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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ

@jonathandgjones.bsky.social
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plant scientist - discovering and deploying plant immune receptor genes to protect crops from disease with biology, not chemistry

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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
congratulations Bruno!
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
a great visit and wonderful chance to build collaborations
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
heartbreaking news
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Bad vibes. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at how discussion of Brexit and the reset is still saturated with dishonesty, and the latest episodes in the 'vibe politics' that have embedded that dishonesty in British politics: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/bad-...
Image of the start of the latest post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Hey academic climate folks, great new chaired position at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social working w/ the folks at the Climatic Research Unit in Norwich UK: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21... (h/t @timosbornclim.bsky.social)
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Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate and the Environment (ATR1739) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate and the Environment (ATR1739) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Environmental Sciences ...
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Dr Peter Prinsley MP @peterprinsleymp.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
As an ENT surgeon, I saw the devastating impact of smoking firsthand. This generational ban will save lives and protect future generations. Nigel Farage is wrong. #PublicHealth www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
it's the best read on the history of molecular biology
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Proximity labeling users: check out this study by @zhixingchen2.bsky.social and Peng Zou, which establishes how much contact-dependence vs. diffusion is responsible for biotinylation — tl;dr TurboID has a much smaller effective radius! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2
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Spatial barcoding reveals reaction radii and contact-dependent mechanism of proximity labeling - Nature Chemical Biology
A DNA nanoruler platform enables precise measurement of the labeling radii of TurboID and APEX2, uncovering their contact-dependent mechanisms. These findings redefine the enzymology of proximity labe...
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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Our final talks of Day 1 focus around the Precision Breeding Act 📝 Jim Dunwell, gives us an update on UK legislation from the Advisory Committee for Releases to the Environment (ACRE) 🧬 @jonathandgjones.bsky.social takes us through using PBA-compliant methods to elevate crop disease resistance 🌾
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Yesterday I talked* science with modellers, mathematicians, biochemists, cell biologists and geneticists. Sound like your kind of place? Join us! Applications for a tenure-track or tenured Group Leader ar JIC close Monday. (*I love chatting - if you come to JIC I *will* stop you in the corridor)
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
excellent question!
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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‘This wasn’t obvious’: the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor, researchers find
Hybridisation event took place about 9 million years ago, helping to ‘spark the emergence of a new organ’
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiote...
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Scientists Unveil Genetic Map to Wheat 'Cancer'
Chinese scientists have created the world's first genetic map for wheat resistance to yellow rust, a destructive fungal disease. Published in Nature Genetics, this breakthrough was a collaborative eff...
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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Hot off the press: our analysis of the proposed EU limits to NGT1 category of genome editing in light of recent data on genomic diversity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation
The European Commission (EC) proposal for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) of July 2023 specifies that Category 1 NGT (NGT1) plants, which are considered equivalent to conventional plants, that is those...
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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
As an undergraduate who loved physical chemistry and was just starting biology, I thought the Meselson-Stahl experiment was the coolest thing ever. It was so simple in its application of physical theory and experiment to prove a biological truth that it was perfect. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...
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Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
excellent commentary from Lord Rooker www.scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/lordrooker2
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LordRooker2 | SSA
Yes, the SLSC report on gene editing was 'biased'
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation - Schulman - Plant Biotechnology Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation
The European Commission (EC) proposal for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) of July 2023 specifies that Category 1 NGT (NGT1) plants, which are considered equivalent to conventional plants, that is those...
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Hee-Kyung Ahn @hee-kyung-ahn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Wonderful talk by Baptiste Castel @baptistebio.bsky.social on fern immune system here at @instmolplantsci.bsky.social Great to meet @jonathandgjones.bsky.social lab alumni in Edinburgh too!
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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Royal Society: UK can beat US in science — if it fixes one problem
Gloomy mood among scientists under the Trump administration presents an opportunity for Britain, provided it changes its visa system, says Sir Adrian Smith
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
more fool @nytimes.com
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
important commentary on the dangers to science of current US Gov actions and policies www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
important commentary from @alanhschulman and colleagues about NGTs and the EU's proposed new regulations. Preexisting genomic diversity dwarfs anything we can do with CrispR ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Plant genomic variation and its implications for proposed EU NGT legislation
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 22/04/2025
New OA Letter: "Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/eiJVL ...engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing.
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
we appear to be shooting ourselves in the foot www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Top cancer experts ‘being put off UK by politicians’ messaging on immigration’
Exclusive: Leaked report says high visa costs also derailing clinical trials and research, denying NHS life-saving drugs
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Mythbusting MAHA’s Claims About Food and Farming www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/mythbustin...
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Mythbusting MAHA’s Claims About Food and Farming
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his HHS are on a public health crusade that is largely a distraction
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Hee-Kyung Ahn @hee-kyung-ahn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
!!New Preprint!! On the activation of RRS1-R/RPS4 paired NLRs!! Thanks to @jonathandgjones.bsky.social for this opportunity to work on this project, and thanks to all the coauthors for their effort and support! Thread (1/) @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social t.co/aHNCKj4KUn
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.646618v1
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
very cool. "roads not taken" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/s...
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It’s Springtime on Polaris-9b, and the Exoflowers Are Blooming
An artist imagines the flora of distant, nonexistent worlds.
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
a prescient commentary www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Lena Maria Müller @lmueller.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!
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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@jonathandgjones.bsky.social spoke to Louise Hulland on BBC Radio Norfolk today about developing crops that resist plant diseases and being a co-recipient of the Wolf Prize for Agriculture. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... The clip started forty minutes in at 14:40
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Radio Norfolk - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio Norfolk on BBC Sounds
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/2503428...
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SNP urged to approve gene editing as Scottish farmers face disadvantages
Tim Eagle urges the SNP to rethink its stance on gene editing, calling their opposition outdated. Could this technology benefit Scotland’s food…
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
See, it's funny cuz it's true. 🤣 (also: #sad) 😞
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Nucleic Acids Research @narjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🚨 New #Breakthrough research article "A new level of RNA-based plant protection: dsRNAs designed from functionally characterized siRNAs highly effective against Cucumber mosaic virus" #RNA 👉 Read here: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Pictured: Selma Gago-Zachert, Torsten Gursinsky and Sven-Erik Behrens
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
important work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
European Union takes giant leap forward toward embracing technologically-enhanced agriculture, advances de-regulation of gene edited crops geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/03/17/e...
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European Union takes giant leap forward toward embracing technologically-enhanced agriculture, advances de-regulation of gene edited crops
On Friday 14 March 2025, Member States' representatives (Coreper) endorsed the Council's negotiating mandate on the regulation on plants obtained by new genomic techniques (NGTs) and their food and fe...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Very happy to see my colleague Julia Vorholt being recognized with the Novonesis Biotechnology Prize for her groundbreaking work on the plant leaf microbiome. novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/pion... #plantscience
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fascinating talk to the Linnean society by Paula Bonfante on plant domestication and varietal acquisition revealed in Italian art www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKwA...
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Botanical Triumph in a 16th Century Italian Villa
YouTube video by Linnean Society
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
America can't be great without great science. Marcia McNutt interview www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/03...
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If disaster strikes, will there be enough to eat? Britain should be prepared – but it isn’t | Tim Lang
Other countries are moving fast to inform and prepare their citizens about emergency resilience. The times demand no less, says Tim Lang, professor emeritus of food policy at City University of London
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aaronlphillips.bsky.social @aaronlphillips.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Our Darwin Review is now online at @jxbotany.bsky.social! You can have a read of 'New crops on the block' at doi.org/10.1093/jxb/....
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New crops on the block: effective strategies to broaden our food, fibre, and fuel repertoire in the face of increasingly volatile agricultural systems
Climate change threatens global agricultural security. This review explores its impact on major crops, efforts to improve resilience, and the potential of
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.
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Plant Biology @plantbiology.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say" by Hannah Devlin for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #Banana
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Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say
Fruit variety developed in Norwich remains fresh for up to 12 hours after being peeled
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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Great thanks to all my talented #phd students esp. @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social & the support from my mentor @jonathandgjones.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Thanks to all peer reviewers’ constructive feedback & community reviews via @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
a great thrill and a great honor- thanks to all the great people who've passed through my lab over the last >30 years, and for the friendship and "mutual potentiation" of my co-honorees Jeff Dangl and Brian Staskawicz!
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rnmcd.bsky.social @rnmcd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Meanwhile in Iowa...
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns
‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
www.scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/georgefreeman4
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George Freeman MP | Major ag policy reset needed to help UK farmers produce 'more from less'
Major ag policy reset needed to help UK farmers produce 'more from less'
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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Flying over Bristol and the Severn Estuary on Sunday. Given we are now allowed to re-name bodies of water, I am proposing this is now called 'The Gulf of Gary' in honour of @profgdfoster.bsky.social
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