🌽Exciting news! Introducing our latest publication New Phytologist "Combining multiplex gene editing and doubled haploid technology in maize." nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… We bring together two powerful techniques to accelerate maize research. Let's dive into the details! #CRISPR✂️

One of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth has developed off the coast of Ireland and the UK, with water temperatures as high as 4-5°C above normal. NOAA's Marine Heatwave Watch has categorized this event as a Category 4 (extreme) marine heatwave.

Awesome first paper from PhD student Elizabeth Robbins! Here we uncover the major constraints on the evolution of photosynthesis in plants. And they’re really not what you think they are... shorturl.at/lxDEF 1/5

A dark day in Hungary— Parliament passed the revenge law, a brutally oppressive piece of legislation with the sole purpose of punishing & intimidating teachers who defy Orban’s regime. 5,000 teachers already said they would quit. Students are robbed of an education & a future.

オニヤンマの幼虫が下あごを伸ばしてヤブカの幼虫を捕らえる瞬間。 #TokyoBugBoys

-55% yield Soft Wheat -42% yield Winter Barley -49% yield Spring Barley -24% yield Soy Organic vs Conventional in France. Considerably lower yields on average from 2018-2022. Low yield = More land required to produce = More land use changes.

Communicating climate requires eye catching and simple visuals. This graphic adapted from Jane Morton is one of the best I've seen showing the stark recent rise in temperature. Today's warming rate is >50X the rate after the last ice age More info: bit.ly/46EL0Oq 1/

Marche pour #Adama, la brav M charge et interpelle des manifestants. #paris

Vous ne connaissez probablement pas cette femme: Sigrid Kaag . Pourtant son histoire en dit long sur ce que le populisme fait à notre démocratie européenne. Vice-Première Ministre des Pays-Bas et Ministre des Finances, sa vie est devenue un enfer. Explications et dénouement👇🏼

Read this; run it through a translation programme if you don't speak French. This is how we are destroying our democracies, by allowing to have politicians like Sigrid Kaag terrorised.

Samuel L. Jackson said tax billionaires

“Russia’s termination of its participation in the Black Sea Initiative, coupled with its bombardment of Ukrainian ports, will have far-reaching impacts on global food security.” – UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs chief Rosemary A. DiCarlo tells Security Council. news.un.org/en/story/2023/…

Its Winter in Antarctic and shockingly,almost 2 million kilometers² (about 772,000 miles²) less sea ice in Antarctica compared to same point last year Even most dire climate models did not predict this to happen until at least 2050 Our climate is collapsing now in 2023

I photographed these verges a few days ago, when there was lots of Rosebay willowherb in flower. Today, all flailed & this beautiful Elephant hawkmoth caterpillar was barely alive in the middle of the road! My 1st sighting of this #moth caterpillar this year.

Are mutations random? Here is a brief survey of groundbreaking mechanistic work that all evolutionary biologists should be familiar with:

In summary: recent discoveries are reshaping our appreciation for organisms’ capacity to preferentially promote DNA repair in their most functionally important genome regions by direct interactions between DNA repair proteins and specific histone modifications.

I'm stuck waiting on someone, so a quick 🧵I've been meaning to write, pulling together a few strands. In his book The School for Dictators, Ignazio Silone famously called fascism "a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place." There is much wisdom there.

The saga of the #Sacklers, a multigenerational billionaire crime family of murdering dope-peddlers, is an enraging parable about how the wealthy, the courts, and sadistic high-powered lawyers collude to destroy the lives of millions, profit handsomely, and evade justice. 1/

For the wealthy, bankruptcy is the sport of kings, a way to skip out on consequences. For the poor, bankruptcy is an anchor – or a noose. 49/

Incredible graph in Financial Times. Israel is deliberately making Gaza unlivable. Words of criticism by the Irish government are not enough. We need action. Expel the Israeli ambassador. Impose sanctions on Israel. Join South African case about Israeli genocide.