I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition) Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers. medium.com/p/dont-peris...

The final version of our Marchantia cell cycle paper is now published. A much improved version compared to the preprint. Cyclins, repressors, and more. Thanks to co-authors and reviewers. #PlantScience. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Great to see this paper in its final published form! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Beautiful new review on how autophagy is hijacked by pathogens by Enoch & @tolgaboz.bsky.social "𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦-𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴?" Yes, there are - watch this space :-) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article...

A new study from our group, led by Iris Eisermann, of the septin interactome during appressorium development, revealing many new interactors and significantly widening the biological function of septins in fungal pathogenesis. 👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Nice to find good material of a tiny fungus, Bryobroma caudatum, on the liverwort Diplophyllum albicans yesterday. The fungus produces tiny fruitbodies up to only 75 microns diam. and spores with little tails. The distinctive mycelium forms a network over the host cell walls without killing them.

New Preprint! Engineering quantitative root disease resistance in barley by targeting conserved SCAR susceptibility genes without compromising seed yield or mycorrhizal symbiosis. This work has been led by @binebrumm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Still cannot fully believe it, but today is officially my first day as a PI at @scilifelab.se and Stockholm University! The lab is open, time to fill it with science.. #newPI

It’s an APH @APH_ISP special today! Barbara Kunkel @WashingtonUniv on virulence gene expression regulation of Pseudomonas syningae

We are very close to reaching the registration cap for MECS2026. Given the strong interest, we have increased the number of participants from 100 to 120 and extended registration until April 12. Please note, however, that we can no longer accept poster submissions.

Apply before April 23rd to join us as Associate Professor at Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

The Microbe Zoo will be going to the Royal Society summer science exhibition 2026!!! Fantastic achievement by @sawtrust.bsky.social and @norwichmicro.bsky.social royalsociety.org/science-even...

What if plant immunity doesn’t stop bacteria from arriving - but from staying? Excited to share our new Dangl Lab paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2535583123), asking a fundamental co-evolutionary question: which flagellar function is targeted by plant immunity? #Coevolution #Plant-Microbiome #PNAS 🧵1/8

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

#PlantJob Are you looking for a place to start your independent group and develop all the amazing ideas you have in mind?, consider this to join us @cragenomica.bsky.social www.cragenomica.es/events/sympo...

How common is multicellularity in bacteria? And archaea? And how does it evolve? We wrote a short review "On the architecture and evolution of prokaryotic multicellularity". Preprint link: bit.ly/4ta06Gq Sharing and comments are much appreciated. 1/4

I am excited to announce that we have two open positions on our recently funded MYBstery M-WEAVE (NWO-DFG) project! 1) Postdoc in my team at Utrecht University (NL). www.uu.nl/en/organisat... 2) PhD in the team of @lauraragni.bsky.social at University of Freiburg (DE). (See thread)

So honoured to be featured in this MPMI spotlight! Grateful to @carahaney.bsky.social for all the incredible support and mentorship along the way❤️ www.ismpmi.org/Community/In...

📣 Call for abstracts from global #plantsci community working on plant development! ⏰ Abstracts close in 7 days (due Monday 30 March) Registration fees due later (15 June) Register at: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...

New review out! This might be the most up-to-date textbook on plant surface receptors and signaling. Great job, @brunongou.bsky.social ! dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Preprint: Identification and structural characterisation of a picornavirus integrin receptor with an essential role of two distinct glycans for virus infection www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...

⚠️⚠️ @jacquet-chris.bsky.social and I are organizing the 2nd "non seed plant" French meeting. As for the one in 2025, the goal is to better structure our emerging community across French institutes. It will take place in Toulouse, June 24th-25th. Registration 🔽 nonseedplants26.sciencesconf.org

The lab of @elkebarbez.bsky.social strikes again 👇 Cell wall charge acts as a tunable electrostatic gate controlling iron availability in roots. Really nice work linking extracellular physics with nutrient homeostasis.

Fabio Dos Santos Barbosa on dissecting the Sln1 turgor-sensor pathway and its role in appressorium function. #Magnafest26 #Fungal26 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Paid 12-month internship: Communications Officer. We have an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take their first step into a science communication or publishing role. Based Cambridge, UK (& wfh). See the full role description for further details at biologists.com/wp-content/u...

The #nonseedUK26 meeting will be held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 15th December 2026. Please save the date. Further details will follow 😃

Please RP 🕊️: Postdoc position in my budding group at OIST. Looking for a colleague to work at the interface of chloroplast biology, evo-devo, and synthetic biology. More info here 📃: www.oist.jp/careers/post...

Looking forward to welcoming @camilla-moli.bsky.social to the lab!! Here’s to the wonderful science ahead @thesainsburylab.bsky.social ! 🍄🦠🔬🪲

🎉 Last week @antonkraege.bsky.social brilliantly defended his PhD thesis @unicologne.bsky.social entitled "Functional and Evolutionary Characterisation of Antimicrobial Effectors Secreted by Verticillium dahliae to Shape Host Microbiota" #proudPI #PhDone

CAR1 NLR is preferentially expressed in guard cells and mediates stomatal immunity against AvrE1 during invasion (to some P. syringae isolates). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Effector-triggered stomatal immunity prevents leaf invasion by bacterial pathogens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.09.710543v1

Curious about the origin of development during the transition to multicellularity? A very belated preprint alert: bit.ly/4rr2mHU Reproduction emerges from ecological interactions at the onset of multicellularity. A short 🧵 with lots of videos...

🔥Fantastic paper!🔥 TE with a role in vegetative phase change and gametogenesis, mediated by 24-nt siRNAs acting in trans to a wide range of genes. Found by GWAS in A. thaliana 🌱. Congratulations to the authors! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #epigenetics #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

ERC-funded PhD position: auxin in plant morphogenesis! Come to our team to study molecular mechanisms downstream of auxin signaling that control morphogenesis in plants! ueb.cas.cz/en/news/?id=...

NEW! 4 years UKRI and Industry funded PhD studentship in @devotolab.bsky.social, @Syngenta, @rothamsted.bsky.social for a UK home student. To apply www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her... Project info www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Enquiries: [email protected], www.Devotolab.org

BLOG - There is never a right time — how institutional support makes academic careers possible For #IWD2026, Dr Pirita Paajanen, senior scientist, reflects on the support she has received to advance her career, whilst balancing family life www.jic.ac.uk/blog/there-i... @leadersplus.bsky.social

Congrats @ottlab.bsky.social and @pengbo10.bsky.social for leading this work!

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Register Now! #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium | 22-24 Sept 2026 | Cambridge, UK Theme - Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis! If you are into Plant Development - join us! In-person + livestream Limited fee waivers www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls

There is a week left to apply for two available positions in my lab @ipbhalle.bsky.social - PhD: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/12-phd-posit... - Postdoc: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/13-postdocto... Earliest start date: 01/05/2026. We are interested in plant immune receptor biochemistry and evolution. Please share!

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis! Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po... Deadline - 25 March 2026 Salary - £37,500 - £45,350 Contract - 3 years, full-time

Fungal genome sequencing for free! 👇🏼 #GGFungi2026

LIN oppositely affects Phytophthora infection in Medicago. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rhizoid‐mediated phosphate uptake and internal transport in the non‐vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com

Postdoc position on phage-bacteria coevolution available in the @aburmeister.bsky.social lab at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee #phage #evosky #MicroSky #VirEvol 🦠 🔬 #microbiology arburmeister.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

Just over two weeks left to apply for this open Laboratory Technician opportunity in the 2Blades group! Join the team to work on developing resistance traits in soybean 🌱 Apply online, deadline 15 March 2026 tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

Spiral phyllotaxis in the moss Physcomitrium patens emerges from simple division rules of the apical cell: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... #plantscience

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Laboratory Technician to join the @yiliangding.bsky.social group, investigating the role of #RNA structure in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/la... Closing date - 17 March Contract - 36 months, Full-time