Derek Severi Lundberg
@derekseveri.bsky.social
Plant / microbe biologist. PhD UNC-CH (USA), postdoc MPI for Biology (Germany), group leader SLU Uppsala (Sweden)
www.LundbergLand.org
www.LundbergLand.org
There are too many independent softwares called "targetfinder"...
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
There are too many independent softwares called "targetfinder"...
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Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
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There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌
September 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌
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Bioinformaticians / computational biologists take note - know where you should take your OS tool chain from and do not introduce backdoors.
Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
September 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Bioinformaticians / computational biologists take note - know where you should take your OS tool chain from and do not introduce backdoors.
record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
September 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
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Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!
September 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!
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In my experience, conference speakers are generally people who know stuff worth hearing, and not people who are great at public speaking. Listening to the content while ignoring whatever annoys you about the delivery is a good skill to cultivate, and you owe it to your intellect.
September 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In my experience, conference speakers are generally people who know stuff worth hearing, and not people who are great at public speaking. Listening to the content while ignoring whatever annoys you about the delivery is a good skill to cultivate, and you owe it to your intellect.
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
this is so strange!!!!!!!
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
go.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
this is so strange!!!!!!!
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@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
reviewing for a major international journal and 1 in 6 refs are papers written in Chinese. Titles, journal names, and abstracts are English, so you don't realize it from the ref. list.("Journal of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers".) I can't judge these..
Journal updating policy on ref language.
Journal updating policy on ref language.
August 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
reviewing for a major international journal and 1 in 6 refs are papers written in Chinese. Titles, journal names, and abstracts are English, so you don't realize it from the ref. list.("Journal of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers".) I can't judge these..
Journal updating policy on ref language.
Journal updating policy on ref language.
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SynCom of maize root bacteria: in team work, they detox differently. Interacting they redirect the metabolisation to an alternative degradation product.
Credits: @lisathoenen.bsky.social, Dr. Christine Pestalozzi & teams @unibas.ch and @unibe.ch.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Credits: @lisathoenen.bsky.social, Dr. Christine Pestalozzi & teams @unibas.ch and @unibe.ch.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Synthetic communities of maize root bacteria interact and redirect benzoxazinoid metabolization | mSphere
We investigated how maize root bacteria—alone or in community—tolerate and metabolize
antimicrobial compounds of their host plant. We found that the capacity to metabolize
such a compound impacts bact...
journals.asm.org
August 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
SynCom of maize root bacteria: in team work, they detox differently. Interacting they redirect the metabolisation to an alternative degradation product.
Credits: @lisathoenen.bsky.social, Dr. Christine Pestalozzi & teams @unibas.ch and @unibe.ch.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Credits: @lisathoenen.bsky.social, Dr. Christine Pestalozzi & teams @unibas.ch and @unibe.ch.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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this seems like a very good idea actually
August 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
this seems like a very good idea actually
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1/2 What's best: a field-first or lab-first approach? No easy answers but differences between lab and field should not be seen as failure but motivate further inquiry and allow complementary discovery. Read our thoughts on this here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lab to field: Challenges and opportunities for plant biology
Plant-microbe research offers many choices of model and strain and whether a field-first or lab-first approach is best. However, differences between l…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
1/2 What's best: a field-first or lab-first approach? No easy answers but differences between lab and field should not be seen as failure but motivate further inquiry and allow complementary discovery. Read our thoughts on this here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How much environmental chaos to embrace in plant-microbe research, and to what end? A commentary on setting (with all choices OK as long as all options considered) w/ bergelsonlab.org, @fabriceroux7.bsky.social,
@plantevolution.bsky.social, tkarasovlab.org
How much environmental chaos to embrace in plant-microbe research, and to what end? A commentary on setting (with all choices OK as long as all options considered) w/ bergelsonlab.org, @fabriceroux7.bsky.social,
@plantevolution.bsky.social, tkarasovlab.org
authors.elsevier.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How much environmental chaos to embrace in plant-microbe research, and to what end? A commentary on setting (with all choices OK as long as all options considered) w/ bergelsonlab.org, @fabriceroux7.bsky.social,
@plantevolution.bsky.social, tkarasovlab.org
How much environmental chaos to embrace in plant-microbe research, and to what end? A commentary on setting (with all choices OK as long as all options considered) w/ bergelsonlab.org, @fabriceroux7.bsky.social,
@plantevolution.bsky.social, tkarasovlab.org
This extension turns off google AI on the chrome browser, for any others who don't want to read the often-wrong AI overview!
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chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bye-b...
Bye Bye, Google AI: Turn off Google AI Overviews, Discussions and Ads - Chrome Web Store
Filter Google search results to hide AI overviews, ads, discussions or videos. You choose.
chromewebstore.google.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This extension turns off google AI on the chrome browser, for any others who don't want to read the often-wrong AI overview!
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bye-b...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bye-b...
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Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!
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August 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!
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1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements.
Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧵
Metagenomic estimation of absolute bacterial biomass in the mammalian gut through host-derived read normalization | mSystems
In this study, we asked whether normalization by host reads alone was sufficient to
estimate absolute bacterial biomass directly from stool metagenomic data, without
the need for synthetic spike-ins, ...
journals.asm.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements.
Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧵
Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧵
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Come join EEB at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Evolutionary Genomics, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2026
apply.interfolio.com/170735
functional and evolutionary genomics in any system 🌱, 🦠, or 🦌 (including 👫)
Evolutionary Genomics, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2026
apply.interfolio.com/170735
functional and evolutionary genomics in any system 🌱, 🦠, or 🦌 (including 👫)
Apply - Interfolio
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apply.interfolio.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Come join EEB at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Evolutionary Genomics, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2026
apply.interfolio.com/170735
functional and evolutionary genomics in any system 🌱, 🦠, or 🦌 (including 👫)
Evolutionary Genomics, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2026
apply.interfolio.com/170735
functional and evolutionary genomics in any system 🌱, 🦠, or 🦌 (including 👫)
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Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
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Our magnetic separation rack for PCR strips is now available in many different colors! 🎨🌈
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All other tools are also available in color on request.
custom-lab.de/products/mag...
All other tools are also available in color on request.
July 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Our magnetic separation rack for PCR strips is now available in many different colors! 🎨🌈
custom-lab.de/products/mag...
All other tools are also available in color on request.
custom-lab.de/products/mag...
All other tools are also available in color on request.
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#2025ISMPMI has been great, so many connections made and re-established. I found this on the railway bridge.
July 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
#2025ISMPMI has been great, so many connections made and re-established. I found this on the railway bridge.
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Nature lovers at the #2025ISMPMI will be pleased to learn that earlier today, the Confex Hall Butterfly (apparently an Aglais io) was safely captured by me and released to the flowerbeds outside.
Pictured here, feasting on my honeyed tea dregs before flying away.
Pictured here, feasting on my honeyed tea dregs before flying away.
July 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Nature lovers at the #2025ISMPMI will be pleased to learn that earlier today, the Confex Hall Butterfly (apparently an Aglais io) was safely captured by me and released to the flowerbeds outside.
Pictured here, feasting on my honeyed tea dregs before flying away.
Pictured here, feasting on my honeyed tea dregs before flying away.
This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A major trade-off between growth and defense in Arabidopsis thaliana can vanish in field conditions
In controlled greenhouse conditions, Arabidopsis thaliana plants with a hyperactive allele of the ACD6 gene have stronger pathogen defenses but are smaller and make fewer seeds, in a classic fitness t...
journals.plos.org
July 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...