Aleš Pečinka

That's eye-opening, change in real wages from 1994 to 2024 (%). Just look at Italy and Spain, three lost decades. What were politicians thinking when they introduced the euro there? Why can’t they admit it was a mistake?

📣Registration for the Plant Meiosis Meeting is now open‼️The website and preliminary program are live; abstract submission coming soon. Book accommodation early due to major trade fairs in Poznań! See you in Poznań! 🌱 pmm.amu.edu.pl

Děti ze základní školy ve Slaném mi dnes dovolily, abych se na chvíli zapojil do jejich mise, která vrací vzácné druhy zvířat i rostlin do Netovické stráně. Pomohl jsem jim odtahat sice jen pár větví, ale holky a kluci to prý zvládnou i beze mě. Tento projekt považuji za krásný příklad komunitní aktivity, která u dětí podporuje vztah k přírodě a učí je, že její ochrana je naše zodpovědnost.

A new study in #GENETICS from @MonicaPradillo and colleagues uncovers a key role for the plant-specific nuclear basket nucleoporin NUP1/NUP136 in chromosomal interactions and crossover formation in #Arabidopsis. buff.ly/seSFKgY

RNA m6A regulates the transcription and heterochromatin state of retrotransposons in Arabidopsis nature.com/articles/s4147… ♻️

Daniel Dennett: "If I gave a prize to the best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin." Not Newton. Not Einstein. Darwin. In a 2015 documentary, philosopher Daniel Dennett makes a striking case for why Darwin's idea of natural selection is the single greatest intellectual achievement in human history. His reasoning isn't just about biology. Dennett argues that what makes Darwin's idea so extraordinary is what it unifies. Before Darwin, the world was split into two seemingly incompatible realms: the physical world of cause and matter, and the world of meaning, purpose, and consciousness. These felt like they belonged to different categories entirely. One explained by science, the other by something else. Darwin's idea, Dennett says, is the backbone that bridges them: "The Darwinian idea of natural selection unifies the world. It unifies the world of cause and matter and physics with the world of meaning and purpose consciousness. The whole spectrum of life depends on uniting the living with the non-living, the meaning with the non-meaning, the purposeful with the merely mechanical and merely physical." That's not a small claim. It's a philosophical revolution disguised as a biology paper. What Dennett is pointing to is that natural selection gives us a mechanism: a purely physical, purposeless process that generates purpose. Organisms don't need a designer to have goals. The appearance of design, the reality of meaning, emerges from the bottom up. The best idea anyone ever had. No prize for second place.

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.” — John Muir

Happy π day. Here's a pie chart

New Article: "Grass inflorescence morphodynamics guides yield improvement in wheat" rdcu.be/e72m7 Morphodynamic modelling reveals how timing and fate shape diverse grass inflorescences. ID of an early-heading paired-spikelet mutant, which exhibits robust yield gains.

It was a fun experience to take part in a report for Czech Television about salt stress in plants.

We're excited to welcome our new intern student, Adrian Calves Ubach, PhD student in Miriam Szurman Zubrzyska’s laboratory at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Adrian studies DNA damage repair in barley. Welcome to the lab, Adrian!

V podvečer jsme na Ukrajině předali poslední ze 72 evakuačních sanitek na které jste se složili ve společné slovensko-české sbírce. Auta jsme na VLAK začali nakládat v pondělí. Na Ukrajinu jsme dorazili ve čtvrtek. 9 konvojů auta rozváželo 4 dny. Sbírka pokračuje. Díky všem.🫡♥️

Spring migration is a deadly gauntlet. Each year, 25M birds are killed by illegal poaching. CABS is hitting the front lines in Malta, Italy, Greece & Cyprus to dismantle traps and film poachers. 🎗️ donorbox.org/help-stop-ille…

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States — thank you for your support. Light will prevail.

Po více než 200 letech se rysi vracejí do Krušných hor! V rámci mezinárodního projektu vypouštění rysů v okolí Krušných hor je v oblasti nyní šest těchto vzácných šelem. Projekt probíhá ve spolupráci s kolegy z Německa, aby se malá populace rysa ostrovida trvale usadila ve střední Evropě. Velká novinka je, že samice Alva, která byla loni vypuštěna na saské straně hor, už vyvedla dvě koťata – první úspěšný odchov potvrzený pomocí fotopastí a GPS monitoringu. Rysi žijí v lesích většinou skrytě a setkání s nimi je vzácné – přirozenou potravou je především srnčí, lišky nebo zajíci. Více informací: lesycr.cz/do-krusnych-ho…

18. února 1981 byla vyhlášena CHKO Bílé Karpaty.

This eagle is suffering from neurological symptoms as a result of lead poisoning. Over 80% of the Bald Eagles admitted to our hospital are suffering from lead poisoning after ingesting fragments of lead ammunition. Choose lead free ammunition to protect our eagles and wildlife.

An aerial view of Porcupine Rim in eastern Utah reveals the dramatic geological boundary where the Colorado Plateau rises abruptly above Castle Valley. Erosion over millions of years.

Horses in the sky, Guadalquivir marshes, Spain | Héctor Garrido