“I think it’s incredible that we find something so new, which is so large, in this world where we think everything is already known,” says Maarten Christenhusz 🧪 Three new species of giant waterlilies more than doubling the total to five! www.newscientist.com/article/2592...

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Hey British gov sites. Glad you came to terms with the Russian influence in the Brexit vote. Now get the hell off X, which is equally designed to destabilize & groom viewers to act against their own interests. 🇬🇧 Gov sites (that includes the BBC,) should NOT BE ON X. @ukparliament.parliament.uk

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So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?

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New paper! Distribution and Shared Pathogenicity of Small-Spored Alternaria on Solanaceous Crops in Europe dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppa.... Marker analyses of small-spored Alternaria from Germany, Poland and Serbia finds 2 spp mixed. We need full genome sequencing to understand local or host adaptation.

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Still no Nobel Prize for next-gen sequencing? Taking nothing away from the recent Nobel Prizes for methods, but IMO there is really nothing that has changed biology more than next-generation sequencing in the last decades.

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