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Pat Heslop-Harrison
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Professor in Agricultural Genetics, University of Leicester, UK.
Exciting PhD project with me and @vorontsovams.bsky.social RBG Kew on Grass Diversity, developing a phylogeny using morphology and genomics for the tropical forage grass genus Urochloa. Applications at centa.ac.uk/students... but contacts Bat or me to discuss
October 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in
@uniexecec.bsky.social
- Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
One of the best dinners and then seminar I've had was with Frank Stahl. He sat down with overhead projector and all the 200 in the audience felt they had a personal tutorial on DNA replication and his super-elegant research. RIP age 95. www.nytimes.com/2025...
Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment
He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure.
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Interested in co designing a fully funded PhD project with ‪@vorontsovams.bsky.social‬ and me on Urochloa plant biodiversity, evolution, morphology and genomics? Please contact us. Building on exciting work on the forage grass by @LizoMasters academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
Phylogenomic analysis reveals five independently evolved African forage grass clades in the genus Urochloa
AbstractBackground and Aims. The grass genus Urochloa (Brachiaria) sensu lato includes forage crops that are important for beef and dairy industries in tro
academic.oup.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Grrr. My appeal every 5 years or so, as frustration boils over. Why doesn't any web browser print out roughly what you see on your screen? I see nice versions of the webpage - full screen, landscape, portrait, mobile phone - but no major browser can print anything like them.
June 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I'm finding LLM / AI models like Grok, Deepseek, ChatGPT, Google search lab useful to explain things at suitable level. Notable they don't just rehash Wikipedia or unhelpful Microsoft manuals. Today's examples: GANTT charts; IF/TRUE/FALSE in Excel; Harvard referencing
June 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
For #internationalbiodiversityday I'm happy to post a program The Call of Plants www.bilibili.com/vid... about our interests by https://www.pta.eco/ Plant Technology Alliance & Dency Cheng, Guangdong & Hong Kong. A great organization bringing nature back to us ... more later!
植物的召唤:一个科学家的地球使命 The Call of Plants: A Scientist's Mission on Earth_哔哩哔哩_bilibili
🌿 植物的召唤 | 致那些听见自然低语的人 🌍在这个国际生物多样性日,pta向您呈现一位科学家的故事。👨🏼‍🏫 帕特教授,一位来自英国的植物遗传学家,穿梭于热带雨林与数据模型之间,几十年如一日地追问:我们如何与地球共处?他的研究扎根于田野,延伸至世界;他的信念源于父亲的启蒙,也与爱人同行。从一株香蕉到一粒燕麦,他不仅用实验丈量植物的基因,也用脚步丈量科学的温度。🧬教育与伦理不只是知识的, 视频播放量 40、弹幕量 0、点赞数 2、投硬币枚数 0、收藏人数 0、转发人数 1, 视频作者 pta植物联盟, 作者简介 pta植物联盟是一家致力于环境可持续发展转型的创新组织。,相关视频:最强大的克隆机器,召唤初雪的“雪妖精”,日本北海道雪虫爆发之谜!,为什么除了中国,很少有国家吃笋呢?,探索奥尔特云,这个位于太阳系边缘的冰体世界告诉我们太阳系结构并不简单。,中美博弈的残酷真相!【金灿荣教授深度剖析】,抛弃穷人、秘密基地、亡国邪路:美国富人集团准备“跳船”了!,四羊方尊出来的那一刻直播间的所有观众都要被请去谈话了,"冰毒"(上):中国禁毒头号大敌,泯灭精神的恶魔结晶【禁毒科普馆#1】,一架UFO于1962年被核弹击落,坠毁在南太平洋环礁,浑身发光大如航母,来自一位重量级人物的临终爆料!,不知不觉中,通往金门的大桥,很快要建成了,教皇:没有一兵一卒的“皇帝”,却控制全球13亿人,干预世界
www.bilibili.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Many opportunities to exploit rhizosphere microbiome for crops. No longer only consider plant genome/GWAS for traits: look at fungi/bacteria. New multisite field trial complexity we can analyse @TrendsPlantSci Rodomiro Ortiz, Sangam Dwivedi, @plgepts EtAl
www.sciencedirect.co...
May 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Are others getting 'verify' boxes when wanting to access published papers (even open access)? Is this major publishers trying to stop Deep Learning / Generative AI / ChatGPT accessing refereed work? I want my papers used by AI models easily, not push them to Reddit or Facebook
May 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Academic climate: It’s no longer ‘publish or perish’; It’s ‘Be visible or vanish’ says @drtimiolubiyi “It is not just what you publish; it is who sees it, talks about it, and shares it that matters." businessday.ng/opini... Hs analysis has a lot of sense; I don't agree all
Academic climate: It's no longer ‘publish or perish’; It’s ‘Be visible or vanish’ - Businessday NG
Though in the academic world, publication signifies validation and survival in most universities for promotion and relevance; in fact...
businessday.ng
May 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Has anyone tried this in submission cover letter:"We tick required ‘check/tick boxes’ randomly where there is no appropriate answer. Our answer has no validity. We include early career/retired authors where academic e-mails are deleted; and OA fees are covered by agreements."
April 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I'm reading PhD applications which have a question about time management. Every one I read thinks they apply for something where every hour is planned in advance and accounted for (and presumably billed!). Not one had time for getting ideas, reading, following up crazy thoughts
February 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Pat Heslop-Harrison
For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography
January 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM

It's early 2025, but I think I've found product-of-the-year: a USB Tester / Power Meter. Shows what is charging, measures voltage, battery mAh or Wh, tests batteries, adaptors, whether "PD" on a USB C means "power delivery" or "display port", graphs transfers etc. for c 10£$€
January 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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RNA control of reverse transcription in a diversity-generating retroelement
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Who guessed Search would change in 2024: 'People now expect answers to questions, not just a stack of links. Perplexity, OpenAI, & Google raced to create “answer engines”, combining web results with generative AI models' says @silverchairnews & @hum_works www.silverchair.com/...
Tech Trends 2025 - Confirmation - Silverchair
Silverchair Thanks for downloading our AI whitepaper.
www.silverchair.com
January 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
My lecture on Biodiversity, Conservation and Agriculture to a large public audience at Dinghu, 1st national nature reserve in China. Discussin success of agriculture feeding people but at cost of sustainability: we can solve now population is static
Biodiversity and Agriculture: Education and Nature at Dinghu National Reserve
My job has three parts: 1) Research in biodiversity and agricultural genetics; 2) Critical evaluation of other research through journals and reviews; and, perhaps most imprtantly, 3) Telling people about the value, interest and importance of the natural and agricultural environment. I was delighted to visit Dinghu, the first Chinese National Nature Reserve, founded in 1956, and part of the South China National Botanical Garden (SCBG or SCNBG) of the CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) in Guangzhou, south China, to present a science lecture on Biodiversity, Conservation and Agriculture.
molcyt.org
December 30, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Genome-Wide Identification of Lectin Receptor-like Kinase Gene Family in Avena sativa and Role in Salt Stress Tolerance with Xiong Gui & Qing Liu: genomics, localization and expression shows the value of these genes www.mdpi.com/3062188 #mdpiijms @IJMS_MDPI @MDPIOpenAccess
December 2, 2024 at 1:34 PM
#COP29 showed ways to protect biodiversity: azertag.az/en/xeber/uk_... Great opportunities to discuss how agricultural genetics can help both mitigate GHG and adapt to climate change while enhancing agriculture can preserve areas with biodiversity. And tertiary education is critical!
https://azertag.az/en/xeber/uk_university_professor_cop29_provided_an_opportunity_to_discuss_ways_to_protect_biodiversity-3297168…
November 23, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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🧬 New article in @aobp.bsky.social analyzing the diversity and duplication of flavonoid biosynthetic genes in Musaceae species, highlighting their potential for enhancing cold stress resistance in bananas through breeding.

Full #openaccess
👉 https://buff.ly/4eqyy7X

#PlantScience
November 19, 2024 at 7:07 AM
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My work on a pangenome for the hexaploid oilseed crop Camelina sativa is now out early access in Genetics! This young polyploid genome has a small pangenome to match it's low SNP diversity, but regained lost diversity by packing in all the unique genes from its 3 diploid progenitors.
Allopolyploidy expanded gene content but not pangenomic variation in the hexaploid oilseed Camelina sativa
Abstract. Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs) are believed to facilitate novelty and adaptation by providing the raw fuel for new genes. However, it i
doi.org
November 15, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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People are quite literally going bananas for bananas. In 2022, the total global production of bananas reached 140 million tons.

The next time you eat one, consider the genes responsible for their taste, texture and high fruit yield allowing them to remain a global daily staple in most households.
November 8, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Looking forward to discussions, reviewing progress (or lack of) & target setting for UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference le.ac.uk/news/2024/n... Great to have day dedicated to Food, Agriculture & Water. How can research & genetics deliver food sustainabiltiy?
November 8, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Second issue of "Biological Diversity" journal now online onlinelibrary.wiley.... @BD_SCBG Diversity of content nicely reflects the title: birds, farmland and rewilding, plant reproduction, fungal pathogens, new species and population biology. #PlantSci #Science #Biology
October 21, 2024 at 3:51 PM
U.S. Coordinated Framework for Biotechnology unified website for approvals & regulations from the 3 US agencies, @USDA @US_FDA @EPA usbiotechnologyregul... helping to show which agency and which rules are applicable. Need to then to agencies to see what is in line for approval
October 20, 2024 at 10:28 AM