Rita Maravilha Marques

1/12 I'm ecstatic to share my preprint on legume NLR tissue expression! We investigated the NLRomes of 28 legumes + 4 outgroups, examining tissue expression across 7 legume species. Paper thread below 🧵👇 @TheSainsburyLab @greenit_bio4sus @itqbnova 🔗doi.org/10.64898/2026.…

Researchers have identified a number of effector proteins, molecules secreted by fungal pathogens that can modulate and subvert plant immunity, that likely came from ancient antimicrobials and were repurposed by fungi during coevolution. scim.ag/4n25ARq

😍 #ZombiePlants 🧟 🌱

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

Heck no 🫣

Editing your paper to adjust it to the journal's word limit.

“Teachers who make physics boring are criminals” Walter Lewin

Last year a record 129 media workers were killed worldwide, 2/3 by Israel -- reflecting "a persistent culture of impunity for attacks on the press," the Committee to Protect Journalists, @pressfreedom, said. Israel killed 10 times as many journalists as Sudan, and 20 times as many as Russia.

I just published: Leave the red shirt out: Scientists, stop complicating the story Scientists are brilliant at finding details. We are less brilliant at knowing which details to shut up about. medium.com/p/leave-the-re…

Reaching the next level on CodinGame is like discovering your favorite TV series next episode: uplifting and full of promises codingame.com/?utm_source=tw… It's both gratifying and challenging to refresh my Python skills after completing the Enterprise Data Science and Analytics grad

The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t. ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what this mean for applicants. link.europa.eu/xF7kjc

Announced by the ERC today (really bad news for science!!! It starts in Europe but will affect everybody) Because the REVIEWING LOAD is so bad, if your application fails you may need to wait mulitple years (>3?!?) until you can submit again! The ERC is the lifeline of the leading labs in Europe, so many research programs will be terminated (just no other sources to compensate). The letter from the ERC says “the only way is to reduce applications” (highlighted in the picture below) No!!! It's the wrong direction. Use AI to assist review. It’s not perfect (yet), but it allows more proposals to be evaluated, and it could support, not replace, human reviewers.

I'm very excited to announce that the Jo Lab is hiring our FIRST EVER PhD candidate! f you're eager to drive discovery in plants, join us at UU Plants! More info: uu.nl/en/organisatio… Lab website: thejolab.org #Plantbiology #Phd #Job

I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition) Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers. medium.com/p/dont-perish-…

@KamounLab Super interesting! 🤔

I wonder whether immunity is repressed in these <1% root hair cells that are susceptible to rhizobia 🤔

The New Yorker just lab-tested research peptides from a popular online vendor. BPC-157: contained lead. TB-500: contained endotoxins. CJC-1295: less than 42% of the labeled dose. This is what people are injecting into their bodies. The peptides aren't the problem. The supply chain is. This is exactly why the FDA reclassification matters moving these compounds into regulated compounding pharmacies with cGMP standards and real quality control.

You: work on a paper for 5 years Reviewer:

Bird migration in Europe tracked by GPS. 📽: 422 South

Many thanks to the ViroiDoc MSCA Doctoral Network team for hosting me and for the opportunity. It was truly inspiring to interact with the engaged students. And I was amazed to learn that more than 500 participants signed up for the talk! Video, FAQ etc. will be online soon!i 😻🙏

Rewriting an old draft.

@iPlantMicro @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus @UNISvalbard @IHSM_CSIC_UMA 🤞🤞🤞

After an incredible effort, our students have successfully submitted their international PhD applications! These projects mean a lot, and their commitment has been remarkable. Now it’s time to wait and hope for great news! @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus @UNISvalbard @IHSM_CSIC_UMA