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Happy holidays to all!
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Remember, JFK voluntarily served in the military during WWII & was a war-hero while captaining PT-109 in the Pacific theater.

Trump dodged the draft 5 times based on bone spurs in his foot & could not recall which foot it was when questioned.

No association should ever be conjoined of the two men.
December 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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My top 10 books for 2025
December 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Recommended 10/10! Thanvi is everything you’re looking for in an advisor!
✨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
PhD position to study epigenomic diversity and altitude adaptation in Arabis alpina
jobs.ethz.ch
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Pleased to share this thoughtful essay by Jess on my flower design project🌹🧬

As a small thank-you for spreading the work, I'm randomly giving away 5 of these new morphogenesis hoodies to whoever reposts this!
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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THOMAS BOSCH's work and mentorship are powerful invitations to young minds to embrace the biggest questions at the very roots of life and to make a positive impact on humanity. Thank you Prof. Bosch, recipient of the annual and inaugural MICROBIOME MEDAL from @psumbiome.bsky.social
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December 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This is an incredibly revealing op-ed

[Gift Link]

wapo.st/4aQQABT

1/7
Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
wapo.st
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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How can plants maintain their genomic identity while also responding to the environment? @hajkdrost.bsky.social and I propose an "epigenetic toolkit" – a suite of epigenetic regulators that mediate the physiology-epigenome-genome crosstalk for adaptation. Read more here:
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
December 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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The work of Sheina Marshall FRS on plankton and coral reefs revealed new dimensions of the ocean’s complexity, as Eloise Barber explains over on our blog: WomenInSTEM https://royalsociety.org/blog/2025/12/plankton-tales/
Plankton tales | Royal Society
The work of Sheina Marshall FRS on plankton and coral reefs revealed new dimensions of the ocean’s complexity, as Eloise Barber explains.
royalsociety.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Thank you to everyone who filled out the survey. Seems we are largely on track, but we will take several of the suggestions made into account as well.
We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.

Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download
Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes
docs.google.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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December 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Motto of the day: “Carry on!” (Weitermachen!)

On the grave of German philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Leandro Quadrana (@leandroquadrana), @CNRS researcher at @IPS2ParisSaclay, for obtaining the prestigious #ERCCoG HosTEome!
#ERC #Genomics #Research #AIinBiology #CNRS #UniversitéParisSaclay #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Our course “From Gene Models to Biological Insights – Functional Annotation” just finished! We loved teaching 20+ young researchers new skills in plant genomics. Excited to see how they will apply these tools to uncover biological insights. 🌿🧬
#PlantSci #Genomics
www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#...
December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#NatMicroPicks

Gene drive to drive out Malaria! 🦠🦟💊

locally tailored Anopheles gambiae expressing antimicrobial peptides inhibit diverse Plasmodium falciparum isolates

#MicroSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gene-drive-capable mosquitoes suppress patient-derived malaria in Tanzania - Nature
Engineering of local Anopheles gambiae under containment enables the generation of a transgenic strain equipped with non-autonomous gene drive capabilities that robustly inhibits genetically diverse P...
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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#NatMicroPicks

AMR plasmid evolution over a century! ⭕🧬🦠💊

Plasmids from 1917–1954 reveal over a century of evolution shaped by antibiotic industrialization

#MicroSky

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pre- and postantibiotic epoch: The historical spread of antimicrobial resistance
Plasmids are now the primary vectors of antimicrobial resistance, but our understanding of how human industrialization of antibiotics influenced their evolution is limited by a paucity of data predati...
www.science.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#NatMicroPicks

Population Dynamics in gut Bacteroides 🦠

Gut commensals create population diversity by producing and responding to secreted effector proteins.

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
A commensal bacterium secretes effector proteins to establish population heterogeneity in the gut
Zagieboylo and colleagues demonstrate that the human commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron secretes two self-targeting proteins that induce heterogeneity within its own population. Differential expre...
www.cell.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Impressive that one of the leading scientific organizations in Europe, the CNRS, has said "good bye" to Web of Science and its pernicious Impact Factors. They are in good company, but that company must grow! Who will be next to wake up?
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Nice title for this mutation accumulation experiment: "Genes shielded, repeats exposed: mutation bias in the midge Chironomus riparius"

Key observation: Exon constitute 23% of callable sites but contain only 10% of observed mutations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM