And now, a video message for you from an extremely retired and annoyed Andrew Bailey
07.03.2026 14:20
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And now, a video message for you from an extremely retired and annoyed Andrew Bailey
If anything is going to have a fabulous rainbow paint coat, it should be HMS Queen Elizabeth
Genomic basis for resistance to acute oak decline and mildew infection in English oak https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709495v1
Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? 🎓
Dr @laura-j-kelly.bsky.social is offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social building on @forest-protection.bsky.social research 🪲 Find out more and apply below ⬇️
"Don't smile because you got a treat - cry because you ate it" - ancient dog proverb
Collins et al. combined expression, methylation, and genomic data to investigate long-term persistence of laterally acquired genes in the grass Alloteropsis, showing that those capable of regulating their own expression are more likely to persist.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag042
#evobio #molbio
Cold Storage: fiiiiiinnneee I guess, probably would have been improved if they'd removed the entire Liam Neeson storyline and perhaps made the rest of it better. But at least they tried
Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? I’m offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social to build on @forest-protection.bsky.social research on pest and pathogen risks to trees 🪲🦠 Apply by 13th March! www.kew.org/science/training-and-education/placements-for-phd-students
Does feel a bit Duke Nukem
Turns laminator thickness up to 11
Crop scientists have long recognized that reproduction is going to be the first point of failure for plants with rising global temperatures. However, this has often been overlooked by those studying natural populations. In this new review, we try to change that. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Sherrod Brown?
Tax evasion!? Al Capone is on the loose!
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🌳🔬🥳
In our latest blog, we shine the spotlight on six of our talented researchers who represent a variety of scientific disciplines across a range of our projects 🔦
Read their reflections on working in forest science here: shorturl.at/WmZzc
Something almost spiritual about having a dentist appointment at two thirty
A series of lists of numbers
See staring at this for hours is the sort of thing AI being great at coding could take from us - a travesty
Watching Tàr and Thor Ragnarok turns out it's Cate Blanchett season
These are by @probablyday.bsky.social and as a long-time aficionado of Jeeves and Wooster I am DYING with how on-brand these are. Even if you are unfamiliar with them, you will love this thread, they are all bangers.
I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
Our very own Centre for Forest Protection Lead Jess Allan, and CFP-funded PhD student and former intern Phoebe Swift will be speaking at the @rsb.org.uk #BioscienceCareersDay 🎓
Bookings close 2 March- don't miss out⏰
🔗 For more information and to book your place, see www.rsb.org.uk/bioscience-c...
Important update: have been reading a few pages of "Miss Merkel Investigates" every 6 months or so, it's very bad
Eurovision+
Please remain in the queue, your HPC job is very important to us
What a brut
Tired: geopolitics
Wired: Gee! Oh! politics
Looking forward to my new oven door handle arriving so I don't have to keep prising the door open with a spoon. Picture unrelated
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I don't know why AI adverts don't push "what might this incomprehensible error message mean" instead of "the bread has come out the toaster, now what" or whatever
Well while we're on the subject of *checks notes* "Hedwig's theme"
