Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Keep track of global policy developments in plant breeding technologies with this useful resource from @SeedFed (International Seed Federation). Thanks to @Belhaj_Khaoula for sharing! worldseed.org/wp-content/u...worldseed.org 030
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Medal! Designed by the one and only @hsuanpai.bsky.social 051
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Most markets now treat gene editing ( GE) as equivalent to conventional plant breeding /viq Tom Adams @pairwise 053
Reposted by Sophien KamounThe Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Starting now: The inaugural TSL Roger Freedman Award Lecture – Tom Adams CEO and Co-Founder of Pairwise 051
Reposted by Sophien KamounPedro @hjorvik.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026El problemón que se nos viene. 184
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m old enough to remember Reagan’s “Star Wars” and predictions of computer-triggered nuclear Armageddon. 43 years later: the shield was never built. The apocalypse never came. The technology was oversold. So was the doom. www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v02n...peacemagazine.orgPeace Magazine v02n5p24: Untrustworthy PALS: an interview with Mike Wallace about accidental nuclear warAl Banner: Untrustworthy PALS: an interview with Mike Wallace about accidental nuclear war in Peace Magazine Oct-Nov 1986 130
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026All pumped up to speak at PurPest @purpest-eu.bsky.social event: From Science to Innovation What science can (and cannot) deliver--Excellence, people, and the long game 054
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026More @NaturePlants #NatureRipoffs #ScienceCrisis Blame it on Excel? @msexcel @microsoft pubpeer.com/publications... 152
Reposted by Sophien KamounAdriana Garibay @adrianagaribayh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The amount of energy required to refute BS is an order of magnitude larger than required to create it.”... "We have a moral duty to distinguish sense from nonsense"...and I would add: We have the moral duty of not using public money to publish BS just for the mere sake of careererism 141
Reposted by Sophien KamounMarc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026👉"as a heuristic, “Where was the preprint?” is becoming surprisingly useful. Preprinting exposes experiments, controls and conclusions to the community before the journal’s prestige can become a shield." 141
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026RIP Leo Congert kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/Leo_Congert/...kamounlab.dreamhosters.comLeo Congert (1943–2026) · In memoriamHeemkundige in Borne, samensteller van tentoonstellingen en ‘de man van de fotobewerking’. 030
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This comment makes blogging about how to do science worth it. Science works when we learn from being wrong. We don’t teach this nearly enough. 072
Reposted by Sophien KamounDimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Very nice and important reading. 121
Reposted by Sophien KamounBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Science predicts. Pseudoscience doesn’t." Other way around for seismology. 🙃 282
Reposted by Sophien KamounRoss @rossengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good read, and important insights - 183
Reposted by Sophien KamounKatie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Twenty-nine years later, the central finding still held. The 1990s biochemistry had stood the test of time. That is impactful science. That’s world class science. It’s not more complicated than that. Not the journal. Not the press release. Not the citations in year one." 073
Reposted by Sophien KamounJennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thought-provoking here—and some good tips on #DataViz. 2122
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Woody and tinny words youtu.be/-gwXJsWHupg?...youtu.beMonty Python - Woody and Tinny WordsYouTube video by elwenenharma 020
Reposted by Sophien KamounEzra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026PSA for non academics the quality of science may not be higher in prestigious journals, but your career will, on average, be helped a LOT more by a publication in a top journal 031
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sick and tired of podcasts that still blabber about LLM hallucinations. Upgrade and learn to prompt. open.spotify.com/episode/1qjl...open.spotify.comSteven Pinker on Revolutions, Rogue AI, and the Struggle for RealityInto The Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell · Episode 020
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I just published: How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs. kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-re...kamounlab.medium.comHow do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared inWhat I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs. 27638
Reposted by Sophien KamounDavid Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Humans have free will but orcas have Free Willy. 2285
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I just published: Carte postale de Tenerife : les alizés, le climat, et ce que l’histoire nous a coûté Des côtes ventées de Tenerife aux catastrophes que nous provoquons nous-mêmes. [VF d'un article de 2024] kamounlab.medium.com/carte-postal...kamounlab.medium.comCarte postale de Tenerife : les alizés, le climat, et ce que l’histoire nous a coûtéDes côtes ventées de Tenerife aux catastrophes que nous provoquons nous-mêmes. 012
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yet another paper with made-up data. What happens now? #sciencecrisis #NatureRipoffs @Nature pubpeer.com/publications... 2122
Reposted by Sophien KamounSophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Talks for early career researchers kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/KamounLab_EC... 064
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Looking forward to spending a couple of days with @ceplas.bsky.social catching up with colleagues at @UniCologne @Team_Thomma and having some fun with the ECRs! They picked Theme 2 from my smörgåsbord of ECR discussion topics 👍🏼 😎👇🏼 www.ceplas.eu/en/about-us/...ceplas.euCEPLAS FridaySpeakers: Hilde Nelissen (VIB), Sophien Kamoun (The Sainsbury Laboratory) 1163
Reposted by Sophien KamounGetGenome @getgenome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#GGRoadToJeju2026 invites applications from the global research community to sequence the genomes of plant-associated microorganisms — including pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria, fungi and oomycetes. 📅 Apply by 2 November 2026 getgenome.net/callforproje...getgenome.netGGRoadToJeju2026 | GetGenomeGetGenome is excited to announce #GGRoadToJeju2026 "Road to Jeju" Call for Projects - an open call to support research communities across the world, to generate and interpret sequence data of plant-a 034
Reposted by Sophien KamounGetGenome @getgenome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You select the isolates, we sequence the genomes — for free! 🧬 Inspired by @ismpmi.bsky.social #MPMI2027 we announce that the latest @GetGenome Call for Projects is now open! @GetGenome “Road to Jeju” #GGRoadToJeju2026 invites applications from global community getgenome.net/callforproje... 123
Reposted by Sophien KamounBotanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The 5th iteration of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG V) classification has been published. It's #OpenAccess, so check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comLarge‐scale nuclear and plastid phylogenomic analyses inform an updated Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification: APG VWe present here a revision of the APG classification that considers the extensive recent analyses of hundreds of nuclear and plastid genes for many angiosperm species. Although previous versions of t... 01111
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Two seemingly unrelated sides of our lab collided today in the AWESOME new Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system poster: flowers 🌸 and phylogenomics 🧬 Need a new genome? Just pick up the phone and “dial-a-genome” 📞🧬 @getgenome.bsky.social www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo... 1278
Reposted by Sophien KamounSophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Our second keynote speaker is Alain Tissier @atissier.bsky.social @ipbhalle.bsky.social on enhancing HDR and its use in engineering cis-genic disease resistance and other traits 0126
Reposted by Sophien KamounSophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Our first keynote speaker is Silvia Restrepo @srestrepo.bsky.social @btiscience.bsky.social on Phytophthora infestans sensu lato 153
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Today we are hosting the FIGHTBLIGHT Project Meeting & Symposium This is a trinational project 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇺🇸 with Silvia Restrepo @srestrepo.bsky.social @btiscience.bsky.social and Alain Tissier on bioengineering immune receptors for potato blight resistance kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/FIGHTBLIGHT_... 130
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Which is worse: AI controlled by the state, or by a handful of private corporations? The choice itself may be the problem. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...theguardian.comChina bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenarioSilicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity 250
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Extensive genome evolution distinguishes maize within a stable tribe of grasses. Stitzer @mcstitzer et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 070
Reposted by Sophien KamounNick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ruby & Gold benthi flowers are blooming 🧬 ✨ 0222
Reposted by Sophien KamounNick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Lights, camera, action in the glasshouse tonight 📸 This dragon fruit flower blooms just once at night 🌙 ✨ 0122
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This week's @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Bateson Lecture Friday Seminar – Prof. Elizabeth Toby Kellogg "One third of the world: Grasses and their genomes” www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/pri...danforthcenter.orgElizabeth Kellogg | Danforth Plant Science CenterDr. Elizabeth Kellogg is an Emeritus Member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Learn more about her plant science research. 0154
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Far right populists adept at finding a foreign (or migrant) culprit behind almost every grievance have somehow developed a blind spot the size of China….” 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 apple.news/A5bJ8B87ZQHa...apple.newsWhy Europe’s populists forget to bash China — The EconomistAn ideal target gets a free pass from the demagogues 020
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026More brik danouni… Tunisia: an Argentinian dream? 2121
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026For anyone who has witnessed how university education has changed over the last decades, this was due to happen… stocks.apple.com/Aaa1NM5P5QyO...stocks.apple.comBritish Kids Are Skipping Top Colleges for White-Collar Apprenticeships — The Wall Street JournalCollege no longer feels like a good deal for high-school graduates, so they are heading straight into the workforce 151
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ed Sheeran 2026 🇵🇸 “I do not use my professional platform for politics—my audience includes young people, children, of all backgrounds” 2022 🇺🇦 "I love you. I stand with you and I'm so proud to be playing this fundraising event" But far from only hypocrite out there… metro.co.uk/2026/09/15/h...metro.co.ukHypocrisy over Macklemore goes far beyond weak Ed SheeranThe rappers comments don't sound like hate speech, no matter what America’s billionaire class thinks. 0101
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Brik danouni--ancestral state of empanadas...? 🇹🇳🇪🇸🇦🇷 elsursf.com/blogs/news/a... 140
Reposted by Sophien KamounMartin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fold Spacer lets you fly through protein structures (Weekend project #2). It’s my first game: I originally set out to build a racer with structures as the tracks, but was a little too crazy. So it became this instead. You can upload your own structures. 🌐 martin-steinegger.github.io/Fold-Spacer/ 215759
Reposted by Sophien KamounGetGenome @getgenome.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Day 1 “AI in Genomics workshop” 🇹🇳 🌍 With thanks to @Googleorg @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @getgenome.bsky.social 054
Reposted by Sophien KamounPurPest EU @purpest-eu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026📢 Join the PurPest webinar on 📅 30 Sept 2026 | 🕥 10:30 CEST (UTC+2) to explore how research moves into innovation, policy and practice. 🗣️ Talks from Gisela Quaglia (European Commission), @kamounlab.bsky.social and more! 👉 Register now: www.purpest.eu/news/webinar... 054