Arabidopsis Group I Pumilio RNA-binding factors are vital for embryo development and balancing between growth and stress resistance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671196v1

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

🌟 #JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟 On Sept 18, we will have our first session: 🌱 BEGINNINGS - the origins of plants and the start of the plant life cycle 🌱 🎤 Invited speakers incl Steve Penfield & Kin Pan Chung ⏳ Join us! Register by Aug 19 🗓️ 👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant @vbcscitraining.bsky.social student A. Abdrakhmanov: 👇 A quick thread + link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The amazing @newphyt.bsky.social #NGS2025 meeting in Birmingham has ended. Unlike typical research-focused events, it brought together diverse topics and backgrounds, united by being the next generation of plant scientists. Grateful for the connections, honest conversations, and inspiring peers!

Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!

This was a fantastic talk - the perfect blend of personal and scientific insight

Identification of RBPs if plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One more week to apply for this exciting Professorship in Plant Sciences at Uni Halle! Join our vibrant plant research community 🌱 Info 👉 wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php... @unihalle.bsky.social @snp2prot.bsky.social

Alternative #splicing is a crucial post-transcriptional mechanism in #plants. In a new #review, Zhu et al. explore the potential of AS to provide new strategies for #crop improvement and #sustainable #agriculture. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... #PlantScience

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

🍀🔬 SUF4 (SUPPRESSOR OF FRIGIDA 4) forms temperature-dependent condensates in plant cell nuclei! Manipulating condensation of thermo-sensitive SUF4 protein tunes flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana; from David Ehrhardt's lab @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany) Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more! #PlantScience

This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

Thanks for the challenge @science-irl.bsky.social. I can't say I'm very good at reel-making, but I tried 🌱💚. It copied here without sound, but the version on Instagram has voiceover 😂. #RootingForScience

We have developed an entirely new mechanism of action for gene knockdown -> trafficking of targeted mRNAs to the lysosomal, using lysosomal trafficking oligonucleotides (LyTONs)! Published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org Led by Disha Kashyap #chemsky 🧪 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Interested in Photoreceptors, Photobiological Responses and Optogenetic Applications across species? Join us at the GRS & GRC 2026 in California on Feb 7. grc.org/photosensory... Share your work with the photobiology community! Abstracts will be selected for oral presentations.

@wigge.bsky.social and @christatesterink.bsky.social on heat and salt stress, two of the major challenges for plants, i.e. for agriculture, i.e. for humanity. #ICAR2025

The @maizel-lab.org & @schumacherlab.bsky.social are hiring! Part-time lab manager position available immediately! Apply by June 30th 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 ➡️ adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664

Control of seed-to-seedling transition by an upstream open reading frame in ABSCISIC ACID DEFICIENT2 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #plantscience

Our latest research on At-RS31, a key splicing factor in Arabidopsis thaliana, reveals its role in integrating alternative splicing with TOR-ABA signaling. Using iCLIP and RNAcompete, we mapped its binding sites. 🌱 Read more at nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

This is a great program! Designed mainly for postdocs but some late-stage PhD students have been successful in the past. Follow the link to read more!

Die Universität Tübingen erhält sechs #Exzellenzcluster, die im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie vom 01.01.2026 an sieben Jahre lang gefördert werden! Darunter drei Cluster, die bereits etabliert sind und eine erneute Förderung erhalten. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #ExStra #Forschung #UniTübingen

🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology. 🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement. #AcademicJobs

How do plant viruses cause symptoms? Are these developmental alterations functionally relevant? Man Gao, Enmanuel, et al. found that TYLCV does so through a host-mimicking domain in its C4 protein, co-opting a plant protein family - to attract the insect vector! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence, a joint venture of the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Hohenheim, is now a reality!! For the next 7 years, we will investigate the principles underlying robustness to perturbations in plants. Stay tuned! greenrobust.de 🍾🥂💚🌱 @dfg.de

Join us for an exciting Student Symposium workshop featuring Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social. It's an interactive workshop on science communication, focused on short-form video production. May 13th 11am EDT. More information & registration link here rootandshoot.org/planting-the...

If anyone is looking for a PhD in plant photobiology, highly recommend this position with Gabi Toledo @w-u-r.bsky.social #PlantSciPhD #PlantSciJobs www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

It's been a long time coming, but I'm very happy to finally share my very first preprint with you all!✨ @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

**UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE** Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter & @lauraragni.bsky.social Deadline: 30th Sept '25 Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience (1/2)

Job Alert 🚨 We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded project 🌟Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants🌟 Join us at Wageningen University! 🔬 📅 Application deadline: April 7, 2025 Application link: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... More details about us: www.cytoplasmic-genetics.org

We are happy to join the #plantscience community here in BlueSky! Follow us to know more about our research at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social in beautiful Tübingen

Previously on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social now out in @pnas.org, the heroic PhD work from Juriaan Rienstra, with support from @jorgehg.bsky.social Martijn de Roij and Polet Carrillo Carrasco @w-u-r.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our research published in @newphyt.bsky.social titled "Unravelling the dynamics of seed‐stored mRNAs during seed priming" (nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) explores how hydropriming affects mRNA dynamics, enhancing germination but reducing longevity. Thanks to all my co-authors!

Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...

Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Light. This Focus Issue will gather original research articles and invited reviews on mechanistic aspects of light–regulated responses. Submission Deadline: 09/2025. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages...

Wrapping up our Applied Plant Transcriptomics course! From RNA-seq to de novo transcriptome assembly. #Bioinformatics #PlantSciences 📑 Slides available here: github.com/bpucker/Appl...

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

Searching for a #postdoc in Molecular Plant Sciences to join my lab @UniOsnabrueck #PlantSciJobs #plantscijob Apply until March 13! www.uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet...

🚨Job alert! 🔬Postdoc in Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants at @w-u-r.bsky.social! 🗓 Deadline: April 7, 202 📍Start: June 1, 2025 Details: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #Postdoc #PlantScience #WUR @erc.europa.eu @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social

What a super cool story: New role of CBFs in alternative splicing by interacting with spliceosome-associated proteins like SKIP. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please RT: 🌱 We’re hiring a Postdoc and a PhD student! ⏳ Application deadline: 17. March 2025 Join our lab and explore the role of alternative mRNA isoforms in drought stress and environmental adaptation in crops and Arabidopsis. Learn more and apply: www.lablaubinger.eu/Opportunities

Very happy to be part of this cool story showing that LUC7 proteins define two major classes of 5’SS in animals and plants! Thanks, Chris @daspliceisright.bsky.social and Connor, for reaching out to us!

We have officially launched our LinkedIn page! Follow us for the latest updates on our research and innovations in plant science. 🌱🔬🧬 🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/labo... #plantphysiology #research #innovation #scicomm #plantscience

And.... the story is now out in PNAS, greatly improved with new data since the pre-print, so check it out and find out how ABA plays an unexpected role in root responses to salinity. @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cotyledon opening during seedling deetiolation is determined by ABA-mediated splicing regulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635410v1