(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...

Carlos and Diane just published a preprint about genetic diversity in a selfing polyploid species complex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... First (and hopefully not the last) great collaboration with Spanish colleagues! @mabdelaziz.bsky.social @anagarciamunoz.bsky.social

Please fwd: 3-year funded PhD position on the evolution and molecular mechanisms of self-incompatibility in petunia, University of Lille. Cool new exploratory project dealing with plant genetics, evolution, networks of interacting proteins (and maybe even a field trip to South America) 🤩

If you're still doubting that systemic bias exists...

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.

Congrats to Violaine for this well deserved prize!! Champagne! sfecologie.org/2025/07/16/p...

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

Cats like to sleep on the left www.cell.com/current-biol...

From binding to regulation: crystal-clear paper on which features better predict regulatory binding sites. Surprisingly, location of the binding site within the gene (promoter/terminator/...) is a very bad predictor, which I didn't expect! Congrats @turchil.bsky.social @flowerwhatelse.bsky.social !

How does genome doubling modulate the action of natural selection in a population ? --> Check out our theoretical and empirical analysis of an iconic balanced polymorphism in plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

To me, biking back home is often when I have good ideas, or at least manage to sort the mess in my brain!

Our latest on cell death and our second on maize: Using single-nucleus RNAseq of maize endosperm, Nicolas Doll (now @rdplab.bsky.social‬) shows that KIL transcription factors promote endosperm cell death to facilitate embryo growth - with a genomic imprinting twist! academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Join us in Lille to work on the amazing diversity of receptor-ligand complexes involved in plant self-incompatibility! At the interface of evolution, structural and plant biology

Beautiful interview with Cassandra Extavour. I like the "Don’t take academia too seriously". Fully agree, I love science and research, but it's easy to drown into it while there are so many other things out there.

Congratulations, Miltos!!🎊 Well-deserved!

🎉 Congratulations to our director Gwyneth Ingram, awarded the 2025 CNRS Silver Medal! A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research in plant developmental biology. 🌱 👉 More info: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite... 👉 Her profile: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...

Félicitations à toutes/tous, et plus particulièrement à Gwyneth Ingram @rdplab.bsky.social pour une médaille d'argent bien méritée !!! 🤩

📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr We have fantastic speakers and registration is free! training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve... @karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social

Huge analysis in "Nature" shows that while boys and girls receive similar maths scores at the start of school, within a year there is a substantial divergence suggesting environmental influences are responsible for the gender gap. #mathematics #gender www.nature.com/articles/d41...