'Es gibt keinen Beleg für die Wirkung der Polioimpfung.'
Das ist ungefähr so als würde ein Physiker sagen: 'Es gibt keinen Beleg für den Planeten Saturn.'

Das ist nicht eine abweichende Meinung, die man halt auch vertreten kann. Das ist unzweifelhaft gefährlicher Unsinn.

One of my main motivations for founding Our World in Data was to overcome the mad reality in academia that much of the most important research and data is locked away behind paywalls.

I wanted research and data to be a public good, accessible to *everyone*.

If you find our work…

Harvard longevity scientist sparks furor with claim about reversing aging in dogs
Megan Molteni writes STAT
statnews.com/2024/03/05/dav…
See my critical review of the study here.
pubpeer.com/publications/0…
[Spoiler alert: the supplement does NOT reverse aging in dogs]

Big thanks to O'Connor Lab, plantevolution.bsky.social 🌱, Barbara Ann Halkier & EMBL Events for organising #EESPlantDiversity . A great inaugural conference, according to this editor and many other attendees I've spoken to. Looking forward to 2026...

We had a fabulous time last night at the #EESPlantDiversity pub quiz 🪴 Who else knew that a strawberry is, in fact, a nut? 🤯🍓
Congratulations to the winning team! 🥳 plantevolution.bsky.social 🌱

My interview is out now in Current Biology, thank you for this opportunity to share my career track and research interests. Please see below my thoughts on advice to early career researchers and what I think the public should know about my field.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

More research on glyphosate impacts on soil microbiology: neither soil bacteria and fungal diversity (alpha and beta) nor functional potential were impacted by cumulative glyphosate doses.
mdpi.com/2073-4395/14/4… pic.twitter.com/D8HzbfSRoM

Dive into the future of #pangenomes on our latest #podcast episode!
“In the pre breeding step, Pantograph helps you in identifying novel markers predictive for traits”, says Jörg Hagmann. Don't miss out on this enriching conversation! Tune in now: buff.ly/4cziFfr

Marcel Bucher Channa Prakash plantevolution.bsky.social 🌱 My first instinct on seeing this was to look into where I could buy purple tomatoes in Canada.....

Very excited to share our lab's work led by Postdoc Oliver Selmoni (not in X) in collaboration with @PACleves!

'Global coral genomic vulnerability explains recent reef losses'

bioRxiv
doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

UC Berkeley HHMI NEWS Carnegie Plants Carnegie Embryology…

Channa Prakash plantevolution.bsky.social 🌱 Yes, of course I would eat these purple tomatoes straight away. I'm in the mood for purple spaghetti alla napoletana! 🍝🍝🍝

Your research revolves all around plants but you can't make it on site for #EESPlantDiversity ? Don't worry, just join this new EMBO | EMBL Symposium from the comfort of your own home! 💻 🪴

Register for virtual participation until 2 April 👉 s.embl.org/ees24-04

'Was sagen wir im Wettbewerb um die klügsten Köpfe den Leuten am besten, damit sie in die 🇩🇪 Wissenschaft gehen?'

'Kommt zu uns, wir schmeißen euch nach 4 Jahren Postdoc raus plus gratis Berufsverbot!'

Die können diesen Quatsch doch unmöglich selbst glauben.

#WissZeitVG

'Das ist für die jungen Leute, die diesen Karriereweg wollen, meiner Meinung nach eine Katastrophe.'

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai-Uwe Sattler, Vorsitzender der Landeskonferenz der Präsidentinnen und Präsidenten Thüringer Hochschulen zur Reform des #WissZeitVG .

faz.net/agenturmeldung…

Die sog. Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft bedeutet:4 Jahre nach dem Erwerb des Doktorgrades wird man entweder arbeitslos oder Professor:in.(Das klappt in dem Zeitraum fast nie.) Das Gesetz führt zu noch weniger personellen Diversität als bisher. #WissZeitVG

Would You Eat This Purple Tomato? The purple tomato with a snapdragon gene is packed with powerful, cancer-fighting anthocyanins, the same compounds found in blueberries, purple cabbages, and plums atlasobscura.com/articles/norfo…

The Novo Nordisk Foundation proudly announces Professor Jack Pronk as the recipient of the 2024 Novozymes Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to industrial biotechnology. His transformative research in yeast physiology and metabolic engineering has not only revolutionised…

Simone Peter 🌍 #Erneuerbare Timo Küntzle Listen to the scientists. allianceforscience.org/blog/2020/03/t…

Und der Pharmaindustrie geht es nicht um den Profit? Das ist doch allerbilligste Propaganda. Nennen Sie bitte eine:n einzige:n anerkannte:n Fachwissenschaftler:in, der die Verteufelung der Grünen #Gentechnik unterstützt.

Glad that the trio PacBio genome assembly of Malbec #grapevine 🍇🧬🍷 we produced with plantevolution.bsky.social 🌱 Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen is out in Horticulture Research

Collaboration for haplotype-aware transcriptomics of Malbec clones with LucianoCalderon Diego Lijavetzky and Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (ICVV)

academic.oup.com/hr/advance-art…