Jens Staal
@staal1978.bsky.social
🇸🇪 Swede living in 🇧🇪 Flanders
♂ Dad of 3 👧🏼👦🏼👧🏼
👨🔬🧪Assoc. Prof. at Ghent University
Views my own
🧬 Scientist (ORCID: 0000-0003-2664-3357)
🤓 Nerd (RPGs, Linux, Plan9, Plant Breeding, ...)
🗽Progressive centrist (liberal)
🇪🇺 Euro federalist (Volt)
⚛️ Atheist
♂ Dad of 3 👧🏼👦🏼👧🏼
👨🔬🧪Assoc. Prof. at Ghent University
Views my own
🧬 Scientist (ORCID: 0000-0003-2664-3357)
🤓 Nerd (RPGs, Linux, Plan9, Plant Breeding, ...)
🗽Progressive centrist (liberal)
🇪🇺 Euro federalist (Volt)
⚛️ Atheist
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It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time
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SR Kulturnytt: ”Sisu”– kärv finsk splatter med Tarantino-vibbar
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9096921
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9096921
”Sisu”– kärv finsk splatter med Tarantino-vibbar - Kulturnytt
Finske regissören och manusförfattaren Jalmari Helander är tillbaka med den tyste hämnaren Aatami, som förlorat sin familj, och nu konfronteras med mördaren.Allt ...
www.sverigesradio.se
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
SR Kulturnytt: ”Sisu”– kärv finsk splatter med Tarantino-vibbar
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9096921
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9096921
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I don't know why I chose to spend part of my life doing this, but this past week I took 3 minutes to share with my husband that many outages would be avoidable if a bunch of millionaire CTOs 15 years ago hadn't decided to copy each other's homework, creating most problems on the internet today
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I don't know why I chose to spend part of my life doing this, but this past week I took 3 minutes to share with my husband that many outages would be avoidable if a bunch of millionaire CTOs 15 years ago hadn't decided to copy each other's homework, creating most problems on the internet today
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"Lika evig är människans vilja att förtrolla omständigheter i tillvaron. Till exempel genom att förväxla vad man önskar ska hända med vad som faktiskt sker." 💀 www.dn.se/kultur/marti...
Martin Kolk: Ni talar om en kyrktrend bland unga – men den stämmer inte
Forskaren Martin Kolk granskar påståendet om en religiös återkomst bland unga i Sverige.
www.dn.se
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"Lika evig är människans vilja att förtrolla omständigheter i tillvaron. Till exempel genom att förväxla vad man önskar ska hända med vad som faktiskt sker." 💀 www.dn.se/kultur/marti...
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Sveriges Radio: EU ett steg närmare mer samordnad planering av tågtrafiken
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9096739
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9096739
EU ett steg närmare mer samordnad planering av tågtrafiken - Ekot
Förutsättningarna för en mer samordnad planering av tågtrafiken i Europa ser ut att ha ökat.Efter utdragna förhandlingar enades rådet och parlamentet om ...
www.sverigesradio.se
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Sveriges Radio: EU ett steg närmare mer samordnad planering av tågtrafiken
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9096739
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9096739
Cool. I will have to find the 2 source papers.
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Cool. I will have to find the 2 source papers.
Kunde inte läsa artikeln på DN pga betalvägg men sökte och antar att jag hittade källan. Konceptuellt kul studie. På tok för mycket myter och just-so stories, så bra när det angrips experimentellt i gränslandet social- och naturvetenskap.
www.dn.se/sverige/ny-s...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.dn.se/sverige/ny-s...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
No Evidence of Effects of Testosterone on Economic Preferences: Results From a Large (N =1,000) Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Study
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<p><span>There is conflicting evidence on whether testosterone affects economic preferences such as risk taking, fairness and altruism, with the evidenc
papers.ssrn.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Kunde inte läsa artikeln på DN pga betalvägg men sökte och antar att jag hittade källan. Konceptuellt kul studie. På tok för mycket myter och just-so stories, så bra när det angrips experimentellt i gränslandet social- och naturvetenskap.
www.dn.se/sverige/ny-s...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.dn.se/sverige/ny-s...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine
motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently
estimated to be 25%. After decad...
www.cell.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
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It’s pretty impressive that the NB8 - a group of small European countries - is now coordinating with G7
Interesting statement on the shadow fleet by an interesting group of countries from G7 and the Nordic-Baltic 8++: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Statement: Shadow Fleet Task Force
On October 8, 2025, Canada and Denmark convened a meeting of the Shadow Fleet Task Force.
vm.ee
October 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It’s pretty impressive that the NB8 - a group of small European countries - is now coordinating with G7
🧪 Very cool. I have been playing with ABA biosensors in animal cells, I was going to do IAA sensors (both TIR1 based and AhR based). Maybe SA too?
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Salicylic acid (SA) is a key phytohormone that orchestrates immune responses against pathogens, including Pseudomonas syringae bacteria. The timing and extent of SA accumulation are tightly controlled...
www.science.org
October 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🧪 Very cool. I have been playing with ABA biosensors in animal cells, I was going to do IAA sensors (both TIR1 based and AhR based). Maybe SA too?
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tantsnusk är ju en utmärkt beskrivning av genren, och väletablerad. Kommer ihåg att jag läste hela serien Grottbjörnens Folk som 10-12 åring (ca 1989) helt enkelt för jag gillade stenåldern, och fröken kallade det tantsnusk. Jag håller med men ser inget negativt med det.
www.dn.se/insandare/av...
www.dn.se/insandare/av...
October 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Tantsnusk är ju en utmärkt beskrivning av genren, och väletablerad. Kommer ihåg att jag läste hela serien Grottbjörnens Folk som 10-12 åring (ca 1989) helt enkelt för jag gillade stenåldern, och fröken kallade det tantsnusk. Jag håller med men ser inget negativt med det.
www.dn.se/insandare/av...
www.dn.se/insandare/av...
Intressant. Mina barn är tvåspråkiga men jag har inte märkt någon domänbunden preferens. Vi gjorde OPOL (one parent one language) och nederländska/svenska är kanske för nära varandra för att det skall bli så som beskrivs här för franska/svenska.
www.dn.se/varlden/sigr...
www.dn.se/varlden/sigr...
Sigrid Melchior: Svenska småbarnsord vinner över franska
Svenskan vinner över franskan i Bryssels småbarnsfamiljer med ord som sluta, gosa, puss, snopp och snippa.
www.dn.se
October 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Intressant. Mina barn är tvåspråkiga men jag har inte märkt någon domänbunden preferens. Vi gjorde OPOL (one parent one language) och nederländska/svenska är kanske för nära varandra för att det skall bli så som beskrivs här för franska/svenska.
www.dn.se/varlden/sigr...
www.dn.se/varlden/sigr...
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I wish more people got this. Science is inefficient. I'd say probably say inherently inefficient. I know we all want to hurry up and make the world a better place with those tax dollars, but I believe the harder we try to rush things, the less effective we will be in the long run.
"Science is not broken, and it most certainly is not dying. It is an inefficient human activity....When we catastrophize, we feed a disillusionment which political actors can weaponize to get rid of scientific evidence they find inconvenient."
#AcademicSky 🧪
#AcademicSky 🧪
Difficult for me to put into words how disappointed I am in Sabine Hossenfelder. Many years back when she was just blogging about physics I was a huge fan, and she published a lot of intriguing papers. Now she makes money as a social media arsonist. 🧪
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I wish more people got this. Science is inefficient. I'd say probably say inherently inefficient. I know we all want to hurry up and make the world a better place with those tax dollars, but I believe the harder we try to rush things, the less effective we will be in the long run.
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Day 27 of #septempera - the connoisseur.
September 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Day 27 of #septempera - the connoisseur.
4 Fungi We've Finally Figured Out How To Farm ino.to/VmCZLpQ
I just thought of something: It could be quite interesting to identify the pathways giving various fungi their flavor and express them in yeast.
Imagine: Chantarelle- or Truffels- flavored yeast as flavoring.
I just thought of something: It could be quite interesting to identify the pathways giving various fungi their flavor and express them in yeast.
Imagine: Chantarelle- or Truffels- flavored yeast as flavoring.
4 Fungi We've Finally Figured Out How To Farm
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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September 27, 2025 at 5:53 AM
4 Fungi We've Finally Figured Out How To Farm ino.to/VmCZLpQ
I just thought of something: It could be quite interesting to identify the pathways giving various fungi their flavor and express them in yeast.
Imagine: Chantarelle- or Truffels- flavored yeast as flavoring.
I just thought of something: It could be quite interesting to identify the pathways giving various fungi their flavor and express them in yeast.
Imagine: Chantarelle- or Truffels- flavored yeast as flavoring.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Periclinal ino.to/2OrAiaf
Well, technically a simple grafted plant is a chimera so you don't even have to go for the fancy stuff.
Well, technically a simple grafted plant is a chimera so you don't even have to go for the fancy stuff.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Periclinal
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Periclinal
ino.to
September 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Periclinal ino.to/2OrAiaf
Well, technically a simple grafted plant is a chimera so you don't even have to go for the fancy stuff.
Well, technically a simple grafted plant is a chimera so you don't even have to go for the fancy stuff.
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Wild chimpanzees consume ~4.5 kg fruit containing ~14 g ethanol every day, the equivalent of 1-2 standard drinks daily. Both human and chimp alcohol metabolism evolved as an adaptation to eat fruit without being too intoxicated. 🧪 #vetmed
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees
Natural daily consumption of dietary alcohol by chimpanzees suggests human attraction to alcohol may come from our ancestral diet.
www.science.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Wild chimpanzees consume ~4.5 kg fruit containing ~14 g ethanol every day, the equivalent of 1-2 standard drinks daily. Both human and chimp alcohol metabolism evolved as an adaptation to eat fruit without being too intoxicated. 🧪 #vetmed
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world'
@pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍
#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience
@pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍
#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience
How to be a scientist in a post-journal world
When we created this site to write about things in science that need to be fixed, we chose not to start with publishing, even though it has been our preoccupation for decades.
thescientistpapers.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world'
@pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍
#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience
@pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍
#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience
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Fascinating: giving yeast H3K9 methylation to see what happens
Chromatin landscape of budding yeast acquiring H3K9 methylation and its reader molecule HP1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Chromatin landscape of budding yeast acquiring H3K9 methylation and its reader molecule HP1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Chromatin landscape of budding yeast acquiring H3K9 methylation and its reader molecule HP1
Histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9) methylation and heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) are well conserved heterochromatin epigenome and its reader molecule. However, the details of how importance of them in heter...
www.biorxiv.org
September 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Fascinating: giving yeast H3K9 methylation to see what happens
Chromatin landscape of budding yeast acquiring H3K9 methylation and its reader molecule HP1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Chromatin landscape of budding yeast acquiring H3K9 methylation and its reader molecule HP1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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