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Chenxin Li, PhD

@chenxinli2.bsky.social
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Or just “Li” | Assist. Prof. @ Plant Bio, Michigan State U. | Also post data visualization | Lab: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab | GitHub: github.com/cxli233

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Adam Bentham @adamrbentham.bsky.social · 15h
🚨 Please share! 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 4-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD studentship at Durham! 🌱🤖 Designing plant immune receptors from scratch, combining AI protein design with structural biology and plant immunity. If you're interested please get in touch! benthamlab.org shorturl.at/U2PdV
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Bentham Lab — Durham University
Bentham Lab, Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, Durham University. Structural biology and de novo protein design applied to host-pathogen interactions, plant immunity, and neglected tropical d...
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 8h
A TurboID-based proximity labeling tool to track the plant secretomes Lin et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/K9ABWG...
Sodium chloride-induced conventional secretion of Apoplastic EDS1-Dependent 3 protein.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 2h
“I don’t use [generative AI] when I write grants or papers. … So I don’t particularly want them reading my work either.” scim.ag/46Qiqv3
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U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
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Aaron and the Hoskins Lab at UW Madison @uwmadisonrna.bsky.social · 10h
New from @daspliceisright.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The strength of a gene's first 5' splice site is a key determinant of its expression
The control of gene expression is central to cellular physiology and to various biotechnological applications. In higher eukaryotes, synthesis of most messenger RNAs involves removal of introns during...
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 9h
UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺
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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut
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Philippe Batut @philippebatut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧬🔬 Why are enhancers transcribed and how does that impact gene regulation? I’m really excited to share our new paper in @science.org showing that noncoding RNAs control the timing of gene activation in embryos. With Mike Levine #ScienceResearch @columbiamed.bsky.social A few highlights below... 🧵👇
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Noncoding transcription controls the developmental dynamics of long-range gene regulation
The genomic regions regulating gene expression are often themselves transcribed into a variety of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). However, the regulatory roles of this noncoding transcription remain largely ...
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pre-2023: Make sure you have no typos in your CV!!! Post-2023: Make sure you have typos in your CV!!!
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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France
I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…
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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are recruiting at the assistant professor level ~ Ideal candidates have expertise in genomics and/or biochemistry, applying emerging experimental, computational, AI-driven methods to answer mechanistic questions in human health. Please share! First review 10/30. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07832
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Assistant Professor- Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Requiring scientists to be political neutral is to require scientists to shut up when the facts are inconvenient.
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Job alert! We are looking for a Head of Applied Genomics in our Vegetable Division @kwsgroup.bsky.social. This is a leadership position (full-time, permanent) based in the Netherlands. A strong background in #CropGenetics and leadership experience are necessary. #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs
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Head of Applied Genomics
Head of Applied Genomics
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We made some transgenic plants. I love how weird they look.
Dark green plant on soil with disorganized shoots Dark green plant on soil with disorganized shoots. One large leaf can be seen.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Intellectual theft and people feeding their unpublished work to the theft.
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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"And it is time to formalize what this means, and which sorts of human judgment cannot (or should not) be offloaded to AI." Excellent article and I think one that underscores much of my own thoughts on AI, as someone who uses it!
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Kimberly Beatty @beattylab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please share: OHSU is hiring an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry. We are looking for a chemical biologist who will apply novel chemical tools in physiological systems. Apply online: www.ohsu.edu/human-resour... (Job # 2026-41667).
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OHSU Faculty, Physician and Academic Jobs in Oregon
Find higher education faculty, physician and research jobs and build your academic health career at OHSU in Portland, Oregon.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
Front page of the website
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow really nice animation
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Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD @junlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/5 Do you use GFP to measure protein abundance? Be very careful. Our new bioRxiv preprint shows that, under translation inhibition, fluorescence can stop tracking how much reporter protein is actually there. Please share widely.
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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.
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Schneeberger Lab @labschneeberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thrilled to share our new @nature.com paper from Xiao Dong on the mutational dynamics of centromeres in Arabidopsis thaliana! 🌱 A quick thread on what we found... 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres - Nature
Centromeres in Arabidopsis thaliana evolve through frequent insertions and deletions of repeat units and increased rates of point mutations driven by homology-directed repair, a mutation spectrum that...
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marketapernis.bsky.social @marketapernis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have an open PhD position in plant in vitro regeneration! 🌱👇 www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cool new work from @thanvisrikant.bsky.social & @kbomblies.bsky.social: Chromosomes in #Arabidopsis thaliana neo-polyploids break preferentially at fragile sites that correspond to ancient genome rearrangements #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Detection and analyses of aneuploidies in neo-tetraploid A. thaliana. (A) Schematic
representation of how neo-tetraploid F1 were generated through reciprocal crossing of Col-0 and
Ler neo-tetraploid inbreds. See Figure S1A for more details. (B-D) Examples of aneuploidy
detection using sequencing coverage data from three F1 individuals, “Cross_3_Plant_32”,
“Cross_3_Plant_25” and “Cross_38_Plant_01”, respectively (Figure S2, S3). The upper panels
show aneuploidy detection using a read-coverage approach and the lower panels show a
variant-calling based approach. The Ler chromosomes are indicated as L1-L5 (orange) and Col-
0 chromosomes are indicated as C1-C5 (blue). In both panels, every data point represents a
mean value (normalised read coverage / allele frequency) in a 100kb window of the genome.
For the upper panels, sequencing data are mapped to an in-silico hybrid genome that combines
TAIR10.1 (Col-0) and Ler. For the lower panels, the sequencing data are mapped to a Ler
reference genome. (B) Data from a euploid individual with normalised coverage consistent with
two copies of each maternally and paternally inherited chromosome (upper panel), and allele
frequencies clustering around 0.5 when mapped to a Ler reference genome (lower panel). (C)
Data from an individual affected by a full-length aneuploidy – a loss of one Chromosome 2 copy
from Col-0, resulting in a drop in coverage (upper panel) and sharp changes in allele frequency
(lower chromosome) for Chr2. (D) Data from an individual affected by a segmental loss of part
of Chromosome 4 from the Ler parent.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
100%. The AI companies built their products by stealing from others. Every prompt, every question, every document you upload to Copilot or any of these online models is another data point for them to plunder.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 27/09/2026
We were stunned by the convergent evolution by different strains in each patient. In total, 108 genes acquired parallel mutations indicating common host selection. 55 genes had ≥4 independent mutations! Each infection gained a combination of 5 of the most frequent, like a winning hand of cards.
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Human design or AI-generated? 🤖🎨 With AI-generated images everywhere, we get this question a lot! The figures in our publications are designed by a talented human: Marie. 🌱✨✏️🧠🌿 👉 See her work: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/mh 📖 Example: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... #SciArt #SciComm @puckerlab.bsky.social
Pathway illustration for the anthocyanin and carotenoid biosynthesis. Figure source and details: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71136.
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Jesper Boman @jesperboman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Microbial signaling coordinates group oviposition and predator defense in migratory locusts www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can mathematics explain how biological patterns are formed? Alan Turing thought so. Join me, @benswedlund.bsky.social, as we explore his reaction-diffusion theory and how it transformed our understanding of pattern formation and self-organisation.
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Vikram Chandra @vchandra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am excited to announce that I will start the Brain Origins Lab at the Crick in March 2027! Using acoels as a model system, the lab will study how animal brains evolve, and how innovations in brain organisation enable new computational abilities and the evolution of complex behaviour.
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Daniel Kierzkowski @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🌱We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics @irbv.bsky.social If you are passionate about genetics, molecular biology, or imaging, this is your chance to join a community of researchers working on plant development, cell biology, evolution, ecology, and biodiversity. 👇
rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca
Careers
Through your undergraduate and graduate-level teaching, and your research activities, you will contribute to the faculty’s pursuit of excellence. Furthermore, you will promote your discipline and actively participate in the daily activities of a renowned institution. As such, you will:
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excited to share our new paper is out in TPJ! 🌱 "Out of the blue: family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae" We explore the anthocyanin biosynthesis gene loss through comparative genomics: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social #Evolution
Synteny analysis supports the loss of crucial genes in the anthocyanin biosynthesis across Cucurbitaceae. Details and figure reference: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71136
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でんか @k-hermit.com · 26/09/2026
全方向つるすべ
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The solution isn't obvious. The end game is to adhere to DORA, CoARA, etc... But the committees making hiring decisions are mostly treading water to understand the papers' basic premise and rarely expert enough to critique it robustly. We need to play 4D chess here: publish with non-profits. 4/n
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.
Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s top lieutenants have expressed frustration about a perceive slowdown in the adminstration’s attempts to force conservative cultural changes on academia.
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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Metabolic engineering reveals LUP5 as a determinant of saponin composition and insect feeding preference in Barbarea vulgaris (Jincheng Shen , Jan Günther , Sebastian Kjeldgaard-Nintemann , Pablo D Cárdenas , Søren Bak) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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Metabolic engineering reveals LUP5 as a determinant of saponin composition and insect feeding preference in Barbarea vulgaris
A plant enzyme reshapes defensive chemicals and reduces insect feeding, revealing how small metabolic changes can alter herbivore behavior.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple plant-related ones: Photochemical quenching; Dark respiration
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ok what is the most death metal biology term? Cytokine storm? Programmed death 1? Executioner caspase? Other?
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shame on you @ukri.org !!! This is so disrespectful to all those people that put in months to write these grants.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At one point in the evening there are two rabbits, one deer, and one groundhog in the backyard. I tried to take a picture but it’s hard to find an angle with all of them.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are basically like this in research already. Postdocs and PhD students growing plants, doing tissue culture, and pipetting, while AI chat bots doing the analyses, writing proposals and papers. Humans having to do the menial tasks, while AI chat bots took over the creative work.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026
Every day we get closer to this:
Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Deer in backyard
Deer with antlers sitting in backyard on grass, with back facing the camera. Deer with antlers sitting in backyard on grass, with back facing the camera. Its head is turned towards its back. Deer with antlers sitting in backyard on grass, with back facing the camera. Its head is facing its left side
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The other day I saw a private foundation funding opportunity on molecular, cell, and dev bio and I was like good maybe I can apply? Then towards the end it’s like “we don’t fund plant sciences” damn it.
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