Have we been overstating the role of transposable elements in adaptation to local or rapidly changing environmental conditions? Happy to share my (somewhat unpopular?) opinion paper on this matter: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to those who already shared the link!

Final version is out! Our large-scale cryo-ET dataset 🔬 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 🦠 is now published in @cp-molcell.bsky.social Huge collaborative effort! So glad to see the community already using it to develop new resources & tools. Check it out here: shorturl.at/z4i4c #CryoEM #CryoET

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

📣 Save the date! The GfE Meeting 2026 is coming to Potsdam 🇩🇪🌱 ✨ Four outstanding keynote speakers (Hans Clevers, Isabel Fariñas, Thomas Bosch, Frank Bradke) ✨ 🏅 Celebration of the Klaus Sander, Hilde Mangold, and José Campos-Ortega Awards 🏅 👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

We were delighted to welcome Luis Lopez Molina today! Many thanks for the excellent talk on how endospermic ARFs regulate #seed dormancy, seed #development and #cold adaptation ❄️ We had a great time listening and discussing! Thanks as well to @claudiakohler11.bsky.social for hosting ✨

We are looking far and wide for this position! So if you are motivated, interested in academia, and want to explore the world of plant-virus interaction, we are ALSO happy to host you for a PhD! More detail below🔽☘️🦠

Thank you @scienceslam.de for this wonderful night in Hamburg! 👩‍🔬🎤 I had a blast, learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed slamming about vertical transmission of plant viruses 🦠💚

RNA decay via the nuclear exosome is essential for piwi-mediated transposon silencing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694471v1

The Clavel Group is recruiting a new postdoc for two possible projects dealing with plant-virus interactions and selective autophagy! More (wordy) details below ⬇️🌱🦠

How lucky are we?! 🤩 Rosa Lozano-Durán @geminiteamlab.bsky.social will be here! So looking forward to hearing you, my friend! 🌱🦠

Check out the incredible initiative from the Junior Faculty at Charles University that I'm proud to be part of (also photographically featured ;) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com

Look at our newest publication on the cross-talking between viral infection and larval development! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Delighted to have @bkrenz.bsky.social from @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social visit us for his inspiring talk “ #Plant #Viruses in Focus – Challenges and #Innovative Solutions for #Sustainable #Agriculture ” 🌱🦠 Great discussion, thanks to everyone who joined and to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting!

Have you ever wondered how it is possible that systemically infected plants produce (a certain percentage of) healthy progeny? 💚 Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀 We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!

Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!

Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅 Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏

It was so nice to visit @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social! Lots of #virus and #RNA discussions. Thanks @incavirus.bsky.social for the invitation!

It is with great pleasure that I inaugurate my Bluesky account sharing our last @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social at @theustunlab.bsky.social, about pathogen-mediated modulation of host P-bodies and translation. 🆕 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 (1/14)

And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org #PlantScience Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

... and we would love to see you ALL - working with ANY fish model - join us in Vienna for www.ezm2026.org, the biggest fish meeting in 2026! We plan to have a special session 'beyond zebrafish' and would love to include talks representing other fish systems across all sessions. Pls spread the word!

🚨 Postdoc opening in Achard Lab IBMP @ CNRS Work on AI-based modeling of gibberellin transporters, key plant hormone carriers. 🔗 Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #Postdoc #PlantBiology #StructuralBiology #AI #Bioinformatics #CNRS

New paper! Work led by @p-bourguet.bsky.social and Frédéric Berger at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social and @esasaki007.bsky.social identified how protein CDCA7 helps plants stably maintain epigenetic modifications across generations. Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...

🎉Congratulations to @victorsmh6.bsky.social at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social who received the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award for his thesis “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants”. More about Victor here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...

1/3 What happens when a fly gets persistently infected by a virus? In our latest work, we established persistent infections to examine their impact on this model organism. By tracking four natural, persistent RNA viruses...

Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @imbmainz.bsky.social in February 2026 to start my own group! We will explore new mechanisms in eukaryotic gene expression, leveraging ‘evolutionary play’ to uncover how regulation, repurposing, and hijacking shape RNA biology. PhD positions available!

Thrilled to see this out! SalicS is a beautiful new tool to monitor salicylic acid activation live in plants. Kudos to @xanderjones.bsky.social and @bijuntang.bsky.social for spearheading this work and to @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social for using SalicS in viral infections🌱

It was wonderful to have Bijun with us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social & @incavirus.bsky.social to finally "use our microscope to its full potential" as our core-facility put it! 🔬 Congrats to all, esp. @bijuntang.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social ! Super happy to be a part of this great story!

Big news! Our group has joined the University of Hamburg — we’re excited for the opportunities and collaborations ahead! #Hamburg

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

🌿 Kicking off Day 2 of the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference 🌿 We start with Session 1: Beginnings & Roots Chaired by Diana Santelia (ETH Zürich) & Steve Penfield (John Innes Centre) 👩‍💻 If you’re joining us online, don’t forget to share your questions in the Zoom chat! #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

Six more years—plus a lot of blood, sweat, and tears—later, we are thrilled to finally share it: a cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

🌞🔬 Big step for #sustainability in science: Today the Max Planck Campus at @potsdamsciencepark.bsky.social inaugurated new #SolarPower systems – including a 6,000 m² agri-PV plant. Thank you to @manjaschuele.bsky.social & @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de for making this milestone possible!

Embyophytes what’s up #iamabotanist

New research: With ancient origins & surprising flexibility, #BrownAlgae reveal a compelling story of sex chromosome evolution. This could rewrite how we view sex determination. Learn more: s.gwdg.de/YDoZ3L Congrats to @agalip.bsky.social & Josue Barrera for their work in @natecoevo.nature.com

Fantastic new paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al. An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors. The number of fraudulent publications grows at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant @vbcscitraining.bsky.social student A. Abdrakhmanov: 👇 A quick thread + link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Don't forget to submit your abstract for the #EMBO Workshop on #PlantEvolution by August 25th! Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social in November to discuss all things #plantevodevo Please spread the word! 🙏🦠🌱 #algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #terrestrialization

Happy to share our new paper out today in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social in collaboration with @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social @akihisaosakabe.bsky.social about how evolution can do big things with small changes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From initially finding botany classes boring to leading cutting-edge seed development research at the Max Planck Institute. Dr. Duarte Figueiredo's journey shows how the right mentors can transform your relationship with plant science. wp.me/pdRZhH-mgq #Botany #PlantScience

Nous proposons un sujet de stage de Master 2 à Strasbourg @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social @unistra.fr pour étudier les conséquences de l’uridylation, une modification post-transcriptionnelle, sur le métabolisme des ARNm au cours de la germination des graines. www.ibmp.cnrs.fr/app/uploads/... #PlantSciences

I am thrilled to share our review with @claudiakohler11.bsky.social in which we discuss on the latest research on the classical and emerging roles of transposable elements in shaping genomic imprinting in plants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #imprinting #epigenetics #plantReproduction

Bringing home seeds or plants from your holiday? 🌿✈️ You might also import something smaller ! 🦠 Some viruses travel light... but cause heavy damage. Don’t plant trouble. #PlantHealth #PlantVirology

We wrote a review on the free nucleotide pool as a central playground in human, bacterial, and plant immunity – now out in Nature Reviews in Immunology www.nature.com/articles/s41... Was fun to write this piece with Dina Hochhauser! Here is a thread to explain the premises 1/

last call! submit your abstract by tonight to be selected for one of the many oral presentations at the leading European Transposon Meeting. We are very much looking forward to your contribution and attendance!