Very interesting

Grateful to everyone who has contributed to my career progression, especially mentors from my PhD days till now.  Very grateful to my family for their full support for my career. All glory to the Almighty God.

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Undergraduates – our summer studentships in #PlantHealth are now open for applications 🌱

We worked with plant scientists to create twelve projects that address major plant health challenges identified by Defra UK 🧵

🔗 Full details: rsb.org.uk/PHUGS

Community forests in Madagascar are less resilient to a political crisis and its aftermath than natural parks communities.springernature.com/posts/shock-pr…

Interested in evolutionary genomics/population genomics and plant genetics? Want to do your PhD in beautiful Stockholm? We have two 4-year PhD student positions available in my group at Stockholm University. More info, see tanjaslottelab.se Please RT #ecrchat #PhD 1/4

Nice FT report on a “macroevolutionary singularity” in snakes, including a comparison to Darwin's abominable mystery in plants!
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Good questions, which need to be asked more widely about how science is communicated to the public in several areas.

Visiting the Kitchen Garden RHS Bridgewater designed by Hugo Bugg (note the singular surname)

First visit to RHS Bridgewater

Today we remember something entirely outside our normal experience: that the human body of the eternal Son of God rose from the dead ~1991 years ago outside Jerusalem, never again to die.

Bias in the arrival of variation can dominate over natural selection in Richard Dawkins’s biomorphs | PLOS Computational Biology journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

'Using >1.8 million tree measurements across eastern US forests, we show that the number of species is as good a predictor of forest productivity as more complex biodiversity measures that consider species properties and evolutionary history.' pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Remarkably, we appear not to know for sure that biodiversity is declining in abundance doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

A strong bottleneck in the major ancestral population of humans is now detected by Cousins, Scally and Durbin (missed by PSMC as it did not allow for population structure) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Glorious morning ⁦Kew Gardens⁩

“Here, using a new statistical framework, we show across ten high-profile biodiversity datasets that increases and decreases under existing approaches vanish once spatial, temporal and phylogenetic structures are accounted for.” nature.com/articles/s4158…

The wood wide web - the idea that trees communicate with each other through an underground fungal network – has enchanted the public.

But some ecologists think its scientific basis has been oversold go.nature.com/3vrZ0gS

And here is biodiversity on display at Natural History Museum last time I visited

Rare fungus to be moved from Scotland to England in hopes to save species theguardian.com/environment/20…

Interesting contribution to the tree planting debates: 'People today who plant trees successfully do it for livelihoods and income not for biodiversity or climate mitigation' frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…