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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The strike and protests in the Twin Cities yesterday were incredible. Today, the force terrorizing the city executed someone in the street. They are not making our city safer. I'm tired of the lies. I’m tired of the fear. I’m tired.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
We have a PhD studentship available for a student who wants to engineer immune responses by tinkering with the connectivity between cells. Based at JIC, collaboration with the Ezer lab, deadline 19th Jan, UK students only. Get in touch for more info! #PlantSciJobs www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Engineering plant immune responses (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Engineering plant immune responses (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Looking forward to watching!
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Follow the schematics and instructions Dave! Build the invention.
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
@letterboxd.social - how can we get Listers: a glimpse into extreme birdwatching on the app??? 🎥 🦅 📖
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Led by talented international postdoc, @harsimargill.bsky.social, we sourced seeds for most entries tested in the USDA coordinated spring #wheat nursery over the last HUNDRED years! We genotyped them and quantified diversity and gene presence 🌾🧬 Me, Sarah and Harsimar with the UMN Borlaug statue
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
New from the team: A century of breeding has preserved genetic variation, accumulated favorable alleles, and shaped the Rht genes portfolio in North American spring wheat shorturl.at/LYYvr Part of my favorite figure showing how different breeding programs use various reduced height genes.
A panel from a scientific manuscript made up of four panels each representing a different public spring wheat breeding program. The panels show stacked orange and blue bars with each bar represents a decade and the proportion of blue shows how often a reduced height gene is found in material tested in that decade.  The data show that the programs in minnesota, montana, and north dakota all include Rht-B1 in most of their material, while South Dakota does not.
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
another seed, appropriately, came from plants! Here's a figure from shorturl.at/0S5l5 showing what we now know is silencing of the gene for purple pigment in petunias. And an important one from Baulcombe digging into mechanisms: shorturl.at/eP2qX Hooray for basic research in all its forms! 🌸🪱🦠
a figure from a scientific papers composed of three panels.  A single petunia flower is photographed in each panel.  The left petunia is mostly red or purple but has areas of white at the margin of each petal.  The center panel is a completely red or purple flower - this is what we expect wild type flowers to look like.  The third panel shows an almost completely white petunia flower
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It's beautiful 😍😍
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is a great time to check-in with your international post-docs, students, and staff. This picture of our wheat plants has nothing to do with the post, but I felt like I needed some cheering up.
Hundreds of wheat plants occupy two benches in a greenhouse with LED lights overhead.  A yellow hose is stretched out between the two long rows of plants.
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is a great time to check-in with your international post-docs, students, and staff. This picture of our wheat plants has nothing to do with the post, but I felt like I needed some cheering up.
Hundreds of wheat plants occupy two benches in a greenhouse with LED lights overhead.  A yellow hose is stretched out between the two long rows of plants.
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
'now with even more transposable elements' -- they always seem to find ways to expand their footprint in genomes (and in manuscripts)
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This is great. Is the decision to deposit fastq and not pod5 because of data size, repository requirements, something else?
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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Join us on Bluesky and find out more about the www.wheatinitiative.org
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The resistosome story continues... Another beautiful structure - this time from a (modified) wheat NLR 🌾
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
nice! Download the Merlin App :)
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Any bird highlights so far? Keep me updated!
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I have a 'life goal' of giving a talk with walk up music -- do you have a song picked?
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I'm very proud of this USDA funded work led by @harsimargill.bsky.social to analyze tons of spring wheat uniform nursery data painstakingly digitized by the Blueskyless Sarah Blecha. Lots more in the pipeline but this marks my official introduction as part of #wheat world. 🍞🌾👋 shorturl.at/v2nmk
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Genetic gains from 60 years of spring wheat breeding in the Northern Plains of the United States
A significant positive genetic gain of 0.61% per annum was observed for grain yield in hard red spring wheat released in the Northern US region over the past six decades. Sustained yield improvement...
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Wish I was there! Thanks for posting so many updates and tell everyone I say 'hi' :)
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UMN Plant Pathology @umnplantpath.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Bacterial Leaf Streak Meeting 2025 is over! Thank you so much to the organizers, attendees, presenters, staff, and volunteers who made it a success!
BLS Meeting committee left to right: Andy Read, Thomas Baldwin, Robyn Roberts, Jonathan Jacobs, Rebecca Curland, Liz Brauer, Gazala AmeenGazala presents to a full roomMug that says "I delivered an outstanding talk at the 4th Annual Bacterial Leaf Streak Initiative Conferene in Saint Paul Minnesota 2025"photo of all BLS researchers, shot from above, all smiling with hands up
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
USDA scientists terminated from Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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Experts foresee negative ripple effects in termination of USDA scientists in St. Paul lab
A team at the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul got notice last week that some of their jobs were getting cut. Experts warn that cutting jobs in this area will harm resear...
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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"I’m feeling betrayed, gutted, lost, anxious, and furious." Our story for @science.org—on the ongoing mass firing of federal employees and reactions in the scientific community. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies
White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Here is a gift link to the article... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u... 3/3
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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders (Gift Article)
A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
In US, MN ranks #1 in oats; #3 in spring wheat; #9 in barley. $380M in #wheat exports alone. Scientists are needed to support farmers producing these crops! What's the future of #agriculture if we dismantle #AgriculturalScience research? #PlantScience #USDA-ARS #AttackOnScience #PlantPathology
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Tough day for small grains research in the Twin Cities. Myself and four scientist colleagues have all been let go from the USDA because we haven't completed our 3 year probationary period - effectively gutting the Cereal Disease Lab. Taking a few days to be sad before I think about what comes next.
This is a closeup image of wheat plants in a disease trail nursery.  There are yellow streaks on the otherwise healthy and green leaves caused by bacterial leaf streak
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Lindsay Triplett @triplettlr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
US Undergraduates! You still have until next Friday to apply to the Plant Health Fellows internship program in New Haven, CT. Learn about plant health research and careers for 9 weeks, includes $5,000 stipend and apartment housing: www.southernct.edu/plant-health...
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Plant Health Fellows | Southern Connecticut State University
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
No Kneecap?
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It's not always as simple as "one TALE, one S-gene" - very cool work from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social and the team showing a single TALE targets 3 distinct cotton genes (2 SWEETs and a pectin lyase) to maximize virulence.
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Lindsay Triplett @triplettlr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Do you have regulatory experience but don't want to be a Fed? Connecticut needs a new State Plant Regulatory official! BS,MS, PhD applicants welcome from any area of plant health. Looking for someone who can lead a team, understand regulations, and help stakeholders. Great stability and benefits!
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Wowza!
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ok, because this is fun*... To deal with giant genome, you could do: RNAseq -> de novo transcriptome -> expression -> look for DEGs and/or SNPs in the transcripts from white/green -> $$ profit $$ -> buy lots of corn fine art
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"I wonder if it's epigenetic, we should Nanopore sequence it" -Andy, at every possible opportunity.
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm interested in learning more about this - did you have to do a special genomic prep to make sure plasmids come along for the ride?
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Really interesting - is there cytoplasmic mixing at the graft site that would allow incompatible NLRs to "see" each other? If not, I'd guess it's a regulatory thing upstream? Excited to see what comes next.
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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
For enslaved men & women in America’s south, birds meant forced labor. But they also meant food, opportunity, and even freedom. The Library of Congress’s Slave Narratives Collection has amazing stories not just about Black suffering and resilience, but also relationships w/ nature. (1/7)🗃️🧵
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Birds and Slavery
Enslaved men and women in America’s South developed their own ornithology. To them, birds meant forced labor. But they also meant food, opportunity, and sometimes even freedom.
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
I was super surprised when this was the case at PAG... 🚗🧬
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Cedar, this is so cool.
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Lindsay Triplett @triplettlr.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
If you know anyone interested in nanotech and plant health, please share this postdoc opening! Spans phytobiomes, chemistry, and field crop management: isme-microbes.org/jobs/postdoc...
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
The corm is one of the reasons this is my favorite plant :)
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
NOT HELPING THE BIOECONOMY
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Would you rather fight 10 GOMP-ized Gomillas, or 1 Gomilla sized GOMP?
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Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
🟦 Hello Bluesky World 🟦 Finishing up my first week as a USDA scientist just in time for a potential shutdown 😅 I'm a wheat and oat geneticist 🌾 🧬🧪 still on the UMN campus. Looking forward to exploring these polyploid genomes and connecting with the wheat/oat communities
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