Want to know what links stomatal evolutionary development with legume nodulation? Do you love peptide signalling and rhizobia? If so, I hope you love our new paper as much as I do. FREE ACCESS for a couple of months: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nE~A3QW8S...

Water loss control beyond stomatal mechanisms Perera-Castro et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our work on UV-B perception and signaling in #Marchantia is now out in @plantphys.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/plph... Thanks to all authors @yuankeliang.bsky.social @romanulm.bsky.social @grandpahiro.bsky.social #PlantScience

🌱🧬 BRIEF COMMUNICATION 🧬🌱 The soybean nodule-specific cystatin gene GmCYS18 promotes nodulation and nodule development, while the cysteine proteases reversibly inhibited by GmCYS18 inhibit nodulation and nodule development in soybean - Yuan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Conservation and divergence of UVR8 photoreceptor-mediated UV-B signaling in Marchantia polymorpha academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... #Marchantia Congratulations @yuankeliang.bsky.social 🎉@romanulm.bsky.social and all other involved

This seems like a personal attack. YES, I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA!!!

Out today, our new article 'High-resolution soybean tracing for deforestation-free supply chains': www.nature.com/articles/s43... A @rbgkew.bsky.social international collaboration with World Forest ID, @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and many others, funded by Defra.

Hear what impact Ilia hopes #WGDip will have on the science community and on our understanding of evolution! She is a project co-lead from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 🌟How do you see WGDip impacting your research?🌟 @biggenomes.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

A surge of new data centers is reshaping local energy grids, water systems and land use. This rapid expansion is often happening with limited public information about the long-term impacts — or benefits — new data centers could bring. Learn more👉 go.wri.org/data-centers... #WorldWaterDay

Komorebi. I learned a new word today and I wish to add this to my bioengineering toolbox. Quiet beauty is all around us, and we are not here for very long, so go into nature as often as you can. Awe is in short supply, but ample if you look close.

Things are not okay.

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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...