Biologist @ The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens & evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer. Web http://kamounlab.net | Medium https://medium.com/@kamounlab | GetGenome http://getgenome.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mwkqsr4ecc2mWoody and tinny words https://youtu.be/-gwXJsWHupg?si=HoNzzqTWhR1eewXa28 Sep 2026 07:05 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwkqsr4ecc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mwjabtt6jc2zSick and tired of podcasts that still blabber about LLM hallucinations. Upgrade and learn to prompt. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1qjlqEt2H3zd3lY6qccYgb?si=xhTDcTWFTXCiB3mmrpf1qg&utm_source=copy-link27 Sep 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjabtt6jc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mwj5yjgcp22yI just published: How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs. https://kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-recognize-world-class-science-not-by-the-journal-it-appeared-in-0e610a2931a8/share/kamounlab?source=social.tw27 Sep 2026 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwj5yjgcp22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mwhbkcvlic2sCologne | Köln. Take 2 🇩🇪 [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Sep 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwhbkcvlic2shttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mwh3vpio4c2jI just published: Carte postale de Tenerife : les alizés, le climat, et ce que l’histoire nous a coûté Des côtes ventées de Tenerife aux catastrophes que nous provoquons nous-mêmes. [VF d'un article de 2024] https://kamounlab.medium.com/carte-postale-de-tenerife-les-aliz%C3%A9s-le-climat-et-ce-que-lhistoire-nous-a-co%C3%BBt%C3%A9-a8d5b3954c88/share/kamounlab?source=social.tw26 Sep 2026 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwh3vpio4c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mwggnis7l22c Vorsprung durch Taubenabwehr 🇩🇪26 Sep 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwggnis7l22chttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mwgfpw3rp22cYet another paper with made-up data. What happens now? #sciencecrisis #NatureRipoffs @Nature https://pubpeer.com/publications/67ED5834D9A6BF5D09AACD4C7D09B826 Sep 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgfpw3rp22chttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mwgdpk74os2cCologne | Köln 🇩🇪26 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgdpk74os2chttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mwak6jwypk2cLooking forward to spending a couple of days with @ceplas.bsky.social catching up with colleagues at @UniCologne @Team_Thomma and having some fun with the ECRs! They picked Theme 2 from my smörgåsbord of ECR discussion topics 👍🏼 😎👇🏼 https://www.ceplas.eu/en/about-us/events/event-detail/ceplas-friday-4324 Sep 2026 05:40 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwak6jwypk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mw3vjwyusk2mTwo seemingly unrelated sides of our lab collided today in the AWESOME new Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system poster: flowers 🌸 and phylogenomics 🧬 Need a new genome? Just pick up the phone and “dial-a-genome” 📞🧬 @getgenome.bsky.social https://www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-botanicus/education/posters/angiosperm-phylogeny-poster22 Sep 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw3vjwyusk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mvzdpkfqfc2nToday we are hosting the FIGHTBLIGHT Project Meeting & Symposium This is a trinational project 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇺🇸 with Silvia Restrepo @srestrepo.bsky.social @btiscience.bsky.social and Alain Tissier on bioengineering immune receptors for potato blight resistance https://kamounlab.dreamhosters.com/FIGHTBLIGHT_2026/21 Sep 2026 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvzdpkfqfc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mvukot5jz22nWhich is worse: AI controlled by the state, or by a handful of private corporations? The choice itself may be the problem. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/sep/19/china-ai-foreign-policy-dario-amodei19 Sep 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvukot5jz22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mvs34lxdoc27Extensive genome evolution distinguishes maize within a stable tribe of grasses. Stitzer @mcstitzer et al. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.633974v1.full18 Sep 2026 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvs34lxdoc27https://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mvry5s4t2c27This week's @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Bateson Lecture Friday Seminar – Prof. Elizabeth Toby Kellogg "One third of the world: Grasses and their genomes” https://www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/principal-investigators/elizabeth-a-kellogg/18 Sep 2026 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvry5s4t2c27https://bsky.app/profile/kamounlab.bsky.social/post/3mvrebuqvac2n“Far right populists adept at finding a foreign (or migrant) culprit behind almost every grievance have somehow developed a blind spot the size of China….” 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 https://apple.news/A5bJ8B87ZQHaFihPtZd9Hdg18 Sep 2026 04:44 +0000at://did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvrebuqvac2n