Our faculty is looking to recruit a Full Professor (W3) in Plant Breeding! Official advert text and translation below! if you have questions about the position, I could probably provide some insights.

My last time in Nanjing was in 2012, so it's about time. 😉 Will you organise a session on quantitative disease resistance or something like that?

Here, a job advert for junior group leader position in Molecular Biology of Plants, especially with focus on cell division, cell cycle, chromosomes and DNA repair. Please spread the word. stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/d...

Afaik the Netherlands did shift to community service and open prisons as punishment more often, which allegedly reduced repeat offences and cut costs. But that article seems to be a bit too rose coloured.

Weird. The Dutch National Broadcaster reported in August that the cabinet is looking to house prisoners abroad, because of capacity issues... 🤔 nos.nl/artikel/2533...

Kabinet onderzoekt plaatsing gevangenen in buitenland

Bekeken wordt of daarover afspraken te maken zijn met andere landen binnen de Europese Unie.

Good read. Let me know if you want examples of cover letters. 😉

Eduardo Mizubuti shows some really interesting findings that P. Infestans populations from Tomato in Brazil are forming a new, unique subpopulation, different from all potato population and from those from the last decades. Affecting even how they grow on plate. #7ITDS#TomatoDisease

This is a fairly shocking recent preprint on estimated global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs). Six publishers (Elsevier, Frontiers, MDPI, PLOS, Springer Nature, and Wiley) received $2.5 billion in APCs in 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023

This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

So interesting that the organization arguably most responsible for the shift to APCs wants to be a "catalyst for a global shift away" from them. plos.org/redefining-p...

Redefining Publishing: PLOS Partners with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

PLOS believes in a better future where science is open to all, for all. We are redefining publishing by demonstrating that new solutions are feasible and deliver tangible benefits for the entire resea...

Edgardo Mizubuti is opening the 7th International Symposium on Tomato Diseases in Brasília! Three days of tomato disease research coming up!