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Stop ermee migratie overal de schuld van te geven, pak de echte problemen aan: het woningtekort, klimaatverandering, armoede, de zorgcrisis en vervuiling.
Dat schrijven 100+ organisaties aan de Britse minister van binnenlandse zaken.
Had ook over NL kunnen gaan.
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This is Æðelsċadu
Old English for ‘Noble Shadow’. If the word survived today it would be ‘addleshade’
Eala Æðelscadu beama berhtast! (Hail Addleshade, brightest of trees)
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New paper!
I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on:
-Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi
-Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄
-Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920!
Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.c….
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Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi: belowground insights from South America
Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are essential for nutrient cycling and plant symbiosis, yet their invasions remain understudied, particularly in South America. Large-scale forestry introductions have spr...
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New — with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, and many more — we created seven new high-quality genomes and explored pangenomic variation in the emerging oilseed crop pennycress (Thlaspi arvense). 1/
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Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome
Summary · Eukaryotic genomes harbor many forms of variation, including nucleotide diversity and structural polymorphisms, which experience natural selection and contribute to genome evolution and biod...
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Herbarium tour starts in 5 minutes... Focus on the Mexican oaks! We have another one at 2:00 p.m. if you feel like joining us, Morton Arboretum herbarium.
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Fascinating essay by @martinebotany.bsky.social on spiny solanums (tomato et al. relatives) as an example of all the important natural history research left to be done. Great observations on pollination and symbiosis... A very inspiring Sunday morning read!
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The inherent values of observation and description: A case study in the spiny solanums of Australia
Click on the article title to read more.
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Parque Nacional Natural Chingaza, one of my happiest places 🇨🇴🌼⛰️❤️.
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An absolute GIANT in the study and conservation of tropical forests and one of the pillars of México’s ecological and ethnobotanical communities has passed on. Padrino to so many: Arturo Gómez Pompa news.mongabay.com/short-a….
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Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90
In the steaming lowlands of Veracruz and the Yucatán, where strangler figs knot the canopy and howler monkeys bellow at dawn, a man with a field notebook kept noticing what others overlooked. Arturo G...
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Because even stationery has the right to be lovely, here are two well-loved little notebooks from entomologist and silversmith Dru Drury (1725-1804). #NaturalHistoryMuseum #MarbledMonday #BlankBooks #Bookbinding #MarbledPaper #SpecialCollections #BlueSkyBooks
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As a forester, one of the most gut-wrenching bad feels I get is when I find a bunch of heavy black trash bags piled deep in the woods.
I hate cutting em open now. But I have to. And it's just like... please don't be another dismembered body.
Scary stuff out in the boondocks, man.
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An #autumn10 of wild, naturalised and self-seeded plants in our wildlife garden. Most have been with us for years, but Bidens ferulifolia and Rudbeckia fulgida popped up for the first time this year...
Names in ALT
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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I really like the series of profiles @newphyt.bsky.social is currently publishing.
The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:
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#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries
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CDCA7 facilitates MET1-mediated CG DNA methylation maintenance in centromeric heterochromatin via histone H1 www.biorxiv.org/content/1….
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Tableau has apparently patented visualizing a tree, including traversal from parent to children and finding a root. As someone who uses and develops software for phylogenetic trees (but not a patent attorney), this is… surprising
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"You might be a knitter, you might be a fan of heavy metal music, you might be a palaeontologist"
I score two out of three & I'll bet I know someone who is all three...
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Free Thinking - Finding my tribe - BBC Sounds
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss connections, divisions and creating new political parties.
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New Publication:
Dietary differentiation of two co‐occurring common bat species (Eptesicus nilssonii and Pipistrellus pygmaeus)
Wildlife Biology nsojournals.onlinelibrary….
#bat 🌍🧪 #landscapeecology #cranefly #diet
@battywood.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
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Dietary differentiation of two co‐occurring common bat species (Eptesicus nilssonii and Pipistrellus pygmaeus)
Sympatric bat species can co-exist and avoid interspecific competition via niche differentiation e.g. diet. Detecting dietary differences can be achieved by comparing dietary niches of sympatric and ...
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RemoteFoldSet: Benchmarking Structural Awareness of Protein Language Models
Zinnia Ma, Neville P. Bethel
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RemoteFoldSet: Benchmarking Structural Awareness of Protein Language Models
Protein language models (pLMs) have the capacity to infer structural information from amino acid sequences. Evaluating the extent to which structural information they truly encode is crucial for asses...
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Here is the published version of Manca's #NNF_INTERACT project in #ISMEcommunications from Scott Jarmusch and @neftalyl.bsky.social
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Penicillium hordei acidification precipitates Bacillus subtilis lipopeptides to evade inhibition
Abstract. Interkingdom interactions are crucial for community and ecosystem function; however, the secondary metabolites mediating interactions between pla
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Penicillium hordei acidification precipitates Bacillus subtilis lipopeptides to evade inhibition bioRxiv by Manca Vertot on her #NNF_INTERACT project with Jens Frisvad collaboration with @neftalyl.bsky.social, Morten Schostag, Scott Jarmusch at @cemist.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I hope you've all had a lovely, fulfilling, joyous day, whatever form that takes.
I've just cleaned up a monstrous pile of dog diarrhoea, burned my supper, and stubbed my big left toe.
Tomorrow is another day 💪.
Early to bed before I do some real damage...🤓
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'With the discovery of riboregulation, this puzzling situation recently changed profoundly for some of these non-canonical RBPs (...) This review will build on textbook features of classical RBPs and further aims to broaden the perspective of biologically meaningful RNA-protein interactions.'
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Rethinking RNA-binding proteins: Riboregulation challenges prevailing views
The advent of system-wide proteomic approaches has largely expanded the number of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). This review discusses how recent discoveries are transforming our understanding of biolog...
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PhD fellowship in biofilm-phage interactions - with Mette Burmølle at University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰
deadline 1 October 2025
employment.ku.dk/faculty?….
#phagesky #microsky
employment.ku.dk
PhD fellowship in biofilm-phage interactions
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Another fern (Lygodium microphyllum) genome just published @pnas.org !
What a year for non-sed plant genomics!
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The genome of the vining fern Lygodium microphyllum highlights genomic and functional differences between life phases of an invasive plant | PNAS
Functional and genomic studies on the differences between the gametophyte and sporophyte life phases of plants remain scarce, yet unraveling these ...
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"Rhizanthella gardneri is not only the world's rarest orchid, it is also one of the most mysterious. It's the only known plant that flowers underground. It also grows, germinates and sets seed totally underground, and is thought to be pollinated by termites."
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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'It lives underground and is fabulous': The race to save the world's rarest orchid
The world's most mysterious and elusive orchid lives underground in Australia. Scientists are trying to rescue this botanic marvel from going completely extinct.
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'Spain is a rare bright spot among Europe’s otherwise drearily performing economies. Since the start of 2024, the Spanish economy has grown at an average annual rate of 3 per cent, compared with just over 1 per cent for the Eurozone as a whole.'
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Spain has become Europe’s standout economy
But it must combine immigration-led growth with productivity improvements
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