In plant lipid community, we don’t say “hejdå/goodbye/再见”. We say“Vi ses/so long/再会”. Great to have @ecahoon2 @JohnathanNapie1 visit Skåne where oilseed plants are one of the icons inspiring generations of farmers, researchers and innovators.
It is interesting to read all these negative comments on Sweden from the rest of the world…the same scenario during pandemic…while the country just carries on🤔
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President Jimmy Carter was born two years before the late Queen Elizabeth. Go well Jimmy x
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Stars illuminate the Christmas Tree Cluster (2023). go.nasa.gov/4fxAqw7
ALT Wispy green lines and shapes resemble the boughs and needles of an evergreen tree, with glowing lights of blue and white - stars within the cluster - scattered across it. The peak of the tree is at the top center of the image. Stars are seen in the foreground and background as gleaming specks of white light against the blackness of space.
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What is a PhD?
Open Access
embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…
#PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science
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Welcome and congratulations to the eleven group leaders from India, Singapore, Taiwan and Uganda who join the EMBO Global Investigator Network!
Read more:
embo.org/press-releases/elev…
#lifesciences
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🎥 #LERUtalks
How can universities contribution to global and European sustainability governance? Next week, Veronika Hunt Safrankova @UNEP_Europe & @PMickwitz @lunduniversity will discuss this during an online interview.
Do you have questions about the topic? Ask them during the interview!
More information: leru.org/calendar/leru-talks…
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Congratulations to @UNL_Biochem's Edgar Cahoon, who has been named a fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Inventors (@AcadofInventors). Details: go.unl.edu/i5na #Nebraska #UNL #LNK @UNL_IANR @unlcas @UNLresearch
ALT Edgar Cahoon, George Holmes Professor of biochemistry and director of the Center for Plant Science Innovation, stands between rows of soybeans in a greenhouse. (Jordan Opp/University Communication and Marketing)
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“Ever since I was a child, I have wanted to know. The reason we are born. The reason suffering and love exist. These questions have been asked by literature for thousands of years, and continue to be asked today.”
This year’s literature laureate Han Kang spoke about how language connects us all in her Nobel Prize banquet speech this evening.
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The 2024 Nobel Prize banquet dessert is a homage to Swedish apples.
Pastry chef Frida Bäcke has used a variety of Swedish apples to create the ultimate dessert. A terrine of caramelised Frida apples has been combined with a brown butter cake made from tiger nuts, a cream of quince fruit and thinly sliced apples with chamomile. Ice cream made with pineappleweed and punsch liqueur tops it all off.
Take a look at how Frida plates the dessert to perfection.
What’s described on Wikipedia about what Trofim Lysenko did to Nikolai Vavilov reminds me of what Lewis Strauss did to Oppenheimer—two tragic instances of politics stifling science and destroying brilliant minds.
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A new book tells the story of the Russian botanists at the world’s first seed bank. Their sacrifice during the Nazi siege of Leningrad stocked the world’s breadbasket for future generations econ.st/3D4je3N 👇
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"We are incredibly lucky today. We live comfortable, healthy, and prosperous lives, at least in the industrialised countries. But nothing about that was inevitable; nothing about that was automatic, and we shouldn't take that for granted."
Listen to 2024 economic sciences laureate Daron Acemoglu as he shares his views on some of the most pressing issues of our time, like how robust institutions is upholding democracy, the challenge of fairly distributing power, and the future of AI.
Listen to the full podcast here: bit.ly/4dPUrNs
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#OnThisDay in 1903, Marie Skłodowska Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris – becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree in physics.
ALT Image of the cover of Marie Skłodowska Curie's PhD thesis titled "Recherches sur les substances radioactives," submitted to the Faculté des Sciences de Paris in 1903, showing aged pages with text in French.