Julio Bernal
@juliobernal.bsky.social
Entomologist and agronomist interested in all things 🌽 and crop domestication, and Mexican and Latin American literature and culture
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
An ancient origin of the naked grains of maize | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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June 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
An ancient origin of the naked grains of maize | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Targeted MYC2 stabilization confers citrus Huanglongbing resistance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Targeted MYC2 stabilization confers citrus Huanglongbing resistance
Huanglongbing (HLB) is a devastating citrus disease. In this work, we report an HLB resistance regulatory circuit in Citrus composed of an E3 ubiquitin ligase, PUB21, and its substrate, the MYC2 trans...
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Targeted MYC2 stabilization confers citrus Huanglongbing resistance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A natural defense against plant disease | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A natural defense against plant disease
Wild citrus plants contain a natural defense against a devastating bacterial disease
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A natural defense against plant disease | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is Indonesia’s planned rice megaproject doomed to fail? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Is Indonesia’s planned rice megaproject doomed to fail?
Poor soils and dry climate could undermine effort to expand rice growing by 1 million hectares, experts warn
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Is Indonesia’s planned rice megaproject doomed to fail? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Greatness is in the agency of others (alliances). We are becoming less great.
March 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Greatness is in the agency of others (alliances). We are becoming less great.
A gift from good friend Esaú de la Vega, from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala, 🇲🇽
March 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A gift from good friend Esaú de la Vega, from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala, 🇲🇽
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Pleased to share a new article from my Phd student Jorge Ruiz-Arocho that examines how #cropdomestication and #nitrogen #fertilization affects #leaf traits for #maize, #beans, and #squash. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Direct and interactive effects of crop domestication and mineral fertilization over leaf traits: insights from squash, maize, and beans - Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
Although crop leaf traits associated with acquisitive life strategies might largely be the result of inherence from their wild progenitors, more research is still needed to understand the roles that g...
link.springer.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Pleased to share a new article from my Phd student Jorge Ruiz-Arocho that examines how #cropdomestication and #nitrogen #fertilization affects #leaf traits for #maize, #beans, and #squash. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Spraying insecticides is expensive and messy with all the mud and stuff. Why not add insecticide to the water in the paddy fields? We mean, what could go wrong, right?
1960s International Rice Research Institute
1960s International Rice Research Institute
March 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Spraying insecticides is expensive and messy with all the mud and stuff. Why not add insecticide to the water in the paddy fields? We mean, what could go wrong, right?
1960s International Rice Research Institute
1960s International Rice Research Institute
A clear signal of reduced genetic diversity in invasive western corn rootworm populations associated with slightly reduced genetic loads, marginal evidence of purging for deleterious mutations, and in one pop moderately deleterious variants weakly purged
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
The genetic load of invasive population: how little do we know ?
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A clear signal of reduced genetic diversity in invasive western corn rootworm populations associated with slightly reduced genetic loads, marginal evidence of purging for deleterious mutations, and in one pop moderately deleterious variants weakly purged
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
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PhD position on the domestication of common beans and its coevolution with rhizobia through studying ancient and modern genomes. At U. Copenhagen with
Jazmín Ramos Madrigal.
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Jazmín Ramos Madrigal.
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology at the Globe Institute
A PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology is being posted in the research team lead by Assistant Prof Jazmín Ramos Madrigal commencing 1 July 2025 or as soon as
candidate.hr-manager.net
February 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
PhD position on the domestication of common beans and its coevolution with rhizobia through studying ancient and modern genomes. At U. Copenhagen with
Jazmín Ramos Madrigal.
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Jazmín Ramos Madrigal.
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Trying to imagine such sober self-awareness from the likes of Bezos, Ellison, Musk.
“It’s impossible to overstate the unearned privilege I enjoyed. To be born in the rich U.S. is a big part of a winning birth-lottery ticket, as is being born white and male in a society that advantages white men.”
“It’s impossible to overstate the unearned privilege I enjoyed. To be born in the rich U.S. is a big part of a winning birth-lottery ticket, as is being born white and male in a society that advantages white men.”
Essay | Exclusive | Bill Gates: I Coded While I Hiked as a Teenager. Was I on the Spectrum? Probably.
In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, the co-founder of Microsoft describes his ‘lucky’ adolescence and his parents’ support for what he now sees as his own neurodivergence.
www.wsj.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.
Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans
Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans
January 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.
Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans
Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans
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✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨
January 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨
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First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
January 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
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Increased use of the #herbicide #glyphosate has been associated with low baby birth rate and earlier birth age. www.science.org/content/arti....
Common weed killer may be harming infants
Rise of farmers spraying glyphosate correlated with drop in birthweight in large study
www.science.org
January 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Increased use of the #herbicide #glyphosate has been associated with low baby birth rate and earlier birth age. www.science.org/content/arti....
Reposted by Julio Bernal
“If the White House follows through [with its promises to deport undocumented workers], economists project a broad drag on the economy — and it could cost Social Security roughly $20 billion in cash flow annually, according to actuaries at the Social Security Administration
How Unauthorized Immigrants Help Finance Social Security Benefits
Undocumented workers often pay taxes that help fund programs like Social Security — even if they can’t collect from them in the future.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“If the White House follows through [with its promises to deport undocumented workers], economists project a broad drag on the economy — and it could cost Social Security roughly $20 billion in cash flow annually, according to actuaries at the Social Security Administration