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Benjamen White
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If you're less than 10 years post PhD and have translated your research commercially, you have until Nov 1st to apply for the Science and BII essay prize for bioinnovation. $10-25k prizes and your essay published in @science.org
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BioInnovation Institute & Science Prize for Innovation
The BioInnovation Institute & Science Prize for Innovation seeks to recognize bold researchers who are asking fundamental questions at the intersection of the life sciences and entrepreneurship. We se...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Our new study, led in collaboration with Helmholtz Munich as part of a global collaboration, was published yesterday.

It generated the first wheat pan-transcriptome – a comprehensive map of gene activity across multiple wheat varieties. rdcu.be/eJOPs
De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome
Nature Communications - Available wheat genomes are annotated by projecting Chinese Spring gene models across the new assemblies. Here, the authors generate de novo gene annotations for the 9 wheat...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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New Article: "Ginger genome reveals the SMPED1 gene causing sex-phase synchrony and outcrossing in a flowering plant" rdcu.be/eJPdX

SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.
October 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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📃 New research published today in @natcomms.nature.com from the Earlham Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social presents the first wheat pan-transcriptome - revealing layers of hidden diversity spanning our modern wheat variations. 🧪

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@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org
New wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security
Newly-discovered diversity in the wheat genome could offer vital new opportunities to improve and ‘climate-proof’ one of the world’s most important staple crops.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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We’re looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to join our team. 😊

The project focuses on protein design and cryo-EM applied to cancer research. 🔬🧪

The position is fully funded for 3 years.

Please share 🙏

Job description and application details (deadline: October 11th): www.cnio.es/en/empleo/po...
Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the Biomolecular Design and Structural Nanomedicine Group
DescriptionWe are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join Roger Castells-Graells’ lab at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). The successful candidate will work on innovative biom...
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October 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Made the mistake of clicking the Discover button, now I remember why I stopped going to the x echo chamber.
September 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Our paper exploring the use of ensemble machine learning models to assay the plant circadian clock at the transcriptional level is now available in Nature Communications.

A fruitful collaboration between @ajwhall.bsky.social at EI and @antdodd.bsky.social at JIC
Machine learning models highlight environmental and genetic factors associated with the Arabidopsis circadian clock - Nature Communications
The authors introduce ChronoGauge as a machine learning model which can estimate a plant’s internal circadian time using gene expression. This can be used to compare the circadian clock across differe...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Co-first authors 😝
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Extremely honoured to receive one of the @biochemsoc.bsky.social Early Career Research Awards!
Demonstrating exceptional originality across multiple research fields, we are excited to present Juan Carlos De La Concepcion with an Early Career Research Award in 2026! @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social has made fundamental discoveries in plant immunity & the biology of immune receptor function.
April 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
They might need to work on making them a bit bigger first. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants
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March 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Thrilled to share our latest work on wheat pantranscriptome with @ManuelSpannagl! 🌾 Exciting international collaboration with the 10+ Wheat Genome Project. 🌍🔬 Check out the paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks to @EarlhamInst, @BBSRC, @WheatInitiative for support! #Research
January 11, 2024 at 10:04 AM