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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The new OrthoFinder paper is out now! In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/OrthoFinder/...

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OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability - Nature Methods

The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.

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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Calling all OrthoFinder users! We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny. GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... github.com/lauriebelch/... (1/10)

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers. There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews! Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more: forest.biologists.com #PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

Lots of illustrated trees. A sample image taken from the Forest of Biologists website.

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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 02/06/2025

Researchers in @biology.ox.ac.uk and Wild Bioscience Ltd are to receive backing of a £6.7 million grant from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to pioneer a new synthetic biology approach which promises to improve yields in potato and wheat. Read more ⬇️ #OxfordClimate

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New ARIA award will aim to deliver a revolution in sustainable

Researchers in the University of Oxford’s Department of Biology and Wild Bioscience Ltd are to receive backing of a £6.7 million grant from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to

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Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

So true: "In a very short time, we have created not only silly systems of governance and regulation, but are also managing to subvert academic life through the creation of bullshit jobs and, I would argue, bullshit practices."

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Mae Mercado @maemercado.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Second writeup! This paper made me fall back in love with photosynthesis evolution. ❤️

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#PlantSci Research Weekly March 7 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Review: C4 metabolite transporters; Insights from Marchantia pangenome; cry1 & phot work synergistically; Plasmodesmata as MCS for intercellular communication; Developmental robustness from antagonizing cis-elements; (1/2)

Images showing shape of hypocotyls (WT, phot1 and cry1) under dark or blue light, with the growth rate color-coded onto the tissue. The WT elongates in the dark, but not in the light. The phot1 mutant continues elongating under blue light, as does the cry1, but in cry1 the elongation is is a different location, closer to the cotyledons.

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Wild is hiring! If you’re passionate about making an impact in crop improvement using genomics and comp bio come join the team! jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/wildbioscien...

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Plant Genomics and Machine Learning Scientist

Wild Bio

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Lots of ✈️ traffic over Oxford today. Never seen so many before

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

The first step on a path to C4 rice by genome editing ✂️🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

A preprint several years in the making… A holistic review of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis. Current understanding, key gaps, future directions and new molecular blueprints for NAD-ME. A masterpiece by former PhD student Oliver Mattinson ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

A quick visit to my (scientific) roots today… haven’t changed a bit 😂😂😂

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

A surprising discovery - a role for lineage in leaf development. Great work by @chiaraperico.bsky.social

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

The NHM was looking spectacular this evening 🦖

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Musk’s Starlink satellite train just passed over Oxford.. satellites stretched horizon to horizon … I genuinely thought it was aliens!

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Very pleased to have finally got this out there - many years work by the team - primarily Dana Vlad. Discovered that large vein ranks are actively repressed to allow smaller veins to develop. All grasses we looked at are the same. Allowed us to change patterns in rice - not quite C4 rice but closer

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

So it turns out that electroporation of exogenous DNA into organisms is entirely natural. peerj.com/articles/165...

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Lindsay Turnbull @queensoxbiology.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Exciting opportunity at the Queen’s College Oxford in association with @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. The Browne JRF is a three year independent research fellowship available in any area of biology that complements Oxford Biology. www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/br... Please repost!

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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

🚨Come join the lab🚨 to lead on developing Selaginella apoda as a genetic model system 🌿 1.5 yr PDRA, Deadline 13th Dec Full details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Green branching shoots of Selaginella apoda

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

"People don't take climate action because they don't understand the science", someone said in a discussion yesterday. But why do we treat climate science different than medicine? If people are told they have diabetes, they don't go "I don't understand the endocrine system, yum, cake" do they? 🧪

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Donat Wulf @donat.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Our prepring about comparative gene regulatory network analysis is available on bioRxiv! We focused on the regulation of C4 and C3 photosynthesis and identified conserved regulators for other pathways too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Bioinformatics #generegulation #photosyntheis #PlantScience

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Comparative analysis of gene regulatory networks identifies conserved regulators in seed plants

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Seems as if Plan-S was only the beginning The continuous revolution in science publishing continues... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

This was a surprise - for years we thought GLK1 must function to regulate chloroplast development in mesophyll cells of maize given its expression profile - but it doesn’t. Great work by Julia Lambret (not yet on bsky)

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

I determined the sequence of the NcoI recognition site as an undergraduate in Rich Robert’s lab in 1981 - one of my unknown claims to fame 🤣

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

The details will be important to get right… but this is great news for innovation in oxford… good quality lab space for startups and spin outs is in huge demand. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/09/2023

Most academics know that MDPI is not the most reputable publisher but this is particularly grim: a special issue in which 27th of the 28th papers are authored by the two guest editors. www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/spec…

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Re-upping this, as we start to review applications in 10 days!

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Here we show that rubisco is not stuck! But is instead continually evolving for improved catalytic efficiency and CO2 assimilation in plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Extra ordinary ≠ extraordinary

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Complexity is simple. Simplicity is complex.

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

This orchid always reminds of an x-ray diffraction pattern … I see crystal structures

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Steve Kelly @stevenkelly.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Hello Bluesky … I like plants… I also like guitars … and guitars that have plants on them 😉

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