PLS retweet. We are looking for lab assistant (BSc/MSc level🎓) with experience in genomic library preps to work on historical plant materials🌾 (aDNA🧬) in our brand new clean room at Kew🏞 (London🏤). Details: careers.kew.org/vacancy/resear…

🚨🚨🚨PLS Retweet, another position at Kew 🏞! We are looking for Research Associate (PhD level🎓) bioinformatics/genomics🧬 to characterize crop wild relatives and pinpointing domestication syndrome traits in indigenous crops🍠🌾🌱. Apply here: careers.kew.org/vacancy/resear…

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What do cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, collard greens & kohlrabi have in common? If you said "they're the same species of plant, selected for different qualities", you're correct! Let's talk about the chameleon of the vegetable world, the #Brassica!

What I hoped would be a low-key selfie with Ziheng Yang's Group and lecturers instantly became an EMBO 2023 group photo 😅 thank you Aglaia (Cilia) Antoniou and @AlexisCompBio for organising such a rigorous and unforgettable course

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Anthesis 🌾

Is this true? Skipping intro makes sense but why discussion? In fact, methods, results, discussion are all one thing gerrymandered into three

Brassica xkcd.com/2827

☘️ Plant #60 🍁 I figured it out in 25 guesses! 🟧🟩🟨🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩🟩🟨🟨🟧🟨🟩🟩🟨🟧🟧🟧🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 18 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora legume diversification has nearly ruined my morning yet again

🍂 Plant #68 🍁 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟧🟨🟨🟨🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 8.4 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora Just for once I'd like it to be a monocot. Or even better, not an angiosperm...

🌾 Plant #73 🌾 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟧🟨🟨🟩 🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 12.8 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora Day made

🌲 Plant #79 🍂 I figured it out in 9 guesses! 🟧🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora

🌳 Plant #84 🌵 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟧🟧🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora we're leaving eudicots in 2023 🫡

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Huge shout out to Alexandre Zuntini and co. for this amazing achievement. Learning from the best over here 😉

As part of a special issue on 'African Flora in a Changing World', give our paper on the evolution of forage grasses in the African genus Urochloa a read! Lots of polyploidy, lots of convergence, lot of fun 🌾

Yet more shameless promotion of what must be a fun study on some very cool plants 🌱 check it out 👇

ggplot running the damn game