Jo K
@jkilby.bsky.social
A Shropshire lass expatriated to Wales, dog lover, plant scientist and Welsh learner. Post-doc at Cardiff University interested in pollen tube and pistil interactions and cell cycle. She/her/Dr.
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Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few...
Are you aware of others? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
Are you aware of others? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few...
Are you aware of others? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
Are you aware of others? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
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🍄🟫FREE online waxcap training course🍄🟫
Whether you’re a beginner, regular citizen scientist for #WaxcapWatch, a land manager or simply someone who loves learning about nature - our free fungi course is for you. 🍄
Take your waxcap knowledge to the next level 👉 https://loom.ly/-W0_R_4
Whether you’re a beginner, regular citizen scientist for #WaxcapWatch, a land manager or simply someone who loves learning about nature - our free fungi course is for you. 🍄
Take your waxcap knowledge to the next level 👉 https://loom.ly/-W0_R_4
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🍄🟫FREE online waxcap training course🍄🟫
Whether you’re a beginner, regular citizen scientist for #WaxcapWatch, a land manager or simply someone who loves learning about nature - our free fungi course is for you. 🍄
Take your waxcap knowledge to the next level 👉 https://loom.ly/-W0_R_4
Whether you’re a beginner, regular citizen scientist for #WaxcapWatch, a land manager or simply someone who loves learning about nature - our free fungi course is for you. 🍄
Take your waxcap knowledge to the next level 👉 https://loom.ly/-W0_R_4
September 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
#fungifriends
I was looking up to try to identify this on a massive beech at Forest Farm wishing I could see the top. After some high winds …my wish came true:/
I was looking up to try to identify this on a massive beech at Forest Farm wishing I could see the top. After some high winds …my wish came true:/
September 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#fungifriends
I was looking up to try to identify this on a massive beech at Forest Farm wishing I could see the top. After some high winds …my wish came true:/
I was looking up to try to identify this on a massive beech at Forest Farm wishing I could see the top. After some high winds …my wish came true:/
Now that the dog days are over, leaves are beginning to fall. Some reminders of the summer remain. Life is short and strange indeed. Much love to those who need it today.
September 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Now that the dog days are over, leaves are beginning to fall. Some reminders of the summer remain. Life is short and strange indeed. Much love to those who need it today.
#fungifriends
After a morning with Coed Caerdydd I found this on this evenings dog walk.
After a morning with Coed Caerdydd I found this on this evenings dog walk.
August 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#fungifriends
After a morning with Coed Caerdydd I found this on this evenings dog walk.
After a morning with Coed Caerdydd I found this on this evenings dog walk.
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#Wanted: running and alive:
Someone with an active #SEQUENCHER software license. I have a few old Sequencher project data files with #DNA sequence data (*.spf), but no access to the software. Anyone with access could perhaps help me export the files?
Please RT
Someone with an active #SEQUENCHER software license. I have a few old Sequencher project data files with #DNA sequence data (*.spf), but no access to the software. Anyone with access could perhaps help me export the files?
Please RT
July 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#Wanted: running and alive:
Someone with an active #SEQUENCHER software license. I have a few old Sequencher project data files with #DNA sequence data (*.spf), but no access to the software. Anyone with access could perhaps help me export the files?
Please RT
Someone with an active #SEQUENCHER software license. I have a few old Sequencher project data files with #DNA sequence data (*.spf), but no access to the software. Anyone with access could perhaps help me export the files?
Please RT
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In defense of funding foundational plant science (Joanna Friesner , Cristiana T Argueso , Wolfgang Busch , Thorsten Hamann , Lucia Strader , Mary Williams , Shuang Wu , Adrienne H K Roeder) Read more at: doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
doi.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In defense of funding foundational plant science (Joanna Friesner , Cristiana T Argueso , Wolfgang Busch , Thorsten Hamann , Lucia Strader , Mary Williams , Shuang Wu , Adrienne H K Roeder) Read more at: doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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Check out this new #AJB essay by Patrik Mráz & Barbora Šingliarová!
Natural autopolyploids: Understanding their formation & establishment
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #polyploidy #asteraceae
Natural autopolyploids: Understanding their formation & establishment
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #polyploidy #asteraceae
May 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Check out this new #AJB essay by Patrik Mráz & Barbora Šingliarová!
Natural autopolyploids: Understanding their formation & establishment
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #polyploidy #asteraceae
Natural autopolyploids: Understanding their formation & establishment
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #polyploidy #asteraceae
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🧬🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱🧬
'Intrinsic cues guiding changes in division orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem: a formative experience' - Konstantinova et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
'Intrinsic cues guiding changes in division orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem: a formative experience' - Konstantinova et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
May 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🧬🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱🧬
'Intrinsic cues guiding changes in division orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem: a formative experience' - Konstantinova et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
'Intrinsic cues guiding changes in division orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem: a formative experience' - Konstantinova et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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The latest OneZoo projects are up! Eagle eyed readers will notice a certain Cryptosporidium evolutionary genomics project...
onezoo.uk/projects/coh...
onezoo.uk/projects/coh...
Cohort 3 projects – onezoo.cf.ac.uk
onezoo.uk
December 6, 2024 at 11:35 AM
The latest OneZoo projects are up! Eagle eyed readers will notice a certain Cryptosporidium evolutionary genomics project...
onezoo.uk/projects/coh...
onezoo.uk/projects/coh...
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Reposted by Jo K
Preprint up detailing our work on Parapipe: a pipeline for handling protozoan NGS datasets, integrating polyclonality analysis with high resolution phylogenomic clustering for eukaryotic pathogen surveillance.
With a healthy dose of Crypto, of course!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With a healthy dose of Crypto, of course!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Parapipe: a Pipeline for Handling Parasite NGS Datasets and its Application to Cryptosporidium
www.biorxiv.org
January 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Preprint up detailing our work on Parapipe: a pipeline for handling protozoan NGS datasets, integrating polyclonality analysis with high resolution phylogenomic clustering for eukaryotic pathogen surveillance.
With a healthy dose of Crypto, of course!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With a healthy dose of Crypto, of course!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Emergent bluebells and wood anemones. #wilflowerhour
April 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Emergent bluebells and wood anemones. #wilflowerhour
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But w...
skywriter.blue
April 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
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10. C. Developing more resilient crops, with lower water and nutrient demands: the work on finding/breeding perennial grain crops by the Land Institute and others should be attracting much more public support. landinstitute.org
Natural Systems Agriculture | The Land Institute
The Land Institute co-leads the global movement for perennial, diverse, truly regenerative grain agriculture at a scale. A non-profit research group based in Salina, Kansas, The Land Institute was fou...
landinstitute.org
April 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
10. C. Developing more resilient crops, with lower water and nutrient demands: the work on finding/breeding perennial grain crops by the Land Institute and others should be attracting much more public support. landinstitute.org
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1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast.
THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
April 10, 2025 at 6:22 AM
1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast.
THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
#wildflowerhour#woodlandplants
Parasitic toothwort and a Cuckoo pint being stalked by cattle dog.
Parasitic toothwort and a Cuckoo pint being stalked by cattle dog.
April 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
#wildflowerhour#woodlandplants
Parasitic toothwort and a Cuckoo pint being stalked by cattle dog.
Parasitic toothwort and a Cuckoo pint being stalked by cattle dog.
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We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring. Led by national experts. All absolutely free!
22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe
7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker
10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social
Details & booking links:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...
22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe
7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker
10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social
Details & booking links:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...
March 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring. Led by national experts. All absolutely free!
22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe
7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker
10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social
Details & booking links:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...
22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe
7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker
10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social
Details & booking links:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...
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The wonderful sight of Snake's-head Fritillaries now in full flower in a Suffolk churchyard, surrounded by thousands and thousands of Primroses! Thanks to a limited and favourable mowing regime there is a diverse flora, perfect for pollinators!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The wonderful sight of Snake's-head Fritillaries now in full flower in a Suffolk churchyard, surrounded by thousands and thousands of Primroses! Thanks to a limited and favourable mowing regime there is a diverse flora, perfect for pollinators!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social