Karima EM
@karimaelm.bsky.social
PhD @LRSV | Interested in EvoMPMI, EvoDevo & single cell | #MyMarchantia nerd 🍀 | Curious about HGT and alternative splicing in plant evolution| Fascinated by 🌋 & black holes
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MpNPR modulates lineage-specific oil body development and defence against gastropod herbivory in Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688000v1
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
MpNPR modulates lineage-specific oil body development and defence against gastropod herbivory in Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688000v1
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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Consistently an absolutely fantastic meeting - don’t miss out on an opportunity to interact with an awesome bunch of non-seed enthusiasts 🌱 😃 🧬
Only two days left to register for the UK NonSeed meeting (Dec 12th, Norwich). We’re still accepting flash talks!! www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...
4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 | John Innes Centre
Supported by the Genetics Society, the Non-Seed Plant Sectional Interest Group brings together UK researchers studying all aspects of plant biology using species outside of seed-bearing plants…
www.jic.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Consistently an absolutely fantastic meeting - don’t miss out on an opportunity to interact with an awesome bunch of non-seed enthusiasts 🌱 😃 🧬
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Only two days left to register for the UK NonSeed meeting (Dec 12th, Norwich). We’re still accepting flash talks!! www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...
4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 | John Innes Centre
Supported by the Genetics Society, the Non-Seed Plant Sectional Interest Group brings together UK researchers studying all aspects of plant biology using species outside of seed-bearing plants…
www.jic.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Only two days left to register for the UK NonSeed meeting (Dec 12th, Norwich). We’re still accepting flash talks!! www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...
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Everyone wants a NAS! 🌿🦟
Leon Dirick & Bernard Goffinet uncovered the surprising history of NAS genes shaped by horizontal gene transfer, we revealed NAS key role in Physcomitrium patens.
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
#Mosses #HorizontalGeneTransfer
Leon Dirick & Bernard Goffinet uncovered the surprising history of NAS genes shaped by horizontal gene transfer, we revealed NAS key role in Physcomitrium patens.
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
#Mosses #HorizontalGeneTransfer
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Everyone wants a NAS! 🌿🦟
Leon Dirick & Bernard Goffinet uncovered the surprising history of NAS genes shaped by horizontal gene transfer, we revealed NAS key role in Physcomitrium patens.
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
#Mosses #HorizontalGeneTransfer
Leon Dirick & Bernard Goffinet uncovered the surprising history of NAS genes shaped by horizontal gene transfer, we revealed NAS key role in Physcomitrium patens.
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
#Mosses #HorizontalGeneTransfer
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New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
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« Quand on demande aux gens ce qui ne va pas dans le pays, ils disent : la politique, c'est ça qu'il faut changer. »
Thierry PECH Directeur général de Terra Nova
La suite :
⏰ 22h40 sur france·tv
➡️https://bit.ly/CrisePolitique48h
🎧en podcast
Thierry PECH Directeur général de Terra Nova
La suite :
⏰ 22h40 sur france·tv
➡️https://bit.ly/CrisePolitique48h
🎧en podcast
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
« Quand on demande aux gens ce qui ne va pas dans le pays, ils disent : la politique, c'est ça qu'il faut changer. »
Thierry PECH Directeur général de Terra Nova
La suite :
⏰ 22h40 sur france·tv
➡️https://bit.ly/CrisePolitique48h
🎧en podcast
Thierry PECH Directeur général de Terra Nova
La suite :
⏰ 22h40 sur france·tv
➡️https://bit.ly/CrisePolitique48h
🎧en podcast
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Omar Yaghi--Palestinian Nobel Laureate 🇵🇸😍 @nytimes.com
Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for developing metal-organic frameworks.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded for Development of New Molecular Architecture
The prize was awarded on Wednesday to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi.
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Omar Yaghi--Palestinian Nobel Laureate 🇵🇸😍 @nytimes.com
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Now on YouTube. This was a fascinating discussion with many open science talking points: pros vs cons, challenges, misrepresentations, cultural change, AI. youtu.be/myYp4nfzK6o?...
October 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Now on YouTube. This was a fascinating discussion with many open science talking points: pros vs cons, challenges, misrepresentations, cultural change, AI. youtu.be/myYp4nfzK6o?...
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Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv
Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping
Nature Plants - Rapid discovery of functional resistance genes is enabled by a high-expression signature and high-throughput transformation. This approach identified 31 new resistance genes for...
rdcu.be
September 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv
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Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility
plos.io/3VwaU2O
plos.io/3VwaU2O
Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results
Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...
plos.io
September 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility
plos.io/3VwaU2O
plos.io/3VwaU2O
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A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational
genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification
of hidden cell types and the dev...
www.cell.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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And he made it again!...tour the force from JIa-Wei´s Wang lab using comparative sc-transcriptomes, and developing new analytical tools, to tackle evolutionary trajectories of plant cell types!. Amazing work as usual! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational
genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification
of hidden cell types and the dev...
www.cell.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
And he made it again!...tour the force from JIa-Wei´s Wang lab using comparative sc-transcriptomes, and developing new analytical tools, to tackle evolutionary trajectories of plant cell types!. Amazing work as usual! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Had chills just reading the title 🥰
This paper brought me back to 5 years ago (lockdown time) when we discussed hypotheses about DELLA regulation in #MyMarchantia with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social Congrats to all the authors 👏
Only wish it had been preprinted at submission...
This paper brought me back to 5 years ago (lockdown time) when we discussed hypotheses about DELLA regulation in #MyMarchantia with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social Congrats to all the authors 👏
Only wish it had been preprinted at submission...
August 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Had chills just reading the title 🥰
This paper brought me back to 5 years ago (lockdown time) when we discussed hypotheses about DELLA regulation in #MyMarchantia with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social Congrats to all the authors 👏
Only wish it had been preprinted at submission...
This paper brought me back to 5 years ago (lockdown time) when we discussed hypotheses about DELLA regulation in #MyMarchantia with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social Congrats to all the authors 👏
Only wish it had been preprinted at submission...
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Exclusif : un ancien employé de la GHF dénonce les "crimes de guerre" de l'organisation à Gaza
Exclusif : un ancien employé de la GHF dénonce les "crimes de guerre" de l'organisation à Gaza
La Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), l'organisation chargée ces dernières semaines de la distribution de l'aide alimentaire dans l'enclave palestinienne, est au centre de critiques après la mort de plus de 760 Palestiniens à proximité de ses sites de distribution. Pour la première fois, un ancien employé de la GHF prend la parole publiquement, accusant son ancien employeur de participer à des "crimes de guerre".
f24.my
July 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Exclusif : un ancien employé de la GHF dénonce les "crimes de guerre" de l'organisation à Gaza
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I just published: Academic poaching: when other PIs steal your trainees
There are many toxic behaviors in academia, but one we rarely talk about is #AcademicPoaching. Have you ever been a victim?
#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #phdchat
medium.com/p/academic-p...
There are many toxic behaviors in academia, but one we rarely talk about is #AcademicPoaching. Have you ever been a victim?
#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #phdchat
medium.com/p/academic-p...
Academic poaching: when other PIs steal your trainees
There are many toxic behaviors in academia, but one we rarely talk about is #AcademicPoaching. Have you ever been a victim?
medium.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I just published: Academic poaching: when other PIs steal your trainees
There are many toxic behaviors in academia, but one we rarely talk about is #AcademicPoaching. Have you ever been a victim?
#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #phdchat
medium.com/p/academic-p...
There are many toxic behaviors in academia, but one we rarely talk about is #AcademicPoaching. Have you ever been a victim?
#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #phdchat
medium.com/p/academic-p...
#Mustread Huge congrats Facundo et al 👏👏
New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Conservation of chromatin states and their association with transcription factors in land plants
The complexity of varied modifications of chromatin composition is integrated in archetypal combinations called chromatin states that predict the local potential for transcription. The degree of conse...
www.biorxiv.org
July 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#Mustread Huge congrats Facundo et al 👏👏
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New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Conservation of chromatin states and their association with transcription factors in land plants
The complexity of varied modifications of chromatin composition is integrated in archetypal combinations called chromatin states that predict the local potential for transcription. The degree of conse...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I just published: Stop displaying journal names on your slides
A mentoring event at a Congress called for better support of early-career scientists - but what followed sent mixed signals. This blog reflects on those moments and ends with a pledge.
medium.com/p/stop-displ...
A mentoring event at a Congress called for better support of early-career scientists - but what followed sent mixed signals. This blog reflects on those moments and ends with a pledge.
medium.com/p/stop-displ...
Stop displaying journal names on your slides
A mentoring event at a scientific Congress called for better support of early-career scientists — but what followed sent mixed signals…
medium.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I just published: Stop displaying journal names on your slides
A mentoring event at a Congress called for better support of early-career scientists - but what followed sent mixed signals. This blog reflects on those moments and ends with a pledge.
medium.com/p/stop-displ...
A mentoring event at a Congress called for better support of early-career scientists - but what followed sent mixed signals. This blog reflects on those moments and ends with a pledge.
medium.com/p/stop-displ...
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I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters)
Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.
#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat
medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.
#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat
medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters)
Publishing your poster creates a verifiable and citable record of your work. It also protects you from bad actors — the evidence will be…
medium.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters)
Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.
#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat
medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.
#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat
medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
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Attending #2025ISMPMI next week? Consider publishing your poster on Zenodo to get a doi and make it a citable unit. #OpenMPMI #OpenScience
More here: Why you should publish your posters kamounlab.medium.com/why-you-shou...
More here: Why you should publish your posters kamounlab.medium.com/why-you-shou...
Why you should publish your posters
Publishing your poster in a DOI repository like Zenodo extends the lifespan of your poster beyond the conference, reaching audiences who…
kamounlab.medium.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Attending #2025ISMPMI next week? Consider publishing your poster on Zenodo to get a doi and make it a citable unit. #OpenMPMI #OpenScience
More here: Why you should publish your posters kamounlab.medium.com/why-you-shou...
More here: Why you should publish your posters kamounlab.medium.com/why-you-shou...
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#CNRSdurable Alors que les conséquences environnementales et sanitaires de l’usage du plastique sont mieux étudiées, un certain nombre de laboratoires de recherche s’efforcent de mesurer l’empreinte plastique qu’ils génèrent, pour mieux la réduire.
Moins de plastique en recherche : les laboratoires ouvrent la voie
Moins de plastique en recherche : les laboratoires ouvrent la voie
www.cnrs.fr
July 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
#CNRSdurable Alors que les conséquences environnementales et sanitaires de l’usage du plastique sont mieux étudiées, un certain nombre de laboratoires de recherche s’efforcent de mesurer l’empreinte plastique qu’ils génèrent, pour mieux la réduire.