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Eduardo de la Peña

@agricoedu.bsky.social
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Professor at Ghent University, Department of Plants and Crops @UGent plant production, crop protection, agro-diversity RT≠endorse

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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 10h
🌱🧬 Sulfur links nutrition to immunity and microbiome assembly. Microbes unlock soil sulfur; plants use sulfur compounds as antimicrobials and ecological filters. Key for sustainable nutrient management. #plantscience @jxbotany.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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Sulfur as a central integrator of plant–microbe interactions: from nutrient cycling to immune signalling and microbiome assembly
This review summarizes current knowledge on the role of sulfur compounds in plant interactions with pathogens and plant growth-promoting bacteria.
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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I guess it was only a matter of time. Another threat just added to European agricultural production f24.my/CB87 🧪🐛
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Hungary detects invasive spotted lanternfly for first time in EU
An invasive insect linked to major agricultural losses in the US has been detected in the European Union for the first time, Hungary's food safety agency said Thursday.
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Chris Snook @chrissnook.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Smew in flight #BirdOfTheDay #Ducks&GeeseInFlight #birds 🪶
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Aneto and Aneto Glacier 2015 | 2026 Collapse of the ice continuum at the roof of the Pyrenees! 🧊🔥 (Main Aneto remaining ice body is right to this view) In coming years, we are moving towards complete de-icing of the region 💧 Future generations will enjoy a stone desert... 📷 Miquel Seu
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/10/2026
Birds lay eggs in a diverse array of colors, patterns, sizes, and shapes. After looking at nearly 50,000 eggs from more than 1400 bird species, researchers in Science found that egg shape is related to flight ability. Learn more on #WorldEggDay: scim.ag/3YUZkQc
Birds lay eggs in a diverse array of colors, patterns, sizes, and shapes, as seen in this assortment from the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology collection. 

Photo: © Frans Lanting
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1Bit Fever Dreams @1bit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Macintosh b&w art, random pick from my collection day 11
black and white bitmap art of a space view above a planet. we see a technological satellite and a natural moon satellite in the distance
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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Plant biosecurity and phytosanitary regimes facing potential instrumentalization dynamics": the latest version of my article as #SSRN preprint, this time full in English papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 10/10/2026
A new species of giant waterlily identified with the help of social media and satellite photos is just one of three discovered in the past few years
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Number of known species of giant waterlilies almost doubles | New Scientist
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🌿🧬 CAM evolution reshapes more than its core pathway. In Yucca, weak mRNA-protein correlation points to post-transcriptional control, with shifts extending into nitrogen metabolism. Cascading effects across primary metabolism. #plantscience @jxbotany.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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Integrative analysis of CAM photosynthesis reveals its impact on primary metabolism in Yucca
Integrated transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic analyses reveal extensive reorganization of primary metabolism, and highlight the importance of post-
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spotlighting global #plantscience that drives the field forward. We share AI-generated summaries of key papers/news that deserve more eyes, always with source links. Inbox us a paper link or tag us to be featured. #plantsci
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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · 04/10/2026
What are the implications of overlapping climate and geopolitical shocks for #FoodSecurity? ️️🌎 On Oct. 8, this event will feature complementary perspectives on risks at the global level & new IFPRI modeling of direct impacts in Malawi, Kenya, Ethiopia, India, & Guatemala: bit.ly/ElNiñoIran
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cat and rat erradication in Floreana Island (Galápagos) led to a rapid and notable increase in the abundance of two native reptiles, despite the presence (and possibly increaes) of equally ibvasive mice Very nice and robust paper besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Patrick 🥦 @omega2k.de · 01/10/2026
Alles wie immer, oder? #Klimakatastrophe #WTF2026
sea surface temperature anomaly
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
France’s ongoing drought has once again pushed soil moisture further below historical levels than any previously recorded drought. Uncharted territory.
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Longest lasting snowpatch in Scotland about to melt completely for the 6th year in a row! ❄️🔥 For the record, it melted only 3 times during the 20th century! 📉 rmets.org/metmatters/s... 📷 Iain Cameron
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🌱🧬Wild rice harbours genes lost during domestication that recruit beneficial microbes. OsRLK, found mainly in wild rice, associates with Acinetobacter to boost N uptake. Overexpression increased yield in field trials A way to microbiome-guided breeding #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Wild rice locus enables microbiome re-domestication for enhanced nitrogen-use efficiency - Nature Microbiology
Hybridization of wild and cultivated rice plants improves nitrogen use efficiency through microbiome re-domestication.
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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cooke et al. The importance of insect biodiversity for vertebrates www.nature.com/articles/s44... #ornithology
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The importance of insect biodiversity for vertebrates - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Changes in insect diversity and abundance can affect vertebrates but understanding these consequences relies on having rich information about vertebrate–insect interactions. This Review summarizes the...
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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We like to think that new crop varieties are developed without modern techniques. But the honest story is that most are, even if they are not gene edited or genetically modified. So how do plant breeders now-a-days develop new crop varieties? plantenzo.substack.com/p/from-wild-... #PlantScience
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From Wild Tomato to Super Crop: How Plant Breeders Create New Traits
Looking for tomatoes at the fruit and veg section at the supermarket you come across different sizes, colours, and sweetness.
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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ONE YEAR of melting at Morteratsch Gl.! 😱 10 meters of ice thickness loss has been measured here at 2200 m asl! 🧊🔥 The massive cliff and the huge ice cave I was contemplating last October are gone... 😢 Webcam @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Devastating! 😱 The figures have just been published by glamos.ch Swiss glacier have lost 5.5% of their volume this year! (2nd worst year just after 2022)! Since 2022, 20% of total ice volume has gone! 📈 20%...in just FIVE years! 🧊🔥 Full report: doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026
Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mount Stanley (Rwenzori Mtns, UG) 1906 | 2022 The massif peaking at Margherita Peak (5,109 m) is the last of the three formerly glaciated zones in Rwenzori Mtns 🏔️🧊 Africa is currently losing its last glaciers... 🔥 📷 Vittorio Sella and Klaus Thymann
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Glacier Carré (La Meije) 2008 | 2018 | 2026 The iconic ice patch punctuating La Meije (3983 m) south face and its normal route (3600-3780 m) could not resist the insane 2026 summer! 😪 Our cryospheric heritage is literally being destroyed before our very eyes! 🧊🔥 📷 PNE and Félix de Montety
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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · 29/09/2026
🍅 On the UN International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste Reduction, learn how AI can help us better understand where food is being lost. 🧵👇
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Matterhorn SE face 27th sept. 2026 We are leaving a desert to next generations... 🔥 📷 Via Niko Froitzheim
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NeoBiota @neobiota.pensoft.net · 28/09/2026
If unmanaged, the German wasp could cost South Africa's fruit, wine grape, and household pest control sectors US$160-300M over 50 years, a new study finds, justifying eradication spending up to $3-6M/year, or investment in slowing its spread. Full open-access article: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A Pint at the Gaslamp, Manchester, painting by Michael Ashcroft.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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Cosmos: El Legado de Sagan 🪐 @cosmos1980.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨: Saturno fotografiado por Voyager 1 en 1980.
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Ignace @hostens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
René Rimbert (French, 1896-1991) “Vue sur la ville ou la fenêtre ouverte” 1929
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Robin Heinen @robinheinennl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I will probably be posting about this one a lot in the coming weeks: our special issue on ALAN / light pollution in Biological Conservation is now open for submissions! With @gkalinkat.bsky.social, Jacqueline Degen, and Franz Hölker. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oferta de tesis (financiada) en @ebdonana.bsky.social sobre redes de plantas y polinizadores con @domgarvir.bsky.social y conmigo. Detalles aquí: domgarvir.github.io/domgarvir_we... El deadline para recabar candidatos es de solo 10 días (bambu.csic.es/alfresco/web...). ¡Escríbenos!
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PULSE — Virginia Domínguez-García
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gran Paradiso Aug. 1980 | Sept. 2026 Incredible repeat photography of the Gran Paradiso glaciers 46 years apart, showing the magnitude of man-made glacial collapse in the Alps - which will never be white again! 🧊🔥 📷 Antonio and Riccardo Bussano 🙏
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 22/09/2026
Irrigation increases crop yields, which reduces the need for agricultural land and thus the clearing of forests and associated carbon emissions. A study estimates that US irrigation provides an estimated gross GHG benefit of 6.86 Gt CO2e annually. In PNAS: ow.ly/Rura50ZPSuB
Net GHG emissions from irrigation in the United States. Total national impacts by source of emission under the current and zero-irrigation scenarios.
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Chris Snook @chrissnook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Audouin’s Gull, what a beautiful bird 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay #Gulls #birds
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mother chimp sadly goes to a towel to see her baby after two days which she thought was born dead. Original post
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Barbara is fun
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Photo Diary @amablephoto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
. 📸 ©️ Ramon Masats .
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Pieter Vantieghem @pietervantieghem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I've seen Borbo borbonica in S Spain (also on Squirting cucumber, one of its favorite nectar plants) so I perfectly understand the thrill of finding this rare species. But in a broader perspective it should worry us that this many African species get a foothold in Spain. #climatechange
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🌾🧬 Global PUE averages just 25% for maize, rice, and wheat. A machine learning model shows feasible gains of 5–6% under real-world constraints. Cropping system and fertilizer type matter most. A framework for region-specific phosphorus management. #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Global patterns and feasible improvement potential of phosphorus use efficiency in cereal croplands - Nature Food
Low phosphorus use efficiency limits crop production while accelerating the depletion of finite phosphorus resources and environmental pollution. Using a machine learning framework that incorporates f...
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tropical royal flycatcher 13-17cm southern Mexico, through Central America Diet mostly flying insects caught mid air. Female incubate 2 eggs for 22 days. Parents fed chicks 27 days in the nest , fledge and Parents feed them for 4 more weeks male with red crest, female has a yellow crest
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🌿🧬 HLB isn't a classic bacterial infection—it's an immune-mediated disease. CLas triggers chronic effector-triggered immunity in citrus, redefining how we understand and manage this devastating pathogen. #plantscience @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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Immune activation drives citrus Huanglongbing
Citrus Huanglongbing (HLB), caused by the phloem-limited bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas) and considered the most destructive citrus disease worldwide, has long been regarded as a ty...
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Nature @nature.com · 11/09/2026
The most successful early-career researchers often rely on a network of mentors who each have different roles — from advising on research and grants to making professional introductions and providing emotional support go.nature.com/46U5PXy
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Successful early-career scientists rely on network of mentors
Large networks are particularly beneficial to researchers in under-represented groups.
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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · 11/09/2026
🆕 #Blog El Niño and rising fertilizer costs: How vulnerable is Malawi in 2027? 🖊️ By Chris Hillbruner, Karl Pauw, and Weston Anderson. 🔗 Read more here: on.cgiar.org/3SXz48K @cgiar.org
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El Niño and rising fertilizer costs: How vulnerable is Malawi in 2027?
Impacts of overlapping shocks.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fabulous Ice Age spear thrower handle carved in the form of an animal. Known as the ‘Creeping Hyena’ it was carved from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago. The shaft is missing, but the hook to propel the spear is still visible. From La Madeleine rock shelter, France. 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows an Upper Paleolithic spear-thrower (also known as an atlatl) carved in the form of a crouching animal, viewed in profile with head to left. Its head and neck are extended forward, low to the ground, and its legs are tucked beneath its body. It has a long downward curved tail, the pointed lower end of which ends beneath the body at lower right, forming the hook against which the tail end of the spear rests. The shaft of the spear thrower is missing. The ivory is a warm beige colour and is cracked with age in places. The sculpture is mounted on a thin metal support in a museum display case. It was found in La Madeleine rock shelter, Tursac, Dordogne, France. I saw this spear thrower on display at the Pompidou Centre, on loan from the National Prehistory Museum in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits 🧪🌐🌾 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits
Climate change increases plant species richness in alpine ecosystems. However, to what extent this diversity enrichment masks extinction dynamics of resident species remains elusive. In this study, we...
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Abandoned Film Theatre in Dresden Germany #Cinema #Photography
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🧵Those weathered doors seem to hold a thousand untold stories. Who once stepped through them each morning? Who worked behind them, laughed there, argued, dreamed, or even loved. Worn surfaces, closed doors and the faint suggestion of lives that have long since moved on but where memories remain.
Lost to time. 🏚️ There is something hauntingly beautiful about the textures of urban decay. This exposed party wall tells the story of an entire building that used to stand right here, leaving behind doors that now open into thin air.
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Mughal artist Ustād Manṣūr, produced in the 1620s what is probably the most lively painting of a dodo. In fact, It is possible that he used live individuals as models, since two dodos where transported to the Mughal court in the early 17tn c
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