Weigel Lab aka WeigelWorld Repost≠endorsement #OpenScience COIs http://tinyurl.com/DWCOI2022 GoogleScholar http://tinyurl.com/DeWeScholar
Many years ago, my lab helped to discover YUCCAs. Later, Jia-Wei Wang in the lab sussed out the role of miR156s in a range of developmental processes. And now YUCCA and miR156 reappear as partners in this beautiful paper from the Lenhard lab! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience
Very happy to be able to host a student delegation from China Agricultural University led by my friend @wangshengzhu.bsky.social 🇩🇪🇨🇳 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
What could possibly go wrong? AI autonomously designing nuclear reactors. Aren't out-of-distribution events a big deal for nuclear reactors? www.science.org/content/arti...
This looks like a nice tool — but why is it advertised as CNS??? Not worth it to make nice figures for other journals???
Stephen Turnercnsplots: Publication-Ready Scientific Plots for Cell, Nature, and Science Journals github.com/faridrashidi... really cool work here from a postdoc at NIH.
Is it useful to measure “biological” v “chronological” age? economist.com/science-and-... from @economist.com
Is it useful to measure “biological” v “chronological” age?You will get data, but perhaps not knowledgeeconomist.comFrom the folks complaining about improper interpretation of Greek works: ‘federal agencies “should prioritize foundational research in the biological over the life sciences.”’ Biology, derived from Greek, literally means ‘science of life’. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Bringing this up again as the deadline to comment on the new proposed OMB rules is getting very close!
PlantEvolution 🌱🌾My comments on proposed OMB Rule "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance", written from the perspective of someone who became a naturalized citizen 25 yrs ago bc he believed in the US as a country of exceptional openness, opportunity & merit-based advancement drive.google.com/file/d/14Bbb...
Have a favorite European colleague who should be recognized for their work in non-medical biotechnology? Pls nominate them for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biotechnology. (Prior awardees at novonordiskfoundationprize.com/awardees). Thank you! novonordiskfoundationprize.com/nominate-bio...
The Novo Nordisk Foundation PrizeOur prizes are awarded to researchers who have contributed to scientific breakthroughs or in other ways distinguished themselves within natural or medical science.novonordiskfoundationprize.comEssays, written on the same occasion but a decade apart, by two lovers of genetics ❤️ @genetics-gsa.bsky.social @schacherer.bsky.social