Pat Heslop-Harrison

Prof in Agricultural Genetics & Genome Biol, Univ Leicester UK; Research, Teaching, Policy, Evaluation

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

@TanentzapfLab I would also add: near the end, go back to the aims/objectives that you set out at the end of the introduction and show how you met them (or didn't - that can be good!). If A&O are not in the intro, why not?

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

@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

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

This photo of Earth, dubbed the Blue Marble, was taken by the Apollo 17 crew #OTD in 1972 as they traveled to the Moon.

It soon became one of the most widely-distributed photographs in history.

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

Exciting PhD project with me and @vorontsovams.bsky.social RBG Kew on Grass Diversity, developing a phylogeny using morphology and genomics for the tropical forage grass genus Urochloa. Applications at https://t.co/6L3e2nkHRT but contacts Bat or me to discuss

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

@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

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

@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

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

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

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

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. https://t.co/yEXh7n1qnp

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

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.

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

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

[plant technology alliance @PTA_PlantTech]

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 https://t.co/3Kyj0O3nsF via @YouTube

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

For #internationalbiodiversityday I'm happy to post a program The Call of Plants https://t.co/26M661I4jH about our interests by https://t.co/zLVwxNwEt0 Plant Technology Alliance & Dency Cheng, Guangdong & Hong Kong. A great organization bringing nature back to us ... more later!

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

@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.

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

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
https://t.co/1PS2CXtQq6

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

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

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

"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?

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

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

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

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." https://t.co/zNDhQDN2wL Hs analysis has a lot of sense; I don't agree all

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

@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 https://t.co/Zyv3aD9MkN of his time in China in the 70s.

[Pat Heslop-Harrison @Pathh1]

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."