The Tattooed Professor
Professor at the Australian National University. Biosecurity, fungal and plant genomics, evolution, and biochemistry. Dad. Swimming, reading, nature.
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professor"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
- I was asked to review two back-to-back papers in Cell twice. Once initially and once for re-review... they were each 150 pages long including rebuttal. This means 300 pages to evaluate critically and for free. Simply impossible.
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professor🌱 IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award 🍄 Congrats to Ningkang Sun 🇨🇳 🏆 Asia awardee Supported by The New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt.bsky.social This award supports her attendance at #ICOM2026, where she will give an oral presentation #Mycorrhiza
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professor🌱 IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award 🍄 Congrats to Beatrice M. Bock USA 🏆 North America awardee Supported by The New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt.bsky.social This award supports her participation with oral presentation at #ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professor🌱IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award🍄 🎉Congrats to Maycon Cristiano Barbosa 🇧🇷 🏆 Latin America awardee Award supported by the New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt.bsky.social This award supports his participation with an oral presentation at #ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professor🌱 IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award 🍄 Congrats to Amara Santiesteban-Serrano 🇪🇸 🏆 Europe awardee Supported by the New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt. This award supports her participation with oral presentation at #ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza @csic.es
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorNow out in Synthese! 😊 "Reframing the free will debate: the universe is not deterministic", with Henry Potter and George Ellis rdcu.be/e2hIh
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorStriking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- ‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professor'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorAI 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).
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professor"There is still life in the old dog." Brian Charlesworth on Fisher's Fundamental Theorem in @journal-evo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorPFAS, also known as "forever chemicals," helped spur innovation. But they're also insidious to human health. to.pbs.org/4qRXD2m
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- Full moon time with endless possibilities.
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorNEW H. H. Flor Distinguished Review: "The Extended Plant Immune System," by Corné M. J. Pieterse. Read the open access review in MPMI: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-10-25-…
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- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorIn a new #SciencePolicyForum, researchers discuss the risks of malicious “#AI swarms,” which enable a new class of large-scale, coordinated disinformation campaigns that pose significant risks to democracy. scim.ag/49FIhrM
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorHow AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorPlease share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorPlease share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
- That we dont have basic universal income is just based on capitalist ideology and nothing else.
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professor"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorAI in Scientific Writing: Uses, Limitations, and Ethical Implications In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Fatai Ayomide Akande, @kesmaio.bsky.social, and @ciara-obrien.bsky.social discuss the different uses of AI in writing & how they can be useful, where they present problems. buff.ly/oBlySM0.
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorOutstanding @science.org study on the evolution of gene regulation shaping #cerebellum development 🧪🧠🧬 @ioansarr.bsky.social @marisepp.bsky.social @tyamadat.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social @kaessmannlab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professor🚨NEW AWARDS🚨 🌾Supported by the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment and the Global Initiative of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 🍄Low-Income Delegate Registration Awards for #ICOM2026 🏅Student (2) and ECRs (1) ⌛Deadline: February 14 📝Application form and info 👉 icom2026.org
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorFoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...
- No Fungal Genetics in Asilomar this year for me after all. The focus is on other things :). A bit sad but this is how life goes.... Making decisions about priorities.
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- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorThe Government’s invitation for President Herzog to visit must be rescinded - it will cause immense distress to many who have lost relatives in Gaza. This is a time to build social cohesion not blow it out of the water ! 💦
- So we age together... first day of high school. Exciting times ahead.
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- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorAuschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
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- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorNice feature summarising the decades-long debate about the first-branching animal lineages — sponges or ctenophores? Key quote: “I’m not going to say this is the answer because I’ve been around long enough” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by The Tattooed Professorwww.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!
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- Our first wheat stripe rust avirulence (?!) effector is published "Defence Recognition of a Stripe Rust Fungal Effector Is Uncoupled from Disease Outcomes in Wheat" apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/.... It is not what we expected but this is the most fun part about science. 1/n
- This work combined with several others mentioned in the discussion points to the importance of defense suppressing effectors in the wheat stripe rust system similar to what has been shown for wheat powdery mildew most recently. Hence phenotypic pathotypes might not only be explained by classic Avr/R
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- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorThe burning of fossil fuels has led to the cancellation of an Invasion Day event in Adelaide, South Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorSome science for some sanity: A Beginner's Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by The Tattooed ProfessorGiven recent events, here are seven essential reads, all 🎁 linked. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o... 1/7
