The Very Large Array Spring Open House is almost here! Don't forget to get your (free!) tickets before arriving: https://nraoepo.ticketapp.org/portal/product/36 🗓️ Saturday, April 18 ⏰ 9 AM - 4 PM 📍 NRAO Very Large Array - Magdalena, NM Guided tours, talks, hands-on learning activities, and more!

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

PhD candidate Makayla giving her excellent 3rd year talk 🎉 @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social

Revision of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification has been underway! The group is requesting community feedback until April 22nd. Here is a link to a survey to gather feedback, which includes links to the manuscript and the new classification: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Check out our new release on BioRxiv co-lead by @pm-mueller.bsky.social 👉 rb.gy/lnrizk special🙏 to Severine Kunz #MDC @leventallab.bsky.social @andimicroscopy.bsky.social @ewerslab.bsky.social and Kedar Narayan @NCI CCR VolumeEM Are the days of discovering new cellular structures over?? /1

Our H1 paper is out #ScienceAdvances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @masaashimazoe.bsky.social et al. reveal that linker histone H1 acts as a liquid-like glue to organize chromatin in live cells. 🎉 Fantastic collab with @rcollepardo.bsky.social @janhuemar.bsky.social and others—huge thanks! 🙌 1/

Generously giving my theoretician buddies the opportunity to touch grass @biologyjoe87.bsky.social

Do you want to know how to build an organ from a single cell? Check out our paper about phyllid development in moss by Weney Lin @irbv.bsky.social Colaboration with Yoan Couder @ensdelyon.bsky.social and and Richard Smith @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's your friendly Tax Day reminder that not only did Republicans give massive tax breaks to the rich last year, but Trump’s billionaire Cabinet also axed the IRS’s new free filing tool, so now Americans have to pay more to get their taxes done. itep.org/trump-admini...

I’m still looking for ecologists that would like to Zoom in with my students and me to talk about your research and ways in which you incorporate GIS sensors into your research 🌏🌍🌎

This was a tough one to write, and I took a bit of a personal risk sharing my own career-long process of discovery from tentatively swayed by the potential for deep-sea mining to convinced that we are simply not ready.

#newpaper: Combining promoter and induced intron 1 mutations of Vrn-A1a does not accelerate flowering in wheat @springernature.com: Wheat, Vernalization, Vrn-A1a, RIP3, Genome editing, Crops doi.org/10.1007/s110... @pecinka-grp.bsky.social

The long, tubular hypanthium holds nectar, the reward for pollinators. Oenothera species are dusk- or night-blooming, which is perfect for moths, like this sphinx moth (Hyles lineata) visiting opening buds of Oenothera sp. 📷: Lon&Queta CCBYNCSA2 #teammoth #Onagraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Fantastic! Of course this is obvious and should have been done a while ago, just as rooftops, solar should have been mandated for all large flat roofs. #solarpower #Greenenergy #Climatechange

The one with the longest sporophytes (longest at least in the photo) has also a thallus with toe-like protrusions

Can someone please help with the identification of these two #hornwort species found by @noodlyscientist.bsky.social outside OIST/Okinawa/Onna-son/Japan

My barrel cactus bloomed last night #FlowerPower #BloomingBeauty #FloralVibes

I just found out that tiny little field mice climb into flowers like tulips and take little naps in them like hammocks and I feel like this information is too important for me not to share with anyone. 🥹

Hungarian voters turned out in the greatest numbers since the 1990s to turn away from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist Fidesz party, putting an end to Orbán's 16 years in power. n.pr/421W9b7

New method paper from Alberto Caregnato and former PhD student @hohmannulrich.bsky.social. A tailored crystallisation screen for plant receptor kinase ectodomains, with examples from our lab and from @cellsensing.bsky.social. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The secreted redox sensor roGFP2-Orp1 reveals oxidative dynamics in the plant apoplast by Stefanie Müller-Schüssele and team: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

“While the pair both wanted to be conservationists as children, neither knew they would be on the frontline of Wales' insurance policy against plant extinction.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Still marveling over their moon mission, the Artemis II astronauts received a thunderous welcome home Saturday from hundreds who took part in NASA's lunar comeback that set a record for deep space travel. https://to.pbs.org/4ceGvxS

I hope you slept as peacefully as these young loons captured on film by Harry Collins: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Black throated magpie jay on a wire, Community Gardens, San Diego.

Fascinating short history, including how "Isaac Newton’s famous Waste Book is a rare example of a physical continuity between the two cultures of notetaking: humanist and scientific." www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebo...

NASA was praised by Trump after the wonderful success of the Artemis II moon orbit mission Yet Trump's proposed 2027 budget cuts NASA's funding -- by 23% Including cutting 47% of the science budget -- and 50 missions How is this making America great again?

Sullivan the foster kitty was really invested in the splashdown and capsule retrieval!

They landed upright yaaaaay

Man. Science is so cool. #artemisII

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

This crew capsule was white an hour ago 🔥

Fewer than 30 Asiatic cheetahs remain in the wild, all in Iran. While the subspecies has been protected since 1959, war and sanctions are now disrupting vital conservation efforts, leaving the world’s rarest big cat on the brink of extinction. @ayleighk.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

🌿 The BSA Spring Swag Store is here! Two gorgeous new designs by BSA's own Catrina Adams, including the stunning Resilient collection and a woodcut-style design to benefit PlantingScience.org. BSA members can email [email protected] for 10% off. www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-sp...

OMG lystrosaurus eggs! Lystrosaurus hatchlings!

Interested in learning more about how Botrytis cinerea overcomes host defenses? Check out our new preprint, where we expose a diverse population to linalool to uncover the genetic basis of resistance: doi.org/10.64898/202... ! 😎

Cucumber genetics got a 172,000-piece upgrade. That's how many large DNA rearrangements BTI scientists catalogued by combining 39 cucumber genomes into one mega-map. Now breeders have a powerful tool to work with. https://cstu.io/2dae4c

Sometimes on the Isle of May the wildlife comes to us…I caught this Puffin yesterday in one of our buildings and released unharmed :) stunning but powerful wee birds.

Multicellularity in each of us gradually fails as our cells mutate 🧬, become more diverse - and more selfish 🧪 That, to me, is the key message of Beyond Inheritance by @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social It's also, I'd argue, why the quest to 'defeat' ageing is futile www.newscientist.com/article/2522...

Politely requesting fish eaters to not wipe out all life in the ocean:

Cellophane bee on crocus #invertebrates

Models show the AMOC is weakening, but we didn't have long enough direct observations to be confident. Now moorings at four different latitudes in the western Atlantic have given the strongest evidence yet that the AMOC is slowing down www.newscientist.com/article/2522...

Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social & more! Our high-quality pennycress pangenome is a striking example of genome architecture shaping different kinds of genomic variation, including some surprising centromeric movement

Published @newphyt.bsky.social. We identified peptide ligand-induced K63-linked Ub sites of ERECTA, required for endocytosis & signal attenuation for proper stomatal patterning. Congrats, all authors🌱👍 @texasscience.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

President Trump is backing off, for now, from destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure and wiping out its civilization. https://to.pbs.org/4vhjseu

6 days! #Botany2026

I’m so glad someone covered this story. Brian is an amazing scholar and person who I’ve been blessed to be able to get to know, even a little. What happened to him is awful

#Artemis II - Todays ‘Earthrise’ image is reminiscent of a similar image taken in 1968 by astronaut Bill Anders of Apollo 8 Bill was 1 of 3 crew who became the first to leave low-Earth orbit and travel to the moon. Pic 1 - Apollo 8 1968 Pic 2 - Artemis II 2026 🚀🌕

Making us local folk proud! #WorcesterMA #Massachusetts www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

My grad student @ohazel.bsky.social Olivia is doing tons of BiFC to test protein-protein interactions these days. It seems that she is having TOO MUCH FUN with tobacco leaf. Here is Olivia's 🐱😺😻 art on tobacco leaf!