🧬⚡️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬⚡️ This review considers the multilayered strategies that plants employ to protect themselves from the detrimental effects of DNA-damaging UV radiation, thereby maintaining the stability of their genomes - Asik et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

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🔬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🔬 📝 This review by Hazelwood et al. highlights the discoveries focused on nuclear position manipulation and the importance of nuclear position in deciding future cell division sites. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @ohazel.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social

Clostridioides difficile is a gram-positive spore-forming anaerobic bacterium that can produce toxins. Learn more about the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of recurrent C difficile infections in this JAMA Insights: ja.ma/4jbqrQI

🚀 These reads are out of this world! Join the SciFri Book Club, an online community where you can explore science books, connect with fellow readers, take part in author talks, and more: buff.ly/yk17YSF

will legacy media challenge him on this?! accuse Leavitt of defrauding the troops? everything is a grift, a con even (especially!) to armed services: www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

Caloplaca sp #lichen on seaside cliffs. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

NEWS & VIEWS: Leaf wrinkling in Brassica campestris: involvement of brassinosteroid signaling (Kumari Billakurthi) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Most birds molt a few feathers at a time. But some species, like the Northern cardinal, do away with all of their head feathers at once. Comment "✋🏽" if you've seen a bald cardinal before. Comment "👎🏽" if you haven't and this really weirds you out. #ChristmasBirdCount 📷 : Comic by @rosemarymosco.com

Also in Issue 23: - Research Highlights on hair-cell polarity, cell extrusion and cell migration - Essay on @biologists.bsky.social Travelling Fellowships programme - Review on RNA:DNA hybrids in genome stability - Lysosomal damage response Review journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

Sign language fluency shapes the brain 🧠📺 Participants fluent in sign language showed stronger brain synchronization with visual features when watching familiar signed videos—unlike viewers with no signing knowledge. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/hIXy50XL3Oc

📣The webinar recording is now available for viewing. Enjoy!🌱 plantae.org/plantaeprese... #plantscience

🌲 RESEARCH 🌲 ¹³CO₂ pulse labelling shows that Qinghai spruce, employing a conservative carbon allocation strategy, prioritizes non-structural carbohydrate storage over growth & allocates more newly assimilated carbon to roots under drought - Li et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

First I learned of a kilonova. Interesting!

Love this start up company.

Give a listen to this talented woman

🥔🧬 RESEARCH 🧬🥔 High SELF-PRUNING 6A transcript abundance leads to early tuberization & increased heat tolerance but reduces immunity in potatoes, suggesting a trade-off between tuberization & defense responses against biotic stress - Yeo et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek The hidden half in the spotlight: the diverse strategies of root systems under stress by Hannah Schneider & Doris Vetterlein in @annbot.bsky.social #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qjfr #RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

Interested to see the results of this study.

#ResistanceRoots “Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.” — Coretta Scott King

Measles is no joke

Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.

🌿 INSIGHT 🌿 "Leaf as nursery: insights on hormonal control of asexual reproduction from Kalanchoë pinnata". Joanna Kacprzyk comments on research recently published in JXB by Jácome-Blásquez et al. Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

I am honored to be reviewed by a great scientist and friend, @cavenderg9.bsky.social, in @sse-evolution.bsky.social @journal-evo.bsky.social. I enjoyed this excellent review, which asks what the syngameon concept gives us, and I think differently since reading it. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

🚨We need your help🚨 #Shearwaters are washing up on beaches, particularly around #Tathra. Some #seabirds are still alive. Please do not touch the #birds. Instead, take photos & submit your observations to our new portal ➡️ adriftlab.org/beached-bird... (also, please share this) #ornithology #OzBirds

We need more innovation like this.

A great talent gone too soon.

❤️Dogs

The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large societies, rather than agriculture generally

Denmark just mapped its entire environmental microbiome. More than 10,000 samples revealing hidden, dominant nitrifiers that shape fertilizer use, water quality, and climate impact. A national microbiome atlas could transform sustainable agriculture across Europe. #AMR www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tree Pathology research assistant just opened at @mortonarboretum.bsky.social ! Details below... please share with anyone who might be interested. It's a great place to work, and an exciting new research program! careers.hireology.com/themortonarb...

Tennessee polls close at 7 PM CT. If you’re in line when polls close, stay in line. Your vote will count. LFG!

🟠🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW 🍅🟠 Tomato carotenoids contribute to photosynthesis, color ripe fruit and produce bioactive signals. Rodriguez-Concepcion et al. provide an update on how paralogs of key biosynthetic enzymes control carotenoid production. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Stomatal economy: EPF1 balances stomatal density and efficiency (Bo Xu) Read more here: doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

IN BRIEF: Plant anatomy: The next episode – high throughput sectioning and image processing with AnatomyArray (Gwendolyn K Kirschner) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

🌼 RESEARCH 🌼 🛡️ BnaA07.WRKY40, a WRKY transcription factor, plays vital roles in controlling defensive response to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum via the regulation of different target genes including HRP, BG2, PEP1, & ACNAT in Brassica napus - Lin et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited #NovaScotia Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

After cutting lifesaving research into medical breakthroughs, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars, and just causing chaos, DOGE has been eliminated to…get this…save money. That, folks, is what I call the real waste and abuse.

"Usually when you see this, you say, 'Oh, this is too good to be true.' But you know what? I think it’s true, and we should take advantage of it." New research found that mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 could enhance cancer treatments. To vaccine expert @erictopol.bsky.social, it's big news.

NEW: We filed a FOIA request demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security about their pattern of targeting journalists, advocates, and other bystanders who film ICE and CBP activity in public. The First Amendment protects our right to record.

Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

Records show hundreds of immigrants arrested in Chicago had no criminal history 97% with no criminal record! www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...

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ICYMI: New online! Biologists should embrace Earth’s biodiversity as a library of solutions