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Florian Busch

@florianabusch.bsky.social
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Plant physiologist interested in all things photosynthesis. Born at 329 ppm | Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham School of Biosciences and BIFoR (he/him)

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Am Endpunkt dieser Entwicklung stehen groteske Worthülsen wie der »hocheffiziente Verbrenner« und das zum Kampfbegriff verkommene Wort »Technologieoffenheit«, das heute schlicht Schutzgarantien für unterlegene Retrotechnik bezeichnet.” www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
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Meinung: Energiewende: Wie sich Deutschland von 150 Jahre alter Dampftechnik löst - Kolumne
Moderne Hochtechnologie braucht nur Strom, keinen Brennstoff, keinen Wasserdampf. Wie löst sich unsere vermeintliche Hightechnation von 150 Jahre alter Technik? An der Antwort hängt unsere Zukunft.
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Anfloet @anfloet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Britische Geheimdienste warnen: Alle sechs untersuchten Ökosysteme steuern auf den Kollaps zu, erste womöglich ab 2030. Folgen: leere Supermarktregale, Wasserknappheit, Konflikte, Migration. Keine Umweltstudie, sondern Sicherheitsanalyse. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Ulrich Hammes @uhammes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We’re looking for a new colleague in Würzburg! 🌱 W3 Professorship in Plant Metabolism 💊 Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology 🧪 Head of the Metabolomics Core Unit jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers... Please spread the word! Questions? Feel free to contact me. www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...
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W3_Pflanzenmetabolismus - FACULTY OF BIOLOGY
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Daniel Maag @qw3rtzu1op.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please share within your networks: our chair at the University of Würzburg is looking for a new head! W3 Professorship in Plant Metabolism at the Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...
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W3_Pflanzenmetabolismus - FACULTY OF BIOLOGY
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Benedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”
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How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch
YouTube video by Open Planet
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The EU needs to stop incentivising #biomass in the Renewable Energy Directive (#RED) and the EU Emissions Trading System (#EUETS). The Biomass Action Network of EPN, together with more than 40 NGOs, calls on the #EU to stop incentivising biomass in RED & ETS legislation. A thread🧵
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 21/09/2026
Bürokratieabbau: Regierung will Tankrabatt künftig direkt an Ölkonzerne überweisen www.der-postillon.com/2026/05/tank...
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Bürokratieabbau: Regierung will Tankrabatt künftig direkt an Ölkonzerne überweisen
Berlin (dpo) - Endlich unternimmt die Bundesregierung etwas gegen die überbordende Bürokratie in Deutschland: Anstelle des neu eingeführten Tankrabatt
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
By coincidence, I was asked by our opinion desk to write about the current panic over e-bikes, and so I wrote this, pointing out that if we're going to discuss e-bikes we should at least know what we're talking about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads | Peter Walker
As a cyclist I want the authorities to act with clarity. Lime bikes and renters can be annoying, but the true threat is those who dangerously flout the law, says the Guardian’s senior political corres...
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UCDavisPlants @ucdavisplants.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🌱 From Global Change Biology: Better models of how stomata regulate carbon and water could improve predictions of crop performance and ecosystem responses to climate change. (Thomas N. Buckley) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #PlantBiology
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A Simple Stomatal Model That Unifies the Metabolic and Hydraulic Control of Carbon and Water Flux
This figure shows the model's predictions in response to the familiar stomatal effectors.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're hiring... again! Lecturer in Bioinformatics, £51,753 - £58,225 per year Awesome city, awesome colleagues, awesome students. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bristoluni #wearebristoluni #biologicalsciences Please share widely!
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Believe them when they say who they are.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ready for some good news? We can do it! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists
Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are hiring a new lecturer in Bioinformatics! Hit the link below to find out more and apply: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... #bristoluni #wearebristoluni #biologicalsciences
Job Alert! Lecturer in Bioinformatics. Come and join use in the world class Life Sciences Building at the University of Bristol! Closing date: Sunday 27 September.
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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📢 Could you be the next Chief Editor of in silico Plants? We’re inviting applications from established plant scientists with proven editorial experience and a passion for computational plant science. 📅 Apply by Sept 24, 2026 ℹ️ More information: buff.ly/DKuXDng #PlantSciJobs
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is the most accurate, hilarious, depressing thing I've read today.
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Paula Elomaa @paulaelomaa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Open university lecturer position at @helsinki.fi Dept. of Agricultural Sciences! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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University Lecturer in Crop science
University Lecturer in Crop science
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026
We haven’t just changed our weather. We’ve changed the climate in which our weather happens. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/learning-f...
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Learning from the summers of 1976 and 2026
We have changed the climate in which our weather happens
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026
Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022
No arrests made during Dover protest, Kent Police says
published at 13:34 5 September
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Kent Police has issued a statement following the disruption in Dover earlier today.
It says officers "responded to a spontaneous protest" during Saturday morning, adding "no arrests were made".
"Traffic is flowing normally, and all involved had dispersed by midday," it addsThe Met Police said 35 people had been arrested in response to the disruption.
Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the action was "criminality", not protest, and pledged to bring those involved to justice as quickly as possible.
"This was a very significant and co-ordinated effort to cause massive disruption to the entirety of the M25," he added.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Urbanist Philomena Cunk. In America, jaywalking makes it illegal to stand on the Earth in the wrong place, just in case a Chevrolet needs that exact spot. It is the only crime where the primary punishment is being instantly run over by the victim.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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miezikatze 2 @miezi-katze.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
1,5 Jahre, nachdem die "wirtschaftskompetente" Regierung an den Start gegangen ist, hat sich alles erfüllt. Zu den miserablen Umfragewerten kommt hinzu, dass der "Kanzler" im Wahlkampf das Volk meidet und nur mit Industriebossen redet, weil er die Buhrufe und Pfiffe nicht erträgt. #KanzlerMiMiMi
Ich fasse noch einmal zusammen, was ich Euch vor Jahren gesagt habe:
1. Wenn die deutsche Automobilindustrie statt billiger E-Autos unbezahlbare Verbrenner baut, wird sie alles verlieren.
2. Wenn wir die erneuerbaren Energien nicht ausbauen wird Energie teuer.
3. Wenn wir Öl und Gas aus Schurkenstaaten importieren, wird man uns erpressen.
4. Wenn wir all das nicht machen, wird das Klima übel und unserer Wohlstand ist Geschichte.
5. Wenn wir weiter Politik für Reiche machen, werden Populisten das nutzen und das Land spalten.
Und dann habt Ihr die Leute gewählt, die Euch das Gegenteil erzählt haben.
"geklaut" bei Tom, der keinen alt-Text geschrieben hat ;)
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉 The projects can be structured around our research directions: - Transposable element dynamics - Fungal pangenomics - ML/language model genomics applications - Pathogen adaptation More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏
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Evolutionary genomics of pathogens
Croll lab at University of Neuchatel. The lab of Daniel Croll wants to understand how pathogens evolve to cause disease. For this, we mainly focus on major crop pathogens to unravel mechanisms of rapi...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning
Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies
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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Job alert: Research associate for the project "Developing and applying simulation and machine learning models for Asian leafy vegetables to predict growth" at NTU Singapore, in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/... #PlantSciJobs
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Research Associate (Horticulture and Plant Physiology)
The School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB) at NTU Singapore, in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research (WUR), is part of the Singapore Indoor Farming System…
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026
‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Looking beyond stomata: a closer look at water relations in mosses suggests hidden mechanisms for regulating plant water loss 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 👆 A #Commentary by Teresa E. Gimeno on this article by Perera-Castro et al.👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fig. 1 from Perera-Castro et al: Response to dehydration of (a) net CO2 assimilation rate (AN) and (b) transpiration rate (E) for the studied species.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 03/09/2026
The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Interesting article 👇 "A New World Order ls Coming. We Aren't Ready." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
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Opinion | A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready. (Gift Article)
We must be honest about the seriousness of the situation we’re in.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Get ready.
Get ready for every person on a bike to take the whole lane for every trip
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nailed it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026
How many students were kicked off their campuses for protesting this stuff? It's not just the psychotic openly genocidal propaganda, it's that the people in power in the US made it so that if you criticize this openly, your life could be destroyed.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Die meisten Menschen verstehen bis heute nicht, wie professionell, strategisch und bestens finanziert sie seit Jahrzehnten zum Klima hinters Licht geführt werden. Von Leuten, die mit fossiler Energie reich werden. Der Zweifel ist ihr Produkt. Wir alle bezahlen. Dieser Podcast hilft. 1.ard.de/REICH
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REICH – Das Geschäft mit dem Zweifel
Zweifel sind längst zu einer einflussreichen Währung geworden und für manche sogar zu einem lukrativen Geschäftsmodell. Im investigativen Podcast REICH folgt ein Journalistenteam einem Netzwerk aus Lo...
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Catherine Hill @ctjhill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"If it can happen in Birmingham, it can happen anywhere." Not words you often hear. As a pedestrian in Birmingham -and a parent trying to teach a child to cross the road until he can do it unsupervised- I welcome this.
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Plant Science🍀🌱 @sciplant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJob #PlantSciJob
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way' “We need to be talking about some of the worst things that can happen” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way'
Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, floods and droughts as long as we continue to use gas, oil and coal at our curre...
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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📢 We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Ecophysiology at EPFL/WSL in Lausanne! 🌿 Study physiological mechanisms of leaf browning under heat & drought stress 🔬 Experimental plant ecophysiology 🎓 Mentoring/teaching opportunities Please share! Apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1893/...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.
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Diego A. Márquez @dmarquez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🌿 Unsaturation 2026 in South Lake Tahoe: a small workshop on when and how leaf air spaces become unsaturated. Thanks @tombuckleylab.bsky.social for the invitation, with support from @ucdavisplants.bsky.social and @li-corenv.bsky.social I shared our gas-exchange work on non-stomatal control. 💧
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
kids are the worst
kids biking on street 

Annoying kids force drivers to lightly tap a pedal directly below their foot to engage mysterious and unused brake function.
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Anja Geitmann @geitmannlab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Postdoc Opportunity at McGill University, Montreal, Canada You have worked with Arabidopsis / other plant model systems & are trained in high-end imaging? Details: www.plantbiomechanics.net/joining-the-... #plants, #Arabidopsis, #postdoc, #jobs, #microscopy, #confocal, #molecularbiology
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Joe @westmecklenburg-gegen-rechts.de · 16/08/2026
SZ: Wo sind denn die Klimaaktivisten, es ist viel zu warm. Tut doch endlich was... Luisa Neubauer dazu:
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 16/08/2026
Don't light fires. No new oil and gas.
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