At some point we have forgotten that there must be a social contract and we as reviewers, readers and colleagues expect a bare minimum, default of truthfulness, correctness and collegiality. Otherwise, we're not doing science anymore 🧪

Do I make you look at the Sulphur Buckwheat every single time I do these posts? Yes. Am I going to stop? No.

silverpuffs #nativeplants SoCal

Plasmodesmal closure triggers stress responses! Turns out cells are generally better off with connections to their neighbours. This manuscript represents a decade-long team collaboration, with heroic effort from Estee Tee to lead it over the line! #PlantScience link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Blue columbine (Ranunculaceae: Aquilegia coerulea) is native to the Rocky Mountains but various cultivars have seen widespread use as ornamentals. They're often pollinated by hawkmoths and bumble bees. Blissfield Michigan, 12 May 2026.

Sharing for no reason www.nasonline.org/directory-en...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

a big surprise in @deeparajan.bsky.social recent paper identifying molecular pathways of single-cell learning in Stentor, was how effective RNA sequencing turned out to be, revealing CamKII and EF hand proteins that were then shown by RNAi to actually play a role. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Long billed curlew scoring a sand crab. 🪶

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You. Wishing you a lovely evening and a fantastic Friday.💛🌹 #ColorADay #YellowThu #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling Flowers old and new on a rose bush in my garden.

Haplotype-resolved genome of autotetraploid alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Regen-SY27x uncovers large scale structural variation and resistance gene dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.01.722254v1

Good morning! 🪶

Lots and lots of birds this weekend, but also another welcome sign of spring on the prairies - Pasqueflower or Prairie Crocus (Pulsatilla nuttalliana). We went from deep snow to this in a week 😊 #wildflowers 🌿

Devastating loss of Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares this week. She was an amazing mycologist, a leader in her field, & my friend & collaborator. This is a tremendous loss for mycology, science, & the world. There is a meal train for her husband & two small children www.mealtrain.com/trains/l3kg64

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

We are very happy and proud to present a study led by @jorgehg.bsky.social (now PI in Madrid – keep an eye on him!) in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social. In this work, we discover how auxin-regulated ARF transcription factors learned to activate transcription. A 🧵…(1/17) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Narrow Leaf 1 (NL1) encodes a CELL DIVISION CYCLE 48-like protein that controls leaf width in bread wheat (Danping Li , Zhencheng Xie , Yaoyu Chen , Chunhao Dong , Chuan Xia , Jizeng Jia , Yongtao Zhao , Lichao Zhang , Xiuying Kong , Xu Liu) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

“No mother should ever have to hear a body bag being unzipped after her child was gunned down in the street by the police,” Karyn Kirby said. 💔

Best analysis I've read on the Roberts Court destroying the Voting Rights Act and the decision's racist implications. A powerful opening connecting it with the deceptive use of "colorblindness." Thank you @adamserwer.bsky.social Gift Link www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

🌱 From The Plant Cell: Identifying an aberrant RNA trigger reveals why some engineered genes shut down, guiding design of more stable traits in crops. (Richard Michelmore , Blake C Meyers) ▶️ academic.oup.com/plcell/artic... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

Dipped on roadrunner. But saw tiny baby quail.

Can folks please weigh in on micropub as a way to publish? TIA 🧪

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

Great to see this new review on super-resolution approaches to study the cytoskeleton doi.org/10.1016/j.jare.2026.04.056 And very glad to see our correlative STORM/PREM images of endocytic “clearings” with @christlet.bsky.social highlighted doi.org/10.1126/science.ado2032

Happy to share the third chapter of my postdoctoral adventure at @mpipz.bsky.social ➡️doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.20.719616 We used C. chenopodiifolia's ability to produce explosive aerial fruit and non-explosive underground fruit to identify REVOLUTA's role in cell fate and wall patterning🌿💥 ⬇️🧵

Good morning! 🪶

Tulips in bloom 🧡💛🩷 #ECK #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers

Gotta try anything and everything, right?

Anyone know why the bees are snuggling in the cactus flowers? 🐝🌵Riverside, CA if that helps

Reflection on puddle as the sun sets.

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Our new preprint! Winter-like extended cold primes plants for regeneration🌱❄️! Work by Fu-Yu Hung, now a new PI in Taiwan!

Interested in a *staff computational scientist* position? We are looking for an experienced computational biologist (ideally with microbiology experience) to support published packages while also driving new research. Pay range $73k-$111k w excellent benefits. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs." calmatters.org/investigatio...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Die Tulpe "Dordogne" aus der Dordogne überlebt den schweren Lehmboden uff 🍅❤️ #garten #gartenliebe #gardening #bloomscrolling

Very cool probe to label doublet MTs and therefore centrioles across different species and set ups (from live imaging, STED and expansion)!😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good morning! 🪶

I'm looking for #NewPIs (<3 years as lab heads) in the gene regulation/functional genomics space. If you are one or know one, please comment below! 🧪

When applying to NSF for funding, each senior personnel has to provide a “Collaborators and Other Affiliations” (COA) form, which can be quite onerous. A couple of years ago I created a tool bit.ly/NSF_COA for automating this, and recently hardened it. I hope it is of use, and feedback is welcome! 🧪

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

🍀🔬📑 Brassinosteroids control cell proliferation in the lateral root cap of the Arabidopsis root @emboreports.org link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Birds singing in a local protected water area

I was interviewed by @katiepickup.bsky.social recently for @dmmjournal.bsky.social. This has a little bit of my background, a little bit on science and mentoring, and a little bit (ok, more than a little bit) on funding in science. Check it out at: journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Tiny butterfly on alkali heliotrope

Yep. People don’t come forward publicly because the social costs for speaking out about abuse are almost always higher than being outed as an abuser. I’ve seen this same culture play out in academia over and over again.

A delightful feed of cats watching the crew of Artemis II return to Earth Happy Caturday!!! (Feed by @joshuajfriedman.com) bsky.app/profile/did:...

“[Not] much positive news for public media in the way of recovering funding, infrastructure, …. But a court precedent has now been set that the government cannot weaponize financial or compliance issues for punishment of US noncommercial media stations.”

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

This paper looks interesting 👀 journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...