New research in Science reveals that the Venus flytrap's snap is triggered by a rapid softening of the epidermal cell walls, uncovering the physical mechanism behind this remarkable movement. Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4fXQ9sn

🍃 Growing a flat leaf 🍃 Check out our new review to learn how plants generate, maintain, and modulate flatness. A pleasure to put this together with Alexis De Carufel, Elvis Branchini, in collaboration with Marja Timmermans 🙏 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

this is not my ideal way of seeing my lab published in Science magazine, but, here we are. Roger is well known as a devoted life-long plant scientist, but he is also an incredible human being who shows constant kindness and encouragement to everyone around him. this is simply not fair.

Don't miss the final #ForceTalk of the year! @routierlab.bsky.social. A talk that will have you hooked!

Would you like to learn 2D and 3D segmentation with #MorphoGraphX? Have a look at the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar led by @routierlab.bsky.social and Amelie Bauer👇

It was a pleasure to co-edit the "Growth and Development" issue of Current Opinion in Plant Biology with @likeyoda1.bsky.social 🔗 Special issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... 🔗Our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Big thanks to all authors for their excellent contributions!

Do you want to know how to build an organ from a single cell? Check out our paper about phyllid development in moss by Weney Lin @irbv.bsky.social Colaboration with Yoan Couder @ensdelyon.bsky.social and and Richard Smith @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Binghan Wang on the successful defense of her PhD @irbv.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social #ProudSupervisor

I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

What could be more satisfying than this ? ✨️Congrats to all the authors ✨️ Could not be more proud of you 🥹 Credit: Camila Goldy @camilagoldy.bsky.social

So happy to see my work online, including the cover 😊🔬🌱🌈 @science.org Thanks and congrats to all the people involved @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social @embo.org

New paper from our lab @jxbotany.bsky.social about auxin and cytokinin interactions during carpel initiation in Arabidopsis Led by @andreagomezfe.bsky.social in collaboration with @defolter-lab.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱

Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️

Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below: career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...

Big thanks to Daniel Cosgrove & Enrico Coen @innerworldsjic.bsky.social for spotlighting our paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Let’s call for more in vivo data on growth, elasticity & stress. Time to fuel the field with experiments! 🔬🖥️📏🧪🌿 @currentbiology.bsky.social

An Arabidopsis single-nucleus atlas decodes leaf senescence and nutrient allocation www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience

It is real!!! 3 years after Joris Sprakel and I conceived the first ideas, the GreenTE Gravitation project has really started. We could not be happier after seeing all the ambition, joy and excitement among our ECR’s and PI’s. Plant Mechanobiology for the win!!! More info: www.green-te.nl

Very happy to have contributed to this collaborative work, with main drivers Marion Orsucci and Adrien Sicard: Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

Final version of our preprint on ARF degradation now online @natplants.nature.com. Great job by PhD student Martijn de Roij in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social with @jorgehg.bsky.social and JW Borst. Great to see this appear along @mjprigge.bsky.social paper!!! rdcu.be/ehkTn

Join us in Cambridge this September for the 9th annual Plant #ComputationalBiology Workshop. Seminars and discussions will focus on 5 key themes: 1. #Mechanics 2. Pattern processes 3. #AI 4. Computer graphics 5. Concepts 🧳3 travel grants available REGISTER TODAY www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...

Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱 We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you’re interested in moving your lab to beautiful Montreal Canada, this program offers chairholders funding of up to 1M$ a year for 8 years. See link for details. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

#BIOPHYSICS For the first time, scientists have successfully reverse-engineered the physical properties of cells located deep within a plant organ – in this case, a flower's anther. @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social @routierlab.bsky.social @natureplants.bsky.social nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

Learn more about the genetics of fruit diversification in Brassicaceae from a new review led by @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology 🥦🌼🧬🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research Briefing by @routierlab.bsky.social and @sysilveira.bsky.social about our recent paper @natureplants.bsky.social

So happy to share our most recently published work.

proud to present our collaborative work, brilliantly led by Sylvia Silveira @sysilveira.bsky.social and Loann Collet.

🧪 New Paper Alert New publication in @natureplants.bsky.social by @routierlab.bsky.social and @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social on how mechanical interaction between tissue layers shapes organ development in plants. 🌱 Learn more 👉 rdcu.be/efad3 @fasudem.bsky.social @umontreal.ca

Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼 🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3

Thanks for hosting me at IB-CAS @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social

I had a wonderful time in Japan at the NAIST and #JSPP2025 meeting. Thank you very much @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and Makoto Shirakawa for the invitation, warm welcome, and stimulating discussions!

At #JSPP2025 in Kanazawa, I organized an interdisciplinary symposium on plant development with Dr. Makoto Shirakawa. Huge thanks to all the invited speakers for giving wonderful talks and the audience for active participation! 😊@kierzkowskilab.bsky.social

We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025). www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/

The Week The Bike Network Vanished: youtu.be/DqKqK0y7VYU

I am very proud of Wenye Lin, who just defended her Ph.D. on phyllid development in Physcomitrium. Excelent job!!! @irbv.bsky.social

When its integrity is threatened anywhere, it affects us all. That’s why today, we’re launching an Open Letter from Canadians to stand with the #StandUpForScience movement. Sign now & show your support for our American colleagues: forms.gle/Jbunjx88x7VM... #MarchFo#MarchForScience

Finding a car in Montreal maybe challenging those days 🌨🌨🌨

We’re excited to share our new preprint on wheat spike development! We used spatial transcriptomics and scRNA-seq to take a closer look at the different cell types and expression domains during key developmental stages of the wheat spike. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy 500th (Google) citation for the #MorphoGraphX v1.0 paper (in just under 10 years)🥳🎂 www.morphographx.org @RichardSmithLab @RoutierLab @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝🌟 Meet Dr. MEHRAN DASTMALCHI @mehran_plantsci from @mcgill.ca Find his affiliation and Research interests in the photo below 👇 and you can find more info👉 dastmalchilab.com mcgill.ca/plant/dastma... Welcome to TPJ!

Our lab is looking for a enthusiastic researcher with the master degree (Computational Biology, Computer Science, Game development) to develop next-gen computer games to model organ development in 4D. If you are interested drop me an email: [email protected]

Montreal will continue the largest pedestrian street program in North America, committing $12mil to 9 pedestrian streets over 3-years. “These projects are not only good for the economy, they also contribute directly to the quality of life of the population.” @valplante.bsky.social

Let me know in the comments how many "oopsies we made an error" should lead to a Correction, vs. Expression of Concern vs. Retraction. For example: 1 to 2; 3 or 4; 5 or more. Any rotations / mirroring should way heavier too. Would be nice to have some standards.

Plant Biology faculty position @umontreal.ca @irbv.bsky.social : Assistant Professor in Quantitative Genetics www.nature.com/naturecareer...