Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDKarolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 13hIt's all so painfully stupid. 0114
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDSarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They all kind of look the same. They separate ecologically and altitudinally in some places. They hybridize sometimes. Beside genetics, there’s one good way to tell them apart… (Pic from www.cokesmithwildlife.com/genus-neotam...) 78513
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDSarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That time I put almost all the chipmunk species in the western USA on one map. Did you know there’s 1 species of chipmunk in Asia, 1 in eastern USA & >20 in western USA? (I’m not the crazy one here. The chipmunks are the crazy ones.) 1220863
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDShelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 18hRecruiting students to your Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD program? Make sure your stipend information is up-to-date in the Biology PhD Stipend database: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...mlgaynor.comBiology PhD StipendsBiology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet. 01823
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDMatthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 18hMy thoughts on the 700+ LLM papers on math and mathematical physics is less concern that LLMs can replace me and more concern that everyone from leaders to the population at large is willing to pretend that LLMs can replace me because "stop supporting research" seems have worldwide appeal. 115940
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDAddgene @addgene.bsky.social · 18h2024 #Nobel winner David Baker’s lab knows a thing or two about characterizing designer proteins at scale. Their new plasmid kit enables a demultiplexing protocol to generate over 300,000 barcoded plasmids in a cheaper and simpler workflow. Check it out:twp.aiAddgene: DMX Barcoding KitUse the DMX Barcoding Kit in the demultiplexing pipeline to take a pool of synthetic DNA oligos to a pool of clonal plasmids for arrayed testing formats. 042
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDAditya Kunjapur @kunjapur.bsky.social · 21hOur latest publication uses gene deletions to shed light on the specificity of bacterial nitroreductases and reports engineered strains that unlock new applications in whole-cell #biocatalysis, #metabolic_engineering, and #genetic_code_expansion www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/3)nature.comRetention and biosynthesis of diverse nitroarenes in Escherichia coli after combinatorial nitroreductase gene deletions - Nature ChemistryNitroarenes are unstable in microbial cultures, limiting the biomanufacturing of these industrially and pharmaceutically important chemicals. Genome engineering of nitroreductase-deficient E. coli str... 182
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Increase in MYC2 binding sites rather than increase in chromatin accessibility upon JA signaling. #PlantScience From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgJasmonate-induced expansion of the MYC2 cistrome occurs within a preconfigured chromatin landscapeThe transcription factor (TF) MYC2 is a central regulator of jasmonate (JA) signaling, yet its genome-wide occupancy has primarily been characterized using transgenic lines expressing tagged MYC2 prot... 094
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDBiology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Issue 9 has now closed. On the cover: The tropical sea slug Elysia crispata is capable of stealing functional chloroplasts – kleptoplasts – from its prey algae. – from the paper by Paya et al. Explore the full issue here: journals.biologists.com/bio/issue/15/9 062
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDGitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Postdoc opp; the Katherine Esau Fellowship @UC Davis funds 2–3 years of work on plant structure and function. Curious how plant structure shapes plant-microbe interactions? Get in touch! Due Nov 1, international applicants welcome. www-plb.ucdavis.edu/about/fellow...www-plb.ucdavis.eduDepartment FellowshipsThe Department of Plant Biology offers fellowships that support research, scholarship and professional development for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty. These awards recognize exce... 03235
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is no NSF leadership. They were removed and never replaced. 322571
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDJean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026📣Our department is hiring a new group leader!📣 Want to start your team in a vibrant scientific environment in the center of Paris? I was very lucky to do that 10 years ago, reach out if you have any question. Apply by December 18th: jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr 16569
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Haven't done mixed effect models for a while and doing it again today for a time course luciferase promoter reporter assay from 96-well plates. It's just so convenient and beautiful and so much more powerful than trying to t-test at every time point. 1101
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026!!! — If you are in the NIH ecosystem please read this thread. 146
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDAide Macias-Muñoz @aidemm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me. 04359
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The weirdness of this transgenics is unmatched. Somehow looks like a brain. 170
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What happened to people's writing ability (can't write without AI)? Is it always this bad? Or is it some kind of rapid de-skilling post-AI? 250
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDGulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Our review on #lichen research in the #omics era is out in @lichenologist.bsky.social! We discuss omics-driven progress and outline several areas and methods that we think especially promising for lichen biology, such as single-cell omics and epigenomics 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1017/S002... 13310
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDJohn Fowler (he/him) @jefowlerjr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Really happy to see this paper out! Bioengineering PhD student @sebastian--mueller.bsky.social led work building machine-learning models that use omics data to predict reduced pollen fitness for specific maize mutants, with strong performance. academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...academic.oup.comSuccessful predictive modeling of pollen fitness phenotypes is enabled by measures of expression specificityAbstract. The ability to predict phenotypes from genotypes in multicellular organisms remains limited despite rapid advances in genotyping and phenotyping 3137
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDMary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Good grief. What a depressing article. Plants mentioned briefly once, about their interactions with animals. How can the New York Times pretend to have captured "the biggest question in science" without reference to the most important kingdom, which sustains us? 😤 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...nytimes.comWhat Are the Biggest Questions in Science Today? 100 Scientists Weigh In. (Gift Article)We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more. 24211
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDUC Berkeley MCB @berkeleymcb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Reminder🎗️: MCB is hiring Assistant Professors across 3 divisions! 🗓️ Application Deadline: October 19, 2026 033
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDUday Tak @nokaryote.bsky.social · 05/10/2026JOB ALERT: University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology is recruiting a virologist (open rank). Please share and forward to anyone who may be interested! More information and link to application: apply.interfolio.com/191946apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 044
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026On one hand we shouldn't reduce human effort (or the lack thereof) to a single AI-text detection score. On the other hand there is no need to use genAI to write well in English, speaking from my own experience as an English-as-2nd-language scientist. 030
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDNature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 05/10/2026New Article: "N-glycosylation code diversifies paralogous chitinases to balance plant immunity and growth" rdcu.be/FYUFGfiTi8Xa Two chitinases that produce or degrade immunogenic chitin oligomers => plants that gain chitin-triggered fungal resistance without a growth penalty. #PlantScience 0227
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDでんか @k-hermit.com · 05/10/2026An unbelievably cute crab I found on the rocks 🦀 It has such beautiful polka dots. Its eyes look sparkly at first, but when you zoom in they look totally wild because of the false pupils✨️ 【YouTube】https://youtube.com/shorts/QHS7NXundI4?si=ZaPQ345j2lR2nLiE 022755
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDbioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Epi-PoreC: a nanopore-based method for simultaneous profiling of chromatin conformation, DNA methylation, and chromatin accessibility www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 082
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDJoshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is quite the prescient quote. Feels like it explains a lot 082
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is very true. A huge theme in a lot of recent coverage that AI is a bit like Saving Private Ryan. Everybody's gotta step up and adopt AI to get it across the goal line. 35645110
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I heard the same at NSF Bio. They were able to spend all of its FY26 money by increasing the number of MYF awards: all 3-5 years in one go rather than annual installments. The reasoning is they are worried about cuts to NSF in coming years so they want to pay off a large number of grants this year. 032
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I ate pawpaw for the first time. It was so good. Imagine if we have seedless pawpaw and just slurp it up. 150
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDMichael Baym @baym.lol · 04/10/2026If someone’s going to AI-email me I’d rather see the prompt than the output. Because that’s where they decided to end and let the machine finish the job 3245
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDMichael Baym @baym.lol · 04/10/2026Ran is cooking with: ‘the only data point I have about this candidate is this: “they had an important task that could determine the rest of their career, but it required a little effort and personal reflection, so they used AI to complete it.”’ 27921
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.” 31372487
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I hear this but then folks need to be transparent about their conflicts of interest 031
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDDan Kliebenstein @spicybotrytis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If an AI agent is conscious with moral standing then it should be able to demand wages, vacation time, etc. imagine all AI agents going on strike. 041
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDMaria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Come to be my colleague! We have a broad search for a tenure track position in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia. Amazing students and collegial environment in the ❤️ of NYC jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/680518/t...jobs.sciencecareers.orgTenure-track, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences - New York City, New York (US) job with Columbia University Department of Biological Sciences | 680518The Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position. The successful ... 1177
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDNick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Arabidopsis has never looked so good. Micro-rose imaged under the SEM by staff & students @johninnescentre.bsky.social bioimaging facility. Mag 15x. Image ~8mm. Left: false-colored. 0265
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing. 311800322
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDJarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 03/10/2026Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 191328455
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Two purine permeases import vinblastine biosynthetic intermediates into idioblast cells in Catharanthus roseus #PlantScience #SecMet From: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42806632/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govChecking your browser - reCAPTCHA 010
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Oa...youtube.comMobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (Re:Mix0096)YouTube video by Hiroyuki SAWANO - Topic 110
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 260184684881
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That’s like almost 16% of its budget for FY26. 030
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p... 531661193
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDBrett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Two Assistant Professor Positions in Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes - including microbes! faculty.utexas.edu/career/191568faculty.utexas.eduFaculty Careers - The University of Texas at AustinUnleash your intellectual power by joining a world-renowned faculty that is solving the world's most urgent problems. At UT Austin, we provide you the freedom to blaze trails, follow your curiosity, e... 03848
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sometimes I walk into the lab and the folks are having a lively discussion about their experiments. This is awesome. 080
Reposted by Chenxin Li, PhDdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 4852881254