Pat Heslop-Harrison

@Aina_Ai2 I had a good ?-for-us recently: candidate answered one of our questions poorly. They asked the same question to the panel, and then gave their own excellent answer, realising and correcting their earlier error

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@insilicoplants Looking forward greatly to the meeting and talking about The grammar of genomes: From sequences, phenotypes, digital twins and foundational LLMs, to conservation, biodiversity, and breeding. Hoping to develop new collaborations, ideas, and opportunities

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@bartos_group Super B chromosome talk from Teresa Bojdova showing mechanisms of chromosome elimination except on flowers of Sorghum

That’s a wrap! 🎉 A few of us had the chance to represent our group at Plant Biology CS 2025🌱in Bratislava 🇸🇰 Lots of science, great people, and new ideas to take home. 💡

One of the best dinners and then seminar I've had was with Frank Stahl. He sat down with overhead projector and all the 200 in the audience felt they had a personal tutorial on DNA replication and his super-elegant research. RIP age 95. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/sci…

Grrr. My appeal every 5 years or so, as frustration boils over. Why doesn't any web browser print out roughly what you see on your screen? I see nice versions of the webpage - full screen, landscape, portrait, mobile phone - but no major browser can print anything like them.

I'm finding LLM / AI models like Grok, Deepseek, ChatGPT, Google search lab useful to explain things at suitable level. Notable they don't just rehash Wikipedia or unhelpful Microsoft manuals. Today's examples: GANTT charts; IF/TRUE/FALSE in Excel; Harvard referencing

The Call of Plants: A Scientist's Mission on Earth植物的召唤：一个科学家的地球使命 youtu.be/paTCMxcjGoQ?si… via @YouTube

For #internationalbiodiversityday I'm happy to post a program The Call of Plants bilibili.com/video/BV1gvJqz… about our interests by pta.eco Plant Technology Alliance & Dency Cheng, Guangdong & Hong Kong. A great organization bringing nature back to us ... more later!

@FarmingUK Tricky question about egg quality to purchase. Despite label, there were no free range eggs in most of UK until this week from Dec, nor over much of last 5 yrs for bird flu control. I choose based on trying to get sense of, usually misleading, welfare on box advertisement text.

Many opportunities to exploit rhizosphere microbiome for crops. No longer only consider plant genome/GWAS for traits: look at fungi/bacteria. New multisite field trial complexity we can analyse @TrendsPlantSci Rodomiro Ortiz, Sangam Dwivedi, @plgepts EtAl sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@cropsandbops Congratulations on submission - looking forward to reading preprints!

after submitting my PhD thesis on fonio millet, 2 new pre-prints of my research are available now: a) phylogenetics and history of 4 Digitaria millet crops, and b) germination ecology and climate modelling of fonio suitability in the future 🤠🌾links below! #SSCPDTP #kewscience

"Doing you own research" on product/medicine safety means web searches now with AI answers. How can we ensure LLMs are informed primarily by refereed research publications, not activists on eg Facebook or Reddit?

Are others getting 'verify' boxes when wanting to access published papers (even open access)? Is this major publishers trying to stop Deep Learning / Generative AI / ChatGPT accessing refereed work? I want my papers used by AI models easily, not push them to Reddit or Facebook

Academic climate: It’s no longer ‘publish or perish’; It’s ‘Be visible or vanish’ says @drtimiolubiyi “It is not just what you publish; it is who sees it, talks about it, and shares it that matters." businessday.ng/opinion/articl… Hs analysis has a lot of sense; I don't agree all

@DrCentromere @MichaelWoodMV @DalrympleWill I am looking forward to reading this book - my being in China now! My father was here 50 years ago! Do you know the book of Prof Art Galston, Yale, plant photobiologist who got Agent Orange banned. Wrote wonderful book amazon.com/Daily-Peoples-… of his time in China in the 70s.

A wonderful book about science and innovation in China explored by Joe Needham. As an UG at U of Leicester, my tutor knew Dorothy Needham. I remember when her book "Machina Carnis" (The Meat Machine), on muscle biochemistry, came out. @Pathh1 @MichaelWoodMV @DalrympleWill

Has anyone tried this in submission cover letter:"We tick required ‘check/tick boxes’ randomly where there is no appropriate answer. Our answer has no validity. We include early career/retired authors where academic e-mails are deleted; and OA fees are covered by agreements."