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Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Feb 12, 2025

@AsahiLinux HDMI now works out of the box on Asahi Linux on MacBookPro M2! Thank you so much guys!
Where can I donate to support your work?

Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Dec 12, 2023

Here's a great opportunity to test the advantages of novel crop breeding methods!
If you use NBTs on a crop 🌾🌱 that is also grown in Switzerland, get in touch with me. We are looking for collaborations and some examples of crops for field trials at our Agroscope protected site.
It's a unique chance! Let's make it a success for a more sustainable agriculture 🚜 with more delicious produce 😋.
#breeding #geneediting #SDGs
https://www.snf.ch/en/goOSFPZsWh7rxTUf/news/the-call-for-proposals-for-nrp-84-plant-breeding-innovation-is-now-open

The call for proposals for NRP 84 “Plant Breeding Innovation” is now open

Interested project teams can now submit their pre-proposals until 14 March 2024.

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Nov 25, 2023

⚡️I am appalled by anti GMO organizations ⚡️

A communications guy from one said:
- It's OK to lie, it's for a good cause
- It's OK when right extremists support us, we have common values: "pure races" 😱
- It's OK when journalists invent fake positive stories about us

I am shocked!
Shocked but not surprised.

Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Nov 6, 2023

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi Nov 6, 2023

I'm sad to see how much science discource is still on Twitter, and how it is still the main source for science news stories. Yet I'm hopeful we can build something durable here, because the openness allows experimentation and innovation, in addition to being the right thing to do.

Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Oct 31, 2023

mem_somerville Oct 31, 2023

Wow, #Estonia comes out swinging for #CRISPR, even possibly in #organic production.

#GMO

https://news.err.ee/1609148554/riigikogu-backs-use-of-new-genomic-techniques-in-agriculture

Riigikogu backs use of new genomic techniques in agriculture

A Riigikogu committee approved the state's line on a European Union regulation which permits the cultivation of plants utilizing various state-of-the-art geonomic techniques.

Eesti Rahvusringhääling | ERR

Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Oct 27, 2023

Steve Herman Oct 26, 2023

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) now regards X (formerly Twitter) “as the embodiment of the threat that online platforms pose to democracies.” https://rsf.org/en/twitter-x-elon-musk-s-transformation-free-speech-defender-champion-disinformation

From Twitter to X, Elon Musk’s transformation from free speech defender to champion of disinformation

Since becoming Twitter’s official owner on 27 October 2022, self-proclaimed free-speech defender Elon Musk has transformed the social media now called X into a sanctuary for disinformation. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) now regards X as the embodiment of the threat that online platforms pose to democracies.

Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Oct 14, 2023

Climate change will hit Europe the hardest. Europe needs a scientific approach to food security. Banning chemicals and modern technologies will have catastrophic consequences.
Second to climate change, the biggest threat to EU agriculture is the science-denying "organic" sector.
https://twitter.com/FAO/status/1712741209980956888?t=lL3owCqig3WcpdojU__u2Q&s=19

Food and Agriculture Organization on X

#ClimateChange is affecting our agrifood systems and is likely to make food production even more unpredictable. We must invest in #DisasterRiskReduction and #AnticipatoryAction to protect our food security. https://t.co/43lmKclCib

X (formerly Twitter)

Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Oct 13, 2023

Journals must provide free full access to all cited papers in a manuscript that reviewers have to evaluate.
Why isn't that obvious?
#openaccess #OpenScience

Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Oct 3, 2023

Looking for active transposable elements in the wheat genome is now totally possible 😎 🤘
Thanks to @nanopore
#promethion #jumpinggenes #breeding

Etienne Bucher 🌱🌾🧬Sep 29, 2023

Richard Sever Sep 28, 2023

BioRxiv has joined forces with Company of Biologists to expand our presence on Mastodon.

Mastodon accounts now available for every subject category https://connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09/27/biorxiv_expands_on_social_platforms

bioRxiv expands on Mastodon and Bluesky

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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