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Anneke_P
@plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
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Plant scientist and data enthusiast. Interested in wheat grain nutrients and the genes that control them. Still StackOverflow’s biggest fan.
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rutgerbregman.com
The biggest problem in the world isn’t climate change, future pandemics, or democratic collapse.

It’s that far too many of our most brilliant minds are working on *everything but* those problems. 🧵
July 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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thatneilmartin.bsky.social
Just finished reading Faraday and Bragg's Top Tips for lecturing.
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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tommytang.bsky.social
1/ Bioinformaticians: our people skills matters as much as our code
Here’s why communication is your most underrated tool 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Absolutely fascinating. There’s an example of poetic input and the sort of output you can elicit (e.g. how to make weapons-grade Plutonium). We continue to discover how LLMs can fail…
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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theonion.com
Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method https://theonion.com/rogue-scientist-has-own-scientific-method-1819568501/
Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Probably the most satisfying thing at work is solving my own IT issues (especially without using StackOverflow 🙌). VPN issues *~be gone~* 🪄 ✨
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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rladiesrome.bsky.social
🎨 Recording now live!
Developing Your #DataVisualisation Skills in #ggplot2 with @nrennie.bsky.social
Watch the creative process exploring the #TidyTuesday cats dataset 🐈
📚 Materials & links:
🔗 nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladies-rome-ggplot2

#RLadies #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday @fgazzelloni.bsky.social
Developing your data visualisation skills in ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie
We’ll be working through the process of developing a visualisation in ggplot2. Some knowledge of the tidyverse will be helpful, but all of the code in this session will be explained and available…
nrennie.rbind.io
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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jlsteenwyk.bsky.social
All the instructors at the workshop are shown in this image
bsky.app/profile/jlst...
November 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Comes at just the right time when I’m about to reach out for a supplementary RNAseq dataset to help my own analysis. Learning 🙇‍♀️📚
tommytang.bsky.social Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 29d
1/ You think your ML model fails because it’s “not powerful enough”?
No. It’s your data.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Here’s what most AI scientists miss when using public RNA-seq or single-cell data 👇
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Autumnal blooms at work
October 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
The chemical room: where I go for some quiet time while weighing minuscule quantities of flour into hundreds of tubes. Surprisingly Zen 🧘‍♀️ 👩‍🔬
July 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
The easiest publishing process ever! After testing & retesting this protocol adapted from a large-volume industry standard method, I finally clicked “Publish” over at @protocolsio.bsky.social today. Can recommend; would publish again!! 🌾 🍞 🧪

dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...
Microplate Beta Glucan Assay
This assay measures the mixed linkage beta glucan content of cereal grain flour through specific, enzyme-catalysed, step-wise hydrolysis of the polysaccharide to glucose and qua...
dx.doi.org
July 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
One of my favourite things about @galaxyproject.bsky.social is these "do some citizen science while your job runs" opportunities. I'm getting very good at sexing marmalade hoverflies! 😅
Screen shot showing the text "citizen science project" at the top and asking users to identify the sex of the marmalade hoverfly in the image. Below the image is an illustration of the difference between males and females. Males appear to have their eyes progressively closer to each other towards their antlers, until they touch, while females have their eyes go further apart towards the antlers. (All of these anatomical words are probably wrong...)
June 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
It’s me! Aiming an electron beam at a tiny wheat grain (with help from people with much more expertise 😅)
rothamsted.bsky.social Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.bsky.social · May 7
Our wheat researchers @dsw-isp.bsky.social visited the super powerful "microscope" @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to investigate where crucial nutrients like calcium sit within the grain 🔬🌱🍞
Read the full story👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/wheat-r...
May 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
A lovely daisy on a crisp Spring day
Photo of two daisies growing next to some paving stones
May 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Great little primer about statistics and significance, featuring an historical tea drinking experiment at my home institute, Rothamsted. (Hat tip to @adamjkucharski.bsky.social )

www.wired.com/story/how-a-...
How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis
Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.
www.wired.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Stanford provides a free coding course teaching the basics of Python over 6 weeks, with live interaction. Apply by 9 April for this year’s run. #Codeinplace

codeinplace.stanford.edu
Code In Place
A free, human-centered, intro-to-coding course from Stanford University
codeinplace.stanford.edu
March 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Spring is here!!
Photo of a cluster of purple crocuses that are in bloom.
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
We’re very happy to give people samples of our high fibre bread at the annual Delivering Sustainable Wheat conference today! #DSW
Close up photo of a loaf of white bread
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @wmarler.bsky.social for running a fun and informative animation workshop yesterday. Truly squeezing the juice out of Power Point! I particularly loved the toaster animation ☺️🍞🌾❤️
Screen shot of a power point presentation, in editing view, showing five slides in the panel on the left and one larger slide in the editing window. The large slide has a picture of a toaster on a table, with a slice of bread in it. The toaster is grey, with a blue handle on the right, and a blue dial timer in the centre.
February 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
I appreciate the precision of the timing for this conference 👍
Screen shot of the 4th Food Chemistry Conference showing the date and time as 14 October from 9:17 to 16 October at 9:17.
February 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Thoughts from a scientific presentation: why are we even using the lower 25% of a power point slide? It’s almost always obscured - by furniture or other things on the screen. 1/2
February 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Thanks to #UKFlourMillers for inviting me their R&D workshop today. Happy to talk about our high calcium wheat ☺️ Healthy bread for all!! 🍞
Photo of a large wooden double door under a stone arch. There are several copper name plates on the sides and a stone face atop the arch. Four images of a wheat grain coloured in rainbow colours. Each image represents a specific element.
February 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
Dr Mary Dilys Glynne. Botanist at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1918 to 1960.
A black and white photo showing a laboratory in the early 1900’s. There is a table with several glass flasks and cylinders on it. The cylinders are filled with soil or grain to different heights. There are shelves on the wall above the table with lots of bottles of different shapes and sizes containing reagents. There is a woman looking down through a microscope which is on the table. She is wearing a dress and belt. Behind her is a pile of wheat sheaves.
February 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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biochemsoc.bsky.social
Want to learn the tools and techniques to be able to use #R programming software? Perfect for beginners, there’s just one month to go until our next R for Biochemists 101 online course launches! Register here and start on 3rd February: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...
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Biochemical Society online training R for Biochemists 101 Starts from 3 February 2025 Register online
January 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM