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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Job alert! We are looking for a Head of Applied Genomics in our Vegetable Division @kwsgroup.bsky.social. This is a leadership position (full-time, permanent) based in the Netherlands. A strong background in #CropGenetics and leadership experience are necessary. #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We are basically like this in research already. Postdocs and PhD students growing plants, doing tissue culture, and pipetting, while AI chat bots doing the analyses, writing proposals and papers. Humans having to do the menial tasks, while AI chat bots took over the creative work.

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Would be interesting to know how much stress is reduced by reflecting and writing a daily journal compared to "just" reading.

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking forward to find out whether reading the book by @matthewcobb.bsky.social about a researcher from the University of Cambridge is good for my health. This one below 👇 arrived today, right on time

Front page of a biography of Francis Crick

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is what high throughput disease phenotyping looks like... 😍

Grad student moving away. Five boxes with leaf and petiole fragments representing dozens of genotypes on the table next to her

Other angle of the same room showing another set of phenotyping boxes..

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Kasper van Gelderen @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The first preprint of my lab has just come out doi.org/10.64898/202... This paper came out at the same day on the sudden passing of Prof. Meng Chen. Without his work, this paper would not have existed. He was an extremely supportive member of the plant photobiology community..

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New preprint! There have been quite a few papers about RLP and RLK receptors, but none of them have a truly reproducible annotation pipeline (including my own...)... We finally made such a pipeline and look more systematically at RLPs within tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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PlantLRR-PRR:A Reproducible Annotation Pipeline Reveals Contrasting Evolution of Developmental and Defense Receptor-Like Proteins in Tomato

Plants perceive external and internal signals via receptors to modulate their growth, development, and defenses. Leucine-rich-repeat receptor-like-kinase (RLKs) and receptor-like-proteins (RLPs) are t...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

Picture shows fireweed in foreground and Mt. Lougheed in background

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AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 07/09/2026

A groundbreaking model reveals that while AI boosts productivity, its educational use risks diminishing skill development by tempting students to delegate tasks. Redesigning courses to balance effort with AI tool usage is vital for fostering genuine learning. arxiv.org/abs/2607.18735

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Course design in the age of AI

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"AfD Wähler*innen, die versuchen, Honig aus den falschen Versprechungen des Rechtsextremismus zu saugen" #NoAfD Gruss aus den Bergen des Piemont

Zwei Steinböcke, die an der Mauer einer Alpenvereinshütte lecken.

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very cool project. Congratulations, Germain!

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Hochschulrektorenkonferenz @hrkaktuell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Das Ergebnis der gestrigen Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt kommentieren die Präsidenten der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) und der Landesrektorenkonferenz (LRK) Sachsen-Anhalt, Prof. Dr. Walter Rosenthal und Prof. Dr. Folker Roland, in einem gemeinsamen Statement. ➡️ www.hrk.de/presse/press...

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Out of Office, Summer 2026 Edition. (Monviso, Piedmont 🇮🇹)

A woman and a man standing on top of a alpine peak with the summit cross in the background

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Andreas Püttmann @puettmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hören wir die, die das Final- und Vollbild des Rechtsextremismus erlebt haben.

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Please submit comments to the EU Commission’s Call for Evidence on how to implement the new rules for "Plants obtained by new genomic techniques (#NGT)". Submission deadline 28 Sept. Below what I submitted. #plantscience ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Der Umgang mit Rechtsextremismus in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik war immer problematisch. Immer beschwichtigend, immer verharmlosend. Selten die reale Gefahr im Blick, selten im Sinne der (potentiellen) Opfer. Es handelt sich um den politischen Extremismus, der in der Geschichte der… 1/29

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FocusOnYou 😎 @nsfocusonyou.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Nie war es so wichtig wie jetzt ein Zeichen zu setzen, seine Stimme zu erheben und für ein demokratisches Sachsen-Anhalt zu kämpfen! Am 6. September sind Landtagswahlen und es geht darum, das dieses Bundesland zeigt, dass die Mehrheit der Menschen nicht von Nazis regiert werden will! ❤️🧡💛💚💜🤍

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The blog post is worth a read, the 258 papers probably not.

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📣we're hiring a PhD researcher to test whether rhizosphere microbiomes keep flowers attractive under drought 🌸 joint supervision with soil ecologist @tcamenzind.bsky.social for the ROOT2BLOOM project in @greenrobust.de apply by 30/09 tinyurl.com/root2bloom questions welcome, thanks for sharing!

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

An opportunity to work with me 👇

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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📣 Job alert! 2 Positions starting 2027. PhD position with me and @bayerlab.bsky.social on Robustness of embryonic and stomatal development, part of @greenrobust.de Postdoc position on the regulation of cell state, following up on some exciting snRNAseq dat! Apply now or share! #PlantSciJob

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Martin Bouda @boudalab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New PhD opportunity with Bernd Berauer and myself within the @greenrobust.de cluster @unihohenheim.bsky.social ! 3-yr funded position to measure and model gas exchange at leaf, plant, and canopy scale. Applications can be submitted until *September 15*, at: jobs.uni-hohenheim.de/jobposting/2...

PhD position advertisement and project description.
For more details, contact bernd.berauer@uni-hohenheim.de

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There are many uses for AI in science - modeling, data analysis, certain diagnostics - none of those are LLMs and frankly not even really “AI” as we’ve come to know it at all and TBH we need a different name for this kind of “AI” so the science stuff can stop getting dragged into this argument.

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A good way to end the week: some rain and a new preprint! 🌧️🧬 Big 👏 to @lpiat.bsky.social for tackling a tricky genome assembly problem! We assembled the genome of a Swiss Lolium multiflorum ecotype, a forage grass with a large (~2.2 Gb), highly heterozygous genome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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A chromosome-scale genome assembly of the Swiss Lolium multiflorum ecotype Tremona reveals a scalable method to purge spurious duplications

Italian ryegrass ( Lolium multiflorum ) is a key temperate forage species underpinning livestock production in Europe. Genomic resources remain limited by its large (2.2 Gb), repetitive, and highly he...

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Thomas Hörren @thoerren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Der DLF plant zum Jahresende eine Programmreform, u.A. sind „Forschung aktuell“ und „Umwelt und Verbaucher“ betroffen. Themen sollen dann im Gespräch erörtert werden. Es würden gut recherchierte, akkurate und verständlich aufbereitete Hintergrundinfos wegfallen www.openpetition.de/petition/onl...

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Die Programm-Reform des Deutschlandfunk (DLF) stoppen! - Online-Petition

Sehr geehrter Herr Raue, kürzlich haben Sie bekanntgegeben, dass das Programmschema des Deutschlandfunks zum 30.11.2026 grundlegend reformiert werden soll. Die bisher bekannt gewordenen Eckpunkte der ...

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob W3-Professorship in Plant Breeding @unihalle.bsky.social wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php...

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 18/08/2026

My latest attempt at an AI/LLM policy in my intro to social science stats class. Basically two rules: 1. Everything human-facing must be human-generated 2. You are responsible for understanding, verifying, and citing everything an LLM generates quantf26.classes.andrewheiss.com/syllabus.htm...

Generative AI and LLMs
In this class, I have two general rules regarding LLMs:

Everything human-facing must be human-generated.
You are responsible for understanding, verifying, and citing everything an LLM generates.
I’ll explain what these mean below, but first, an important warning!

LLMs and learning
Phew, I can talk about the relationship between learning and LLMs for hours (see this for a more formal explanation of my thinking). LLMs and generative AI can be useful for statistical programming, but only when you already know what you are doing. They can be dangerous and counterproductive for beginners.

Additionally, using LLMs and generative AI to write does not lead to deeper learning. The point of writing is to help crystalize and organize your thinking. Pasting LLM-generated words into an assignment to make it look like you read and understood the content will not help you learn. Pasting LLM-generated code into an assignment and hoping that it works will not help you learn.

Rule 1: Everything human-facing must be human-generated
Generative AI tools like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude can be helpful for generating ideas or topics for your assignments and can even help you find existing research about topics you’re interested in. They are useful for debugging and troubleshooting code.

These uses are permitted in this course.

If you want to use LLM tools to document your code, clean up your notes, look up error messages, search for research related to your topic, and so on, cool. Do it. That’s fine. It’s unavoidable nowadays anyway, since every R-related Google search will give you a Gemini-generated answer at the top with mostly working R code.

Any writing and revisions, however, must be your own. You may not use AI tools to write any of the text you submit to me. AI text adds nothing to my understanding. I have no interest in engaging with it at all. There is nothing more disheartening for me than spending my time grading something that ChatGPT spat out in 10 seconds. I want to see good engagement with the readings. I want to see your thinking process. I want to see you make connections between the readings. I want to see your personal insights. I don’t want to see a bunch of words that look like a human wrote them. That’s not useful for future-you. That’s not useful for me. That’s a waste of time.

Thus, anything human-facing (i.e. not stuff done just for yourself, like your own personal notes, research, etc.) must be human-generated (i.e. written by you). You may not use AI tools to write any portion of your assignments. Using AI tools in this way, or failing to disclose the use of AI tools, will be treated as a case of plagiarism and referred to the Honor Council.

Rule 2: You are responsible for understanding, verifying, and citing everything an LLM generates
These tools are really good at working with code, but again, only if you know what you’re doing. Without guidance and expertise, LLMs love making lots of extraneous, convoluted, and weird code by default. The code ostensibly works, but it’s often strange and unnecessary and uses uncommon syntax and packages.

If you use LLMs for help with code, you must understand and verify what’s going on with your code and you must cite where it came from.

This means that you need to know what each line is doing. If the LLM uses a function or gives you an argument that you don’t understand or haven’t seen before, figure out why and figure out if it’s necessary. Look at the documentation for the function. Search Google for other examples. Ask the LLM about it, and then add comments to the code explaining what’s going on.

The citation doesn’t need to be anything formal (i.e. don’t worry about Chicago or APA guidelines)—it just needs to (1) say which LLM you used, and (2) mention what you asked the LLM.

You should do this by using code comments—inside your code chunk, add a # to the beginning of a line so that it’s treated as a comment (or text) instead of actual code.

Here’s an example of what this can look like:

Here’s an example of what this can look like:

# This calculates the average GDP per capita in each region in the dataset,
# for all countries after 2015. I couldn't remember how to use group_by() and
# summarise() together, so I asked Gemini:
#
# "I'm using tidyverse. I have a dataset named my_dataset and I'm filtering it
# to include all countries after 2015. I want to calculate region averages with
# group_by and summarise but cannot remember the syntax"

my_dataset |>
filter(year > 2015) |>
group_by(region) |>
# Gemini here included na.rm = TRUE, which omits any rows with missing values
# when calculating the average. That's okay and necessary here because
# South Sudan is missing some years of GDP data
summarise(avg_gdp = mean(gdp_per_cap, na.rm = TRUE))

# Gemini also included an extra ungroup() function at the end, but I don't need
# that because there are no groups leftover after summarising here

↑ That’s a lot of extra comments and you won’t always see stuff like that in real life code, but I want to see it here, and future-you will want to see it too.

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GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · 18/08/2026

Thrilling to see that our founding GreenRobust spokesperson Rosa Lozano-Durán (@geminiteamlab.bsky.social) has been appointed as new director @mpipz.bsky.social in Cologne. Congratulations! We wish you all the best for your future endeavors in a new environment, Rosa!

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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

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The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research welcomes Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new director

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Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Wie können alte Sorten unsere Ernährung sichern? Und warum kann die Genbank des @leibnizipk.bsky.social Lösungen für Herausforderungen wie Hitze und Trockenheit anbieten? All das erklärt Anna Backhaus in der Wissenschaftssendung "Quarks" des WDR. Reinhören lohnt! www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:...

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Ralph Hückelhoven @huckelhovenr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Professorship in plant breeding in Halle/Germany. Doownload: wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php...

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Symbolbild für den Sommer 2026: Ein weniger als halbvoller "Speicherteich" als Teil einer 50 Mio € teuren Anlage (inkl. Zerstörung eines Hochmoors) zur Produktion von Kunstschnee für die Skipisten nebenan. Ob es noch genug regnet bis zum Winter? Ort: Schwarzwasserbach im Kleinwalsertal

Fotografie eines Speichersees mit einem Hinweisschild im Kleinwalsertal.

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We are looking for a Scientist in #PlantCellBiology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social in Einbeck. The position is in our Doubled Haploid Research Unit, and the work can be done onsite or remote! This is a two-year contract. jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-... #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob #PlantScience

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Plant Cell Biologist (m/f/d)

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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

FUNDING. We secured our first collaborative grant with @mpcontreras.bsky.social through the @greenrobust.de excellence cluster. Our project IDentity will investigate the mechanistic consequences of domain integration, a major event that reshapes function and evolution of #NLR immune receptors 🌱❄️🔬

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Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Das @leibnizipk.bsky.social betreibt eine der größten Genbanken weltweit. Für unsere Gruppe "Genbankdokumentation" suchen wir einen erfahrenen Wissenschaftler (m/w/d), der uns bei der Erschließung, Aufbereitung und Auswertung von Daten unterstützt. Neugierig? ➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/8ysku9k7

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H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Am 5. August 1943 wurden in Plötzensee viele Frauen des Widerstands ermordet: Hilde Coppi Liane Berkowitz Ursula Goetze Annie Krauß Klara Schabbel Else Imme Frida Wesolek Maria Terwiel Eva-Maria Buch Oda Schottmüller Cato Bontjes van Beek Rose Schlösinger Ingeborg Kummerow.

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ich durfte dem Reutlinger Generalanzeiger ein Interview zur Abstimmung über neue genomische Techniken um EU-Parlament geben. #GMO #NGT

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Volker Lipka @volkerlipka.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

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Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.

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