High #temperature acclimation of #photosystem II in land plants #TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis

One of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi. Last year I wrote about Yaghi and Atoco, the startup he founded to commercialize his scientific breakthrough with a device that extracts water from air using just sunlight. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones. If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

What a statement... (see screenshots) Great article by @derekseveri.bsky.social et al. on the importance of including "real world" conditions in #PlantScience work, to ensure that one is actually studying plant biology and not just plant behavior in a lab environment. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Registration for the EMBO workshop ‘Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land’ closes on 25th August. Don’t miss it! More details can be found here: meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla... 🌱 😀

🚨Don’t miss out! Last weeks left to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025, sponsored by @cambup-lifesci.cambridge.org 🌱 📆Deadline 31 July - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This is a great article by @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social on @dev-journal.bsky.social about color choice in #DataViz, thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali..., also check out his super useful #DataViz tools at huygens.science.uva.nl 🧪🧬💻

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

People who can’t handle criticism are unfit to lead. Weak leaders fear dissent as a threat to their power. They silence their critics to shield their egos. Strong leaders welcome dissent as an opportunity for growth. They silence their egos to learn from their critics.

SPS - Summer School 2025 on Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy 🔬🌱 in Versailles 👑🇨🇵 For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers ! Only one week left to apply 👇 eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé, Guillaume Cabanac theconversation.com/fake-papers-...

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Plant-Herbivore Interaction GRC🌱 👉https://eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/1363/1739077200000 #PlantScience

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

New collection: "Diffusion barriers in plants" nature.com/collections/... Biogenesis of diffusion barriers like Casparian strip, suberin lamellae or root exodermis. Primarily focused on root diffusion barriers, but homologous structures were recently discovered in trichomes.

Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...

We're used to seeing holly leaves depicted as exclusively spiny, but most wild holly plants have spiny and smooth leaves Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant 📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013

Join us in the second UK Plant Biomechanic conference at Leeds. Organised together with the Institute of Physics. Registration closes on Jan 12th!

In the past years, I've found using comic-inspired color palettes super helpful when creating figures for my papers. Just came across this one and I’m definitely using it next! 💡Any comic recommendations with cool color palettes?🌈 #AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social

ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY. Can we do structural biology with an optical microscope? Yes! Check out how we resolved *single bases of DNA* and much more using fluorescence microscopy, out on 24.05.2023 in Nature! @natureportfolio.bsky.social [re-post from Twitter]

Hot off the press A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Understanding water flow, particle size distribution, and water chemistry can help you brew the perfect cup of coffee.

A nice perspective about common misconceptions of speciation academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

sites.google.com/view/theoret... Nicely made by Marco @TheoBiophysics Automatically generated list of conferences in the broad field of Theoretical Biophysics and Quantitative Life Science. To add a new entry fill in the form and submit it. Please keep it clean and add only pertinent meetings.

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Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

On academic exhaustion: “I think what can happen in these large organizations is that things become harder than they need to be. Friction builds up over time, and people get tired of losing that energy to the environment instead of seeing the forward momentum [of their research].”

Annual reminder that PhyloPic is your free go-to source for organismal silhouettes for #Jack-o'-lantern designs phylopic.org @tmkeesey.bsky.social 🧪

Science is recruiting a Senior Perspectives Editor in the UK or USA: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/... Deadline 17th Oct 🧪

Today is the autumn equinox 🍂 As autumn arrives in the northern hemisphere leaves will soon be turning shades of yellow, orange and red on their way to brown. This graphic is an old favourite that looks at the colour chemistry involved: bit.ly/3Zx6Li6 #ChemSky #SciComm 🧪

Please repost! Best #plantscience job ever—My colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne are seeking a new Director! Max Planck is particularly keen to recruit colleagues at the early Associate Professor level! #plantscijobs www.mpipz.mpg.de/director

Derelict satellites pass within 1,000 kilometers of each other 1,000 times a year, and any collision would instantly double the amount of space debris. A space rush is filling up orbit with unregulated satellites, mostly from private companies, and we need better protections 🧪🔭

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Don't forget to register for UK Plant Biomechanics Day!  Deadline: 18 December 2023 (40 GBP fee payment is not due until February). Register here: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/uk-plant-bio....  Organised by @robinsonsci.bsky.social, @slcuplants.bsky.social, Naomi Nakayama. #UKPlantBioMech

Wow, Zotero & Retraction Watch just stopped me from citing a retracted paper that had been hanging around in my bibliography. How great is that? #academia

Academia is strange. Get enough publications in the right journals and you'll be allowed to lead a team. No one checks whether you have the skills to lead a team, of course, why would they? You've published in journals. This should work out just fine.

Calling all Bioimage Analysts! Join us for an exciting series of talks by experts in bioimage analysis at our hybrid event, the “Minisymposium: Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis”, taking place on December 1st from 9AM to 3PM. Sign up now! Venue: ONLINE and Broad Institute Cambridge MA 🧪#SciSky

3 articles, Oct 30 Women remain underrepresented in academia www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Toxic workplaces are main reason women leave academic jobs www.nature.com/articles/d41... Women faculty feel pushed from academia by poor workplace climate www.science.org/content/arti... #WomenInStem

Just hit 8035 code sent! Thank you all so much for donating codes and spreading the word to get more researchers and clinicians here. There are ~850 codes left to distribute, and I just cleared the request list. If you know anyone looking to join bsky, send them my way! 🧪 forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66...

Plant Cell and Environment is looking for a new Editor in Chief to build on the great work of Anna Amtmann. If you're a senior scientist and want an exciting role, please consider this! #plantscijobs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1365...

Ten simple rules for avoiding predatory publishing scams

Let’s see how blue that sky really is. Hi everyone 🌸