Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺
Head of the Crop Genome Dynamics Group at Agroscope, Switzerland.
Studying plant epigenetics and transposable elements and their use for crop breeding.
Views are my own.
#epigenetics #TransposableElements #breeding #crops #GMO #ClimateEmergency
- Windows should be less political 🙄 @microsoft.com
- So now there’s a thing called “paranormal citation” 🙄 where are we going??? this is totally nuts. You would not work with someone who’s permanently on LSD. AI is high all the time.
- AI hallucinations in science manuscripts are a nuisance. Paranormal citations, or paracites, will be a nightmare. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (w/ @sina.bio & @lauraluebbert.com).
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- nope, i am definitely not 100% there…
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺Plant Breeding Innovation Clears Next Hurdle for EU NGT Framework europesays.com/2737143/ The European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment (ENVI) has approved, by a strong majority, the compromise text on…
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- Time for a non-Fifa world cup that will take place somewhere else.
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- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺CERN Researchers Apologize For Destruction Of 5 Parallel Universes In Recent Experiment theonion.com/cern-researchers-ap…
- Thinking of the movie Armageddon, it breaks my heart that somehow the US, instead of helping us saving our planet, it may have become our Armageddon. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JkK8...
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
- A YouTube link for those looking for it. No words. youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...
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- Hey USA! Not a single country on this planet likes you anymore (oh, OK, maybe Russia does). I think you should do something about it. And you should do it now before ICE is fully armed. Afterwards it will be too late.
- The speed at which Oxford Nanopore is cancelling support for their devices is just mind boggling 😳 P2 solo will be decommissioned soon!!! This is not sustainable! @nanoporetech.com
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- Please Europe, put a 1000% tax on all @microsoft.com products! That would immediately result in a massive productivity increase!
- On my governmental computer, @microsoft.com Office takes at least one minute to open a 140kb file! My Atari is faster than that!
- Gott ist tot. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
- Maybe a tip for speakers who tend to have a dry mouth while giving presentations (like me, yeah I am too nervous): what really helps me are Fishermen’s Friend. maybe that helps someone out there…
- Am I the only who feels extremely uncomfortable sending a presentation for a conference several days in advance? For me it affects the spontaneity and the vibe…
- OK, so the US are now declaring war on Europe.
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺Kudos to Dana Kennedy, for making this lovely, pressed flower cover image for her paper. "Pressed-flower art representing heterochromatin gene silencing in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Each distinct flower symbolizes HP1/Swi6, Clr4, nucleosomes, and post-translational modifications (cont)
- Considering the disgusting things going on over at X: Why doesn’t the EU apply the precautionary principle??? It never hesitated to ban other inventions that pose zero danger to the community with this principle.
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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- I am proposing Donald J. Trump to be listed as a UN Intangible Cultural Heritage in the category“Planetary Idiot”. ich.unesco.org/en/
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- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺The World Cup should not be held in the United States.
- I wish to formally thank @microsoft.com for allowing Sharepoint toe send me email messages informing me that I edited a document. You know, not everyone is as senile as your president...
- I absolutely love this card I received from @inrae-france.bsky.social ! "In 2026, let us sow science and harvest solutions!" That should be the core European 🇪🇺 spirit! To boldly go where no one has gone before.
- In the contexte of resistance breeding: Is it known after how many years one could bring back "old" resistance genes that were once broken by the pathogen? I guess the pathogen must "forget" that R gene one day?
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- I guess Maduro will be expelled by ICE? What a farce of a country the US have become…
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- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺Want to discover great posts beyond who you already follow? The For You feed, built by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, is a personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes. It's one of our favorites for finding cool conversations across the network. Try it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...
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- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼 Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech. Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
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- So we have come to this then? There’s no difference between USA and Russia anymore.
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺Fortschritte in der Pflanzenzüchtung sind so wichtig. U.a. durch Klimawandel noch viel wichtiger als in der Vergangenheit. Menschen, die ihren Einfluss dafür nutzen, Angst vor Gentechnik und NGT zu schüren und diese seit vielen Jahren blockieren, richten sehr großen gesellschaftlichen Schaden an.
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺The SNSF is considering restrictions for its Project funding. Goal: to ensure the quality of evaluation & stable success rates despite an increasing number of applications and limited funding. The final decision will be made in January 2026. 👉 buff.ly/iGOCf7R #research #science
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- @woz.ch Was für ein katastrophal schlechter Artikel zum Thema Neue Zuchtmethoden. Von Recherche und Journalismus keine Spur. Ihr könnt das besser. www.woz.ch/2550/gentech...
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- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to stamatak@ics.forth.gr
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
- 📣 VACANCY: Predoctoral Intern in the Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on plant immunity research at single-cell and spatial resolution 🌱 Apply online, deadline 26 Jan 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs
- Now there’s acupuncture for plants 😳 I always thought people are against GMOs because of needles/syringes… But this is, apparently, OK?
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺Professorship Stress resilience of plants. Aachen, Germany. #PlantSciJobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-univ...
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺May their words reach politicians‘ ears…
- Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
- Reposted by Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
