New biosensor alert! 🧪 mStayGold(J)-based calcium ion and pH biosensors are now on bioRxiv. Excited to see how they fare in real applications! Reach out if you'd like to give them a whirl. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 Postdoc position in plant chromatin biology 🌱 (Strasbourg) Apply before March 30 🔗 www.unistra.fr/fr/recruteme... #PlantBiology #Postdoc

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders! Why join? 🌍Work across EMBL’s 6 sites 🎓Participate in @embl.org courses and seminars 🔬Lead discovery-driven research in a collaborative environment Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ResearchCareers @epetsalaki.bsky.social

We are inviting applications for a joint appointment: Director at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Full Professor (W3) at MLU Apply by April, 24 via: berufungsportal.uni-halle.de Join us in advancing innovative research at the interface of chemistry and bioactive natural products.

Next-generation proximity labeling: redefining protein interactomes #plantscience

🔥Fantastic paper!🔥 TE with a role in vegetative phase change and gametogenesis, mediated by 24-nt siRNAs acting in trans to a wide range of genes. Found by GWAS in A. thaliana 🌱. Congratulations to the authors! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #epigenetics #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy: visualizing plant-macromolecule conformational transitions #plantscience

This is really beautiful work by PhD student Alexandre Porcher Fernandes (@alefern.bsky.social) on the evolution of reproductive strategies. I'm really keen to see where we can take this framework next!

Why are we still spending tens of thousands of $$$ on APC for non-society journals like Nature? Wouldn’t that money be better spent at society journals at least? We are doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to participate in this madness. You don’t need a paper in these journals to succeed.

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Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

🚨 Our new paper is out! 🙌 Bioorthogonal reactions often create bulky, non-native linkages-great for labeling, but not ideal for installing natural PTMs. We combine GCE with a chemoselective amide-bond forming reaction to install site-specific acylation PTMs. www.cell.com/chem/fulltex... 1/4

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To activate plant immunity, NLR receptors such as SUMM2 form resistosome complexes, which act as Ca2+-permeable plasma-membrane channels. Work @nature shows how SUMM2 and its associates assemble into even higher-order clusters to initiate cell death. shorturl.at/653TZ plus N&V shorturl.at/vqqYg

Just discovered this wonderful adaptation of our maize moving map (figshare.com/articles/fig...) by @andikur.bsky.social .

🍃🎤🍃 Speaker announcement 🍃🎤🍃 Announcing our final set of Invited Speakers for Photosynthesis 2026 🌱 🎉 🐦️ There's just 3 weeks left to register at the early-bird rate ⏰️ Abstract submission for oral presentations closes 31st March Find out more 👉 photosynthesis2026.com #plantscience #ICPR26 🧵1/9

New preprint! Researchers from the Marí-Ordóñez group at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social studied how genome expansion driven by transposable elements (TEs), or “jumping genes”, is linked to the way plants keep these genomic parasites under control.

➡️Plant flowering integrates environmental and nutrient cues, yet how mineral nutrients interface with core flowering pathways remains unclear. In this issue of @cp-devcell.bsky.social, Lyu et al. identify a N-responsive module to regulate flowering. Our preview: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mlLF5Sx5h...

📢New paper alert: 🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots 👉 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @an-pocheng.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social

Advances in imaging Arabidopsis embryogenesis Babić et al. @istaresearch.bsky.social @milanzupunski.bsky.social @frimllab.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨 We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#PlantScience If you are interested in #PlantPhenomics, you might be interested in submitting a manuscript on this topic to the SI of @jxbotany.bsky.social. From the pre-inquiry we've received so far, it is clear that the manuscripts cover a wide variety of species, techniques and fascinating data.

Excited to announce I’m starting a new lab at @gmivienna.bsky.social (Vienna BioCentre) in Sept 2026 We study how carbon fixation is inherited and maintained in algae using cryo-ET, imaging, environmental sampling&more Looking for people who want to build the lab together, get in touch! #teamtomo

📣 VACANCY: Postdoc/Research Assistant in the Kamoun group @kamounlab.bsky.social Join the team to work on the biology and applications of plant immune receptors 🌱 Applications will be reviewed from 16 March 2026 onwards www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

This post was prompted by hearing from a former AFE who is starting their own lab, yay! If you've been in one of these mentored programs and have moved on, drop me a line and I'll update my spreadsheet. Or drop me a line just to say hi 😀.

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

Two papers on apoplastic pH visualisation coming out together – a nice double pack from @aroessling.bsky.social and @elkebarbez.bsky.social -> www.nature.com/articles/s41... -> link.springer.com/article/10.1... @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social

The Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg is now on Bluesky. Follow our faculty members for the latest news and updates. go.bsky.app/SEf1J3F

100 Years of Plant Physiology! How has the journal impacted your career? Submit a 90-second video for our Centennial Competition. Winning videos will be shared on social media & featured at #PlantBio2026 in Ottawa (July 18–22). Details: blog.aspb.org/100-years-of... #PlantPhys100 #PlantScience

The February 2026 issue of Plant Physiology from ASPB @aspbofficial and Oxford University Press is now COMPLETE! Check it out here: academic.oup.com/plphys/issue... #PlantSci

New Year Greetings from the PlantPostdocs team to our fam🍀 This new year, join the club or refer us to your colleagues 🌱 To know more about what we do, scan the QR code or log onto plantpostdocs.com

Are you a postdoc in a plant-related field such as🌿 Plant Biology 🌿 Agriculture & Crop Sciences 🌿 Ecology & Environment 🌿 Plant Pathology & Protection or 🌿 Biotechnology ? We invite you to join a community of 700+ postdoctoral researchers from around the world at www.plantpostdocs.com

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Et si l’histoire des sciences avait oublié des chercheuses ? ✍️ @juliebatut.bsky.social @cbitoulouse.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social 📕 buff.ly/xMHRLZh

🌱Save the date! It’s time to plant the seeds of discovery at our 4th edition of #PlantResearch26. From roots to results, explore breakthroughs in genetics, sustainability, crop innovation, and future food systems. Let’s grow ideas together, in Ghent, 17-18 September: vibbio.tech/4s31Pg5 #VIBConf

Students out there, I have a PhD project cutting across biology, material science and biomedicine that requires a highly capable, diverse and brave applicant. if you think this is for you please Apply using the link below. All details in the website!! Project: eb4bm.org/project/engi...

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Tasting Trouble: Rethinking How Plants Sense #Salt and #Drought www.cell.com/molecular-pl... #PlantScience #SciComm @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cellchembiol.bsky.social @linjieshu.bsky.social @jipb.bsky.social @jia-jintegragri.bsky.social @molplantsci.bsky.social

I'm in love. #WildflowerHour Agamous Galanthus.

What physical principles actually govern whether stress granules promote or suppress amyloid formation? Check out our new preprint led by an outstanding collaborative team comprising our group and Tanja Mittag’s group at St. Jude CRH. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

RACK1A interacts and colocalizes with FSD1 in stress granules to regulate salt stress response in Arabidopsis (Pavol Melicher , Petr Dvořák , Maryna Tsinyk , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

🌱 New review in @newphyt.bsky.social : Protein modifications fine-tune the formation of stress-induced biomolecular condensates in plants. By Margaux Legoux, Jean-Philippe Reichheld (LGDP) and Rémy Merret (IBMP). #PlantScience #StressBiology

Very excited to share the final version of our story on Arabidopsis autoimmunity @emboreports.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Check out our new review metacaspases in Cell Death & Differentiation @springernature.com . It´s not all about cell death, but more about survival 👇https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-025-01555-y

We’re thrilled to announce the second webinar of the SFRR-E ECR webinar series “Skills and Career”. 📢 Join us on 24 Feb 2026, 15:00 CET for the next SFRR‑E ECR webinar on Science Outreach with @andresrieznik.bsky.social calendar.google.com/calendar/u/3...

We are excited to share our new preprint which is now available to read on biorXiv: doi.org/10.64898/202... 🎉🎉🎉

How does molecular valency shape condensate assembly and function? We used the CO2-fixing organelle in algae—the pyrenoid—to find out… 🧵 Preprint here!: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @cellarchlab.com @phaips.vd.st @biologyatyork.bsky.social #Rubisco #PhaseSeparation #Condensates #Pyrenoid

Does targeting enzymes and substrates in a condensate lead to rate enhancement? No. Here, we investigate how the condensate environment can inhibit an enzyme reaction. Spoiler: Mass-transport limitations. We find a strong correlation between diffusion and reaction rates. doi.org/10.64898/202...

What if organelles where glued together by #condensates ?