Jeff Dean (the Biochemist) @jeffdean@qoto.org

Cool #Science that explains how plants made the move from water to land 500 million years ago and were able to grow beyond just a few centimetres. The key is the evolution of xylem, the transport tissue in vascular plants that transports water and nutrients from the roots to the stem and leaves. To be able to grow without a high chance of blockages in their piping, plants had to rearrange their vascular tissue.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add2910

The best of #Twitter is its spontaneous, joyful creativity in reaction to the moment. Now, its ironic death is playing out like a New Orleans funeral, an ebullient brass band noodling away as people dance through the loss.

“Lockheed Martini” lol

Woah - German government has got its own Mastodon instance and most of the ministries and many agencies already have accounts.
Verification problem at least partially solved - just need to check the domain is right!
I've also seen newspapers like theatlantic.com set up instances themselves. Looks like verification will be worked out sooner or later.
https://social.bund.de/explore

Pretty cool news! While protein phosphorylation is well understood in proteins, where it is known to have important regulatory functions, this post-translational modification had never been found in RNA. This may open a new field of post translational modifications in RNA #science #biochemistry #RNA #archaea #microbiology https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01021-6

This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?

Check them out!

Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm

"It's dead, that's what's wrong with it!"

Here's a lil thread of things I *wish* somebody had told me when I started advising #STEM #gradstudents as a lab head, #PhD program director, and grad school conflict-resolution officer. Or maybe they did and I wasn’t listening? 🧵

#gradschool #inclusion #macademia #AcademicMastodon #ScienceMastodon #academia #academics

If you are part of the #TwitterMigration you may want to consider downloading your Twitter archive. Even if you’re not deleting your account.

You can’t be sure this possibility won’t suddenly stop working one day.

Instructions for requesting your archive are on the following link. Note that instructions are different for iOS app, Android app and web browser (desktop). You can select an icon for the system you want at the top of the instructions.

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive

Now that #PlosBiology has joined 🦣, I thought I’d share the editorial that I wrote upon joining the journal in March 2020 where I discussed my vision for its future

Let me know what you think!

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000707

Ok, I joined. What's the physiological relevance ?

Come be our colleague! Six open positions in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London. Cell and Dev Biol, Infection and Immunity, Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, Plant Sciences, Biotech and Bioengineering, Chair in Microbiology. Great department, great students, great colleagues.
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