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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sad that Nobel Laureate Prof. Ada Yonath has died. From a poor childhood, she became the first Israeli woman laureate and the first woman in 35 years to win a Nobel in chemistry for her work on ribosome structure. Was great to meet her in Helsinki in 2013. wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-...

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Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance, Has Passed Away - Weizmann Wonder Wander - News, Features and Discoveries

From pursuing an impossible dream to uncovering one of the cell’s best-kept secrets and advancing the design of improved antibiotics

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Some people will remember Thing from the Addams Family

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Try this excuse if you get breathalyzed in a traffic stop.

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Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

@kevinfolta.bsky.social writes: “𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘍𝘒 𝘑𝘳. 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘬𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, [𝘦.𝘨.] 𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩…”

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The Parallels between RFK Jr and Tofrim Lysenko: When Pseudoscience Infects National Leadership | Skeptical Inquirer

His nation’s leadership placed him in a position of profound influence that would impact the health of a nation. Once installed, he offered rapid solutions ...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

🌱 📢 8th Fascination of Plants Day 2026 is officially launched! Join us by organising interactive events engaging the public around the 18 May 2026 or as a participant. More info: www.plantday18may.org 👉 bit.ly/4oVTuZw #PlantsDay2026 #Plants #PlantScience

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

💡 EPSO welcomes the provisional agreement reached by the Trilogue on the legislative proposal for regulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) in plants. EPSO offers to contribute on a scientific basis. 🌱 #PlantScience #Biodiversity #Food2030EU #Bioeconomy #LifeSciences 👉 bit.ly/48Mds37

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KWS Group @kwsgroup.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Europe cannot afford to fall behind on innovation! We join 25 EU agri-food organizations urging policymakers to conclude #NGTs trilogue talks now. Science-based rules = resilient crops & global competitiveness. Act today! 🌱 euroseeds.eu/app/uploads/...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🌱📢EPSO wishes to encourage the development of ideas and imaginative thinking in #PlantScience and offers two awards to young scientists to present at the EPSO General Assembly Science Day on 17th June 2026. Submission deadline is 31.1.2026. 👉https://bit.ly/43cbx5Q.

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Soon, CDC will be listing protocols for exorcism.

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happy to have been a part of the worldwide effort to assemble a pan-genome and pan-transcriptome for oat! A great cereal crop with lots of health benefits. We hope this resource will advance oat quality improvement, resilience, and sustainability as well as provide a foundation for basic research.

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A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat - Nature

A pangenome of oat, assembled from 33 wild and domesticated oat lines, sheds light on the evolution and genetic diversity of this cereal crop and will aid genomics-assisted breeding to improve product...

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Their longevity I've wondered about for a long time. Harder to decipher the lifespan of the Greenland Shark, maybe 500 yr.

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A mechanism that I and certainly many others have wondered about has now been revealed.

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Happy International Coffee Day. Here is a new EFSA study, but don't lose sleep over it.

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Who would have guessed? Why it's worth exploring the various branches of the tree of life.

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Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺 @plantepigenetics.ch · 26/09/2025

How about we call genome edited crops "barely mutant"? Seems to be a nice workshop below btw!

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🫛 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🫛 Johansson et al. ✍️ Redox-active molecules such as ROS, RNS, and RSS orchestrate legume responses to diverse (a)biotic stresses and symbioses, offering novel strategies to enhance crop resilience in changing environments. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Integration of environmental changes through dynamic RONSS interactions and redox state in legumes. Abiotic (e.g. heat, salinity, metal toxicity, and nutrient deficiency) and biotic (e.g. pathogens and symbionts) cues induce diverse reactive oxygen (superoxide anion, O2·−); hydrogen peroxide, H2O2) nitrogen (nitric oxide, NO), and sulfur (hydrogen sulfide, H2S) species (RONSS) which combine with those produced during cell function (respiration and photosynthesis). In response to these multiple stimuli, the level of RONSS signalling is strictly controlled by numerous enzymatic and non-enzymatic systems affecting synthesis (such as RBOH/SOD, NRs, and DES) and scavenging (APX, GPX, PhytoGb, and SQR).

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Nice to see a genome assembly emerge for this barley wild relative. Hopefully, we'll learn how to improve barley's drought tolerance while maintaining yield.

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STAT @statnews.com · 29/08/2025

"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

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Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say

"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I miss the old brand #CDC

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Theoretical and Applied Genetics @theorapplgenet.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Pangenome reveals structural variant-driven variation in expression of in winter oilseed rape. Framework enables population-scale SV-eQTL discovery beyond traditional SNP-based approaches - major advance for functional genomics. Read more here:

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Graphical pangenomics-enabled characterization of structural variant impact on gene expression in Brassica napus

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

New Zealand had some of the most restrictive laws when it came to genetically engineered food crops. This move once again demonstrates how the NZ Government makes Science-based decisions. Take note, European Union! #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #PlantScience #Agroculture #Sustainability #PlantBreeding

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Really interesting to see this systematic and broad study on an important leaf trait.

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The campaign against science by the Trump administration through grant slashing has reached FlyBase. There is an effort to crowd-fund this vital database:

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Happy to announce our current scan of the risk environment for NGT (gene editing) in animals, just published today. doi.org/10.2903/j.ef...

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Interesting aspect to ABA: the role of poly-ubiquitination and mono-ubiquitination to post-transcriptionally regulate ABA receptors

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This bizarre rejection of health science is not incidental: MAGA represents a raging revolt against the very foundations of modern society which are roundly rejected as illegitimate impositions and a personal affront to the prerogative of the MAGA patriarch to decide what is true and what is real.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Nature reporters' ongoing coverage of Trump 2.0 impacts on science and scientists is collected here: www.nature.com/collections/... Reach me at alexwitze.01 on Signal, or witzescience[at]gmail.com, with tips, feedback, follow-ups, anything we should be covering, etc.

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How Trump 2.0 is reshaping science

Since US President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, his team has made major changes to the federal government that have disrupted research and ...

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Despite dire predictions, we're not there yet. But it's a cute beast and makes great copy.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration

a word cloud of the titles of canceled NIH grants with gender and minority being that largest words

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A warning from Harold Varmus about the consequences of the current American administration's dismantling and hobbling of research as well as public health measures in the US and worldwide. Where is the protest of this? bit.ly/42WGfAE

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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)

The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Well, the Freeze has been unfrozen, and grant money will flow for now. The idea was to put Woke to sleep, but instead many researchers woke up, wondering what to do about their impending flight and conference or the reagents they needed for an ongoing experiment. www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...

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White House rescinds memo on Trump order to freeze federal grants and loans - live updates

Donald Trump's team say the pause in some federal assistance still applies, but the withdrawal of the memo has sparked further confusion.

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Seen in Helsinki. I knew that viruses self-assemble, but didn't know it was also true for sandwiches. Remarkably, they can do this and experience emotion at the same time.

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