQ6L5
1/8
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Have you ever wondered how new DNA methylation patterns are established?
Paradigm shift ahead! We discovered a new mode of DNA methylation targeting in plants that relies on transcription factors and sequence motifs rather than chromatin modifications to regulate the methylome. rdcu.be/eQ6L5
1/8
Paradigm shift ahead! We discovered a new mode of DNA methylation targeting in plants that relies on transcription factors and sequence motifs rather than chromatin modifications to regulate the methylome. rdcu.be/eQ6L5
1/8
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📢 Read this timely review in #NARCancer! 🧬
Gueble and Menon highlight the critical role of #DNAhelicases in linking #DNAdamage recognition with #repair. The review includes a curated table of #clinicaltrials on #helicaseinhibitors.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/narc... @yalepress.bsky.social
Gueble and Menon highlight the critical role of #DNAhelicases in linking #DNAdamage recognition with #repair. The review includes a curated table of #clinicaltrials on #helicaseinhibitors.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/narc... @yalepress.bsky.social
DNA repair helicases: from mechanistic understanding to therapeutic implications
Abstract. The maintenance of genomic integrity is paramount for normal cell physiology and survival as well as avoidance of carcinogenesis. Cellular DNA is
doi.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
📢 Read this timely review in #NARCancer! 🧬
Gueble and Menon highlight the critical role of #DNAhelicases in linking #DNAdamage recognition with #repair. The review includes a curated table of #clinicaltrials on #helicaseinhibitors.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/narc... @yalepress.bsky.social
Gueble and Menon highlight the critical role of #DNAhelicases in linking #DNAdamage recognition with #repair. The review includes a curated table of #clinicaltrials on #helicaseinhibitors.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/narc... @yalepress.bsky.social
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We are very excited! Jan Baedke received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant for his project “Botanical Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual Herbaria”, linking the history of local plant knowers with current digitation trends & biodiversity issues.
#ERCCoG #HPS #PhilSci #HPBio
#ERCCoG #HPS #PhilSci #HPBio
A History and Philosophy of Plant Collections
Rund 400 Millionen Pflanzenexemplare sind in Herbarien weltweit konserviert – ein wahrer Schatz, der lange vernachlässigt wurde. Heute werden die Pflanzen…
forschung.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We are very excited! Jan Baedke received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant for his project “Botanical Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual Herbaria”, linking the history of local plant knowers with current digitation trends & biodiversity issues.
#ERCCoG #HPS #PhilSci #HPBio
#ERCCoG #HPS #PhilSci #HPBio
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A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity
Majority of local insect biomass decline linked to species loss
A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function.
www.idiv.de
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity
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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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧪 Great advice 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🧪 Great advice 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Super cool story - viruses keep translation up by preventing mRNA circularisation!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Super cool story - viruses keep translation up by preventing mRNA circularisation!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)
#highered #academicsky
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)
#highered #academicsky
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)
#highered #academicsky
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)
#highered #academicsky
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Protist–bacteria partnerships are more common in wastewater treatment plants than we thought. In this ISME communications paper, we uncovered widespread denitrifying endosymbionts inside ciliates, their global distribution, and their temporal dynamics across WWTPs.🦠
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Occurrence and temporal dynamics of denitrifying protist endosymbionts in the wastewater microbiome
Abstract. Effective wastewater treatment is of critical importance for preserving public health and protecting natural environments. Key processes in waste
academic.oup.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Protist–bacteria partnerships are more common in wastewater treatment plants than we thought. In this ISME communications paper, we uncovered widespread denitrifying endosymbionts inside ciliates, their global distribution, and their temporal dynamics across WWTPs.🦠
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...