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receptora.bsky.social
Tora Økland 🌱
@receptora.bsky.social
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Plant receptor enthusiast in the Parniske group @LMU Munich. Interested in root symbioses, immunity and how they evolve 🍄‍🟫🦠 | 🇳🇴➡️🇩🇪
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Umulig å ikke tenke på Samhald på Stord (Nordom bekkjen sidan 1919)
July 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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While we wait for the final results I just want to take a moment to appreciate the German tradition of creative coalition names. I remember moving here and being incredibly confused about all the news stories on the “Jamaica government”
A screenshot of a newspaper poll outlook giving the “Kenya coalition” a majority
February 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Det er så vilt at NRK pitcher kaoset i USA som en «omfattende gjennomgang for å kutte byråkrati og utgifter», uten å skrive hva slags funksjoner og støtteordninger det går utover. Tror dere at de bare fant titusenvis av jobber som egentlig ikke kom noen til gode ?
February 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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February 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Made it! Happy holidays, especially to the lovely girls in my shared sleeper compartment and the poor group of Swedes in a Vietnamese restaurant in Hamburg who had to listen to me explain the evolution of root nodule symbiosis. Travel is more fun by train.
The a woman stands in a crowded station hall in front of a Christmas tree, arms raised in jubilation
December 20, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Linköping, 8 am, surprisingly well rested after the night train. Sunrise hits different here.
A train stands at a platform in the sunrise. An orange glow in the sky from the sunrise makes everything rose-gold tinted
December 20, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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Hamburg HBF, the gate to Europe for Scandinavians. I remember standing on this bridge when I was 13, marveling at the double decker trains pulling in and feeling that I was in a country with its priorities right.
A Christmas-decked train station with two parked double decker trains
December 19, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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And so begins my 26-hour home-for-Christmas train extravaganza! Using the predictable airport chaos as an excuse to try a new route Munich-Oslo - cross your fingers for me ! #Togferie
A woman with brown hair and eyes smiles into the camera. The background is a grey cityscape with a construction site not far behind. She is wearing headphones and loaded carrying two backpacks
December 19, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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I will be blaming all failures in the lab today on this mysterious visitor who showed up overnight .. 🧪
A small model of a reindeer stands on a Grey lab bench with petri dishes in . The reindeer body and head are made from two eppendorf tubes with a shiny red nose painted on, the legs are made from yellow pipette tips and it has small antlers made of pipe cleaners
December 16, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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FERONIA is at it again! (look forward to reading it!)
December 2, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Fact: Plant scientists are less frequently affected by SAD because even in November, we can go to the greenhouse and pretend that it’s sunny and warm
A smiling woman takes a selfie wearing a lab coat and headphones in a greenhouse filled with plants and low hanging lights. The lighting is soft and warm.
November 19, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Ohhhh yes ! Here’s a summary of the menu at our #PlantMicrobeJC
An edited version of a common comic strip format from XKCD comics titled “types of scientific paper”. This one focuses on plant-microbe papers, and the titles of the papers are: - why the zig zag model isn’t entirely true - FERONIA is at it again - we found a mutant with a different X and did some ROS - we looked at a billion genomes and found these genes in more plants and algae - we swapped parts of this protein with something else and it does new stuff - stop extrapolating things from arabidopsis A - sorry but you need to remember all your cell biology for this one - we have cool results but check out our microscopy - phosphoproteomics! Any questions? - this microbe is both good and bad - look what we can do with alpha gold!
November 17, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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Evolution but make it 💨*fast* (from doi.org/10.1101/2023...)
A phylogenetic tree that includes alternate hypothesized paths, making it appear blurry or “sped up”
October 30, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Anyone else having a productive lab day ? 🧪 #AcademicChatter
A meme picture showing a cartoon girl in sunglasses and red hair. She is shown displeased next to the caption “do the protocol repeatedly and finish everything in 2 weeks” and smiling and approving next to the caption “spend 2 months optimizing the protocol for high throughput”
June 19, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Found a legendary bfs mutant (Big Fat Stalk) on my walk yesterday #PlantScience
A dandelion where many stalks have fused together, as thick as a stick of celery, with the flower heads also fused together A far view of the plant, showing that not all flowers on the plant have fused stalks, only two giant sticks stand straight up
April 9, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Big shoutout to Stortinget for making it into the cover story of the Nature Briefing for an unbelievably shitty decision 🧪
A screenshot of an email from Nature headlined with the Norwegian Parliamentary decision to open for deep sea mining, noting that the decision ignores scientific advice
January 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Them: doing a PhD was always your dream. Why on earth did you leave for a job in industry?

Me: They offered me a pipette upgrade

🧪 #AcademicChatter
Two molecular biology Pipettes. One is an old-school, chunky thing. The other is sleeker and much more ergonomic.
December 12, 2023 at 8:20 PM
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Never introduced myself to the science feed! I work on plant genetics, studying genes that let plants form symbiosis with fungi and bacteria , but you’ll also catch me talking excitedly about food, climbing and climate policy #AcademicChatter
Me, a woman with brown hair standing in front of a poster with a picture of a lotus flower in the middle. I am wearing some ridiculously patterned trousers and look like I’m very happy you came to see my poster
November 19, 2023 at 10:13 PM
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Back home after an incredible week of talks, workshops and fun at the #TRR356 “summer” school. Motivated to get back to my research with new ideas,but need a weekend to digest everything first😅big thanks to all speakers and participants! #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
November 10, 2023 at 6:15 PM
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@maryspezz.bsky.social getting ready to introduce us to SymRK and the adaptations it underwent to gain unique functions in root nodule symbiosis #PlantScience #TRR356
Maria Spezzati in front of her introductory slides with the title «sequence adaptation of SymRK enabling nitrogen fixing root nodule symbiosis”
November 8, 2023 at 12:41 PM
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Students and postdocs of the TRR356 Plant-microbe consortium are gathered in Freising this week to share our research and strengthen collaborations. Kartikye Varshney from @carogutj.bsky.social ‘s group got us started with his great story on smax1, karrikins and AM regulation 🌱 🌾 #PlantScience
A doctoral student in front of his introductory side about AM symbiosis. The room has a stuccoed ceiling with pink details
November 8, 2023 at 9:44 AM
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I don’t think anything can match the feeling of checking the sequencing for your first ever Lotus CRISPR lines and seeing this.. 10 months of work is now giving results! Happy Friday! 🌾 #PlantScience
October 27, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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Everyone in lab waiting for the power to come back
October 12, 2023 at 7:54 AM
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What an absolute treat we are having at TUM! The TRR356 receptor workshop is bringing together some great minds in plant receptor biology for a three day workshop. Simona Raditoiu is sharing some beautiful data from her labs NFR1/CERK6 swaps and what changes in immunity and symbiosis #PlantScience
October 9, 2023 at 3:22 PM
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And now: LMU Munichs very own Kate Parys, talking about our work on SymRK and its family of homologs, and what we are learning about their function, regulation and interactions… #PPRM2023 #PlantScience
October 3, 2023 at 1:00 PM