Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.

Impressive work from @saschalaubinger.bsky.social and colleagues, describing molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in transcriptomes of native Arabidopsis thaliana. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hayami Gyoshu (Japanese, 1894-1935) Village in Shugakuin, 1918 Ink and color on silk 132 x 97 cm The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

Louise Moillon (c. 1610–1696) French painter in the Baroque era. One of the best still life painters of her time, she was trained by her father as she was unable to attend academies as a woman- who were thought to lack the ability required for artists #WomensArt

Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Apios americana, our Groundnut, blooming in Boulder county #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to August 15 🌿

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has said that her pumpkins act as self-portraits. The idea began as her parents owned a plant nursery and she has described the pumpkin as “a spiritual home,” a form in which she sees herself reflected #Womensart

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

On #WorldPulsesDay, we celebrate beans, lentils, chickpeas & peas, crops that nourish people & soils.🫘 Through the International Plant Treaty, their genetic diversity is shared globally to support resilient crops and food security. #ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity @fao.org @cgiar.org

Happy World Pulses Day! Celebrate in style by banging in some beans, lentils, or chickpeas to your lunch and dinner. Top it off by registering for this May's UK Legume Research Community Conference 2026 in Scotland.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Huipil, traditional garment created by Ingenous Maya women from the small towns of the Guatemalan highlands, who formed their own union to stop large fashion corporations stealing their designs. #WomensArt

Excited to share our latest review on hydrosignaling: moisture-dependent molecular pathways that help plants grow towards water. Insightful review of the literature and discussion of moisture sensing mechanisms by Will Dwyer and @hhtormar.bsky.social. Enjoy! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Knitted botanic art by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky #WomensArt

Yesterday was the midway point between the winter solstice & the vernal equinox & today is Imbolc, the pagan celebration of the return of the light. We’re climbing out of winter & the whole botanical calendar (save snowdrops & aconites) is ahead. A very good thought in case you need it today 🌿:

A small breeder's perspective on what the silver lining for #NGT approval in the EU means for them. www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/co...

'Looking for signs of Spring' by contemporary UK painter Dee Nickerson #WomensArt #February

A novel phylogenomics pipeline reveals complex pattern of reticulate evolution in Cucurbitales doi.org/10.1101/2023... Out of the blue: Family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Genomics #BigData #Evolution #Phylogenomics

Exceptional heat continues in Western Mexico,after a record heat wave in The East. Temperatures in Mexico has almost always reached 38C/100F every day of winter and they have never failed to reach 37C/99F any day. 35C at 1200m asl in the Guerrero highlands.

www.rootresearch.org/working-groups the #ISRR organized a minisymposium to introduce all 7 working groups that address different aspects of #rootsscience #roots #plantscience International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social

Happy birthday to Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) 🐡🎢🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci who solved a longstanding #chemistry conundrum of the shape of benzene, here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene. Her husband said, “Before prison it might

NEW: Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC "Volatile, gas-linked market prices – not green policies, as some misleading claims have suggested – dominate the real-terms increase in bills since 2021." www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...

The grain amaranth pangenome reveals domestication-associated changes in diversity and function of structural variation doi.org/10.64898/202... Pangenome of cultivated beet and crop wild relatives reveals parental relationships of a tetraploid wild beet doi.org/10.1101/2023...

'Avatar Reef' teapot by UK based ceramicist Delfina Emmanuel, who creates work often inspired by marine life #WomensArt

"Everything changes, nothing is lost", stone mandala by land artist Katie Griesar #WomensArt #NewYear2026

Record heat continues in Central Africa with 40C in Cameroon,Chad and Nigeria particularly crazy the heat in CAMEROON Today 36.1C in the port of Douala broke its December record Cameroon this months has broken record all month in all regions: North,Plateau,Coast,South.

DECEMBER SUMMER IN MEXICO This is also the first time 40C is recorded in December outside the tropics in Northern Hemisphere Summer will continue in January with up to 39C in NW Mexico AND tropical nights in the desert (never happened in January): Records will fall allover from tomorrow

Corfe Castle, the model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village, and the model of Corfe Castle in the model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.

You've seen Elf on a Shelf, now try…

Rune Hansen et al. reported that the substomatal cavity is a crucial check point where the devastating Septoria blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici) infection is stopped. Understanding this mechanism is key to future wheat immunity. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-11-24-0147-R

We wrote a review on the mᴏdular properties of plant cell-surface receptors, and how this knowledge can be used to reprogram and engineer them: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Old military air samples revealed DNA, enabling scientists to track moss spores over 35 years. Mosses now release spores up to a month earlier than in the 1990s, and the timing depends more on last year's climate than current spring conditions. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek Upstairs, downstairs: conserved and divergent CLAVATA signalling in shoot meristem development and root symbioses by Tiana Scott and co-authors in @annbot.bsky.social #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qj6b #RootBiology #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

The brain drain is here. The European Research Council has seen a jump number of American applicants for early-career grants. Top researchers have received feelers from universities in Australia, EU & Asia, with China emerging as the U.S.’s rival for scientific dominance. 🧪 archive.today/Jm9JF

🌺If you're free on 15th January and would like to find out more about our Persian collections, why not sign up for one of our art workshops? More info in the booking links below 👇#KewLA Morning slot: https://ow.ly/x0cl50XMcGy Afternoon slot: https://ow.ly/IvwE50XMcGz

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

A beautiful example of how conserved pathways can diversify! Well done @hynmn-jeong.bsky.social @philcarella.bsky.social et al. !!

🧪🌾VACANCY - Looking for a PhD in plant/forest science? Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees! Read more and apply here👇: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 #PlantSciJobs

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

"cis-regulatory evolution involves turnover of thousands of individual binding site instances while largely preserving transcription factors’ binding preferences." From: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

I had a great time writing this dispatch @currentbiology.bsky.social about Jacob Suissa's recent paper on the link between fern phyllotaxis and vascular architecture. "Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mH793QW8S...

🫘Phaseolus beans are the world’s top legume for human consumption and widely grown in Europe, yet demand is increasingly met by imports. #LegumeGeneration is boosting bean breeding with better genetic resources, innovative tools and disease resistance. #phaseolus #foodsecurity

#PlantResearch Enjoyed writing with @beverleycubg.bsky.social a perspective about wonderful paper by Valencia-Montoya et al. in this week's Science. Cycads use thermal radiation to affect pollinators. Is this why Cycads are not as diverse as angiosperms? share.google/Xj8iH9E4tqvN...

Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de

Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...