This is fascinating, and well worth a read. 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Our paper is now out in PNAS! Crops often show boron deficiency in volcanic soils. Here, we identified six variants in two key boron transporter genes, BOR1 and BOR2, that increase leaf boron in natural populations of A. thaliana from volcanic islands in Cape Verde. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our work on the E3 ligase mechanism of target-directed microRNA degradation is now published! Amazing collaboration with Brenda Schulman’s lab led by @jakobfarnung.bsky.social and @elenaslo.bsky.social, with special thanks to @wyppeter.bsky.social, Lianne Blodgett, and Daniel Lin! tinyurl.com/Z8TDMD

Notez dans vos agendas 📆 notre prochain rdv à la @citedessciences.bsky.social avec @mariemonniaux.bsky.social pour une ballade le long des pétales de pétunia🌷 📅le 13 juin 🕔à 17h En écho à l'exposition temporaire Jardiner 👩‍🌾 www.cite-sciences.fr/fr/au-progra... 👉 info et inscriptions à venir

Animaux hybrides, le superpouvoir de l'évolution. On en parle à la @sciencecqfd.bsky.social aux côtés de @natachatriou.bsky.social à 16h.

🌱 🚨Postdoc position – Plant Chromatin Biology (Strasbourg) Grob and Jullien Lab - details attached 📅 Apply by March 30, 2026 📩 [email protected] Please share with anyone who might be interested! #Postdoc #PlantScience #Epigenetics #Chromatin

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.

The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

The most beautiful cover I have seen lately 🤩 congrats for this great piece of work! @camilagoldy.bsky.social @mc-caillaud.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

Quand Marie Curie prend la tête de son laboratoire en 1906, une chose est exceptionnelle : elle ouvre largement ses portes aux femmes, à contre-courant des usages universitaires. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/7Kj

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

Save the Date: World Petunia Days 2026! Join us in Rome, June 3-5, for an inspiring scientific gathering amidst historic landmarks. Exchange innovative ideas in a collegial atmosphere. More details coming soon! We can't wait to welcome you to the Eternal City. #WPD2026 #Rome #ScienceMeetsHistory

This is worth reading! A beautiful testimony of remembering why we chose to do science in the first place: curiosity and excitement, not pressure to publish and secure grants. Even if the research system always tells us otherwise!

In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth let’s learn more about Marie Taylor, a plant biologist and chair of Howard University’s Botany Department. Love her focus on photomorphogensis and using light microscopy on living plants! 🌱 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_T...

The August issue is now fully online, with a beautiful cover that might be a nostalgia trigger for some of us (young people can find an explanation in the Editorial): www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

À quoi ressemble le quotidien dans un laboratoire de recherche ? En 2025, Arthur Monternier, étudiant en art, a passé six mois dans notre laboratoire. Il raconte son expérience dans cette bande dessinée. popsciences.universite-lyon.fr/ressources/l... popsciences.universite-lyon.fr/app/uploads/...

Out in @science.org this week: SIPS binds to a conserved region of SRK to control interspecies incompatibility in Brassicaceae. This contrasts with SRK's variable region, which is involved in self-incompatibility interactions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

- la Médaille de Cristal du CNRS à Stéphanie Barbez @stefbarbez.bsky.social , responsable communication au sein de la Délégation régionale CNRS Hauts-de-France

Hooray! Check out this special issue for some fantastic new work on flower color!

Happy to present our latest: Evolutionary adaptations to the hormonal regulation of vascular tissue development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Work by Wei Xiao and funded by @erc.europa.eu

📢 Open faculty position – Origins of Life We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀 SPREAD THE WORD Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

More than 400 million years ago, during the Silurian Period, an evolutionary event led to the later emergence of spiders’ spinnerets—the abdominal organs that make silk—according to new #ScienceAdvances research. https://scim.ag/4sFX3pJ

Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower… And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵

New paper from our lab @jxbotany.bsky.social about auxin and cytokinin interactions during carpel initiation in Arabidopsis Led by @andreagomezfe.bsky.social in collaboration with @defolter-lab.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Sign up date coming quickly! Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

@yu1cheng.bsky.social, in collaboration with Filip Kolar and me, published an article looking at how the genetic architecture of unreduced gametes and environmental factors can affect autopolyploidy evolution. Congrats Yu! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Très belle introduction à l'étude de mes collègues lillois @crouxevo.bsky.social, François Monnet, @zopos.bsky.social, Christelle Fraisse Xavier Vekemans et Pascal Touzet, qui remet en question une idée reçue -mais fausse- sur l'évolution des plantes. www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Have you ever heard that women have more chances than men of getting grants or positions in academia? Of course you have, and here are my personal views on this. With the shocking revelation that no, it is NOT TRUE ! (1/n)

🚨 New offer in our lab: 🐝🧬22-month postdoc or engineer position to estimate the effectiveness of the genetic queen fertilisation control in honey bees through large-scale sequencing and genomic analysis Location: Toulouse, France 😍 More information: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_... Reposts🙏

French Cèilidh at #popgroup59 #ppg59 #pgg59

Super great time at @popgroup2026.bsky.social in Lille 👉 presenting lab postdoc work, reconnecting with colleagues worldwide & exchanging inspiring ideas! Huge thanks to organizers @vincentcastric.bsky.social, @crouxevo.bsky.social, Diala Abu Awad @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social, @romanstet.bsky.social

Really enjoyed @thomaslenormand.bsky.social explain the unified theory today at @popgroup2026.bsky.social in Lille: inspiring, thought-provoking, and very timely 🧠🤯✨ Reposting his post on the paper here: highly recommended read! #evolution #sexchromosomes #largeXeffects #haldane'srule #speciation

I’m in this meme and I don’t like it. #academicsky #academiclife

Let's get started !

Looking forward to welcoming everyone in just two days now... Check out the latest updates to the program at populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

... current status...

"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

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