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Abdellah Barakate

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Plant Molecular Biologist | Gene Editing, Silencing & Expression | Tissue Culture | 🚫DM

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Festival of Genomics & Biodata, taking place on 27th-28th January at ExCeL London Registration is free for over 90% of attendees — sign up now to join me in January! hubs.la/Q04z76nC0
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🌲🧬Conifer reproduction is poorly understood. A spatiotemporal atlas of Norway spruce maps the vegetative-to-reproductive transition, characterizes MADS-box gene DAL55, and clarifies YABBY evolution across gymnosperms and angiosperms A foundational resource #plantscience www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Norway spruce spatiotemporal programs of conifer reproductive development
Spatiotemporal transcriptomics across conifer reproductive and vegetative shoots reveals candidate developmental regulators and evolutionarily conserved tissue patterning genes in seed plants.
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Google Earth exposes devastation in Gaza with new updated images
Google Earth shows the unprecedented devastation in Gaza, illustrating the scale of the wreckage
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just published: Carte postale de Tenerife : les alizés, le climat, et ce que l’histoire nous a coûté Des côtes ventées de Tenerife aux catastrophes que nous provoquons nous-mêmes. [VF d'un article de 2024] kamounlab.medium.com/carte-postal...
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Carte postale de Tenerife : les alizés, le climat, et ce que l’histoire nous a coûté
Des côtes ventées de Tenerife aux catastrophes que nous provoquons nous-mêmes.
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Embeddings from standardized sorghum leaf images capture variation in disease response that human scoring misses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Yuan He @yuanhejhu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A big week for the lab! Two new papers on how cells repair DNA double-strand breaks: one on getting NHEJ started in chromatin, one on processing the ends before ligation. Years of work by a fantastic team.
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌱🧬Arabidopsis remains key for mechanistic insights, while model crops like rice & wheat bridge discovery and breeding. Niche models add further strengths Progress needs diverse species across fundamental & applied plant biology. #plantsci @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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Have we entered a ‘post-model’ era in plant biology?
Models such as arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) have underpinned genomic and physiological research in plant science. Advances in genome sequencing, pangenomics, and genome editing have prompted cla...
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Man Utd co-owner 'must go' says Muslim fan group
The Manchester United Muslim Supporters Club says United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe "must go" after he spoke out against immigration and said the country was "on the slide".
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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis @Nature.com
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Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11057-7Rhynchospora tenuis undergoes obligate, genome-wide achiasmy in both male and female meiosis.
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌱🧬 Col-0 isn't one genotype—it's a family of diverging lineages. Genome and methylome sequencing of 78 lab stocks reveals accumulated SNPs, epimutations, and subtle phenotypic drift. Know where your seeds come from. #plantscience @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Col-0 genetic divergence - Nature Plants
Nature Plants - Col-0 genetic divergence
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Exceptional journalism from @newyorker.com on Jared Kushner's catastrophic diplomacy, conflicts of interest, arrogance. He represents "a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy
Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We just published: Fold on Tight — 10 lessons on AI structure prediction Andy Posbe @adnroide.bsky.social turned our ten lessons on AI structure prediction into a thread. Here it is, one lesson at a time. kamounlab.medium.com/fold-on-tigh...
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Fold on Tight — 10 lessons on AI structure prediction
Andy Posbe turned our ten lessons on AI structure prediction into a thread. Here it is, one lesson at a time.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump: "Mr. Zelenskyy has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia, because he's causing a shortage of diesel fuel. This isn't done by the Middle East, this is done by what's happening with Russia and Ukraine." You morally bankrupt, victim-blaming narcissist, RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE!
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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The RAxML-NG v2.0 preprint is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course
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RAxML-NG 2: Automatic model selection, novel tree search heuristics, and fast branch support metrics
RAxML-NG is a widely used tool for maximum likelihood based phylogenetic inference. In the seven years since the last RAxML-NG publication, we have continuously improved and extended the code. Here, w...
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ultra-thin pure silicon foil which resists cracking, allowing a significant increase in battery life, charging speed, and energy density up to 50%. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Battery tech: Europe hopes to make up ground in battery industry
Europe has some promising battery tech, but can it make up ground lost to Chinese battery giants?
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for horror elsewhere? | Ahdaf Soueif
For now, it is Palestinians who are being killed and displaced. But ideologies of supremacy and domination threaten us all, says author Ahdaf Soueif
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Very interesting debate about democracy... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Start the Week - Gordon Brown: The Future Starts with Us - BBC Sounds
Gordon Brown, Francis Fukuyama and Bronwen Maddox on democracy's future.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looking forward to reading The Nuance Drought by Natasha Devon, which is out on Thursday. She's a force for good. It's about how living in a world of binary choices and polarising narratives affects communities, society, our physical and mental health. Crucial stuff. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Nuance Drought: Reclaiming Truth and Complexity in a Polarised World
The nuance drought is having a devastating impact on every area of our lives. It dictates the way our politics is done and how the media reports, it affects our physical and mental health, and it impa...
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future | Simon Tisdall
It’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Billions lost to Brexit could make NHS waiting lists disappear, top economist says
Exclusive: Nigel Farage is a ‘spectre’ impeding the UK’s recovery from Brexit, which has cost the UK £3,000 per person every year, Professor Nick Bloom says
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Any politician calling to leave the ECHR is lying about what that will achieve. It won’t solve any problem or improve our lives It will make us worse off and remove our rights. Just like Brexit. The ECHR belongs to us all. It’s not theirs to take. Please sign www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
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Act now to protect the UK's place in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's petition now if you agree: Britain must remain in the ECHR
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
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The charts that show the havoc El Nino is set to wreck across the world
The unprecedented event is predicted to reach tens of millions of people around the globe, as well as hitting food prices in the UK. MPs from across parliament call on the government to rethink Britai...
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Shihab S Joi @shihabsjoi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Channel 4 undercover report on Reform made me remember the existence of a thing that hasn't been around much this year: investigative journalism Looking forward to this next (showing next week)
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Tommy Robinson: Where's the Money Gone? Dispatches
Tommy Robinson: Where's the Money Gone?: Matt Shea questions the finances of the right-wing campaigner. Tommy Robinson: Where's the Money Gone? Dispatches airs on Channel 4 at 10:00 PM, Wednesday 9 Se...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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What’s really behind Trump’s deference to Putin?
Whether or not US president fits the definition of a Russian asset, his actions align closely with the Kremlin’s interests
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An important question in plant pathology still lacks a coherent model—a striking example of how bad science can bring an entire field to a standstill: How do filamentous pathogens deliver effector proteins into plant cells? dx.doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham has already made a mistake that will cost him his premiership: he lost his nerve over political donations | George Monbiot
Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Sexual assaults in Ceuta happening almost every day, prosecutors say
Most migrants have returned to neighbouring Morocco, but as many as 5,000 remain in the Spanish exclave.
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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s a good idea to be absolutely clear about what will happen if Reform ever get into power. It’s goodbye to Democracy in the UK.
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Le Monde reports on how climate change and intensive irrigation are draining the Amu Darya—the largest river in Central Asia. What future for Uzbek agriculture: more water-hungry rice and cotton, or a switch to crops such as sorghum and sesame?
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Science is based on assumptions. Philosophy can make sure they’re the right ones. | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Science is based on assumptions. Philosophy can make sure they’re the right ones.
When I was a postdoctoral researcher, I spent several years teaching at an interdisciplinary research institute in Vienna, Austria. There, my main course sought to train master’s students—mostly biolo...
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research @isplore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis Exciting #plantscience work by @daanweits.bsky.social @panicuccigabriele.bsky.social @syno2xis.bsky.social out now in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis
Oxygen availability underpins energy production in multicellular organisms, yet internal oxygen gradients arise in both plants and animals. Plants sense these variations via the plant cysteine oxidase...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.
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WutTheWut😵‍💫 RBroeck🗳️💙 @wutthewut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Believe the science. It is literally written in stone. Vaccinate.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
YouTube video on plant nuclei isolation from a PhD student at my postdoc lab www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqW... #PlantScience
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Plant Nuclei Isolation Protocol
YouTube video by IPBGG
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Attac France @attac.org · 28/08/2026
Le MEDEF ose se plaindre que les grandes entreprises paient trop d'impôts. En réalité, depuis les années 1980, dans toute l'Union européenne, l'impôt sur les sociétés ne fait que diminuer (en France, de 50% en 1985 à 25% aujourd'hui) tandis que l'injuste TVA ne cesse d'augmenter.
Graphique du World Inequality Lab, présentant l'évolution du taux d'impôt sur les sociétés et du taux de TVA dans l'Union européenne entre 1980 et 2017.

Le taux d'imposition des sociétés passe en moyenne de 50 à 25% (sachant que la tendance est exactement la même en France) tandis que le taux de TVA passe de 18% à 21%.
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"The Iran war represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels... Making fossil fuels cheaper now will have catastrophic consequences in the future." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The worst energy policy in the world
The Iran war could serve as a turning point in accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels: Every additional day that oil and gas prices are high and future supplies are uncertain, wind ...
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dolly Parton dies aged 80 — researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is what a real leader says.
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Twice divorced Richard Tice, currently in a relationship with a divorcee, speaking for a party led by twice-divorced Farage, tells us unmarried people should be deprioritised for social housing.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A genuinely good person
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense, says chair of global public health at the Universit...
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Claudia Martinho @cssmartinho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2369
Closing date: Monday 21 September 2026, 23:59
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Abdellah Barakate @abdellahbarakate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"This might explain why no world leader is doing anything to stop the wars raging at the moment. The profits are simply too high Stop the Wars NOW!" via Phil Brookes
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.
Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Arabidopsis Col-0 is not one thing "Genetic and epigenetic divergence among Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 laboratory lineages since the 1950s". #PlantScience From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Genetic and epigenetic divergence among Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 laboratory lineages since the 1950s
The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been a workhorse of plant biology since the 1950s, when the Columbia-0 (Col-0) accession was widely adopted by the research community as a reference genotype. ...
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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is an incredible speech, which every American should hear. I had it pinned but somehow it was deleted, not by me. youtu.be/QIK9vbQRwBQ?...
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Speech againt Trump, by french senator, Claude Malhuret. ( English subtitles )
YouTube video by Alain Cazes
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