And look - MIT already has a gated instance. Anyone who's on mastodon.mit.edu is verified to have an MIT email. Neat isn't it?
https://mastodon.mit.edu/
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.
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
Lost and found: how two dead giant bees on eBay sparked the hunt to find one alive.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/10/lost-and-found-indonesian-giant-bee-feared-extinct-ebay-aoe
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
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
CAES partners with Agrify to grow vertical farming efforts
https://newswire.caes.uga.edu/story/10077/vertical-farms.html
New Scientist: Angiosperms versus gymnosperms: How flowering plants came to rule.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634120-100-how-flowering-plants-beat-bloom-free-gymnosperms-to-world-dominance/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
Ars Technica: Redditor discovers legendary 1956 computer in grandparents’ basement.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/redditor-discovers-legendary-1956-computer-in-grandparents-basement/
Nature.com: Spatial genomics maps the structure, nature and evolution of cancer clones.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05425-2
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
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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https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/NAT01313/chair-microbiology/
#academicjobs
A single fungal strain was the unexpected cause of a mass aspergillosis outbreak in the world’s largest and only flightless parrot. https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(22)01742-4#relatedArticles
Meet the grasshopper that has reproduced asexually for a quarter of a million years—without acquiring undue numbers of harmful mutations. https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/how-a-grasshopper-gave-up-sex-took-up-cloning-70582?utm_campaign=TS_DAILY_NEWSLETTER_2022&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=233187055&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_pWxaTg6mShO5hJh0Fu6lIggDPYoarmed1a7eLEftIER89al-M_jemUBPgNWtywbcSMkjIqMc1ONxs1KORtYYV-Gg63aCWb8T9R6VVRBeBqDsd63k&utm_content=233187055&utm_source=hs_email
Current Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology at Mississippi State University.
Several years tweeting as:
https://twitter.com/BCHEPPdepthead?t=PdDGuAHUG6BETcVOxJrg8w&s=09
I start as Assistant Provost and Director of the UGA Griffin campus on January 1, 2023. Because of the new job, my twitter account of seven years was going to be mothballed anyway, so this was the perfect time to explore a new platform.
#biochemistry #molecularbiology #enzymes #genomics #transcriptomics #metabolomics #bioinformatics #entomology #plants #plantbiology #plantphysiology #plantpathology #plantdisease #planthealth #onehealth #lignin #mycology #secondaryproducts #xylem #woodformation #trees #forests #forestry #pulpandpaper #agriculture #CEA #verticalfarming #graduateeducation #scicomm #Georgia #Mississippi #Wyoming #UGA #HailState #MississippiState #Purdue #Stanford #RockSpringsWY