Today, I had the pleasure of serving on the jury for the "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" and "3-Minute Thesis" competitions at @umontreal-en.bsky.social.
Congratulations to the winners and all the participants for their superb performances!
"Yield objectives were achieved in many site-years, even for crops whose yield performance is considered to be highly dependent on pesticides, such as canola, sugar beet, and potato."
#sustainableagriculture #pesticides
Press release: tinyurl.com/sk489zuh
Study: tinyurl.com/3en6ypyk
❄️Cold and beautiful landscapes this morning at the botanical garden!
@espacepourlavie.bsky.social
💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get”
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge
I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What ideas would you add? 💡
#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM
Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans
It's official - my new book is officially published today! If you mentor science students who write - grad or undergrad - you're the reason we wrote this. Mentoring/teaching writing is hard; but we can make it easier!
Our new publication in #ISMEJournal (@isme-microbes.bsky.social) describes how Bacillus and Trichoderma works together to fight against the plant pathogen Fusarium, a superb collaboration with Zhihui Xu at Nanjing Agricultural University, including the experiments by @jiyuxie.bsky.social at #IBL
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Check out the Microbial Primers page. Short articles written to help people new to a field to get quickly up to speed. @microbiologysociety.org
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
Shoutout to @annualreviews.bsky.social
“In a sea of polished, plausible noise, expertise matters more than ever.”
New blog 👇🏾
On my far-too-late realization that science is done by people, and that people are idiosyncratic (and sometimes weird), and that this matters in all kinds of interesting ways.
Happy to post our latest paper:
doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...
The commitments in the SAFE Labs Handbook.
A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers.
buff.ly/K7CGFLV
The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤
If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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This obit of Watson is *amazing*.
Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not?
@supportourscience.bsky.social
Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
Happy to see the data from the main paper of my PhD being used to build this tool!
People arm in arm while drinking coffee and holding papers, with text: Why scientists should take more coffee breaks.
Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕
"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
🧫 Happy International Microorganism Day!
Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨
#InternationalMicroorganismDay
Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
We started a Starter Pack at the #RPB2025 meeting on Plant-Bacteria Interaction Research in Aussois, France 🗻. Let me know if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4
Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome
#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al
In Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
Thank you for putting this together! Could you please add my account as well?
TONS to dig into here on the meteoric rise in publications from China - a trend that is unambiguously good for science, but has outpaced adaptation at Western journals, their reviewers, and their editors/editorial board members.
July issue of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social is now online, with our review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @neftalyl.bsky.social on Composing a microbial symphony and a matching cover illustration by @lizahaart.bsky.social
#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🌿 Happy to share the latest paper published today from my postdoc at Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada!
🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#peptin #mycin #brabantamides
Science covered our recent meeting, as we try and get microbial conservation integrated into the IUCN.
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Not only will this create a network effect, but because bioRxiv is intended to be an enabling platform that stimulates evolution, it will allow _other people_ to do great things e.g. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2021/05... 2/2
