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Sophien Kamoun

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Biologist at The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens and evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer.

Norwich, UK
Joined June 2009
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@KamounLab
Sophien Kamoun
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Amazing to meet Lila Ibrahim and the @GoogleDeepMind Team and find out how we share much of the same ethos and goals in tackling global challenges šŸ˜šŸ‘‡šŸ¼
@TheSainsburyLab
The Sainsbury Laboratory
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Fantastic hosting the @GoogleDeepMind team at TSL with @KamounLab 🌱 From AI in plant health to building scientific capacity, our missions clearly resonate! Tools like AlphaFold can accelerate scientific breakthroughs in our field -holding real promise for global food security šŸŒ
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@owenjonesjourno
Owen Jones
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These are the Israeli football hooligans Keir Starmer is demanding must be on Birmingham's streets. Conflating these thugs with Jewish people as a whole is the actual antisemitism here.
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Nadeem Ahmed
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ā€œIDF will Fu*k the arabs Death to arabs, why is there school in Gaza? There are no children left thereā€ Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are hooligans
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Nick Talbot
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Great to welcome Vivianne Vleeshouwers (@VivianneTwit ) using evoMPMI to find novel sources of resistance to potato pathogens from wild Solanum relatives- to control early and late blight by NLR and PRR-based resistances.
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@KamounLab
Sophien Kamoun
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I just published: Google DeepMind visits TSL As long-time admirers of Google DeepMind’s tools and systems, our researchers were excited to show Lila Ibrahim and the team how we harness AlphaFold in our plant health research. https://t.co/v2LnpIXmsy
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As long-time admirers of Google DeepMind’s tools and systems, our researchers were excited to show Lila Ibrahim and the team how we harness…
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Sophien Kamoun
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This week’s @TheSainsburyLab @JohnInnesCentre Friday seminar speaker is the one and only Vivianne @VivianneTwit @WUR šŸ„” 🦠 ā€œEffector-guided strategies for durable disease resistance in potatoā€
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@RedChip
RedChip
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šŸ’” The Future of Drug Development in Just 30 Seconds! BullFrog AI $BFRG offers a quick look at how its BullFrog Data NetworksĀ® platform, powered by proprietary bfLEAPĀ® technology, is helping biopharma companies improve drug discovery and development outcomes. Why It Matters to
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@NeuroWoodworks
NeuroWoodworks
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The most complex piece I ever made, the famous Purkinje neuron drawn 100 years ago by Ramon y Cajal. It took me more than 30h of cutting with a scroll saw.
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@FranceskAlbs
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
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Israel keeps burning, killing, destroying. Sowing hatred like ash. Unstoppable fury. To my Western fellows: this is not civilization. This is its collapse.
@AJEnglish
Al Jazeera English
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Huge explosions were seen in southern and eastern Lebanon as Israeli war planes targeted the area, killing at least one person. Israel said it attacked Hezbollah infrastructure, despite a ceasefire deal in place since November last year.
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Takema Fukatsu
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Our long-lasting research project on an amazing stinkbug-fungus relationship "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" finally comes out in Science! https://t.co/J3y9mLJHuR #symbiosis #insect #fungus #stinkbug
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@Moms4Liberty
Moms for Liberty
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ā€œI love Moms for Liberty because they are putting education back into the hands of parents!ā€ @RyanWalters_
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@EITOxford
EIT Oxford
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🌾Powering the next generation of sustainable agriculture We’re thrilled to lead a $60M Series A round for Wild Bioscience, alongside Oxford Science Enterprises, Braavos Investment Advisers and the University of Oxford - accelerating the development of next-generation crop
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@FranceskAlbs
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
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Thanks to @mashagessen for visiting me in Ariano Irpino soon after the US sanctions. Their insightful piece on @nytimes captures the essence of my work on Palestine and the reactions it stirs, especially among the pro-genocide and other hyprocrits of our time.
@mashagessen
m. gessen
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In which I talk wihbthe woman who won't shtbup
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@NickDesnoyer
Nick Desnoyer
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One day you’re watching a documentary about @GoogleDeepMind and the next you’re meeting part of the team šŸ™Œ So grateful to be in the @KamounLab working alongside scientists doing truly cutting-edge research.
@TheSainsburyLab
The Sainsbury Laboratory
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Fantastic hosting the @GoogleDeepMind team at TSL with @KamounLab 🌱 From AI in plant health to building scientific capacity, our missions clearly resonate! Tools like AlphaFold can accelerate scientific breakthroughs in our field -holding real promise for global food security šŸŒ
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Sophien Kamoun
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@LinaQuesadaO You know you're drinking too much coffee when...
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@nexa_ai
NEXA AI
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The best vision-language models just went fully on-device - Day-0 on NPU, GPU, and CPU. Qwen3-VL-4B and 8B from @Alibaba_Qwen now run locally across @Apple, @Qualcomm, @NVIDIA, @Intel, @MediaTek and @AMD devices with NexaSDK Every line of model inference code in NexaML, GGML,
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@TheSainsburyLab
The Sainsbury Laboratory
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An exciting double-header of seminars today! First up, Ignacio @I_Rubio_Somoza: ā€œUnderstanding the evolution of division of labor in plant development and immunity.ā€
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@SCNathan
Sara Nathan
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@mandy83906280 @FraserNelson Have you been to London recently? The streets are so full of an evening, you can’t walk at speed (I know, I’ve tried every evening this week) Pubs are full, even cafes charging Ā£7 for a cup of tea have many customers. It’s expensive rather than dangerous!
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@DeryaTR_
Derya Unutmaz, MD
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This is what I’ve been warning about for quite some time. At this rate, the gap between outdated courses, professors, academic institutions, vs self-learning with AI will continue to widen. If two of the best universities in the world can’t adapt to AI, not sure what’s the point.
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Zara Zhang
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Harvard and Stanford students tell me their professors don't understand AI and the courses are outdated. If elite schools can't keep up, the credential arms race is over. Self-learning is the only way now.
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@FraserNelson
Fraser Nelson
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NHS Hospital records are the most reliable indicator of knife attacks. They show a trend rather different to the social-media narrative about London...
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@SemiAnalysis_
SemiAnalysis
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PFAS-free is a big deal in semiconductors. Getting rid of ā€œforever chemicalsā€ seems like a clear win, right? Turns out it’s probably greenwashing: 🧵1/10
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@AskPerplexity
Ask Perplexity
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Oxford researchers just confirmed what we feared: The internet as we knew it is dying. AI content went from ~5% in 2020 to 48% by May 2025. Projections say 90%+ by next year. Why? AI articles cost <$0.01. Human writers cost $10-100. But the real crisis is model collapse. When
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@DAaronovitch
David Aaronovitch
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I blame Sadiq Khan
@FraserNelson
Fraser Nelson
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London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months. The lowest rate on record.
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@IHSM_CSIC_UMA
IHSM La Mayora
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šŸ“‹ Join us on Friday 17th for a fascinating seminar with the researcher Neftaly de JesĆŗs Cruz Mireles (Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich) Don't miss it! šŸ•“ 9:30 AM šŸ“ IHSM La Mayora Auditorium More information here! ā¬‡ļø
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