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Publication alert 🚨 A new Golden Gate MoClo toolbox for Rhodobacter sphaeroides is out and it's built on Zymo-Parts! @matick.bsky.social & Antoine took our framework and added many new genetic tools and a new automation angle. This adaptation is a dream come true for me. 1/10 🧪🧵

I would like to report a hate crime, please

🚨New work on estabishing design rules for compact CRISPR-based genetic circuitry using Cas12m 🧬 Work led by the hugely creative Shivang Joshi. My fav bit is a 2-input, 2-output circuit able to regulate two metabolic pathways using only 730 bp of genetic code! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The art section on every color page got better! Switch to palettes: each picture becomes the colors extracted from it... Plus: hide the title, let the rows drift, filter by art, pop culture or wiki, and copy any picture's colors with their names. names.color.pizza/color/berry-...

FINISHED!!!

Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Computational Plant Systematics. Munich, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #plantsciencejob job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/9...

Small g100gle scholar citation milestone for me to celebrate. 🧪

Fantastic lichens of Finse, Norway

We have two faculty positions open in synthetic biology (one experimental and one computational), both very broadly defined. Deadline is Oct 31. The Dept of Bioengineering in the Knight Campus at UOregon is a great place to work. Come join us! careers.pageuppeople.com/726/cw/en-us...

60% INCREASE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

The more parsimoneous explanation is that infants express a preference for the Type G British/Irish electrical plug socket, which is objectively the best type of plug socket. This is evidence for innate rationality in newly born infants.

Huge congratulations to all three Nobel Laureates, and especially Peter Hegemann! 👏 His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨ Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬

Another step in the #Starship story - they move via a circular intermediate. Helps explain how these elements horizontally transfer and means that we can modify them into transformation vectors (starmids). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The NYC map by Christine Marizzi of Genspace is one of my all-time faves #sciart

Attention #sciart people! The ASM agar art contest is open. Deadline is October 21 🧪🧫

An absolutely incredible development here. This leg would have been unimaginable just a few short years ago. (Original post by @science.org on instagram)

My lab is hiring two(!) postdocs interested in (1) building trait prediction models capable of resolving complex microbial traits from genomes and metagenomes, and/or (2) building mathematical models of microbial community dynamics www.microbialgamut.com/mGAMUT_postd...

Most cells require carbonic anhydrase and/or bicarbonate import to sustain pools of soluble inorganic carbon (SIC=CO2+HCO3-). Here, we identify proteins required for SIC homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis and identify a mutation that bypasses their requirement. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

All the plastic humanity has ever produced is ~10 billion tonnes. Humans emitted ~10 billion tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere in the first three months of 2026. When we appreciate orders of magnitude, we see how intractable the CO₂ problem becomes once we dump it into the atmosphere.

A coauthor is someone who can introduce entirely new reasons for why the paper isn't ready

If we keep on advocating the benefits of Eng Microbes for Env Release with the same arguments that we had for 50 yr, no wonder we will also get the same social backlash. A new narrative is badly needed focused on partnership & stewardship—not just containment & control dx.doi.org/10.1111/1751...

📣 Please share! We’re recruiting to build predictive models of gene regulation in plants. We’d love to hear from anyone with strong foundations in regulatory genomics or ML and fluency with coding agents. Any career stage; no plant background needed. noborilab.org 1/5

A few years ago, I started growing a yellow/orange lima bean with dark marks called "Hawol". (www.nativeseeds.org/products/pl011) I've been selecting for the seeds with no black marks. The variable number of dark marks makes it hard to know if a given seed really doesn't have the trait.

Clonal does not mean uniform. #MicroSky Our new review explores how genetically identical bacteria adopt different cell states, and how that diversity shapes survival, cooperation, antibiotic responses and gene transfer. 🧵 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Look at what I found in the fridge! Such a nice blue. @contamclub.bsky.social

Mushroom season is finally here. Our golden oyster logs petered out last year so it’s been a long mushroom free summer. Got >55 shiitakes 1.25

3 new GitHub repositories from me! I put what I'm teaching on GitHub. Module 1: github.com/cxli233/Sect... Module 2: github.com/cxli233/Sect... Module 3: github.com/cxli233/Sect... #Rstats #Datavis

Strange question: has anyone tried to get a winogradsky column through customs? US customs in particular but experience anywhere is welcomed

The perfect wallet does not exi.....

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

The leading region of many plasmids is adapted for translational efficiency doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

let's all take a moment to thank the EU for being the only slightly serious governing body in the west

Professorship Functional Plant Biology. Oldenburg, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #plantsciencejob www.academics.de/jobs/profess...

📣 We are hiring for an exciting, high impact-role in France: Group Lead Wheat Research & Pre-breeding 👇 #PlantSciJobs #AgSciJobs jobs.kws.com/job/Mons-en-...

Germany is under a dry spell the likes of I haven't seen yet. I took some photos today (of the and near the Elbe by Magdeburg), trying to recreate the same viewing point I chose just two years ago.

I am on a flat hike and found this water canister and some young trees (Salix alba?). It's a great idea to allow for community watering in these dry times!

Bottom-up reconstruction of synthetic pyrenoids provides insights into the mechanisms and evolution of carbon concentration by EPYC1 proteins Cool paper! Title says 'carbon concentrating' but I would emphasise 'CO2' or 'inorganic carbon' concentrating. The abstract seems ambivalent but I say 'CO2'.

I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

The draught in France is visible from space. Here are three cloud-free views of France in the last three Augusts. Source: eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...

Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

RESULTS ARE COOL!!! Piscinibacter gummiphilus seems the major species but less confident in read quality. If anyone wants to have a peek at what species are growing in my duckweed tank, here are the results as a zip file straight from @plasmidsaurus. Enjoyyyy! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481

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By sequencing the genome and through comparative genomics, we found that it doesn't have significant gene family expansions in developmental / information processing genes (e.g. Transcription Factors, signalling pathways). However its large genome (>3Gb) is ~75% transposons. 3/

Man, this stuff is amazing! Check out DABEST2.0 for multi-group comparisons. I was just struggling with how to best account for the block-type set up of my microplate growth experiments and here it is! Sorry, for the censored data. #microsky 🧪

DABEST2.0 paper is live! #statistics #reproduciblescience #estimation www.nature.com/articles/s41...