A new blog post on Imposter Syndrome, why I've always found it hard to discuss, and how to fight it! quietscientistblog.wordpress…

A follow up: New blog post on Imposter Syndrome, why I've always found it hard to discuss, and how to fight it! quietscientistblog.wordpress…

Shout out to @williamkay for all his hard work on this!

Latest publication from the Fones lab Exeter! "Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment" now out in @bmc biology! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar…

SWBio PhD projects are now available to apply to! Check out the 'Agriculture and Environment' theme to find some based in, or co-supervised by, the Fones lab and our awesome collaborators at @UoEBiosciences, Bath, Rothamsted and beyond: swbio.ac.uk/agriculture-and-…

As well as improving our daily lives, university research contributes £54 BILLION to the UK economy and supports 121k jobs across the UK📈 If we want to be a country fit for the future, the government must make research funding more sustainable👇 loom.ly/T-7pw68

🚨Preprint alert🚨 Super happy to share the preprint of one of my PhD chapters in #Zymoseptoria now on BioRxiv: “Host specialization defines the emergence of new fungal plant pathogen populations”. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🧵👇[1/8]

You are looking for a PostDoc position or know someone who is? We are looking for someone to join our team at @ETH_en Zürich for a project on phage-host interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🦠🧬👇🏼

Congrats to my co-authors on this one, Dr Graham Thomas @Gray_Thomas1 and Dr William Kay @williamkay

New article from @FonesLab in which we propose #Zymoseptoria as a model for epiphytic plant-microbe-microbes interactions: "Life on a leaf: the #epiphyte to pathogen continuum and interplay in the #phyllosphere" - including cool pics of Zymo being weird😁ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…

Interesting talk #ISCLB2024 by Radek Zenkl: "Towards high throughput in-field detection and quantification of #wheat foliar diseases with deep learning" -> isclb2024.com/talks/rtalk-ze…

Second stimulating talk #ISCLB2024 on quantitative disease (STB) assessment by Jonas Anderegg: "Image-based symptom tracking to decompose quantitative resistance in the field", based on the paradigm "severity = infection events lesion growth" -> isclb2024.com/talks/rtalk-an…

Great talk #ISCLB2024 by Victor Flores Nuñez 👏 from @EvaStukenbrock lab: "The leaf microbiota of grasses establish interactions with #Zymoseptoria species beyond antagonism" -> isclb2024.com/talks/talk-flo…

Great talk #ISCLB2024 by @AndreaSVallet 👏 "#Zymoseptoria tritici effectors: Understanding their regulation and #wheat targets", highlighting that multi-strain / endophyte coexistence alters the infection processes -> isclb2024.com/talks/talk-san…

Interested in joining my group or another group @ISTAustria? Apply now for a fully funded #postdoc #fellowship! Hurry, the deadline (June 12) is approaching!

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Yup. We continue to reward toxic PIs, promoting them and giving grants and awards. This normalizes their behavior.

Starvation is on the rise in Gaza. This is not about rhetoric. This is not about politics. This is about survival. That's why it’s a failure of humanity.

New preprint from @Foneslab & @GurrLabExeter - nice to have the fantastic work of @williamkay finally getting out there! #Zymoseptoria blastospores survive a shockingly long time w/o any external nutrients & can infect seedlings even after 7 weeks in soil doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.29.5…

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