🌱 Genetic modification can boost crop yields—but let's not oversell it. Climate is changing. Population is growing. We need resilient, high-yielding crops. But hype won't harvest them. Real progress comes from knowing what actually works in the field🚜 #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One of David Attenborough's best speeches. Today we're celebrating the 100th Birthday of the humanist and naturalist David Attenborough! Thank you for a lifetime of inspirational broadcasting and devotion to science and the natural world.

“A palantir is a dangerous tool, Saruman” Maybe naming a company after something the bad guy in LOTR uses should have been a hint!

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

A single line in this piece just made my day: “The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.” Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW – Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 ✍️ @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/wFGUgMU

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

This is why we need 100% renewables:

Motherfucking wind farms…

There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.

ugh

Stephen Flynn criticises Nigel Farage from attacking children who speak more than one language #BBCQT "A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

So happy this is out as a preprint (for) now. Since measuring ATP is tricky, we used ATP biosensors in collab with @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social to show that in chloroplasts without PGR5, NPQ and pmf are diminished, yet ATP levels unchanged. Balancing ATP/NADPH must be achieved by different means.

Our new preprint 🚨🌱☀️on flourescent biosensing of ATP levels in chloroplasts in vivo shows disequilibrium between proton motive force and ATP levels. We show PGR5 dependent cyclic electron transfer does not augment ATP/NADPH ratios @gustaf23.bsky.social 🙌 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy www.science.org/content/arti...

Today, Germany remembers the November pogroms of 1938. 87 years ago, Jews were targeted in a wave of orchestrated violence in Germany. Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed. Many Jews were murdered. These acts of terror paved the way for the Holocaust. #NeverForget

PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 enables efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light (Russell Woodford, Jacinta Watkins, Marten Moore, Samuel J Nix, Suyan Yee, Kai Xun Chan, Barry Pogson, Susanne von Caemmerer, Robert T Furbank, Maria Ermakova) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Der @sixtus.net hat einen inhaltlich großartigen und auch noch sehr ästhetischen Film über KI-Bullshit und die Shittification des Internets gedreht - u.a. featuring @ambakak.bsky.social @ Cory Doctorow. Danke ☺️ „KI - der Tod des Internet“ Jetzt auf ARTE: www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

A cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, from 1997. #NewYorkerCartoons

Thanks @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for a brilliant night out (the 2nd since parenthood began) in Sheffield tonight!

It took decades for the work of Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology—to have clinical relevance. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Wenn der Ottomotor heute erfunden werden würde

1/2 So this new report presents this photo (from a review by Gerhart and Ward 2010) as evidence that more CO2 is good for plants.

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

Happy #internationalcatday

We're happy to share a new virtual issue on photosynthesis from @jxbotany.bsky.social featuring: 🌿 innovative advances in technology and research, 🌱 a deeper understanding of the complex mechanisms, adaptations, and environmental influences, 🌿 and much more! academic.oup.com/jxb/pages/ph...

As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. scim.ag/44cSw3Z

Juggling Licor, DualPam and DualKlas today. What would I do without the Timer+ app??

Rapid Miniprep of Intact Chloroplasts from Arabidopsis thaliana Leaves bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?... @bioprotocol.bsky.social

Pleased to share my very general review of Photosynthesis now published in Nature Reviews Mol Cell Biol 🌞🌱 rdcu.be/em1lz Hopefully a useful primer for Postgrad and undergrad students

England has just given the thumbs up to gene-edited plants. Hooray! A UK parliamentary committee has greenlit gene-edited plants. This is great news, as it will boost food production and reduce waste www.newscientist.com/article/2479...

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

ps.ueb.cas.cz/artkey/phs-2... What a great read!

UK to launch scheme to recruit global research talent after Trump crackdown…whilst making researches already at UK universities redundant on.ft.com/3Shi2OH

Sieht man hier schön anschaulich für 🇩🇪. Die Fläche für Golfplätze ist größer als die für PV-Anlagen, die für Energiepflanzen viel, viel größer (mindestens 10x, eher 20x). Und die für Viehfutter noch mal ca. 4x so groß wie letztere.

When you forget your film only has 24 and not 36 exposures:

Oben: Monowheel, 12kg, max. 25km/h = Keine Zulassung Unten: Dodge Ram, 2500kg, max. 170km/h = Zulassung Das 🇩🇪 Straßenverkehrsrecht ist einfach völliger Wahnsinn!

REVIEW: Challenges of translating Arabidopsis insights into crops (Cristóbal Uauy , Hilde Nelissen , Raquel Lía Chan , Johnathan A Napier , David Seung , Linsan Liu , Sarah M McKim) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

Today we mark 80 years since the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, one of the most notorious sites of Nazi-inflicted suffering in the Holocaust. The British Army liberated the camp, and Canadian troops helped to evacuate the survivors. Germany will never forget.

Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now? Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.

Have you ever wondered about NPQ in C4 plants? ☀️🪴 Check out the recent pre-print from Lucìa who used to be a PhD student/post-doc in our lab and now works for the @ripeproject.bsky.social in Illinois. She shows that C4 plants have faster NPQ than related C3 plants. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A nice day for learning how to use my mum’s 50 yo camera instead of doomscrolling.

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