Moerdijk, verzwolgen door een golf van kapitalisme.. Het Saeftinghe van nu… #moerdijk

HL60 cells take on so many fun shapes as they migrate! This #InsightFromImaging data features cells prepared by Leanna and imaged on the @aicjanelia.bsky.social LLSM by @cmhobson.bsky.social

(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...

Zonder vertraging graag! #formatie

Final, edited version of the paper now available www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m sure this guy is great, not the point, but to think the solution to Canadian scoence is to attract a few dozen scientists from abroad is complete nonsense. There are just as good scientists here. The problem is chronic underfunding. But this does not make headlines www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

The resilience of youth 🍃What makes young Arabidopsis leaves survive flooding longer than their seniors? We tried to find out - check out our new preprint to know what we discovered @freddietheodoulou.bsky.social @leeggangers.bsky.social @hans-van-veen.bsky.social @uuplants.bsky.social

I was tremendously lucky to be in @xanderjones.bsky.social's lab to watch @bijuntang.bsky.social move from technician to PhD to Postdoc and produce this magnum opus. #SalicS1 is the just reward for years of brilliance and hard work.Well done Bijun, Xander, Jing, and everyone involved! #SalicylicAcid

"Can't believe it was published in Nature"

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are! #plantscience 🧪 "DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

People: "Things used to be better." Scientist: "When did it start getting worse?" People: "When I was born." From "The illusion of moral decline" by Adam Mastroianni. shorturl.at/FFEDV

This whole section really.

Het duidelijkste stemadvies ooit.

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Did you know that over 20% of all oxygen in the sea is produced by just one organism? It's called Prochlorococcus and it's a type of bacteria! They're fundamental to the ocean but rising temperatures are a growing threat. Find out what this could mean for marine life👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

First day at #EPCC2025 great science, good mood, french style @ensdelyon.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

Biology, what are you doing? Follow the rules. www.science.org/content/arti...

Our 4-year-old started her day with looking at Callitriche cells and during an afternoon bike ride I put some Arctium minus seeds on het shirt to see how far they would travel (they made it home and now it’s a germination assay). Her excitement cannot be described in words. (1/2)

🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide? Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations. #PlantScience #CellBiology #Arabidopsis @camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wat kun je als bezorgde burger het best doen om de natuur in jouw omgeving te beschermen? Hetty Gerringa van het intaketeam van Advocaat van de Aarde legt het uit in dit artikel. Haar belangrijkste oproep: Sluit je aan bij bestaande natuur- en milieuorganisaties.

@currentbiology.bsky.social has always been one of my favorite journals but I think they have now outdone themselves www.cell.com/current-biol.... And picked up by the @nytimes.com as well! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s...

Ook het water moet gemaaid worden @onderhoudsarmoe.bsky.social

Ik vond net nog 5 nieuwe soorten voor mijn gemeentejaarlijst (#1241-1245), maar dat was maar net op tijd. De laatste bloemen (groot streepzaad) rond de speeltuin werden meteen gekortwiekt. Dag menuetzweefvlief, dag groefbijtjes, dag siphona… waarom die maaidrang @gemeentewageningen.bsky.social?

1/2 What's best: a field-first or lab-first approach? No easy answers but differences between lab and field should not be seen as failure but motivate further inquiry and allow complementary discovery. Read our thoughts on this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The state of academia

Record heat is sweeping all Europe,North Africa and Middle East except the Central Mediterranean 49.2 in MOROCCO with Minimums up to 32.2 SPAIN with record heat in the Highlands 41.2 Zamora (Aug record) SAUDI ARABIA is breaking records every day 47.6 Alula 624m all time high

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

Agree, preprint systems, that allow for comments, seem vastly superior to the current system. The real peer review is the emerging consensus in the field, not the opinion 2-3 experts.

"Unlike hunters, wolves do not select" - according to the Head of Operations of the Dutch National Park de #HogeVeluwe

Very proud to share our latest preprint: postdoc/LRSF fellow Yue Rui studies the mechanisms regulating attachment of the cell wall to the plasma membrane. The Cellulose Synthase Complex and REMORINs determine the extent of attachment and root osmotic stress tolerance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper is out! 1/14 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. We show that it's all driven by Cell Geometry! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…

Join us this September in Wageningen/Ede to discuss and learn about Plant Development 🌱💚

A simple flow of gas over water may have helped kickstart life on early Earth. Research shows how evaporation and fluid flow in a narrow channel can drive isothermal DNA replication, offering a plausible, low-temp setting for early molecular evolution. buff.ly/ADgyeFk

⏰️ Last days to register! Don't miss the European Plant Cytoskeleton Club 2025 Lyon 4-5th of September ! 🧬🌱🧪🔬 👇register here Epcc2025.sciencesconf.org

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#icar2025 continues with 3 nice plenary talks by Julia Bailey-Serres, Phil Wigge and Christa Testerink on abiotic stress responses, with translational aspects for hypoxia/IDRs from JB-S/PW labs and a deep dive into salt stress and modulation by ABA in Arabidopsis by CT.

How many (Dutch) governments have collapsed over immigrants? Maybe they should instead focus on real problems, like a completely burned-out and defunded educational system? Invest in the future now!

Met de extreme bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs is er uberhaupt geen zicht op vooruitgang/innovatie…

“the N.P.G.S. budget is shoestring and its staffing minimal…And yet, with a trivial investment of 0.000008 percent of the federal budget, N.P.G.S. scientists quietly enable and safeguard our food system, worth around $1.5 trillion. Talk about return on investment.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

Absurd... First, starting your own braindrain by massive budget cuts, then suddenly finding money to attract top scientists from abroad to replace the top scientists that were fired? #clever

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

In scientists we trust!

🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social

Music to my ears!

Another fave

We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025). www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/

And.... the story is now out in PNAS, greatly improved with new data since the pre-print, so check it out and find out how ABA plays an unexpected role in root responses to salinity. @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...