A beautiful piece of detective work by @honour.bsky.social + colleagues revealing the origins of Ralstonia disease of bananas on Martinique. As so often, ICEs (ICERs!) prove to be extraordinary capacitors for evolutionary change. Evolution for evolution's sake 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

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Trade xkcd.com/3290/

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If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.

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Well folks, finally got a grant rated “Outstanding” at USDA NIFA. Top 8% according to their numbers. Rejected for funding

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We are excited to share our new preprint, “Canonical pathoadaptive cystic fibrosis genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are not CF-specific”! 🦠 Great project with @emehlferber.bsky.social and @brownlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread below 🧵

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