Just in time for Christmas a new paper in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social by @joannakacprzyk.bsky.social and myself. We asked 421 plant scientists why they study plants! Check it out and also check @plantmemories.bsky.social where we post lovely survey responses.

🔥 Hot new preprint before the Christmas break 🎄 Egg cell fertilization–dependent peptide receptor signaling mediates endosperm polarity 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Audrey Creff, @jackrhodes.bsky.social , Cyril Zipfel, Gwyneth Ingram and others

We're having a most fulfilling collaboration across the fields of evolutionary & structural biology with @marclensink.bsky.social and @bonsaiseqbioinfo.bsky.social, and would love to host new colleagues through this national call ! Get in touch if interested

Today is probably the only day of my life when I have submitted TWO PAPERS! Well it's the only two ones in two years but still! 🤩

Full room at #Evo-Eco-Paleo in for the defense of Camille Jolivel's PhD thesis on pollinator-mediated selection in dioecious plants in natural and urbanized habitats. 🐝〰️🥀 🤩 Detailed dissection of the ecological processes and selection gradients ! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social

🧪🌱 Sooo… our paper on how SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE controls the onset of megasporogenesis is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉🎉! This is one of the major projects of my postdoc at #LuciaColombo’s lab at #UniMI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧶 1/7

Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇) This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels. 🌱Congratulations!🥂

👇 New preprint from the lab on cell layer identity in petunia flower 🌸 ▶️Interplay between petal identity and cell layer identity in petunia flower Lead by @mariemonniaux.bsky.social now located in Lille, .univ-lille.fr/en/research/... and Daniel Bouyer 👇👇

Check our new preprint! How the petal identity gene PhDEF behaves differently in the epidermis and mesophyll, in petunia flowers (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

POSTDOC recruitment! We’re looking for a post-doc to join us to work on the (epi)genetic basis of inbreeding depression as part of the ANR-funded project FRIDA macrostomum.wordpress.com/the-genetic-... Please share!

Pollinator abundance shapes sexual selection in an angiosperm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693606v1

I like the idea of "resurrecting" forgotten crops using modern technology. Pádraic Flood's new startup Aardaia does this. "The aardaker is a forgotten food, [...] ‘It was cultivated in Zeeland in the 18th century! And it has a lot of potential. [...], it contains a lot of protein" #PlantScience

Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

I just published: Adeline Harant: Keeping an open mind is key for a fulfilling career in science A much-deserved tribute to the amazing Adeline Harant and her leadership at the bench and beyond. She also brings a dose of sanity to the @KamounLab madhouse. kamounlab.medium.com/adeline-hara...

Oh, wow. Heritable chromosome fusions! Amazing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... I also have a plant evo-devo PhD opportunity open to study the evolutionary origins of female meiosis with me ^^. Deadline Thursday 27th November, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please do let them know! #Plantscience

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

Hi Folks ! Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025). Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more ! www.hautsdefrancetourism.com/destinations... --> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

(1/2) A new study from EMBL researchers and their collaborators provides unprecedented insights into the cellular architecture of over 200 species of plankton – tiny but ecologically critical marine organisms – using ultrastructure expansion microscopy. Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The second Ph.D. chapter of Diane's thesis is out as a preprint. She studied the joint evolution of autopolyploidy and self-fertilization under a gametophytic self-incompatibility context. Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.

'With a dream career of ‘expressing beauty with flowers’, I decided to pursue an undergraduate education in horticulture in the Netherlands. It sounded so natural, but I never knew what would happen later.' In Profile: Yuchen Long 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience 🧵👇

Last week @science.org mRNA initiation and termination are spatially coordinated | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... from @anafiszbein.bsky.social @athmapai.bsky.social et al.

Friday Flower 007: Petunia 💮✨ Petunias carry the active transposon dTph1, which powers mutant screens and paints stripey patterns as it jumps. Their five petals are fused, with diverse color designs tracing the corolla’s fusion seam.

Does population size shape protein coevolution? I explored this in my talk today at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology. Our work in mammals suggests the answer is yes - genetic drift is a major determinant of compensatory mutations. #evolution #genomics #proteinevolution @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social

Wow this is quite amazing - I know almost nothing on recombination, but always assumed that the more similar the sequences were, the more likely they would recombine, turns out it's the opposite!

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

Very nice video of self pollination in a tiny Veronica flower. www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Bah voilà, vous saurez tout sur moi ici 👇 Merci à Florent Brun de la délégation régionale du CNRS pour l'entretien !

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

Check out this cool work from @crouxevo.bsky.social and others, congrats!!! 🥳 Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space". Date: September 9 Time: 5pm CET Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share! 🧪 #mevosky

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics). Please share!

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

out today: my labmate Shubham developed a super clever new technique to profile TF-DNA interactions with unprecedented resolution of low-affinity binding sites, revealing patterns in how these sites are organized in the genome to modulate TF occupancy: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Excited / nervous to share the “magnum opus” of my postdoc in Andreas Wagner’s lab! "De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA" This project is the accumulation of 4 years of work, and lays the foundation for my future group. In short, we… (1/4)

Three #Master2 #internship topics are available in our team to study the #adaptations associated with #plant #terrestrialization 👇

I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks. #plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

Hello, I'm an evolutionary biologist in a film. I can identify any species from 30 base pairs of DNA, including human-alien hybrids. I quote Darwin and Gould ad libitum to compensate for my lack of emotional depth. Inexplicably, I'm unable to correctly pronounce 'genome' or 'drosophila'.

Jennifer Nemhauser’s and my tribute to our amazing friend and mentor, the extraordinary Joanne Chory. Read about our personal and professional reminiscences. Thanks to all who provided background for this. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 Our paper is out! 🚨 Check how spatial-scERA can predict enhancer activity in a virtual Drosophila embryo. Very proud of this first step in the research world published in @narjournal.bsky.social Thanks to @yghavi.bsky.social, @paulvilloutreix.bsky.social and all the scientists who made it real!

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...