A high-affinity split-HaloTag for live-cell protein labeling. And much more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪🌾PAPER - What do essential genes of unknown function actually do? The Niittylä group targeted conserved but uncharacterized genes in Arabidopsis and identified EBO1, a nuclear protein required for gametophyte and seed development.🧬 Read more in @jxbotany.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

🔬🍀🎉 I am happy and excited to share that graduate student, @ohazel.bsky.social Olivia's first author research article is published now @newphyt.bsky.social We are grateful to editor, reviewers, and @newphyt.bsky.social to help us to improve the story nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very pleased to see this work from the group out in The Plant Journal - led by PhD student Diana Ruggiero from the Leiboff group, a truly collaborative project, addressing the question: how often does pollen genotype influence spatial patterns of inheritance? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share what we learned about Katanin in maize www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

First tulip at our house this season. #bloomscrolling #photography #flower

I have to be honest about something, though. We would love to continue this work. But last year, the grant supporting this research was canceled, then reinstated 6 months later, and the damage was done.

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Bumping this and flagging some corny folks - anyone know the best place for PH207 seeds (and if there are RILs or NILs)? @jefowlerjr.bsky.social @jrossibarra.bsky.social @carolynplants.bsky.social @maizegdb.bsky.social @maizezynskihi.bsky.social

I saw this picture at some point and it burned into my brain that bathing suits should be hot pink!

Good morning! 🪶

One year ago today 🌿 Tulip bloom in my yard

#PriorityReport: Golgi-localized mannanases sustain hemicellulose biosynthesis Jacobson et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @cvoiniciuc.bsky.social

Email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation. He's not a scientist, has no relevant expertise, promoted vaccine misinformation, helped gut the CDC, and his Silicon Valley ties raise questions about protecting the public interest. (1/2🧵)

Excited to read this paper! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

From Dolores Huerta: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for… I can no longer stay silent…” Full statement: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Eight years ago today 🌿 Thunbergia mysorensis (Doll's Shoes) blooming in the Denver Botanic Gardens conservatory 😎 #BloomScrolling

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton Gordon Research Conference 👉 buff.ly/h0kubep #PlantScience

We each are shaped by many mentors & one of my most important ones is Jean DeSaix. Jean taught our introductory courses for literally 50 years & mentored tens of thousands of undergraduates. She taught me so much & is an inspiration. Yesterday I learned about another facet of her career 1/2

Tiny fringed Linanthus #NativePlants

Some of my favorite blooms as the temperatures have climbed and winds have picked up

In my #WildflowerHour I'm delighted to share this Erica carnea specimen, for #WhiteFlowers.

Frémont deathcamas! #NativePlants. Had to look up the dramatic name, beautiful but not for eating… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicos...

Tour update 🚨 Well, that didn't take long! The second #OrchidsOfRhodes tour dates for 2028, provided due to popular demand, already have a booking. It's the ultimate #orchid tour of Rhodes, it generates a donation to @bsbibotany.bsky.social, and it's here: www.mariposanature.com/tours/botani...

Manzanitas (Ericaceae: Arctostaphylos spp.) are commonly found in arid shrublands and woodlands of western North America. Made up of dozens of species, these woody plants grow as bushes or small trees. Once pollinated the pink flowers become red fruit. Great Basin National Park, Nevada, 19 May 2016.

Such a beautiful variety of blooms. Nature is awesome 💐 #landscapephotography #photography #landscape #nature #flowers #Spring #bloomscrolling

Good morning! 🪶

Six years ago today, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was shot six times and killed by police officers who forced entry into her Louisville, KY apartment. Her death sparked nationwide outrage and calls for an end to police brutality and gun violence against Black people. #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

#HerpInTheGrass surprise rattler edition taken from a respectful distance 😅

first crocus of the year! yaya! pretty purple little thing, poking up through last years leaves and the desolation of winter. #bloomscrolling #photography #EastCoastKin #naiveteismyforte

This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.

And yes, it is different, the Hobbit is basically a book for anyone of any age, LOTR is for an adult who liked the Hobbit

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/...

Charming Physalia minor spotted on campus #UCR

"Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are..." - Edgar Guest. Wishing you a lovely evening and a winning Sunday! 🧡 #OrangeSaturday #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #dahlia #EastCoastKin #ImageAndPoem

🚨🚨🚨URGENTE🚨🚨🚨

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities. But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham. It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why: 🧵1/

Instead of spraying for mosquitos this summer, try the Mosquito Murder Bucket! It's cheaper than paying a company and doesn't kill all of the beneficial insects in the area. #garden #gardening

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨ It is my pleasure to share: "Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants" Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantScience A thread...

You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science? The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro.... Thanks for reposting!

DURBIN: Is DHS required to follow federal court orders? NOEM: Yes sir, and we do DURBIN: How do you explain that your agency has repeatedly violated them, as your own administration has admitted? NOEM: We follow them when they apply DURBIN: I'm sorry

Cream cups, another #nativeplant SoCal

I'm in love. #WildflowerHour Agamous Galanthus.

Master blister beetle feeding on a phacelia flower. These guys are amazing!

Logged on to post the sentence “I’ve started stress dreaming about granular lab budgets” and what better visual to accompany that than

Horned lizard 🦎