One of the best dinners and then seminar I've had was with Frank Stahl. He sat down with overhead projector and all the 200 in the audience felt they had a personal tutorial on DNA replication and his super-elegant research. RIP age 95.

Grrr. My appeal every 5 years or so, as frustration boils over. Why doesn't any web browser print out roughly what you see on your screen? I see nice versions of the webpage - full screen, landscape, portrait, mobile phone - but no major browser can print anything like them.

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

I'm finding LLM / AI models like Grok, Deepseek, ChatGPT, Google search lab useful to explain things at suitable level. Notable they don't just rehash Wikipedia or unhelpful Microsoft manuals. Today's examples: GANTT charts; IF/TRUE/FALSE in Excel; Harvard referencing.

RT @PTA_PlantTech: The Call of Plants: A Scientist's Mission on Earth植物的召唤：一个科学家的地球使命 via @YouTube.

For #internationalbiodiversityday I'm happy to post a program The Call of Plants about our interests by Plant Technology Alliance & Dency Cheng, Guangdong & Hong Kong. A great organization bringing nature back to us . more later!.

Many opportunities to exploit rhizosphere microbiome for crops. No longer only consider plant genome/GWAS for traits: look at fungi/bacteria. New multisite field trial complexity we can analyse @TrendsPlantSci Rodomiro Ortiz, Sangam Dwivedi, @plgepts EtAl.

"Doing you own research" on product/medicine safety means web searches now with AI answers. How can we ensure LLMs are informed primarily by refereed research publications, not activists on eg Facebook or Reddit?.

Are others getting 'verify' boxes when wanting to access published papers (even open access)? Is this major publishers trying to stop Deep Learning / Generative AI / ChatGPT accessing refereed work? I want my papers used by AI models easily, not push them to Reddit or Facebook

Academic climate: It’s no longer ‘publish or perish’; It’s ‘Be visible or vanish’ says @drtimiolubiyi “It is not just what you publish; it is who sees it, talks about it, and shares it that matters." Hs analysis has a lot of sense; I don't agree all.

Has anyone tried this in submission cover letter:"We tick required ‘check/tick boxes’ randomly where there is no appropriate answer. Our answer has no validity. We include early career/retired authors where academic e-mails are deleted; and OA fees are covered by agreements.".

I'm reading PhD applications which have a question about time management. Every one I read thinks they apply for something where every hour is planned in advance and accounted for (and presumably billed!). Not one had time for getting ideas, reading, following up crazy thoughts.

It's early 2025, but I think I've found product-of-the-year: a USB Tester / Power Meter. Shows what is charging, measures voltage, battery mAh or Wh, tests batteries, adaptors, whether "PD" on a USB C means "power delivery" or "display port", graphs transfers etc. for c 10£$€

It's early 2025, but I think I've found product-of-the-year: a USB Tester / Power Meter. Shows what is charging, measures voltage, battery mAh or Wh, tests batteries, adaptors, whether "PD" on a USB C means "power delivery" or "display port", graphs transfers etc. for c 10£$€

@silverchairnews @hum_works Immediate action point/question for me is: 'How do I get my material used for AI answers?' I'm impressed by Google "Search Labs AI Overview" accurately summarizin, in context, our paper from Sept 2024, when I use "flavonoids musaceae chromosomal location" as search keywords.

Who guessed Search would change in 2024: 'People now expect answers to questions, not just a stack of links. Perplexity, OpenAI, & Google raced to create “answer engines”, combining web results with generative AI models' says @silverchairnews & @hum_works

My lecture on Biodiversity, Conservation & Agriculture to a public audience at Dinghu Nature Reserve, China. Discussing success of agriculture feeding people but at cost of sustainability: we can solve now global population is static

Genome-Wide Identification of Lectin Receptor-like Kinase Gene Family in Avena sativa and Role in Salt Stress Tolerance with Xiong Gui & Qing Liu: genomics, localization and expression shows the value of these genes #mdpiijms @IJMS_MDPI @MDPIOpenAccess

#COP29 Message 2: Tertiary, University graduate-level, education is critical to solving the issues of Climate Change – both mitigation (reduction or capture of emissions) and adaptation (changing approaches for living with climate change).

#COP29 message: . Now, (outside Africa) globally there is no meaningful increase in human population. We can put the continuing 0.75% increase in agricultural productivity that has been achieved in the last century towards making production more sustainable.

#COP29 message 1: Message 1: Agriculture has fed an increasing world population with fewer hungry. Half the improvement comes from genetics (animals and crops); and half from improved management. However, production increase has been at the expense of exploiting the environment.