Have you ever wondered how the epigenome is modified during the transition from seed to seedling? Here, we show that water uptake by Arabidopsis seeds triggers the eviction of the H2B variant H2B.8, thereby revealing replication-independent chromatin reprogramming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re excited to share out wheat spatial transcriptomics paper, published today in Science Advances - url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/zvF1C0YKzm...

#JustIn on Plantae: Beyond AlphaFold: The Technologies Waiting to Change Plant Science. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Charlay Wood, Ruth Nichols, and Sonia Balyan explore the next wave of technologies waiting to transform plant science. buff.ly/uRnlgKu #PlantScience

#Stress resilience in plants: the complex interplay between #heat stress #memory & resetting nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience @newphyt.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @plantstress.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @plantscientist01.bsky.social

World-leading Aussie science fighting #AntimicrobialResistance! PhD student George Bouras added 17M bacterial protein predictions to the #AlphaFold database. This was made possible by a partnership between BioCommons & @pawseycentre.bsky.social#AntimicrobialResistance#AlphaFoldo containerise #ColabFold on Setonix. Read more 🔗

When the world gets you down, just remember the wonderful variety of dumplings out there...

This a very important, and extremely well-executed study from Ralph Grand’s group @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Congrats to all the authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Blue Mountains. NSW. Australia 🌏

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar. The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue. The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

This is a small painting I made several years ago after visiting Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario Algonquin Sunset 12x12 acrylic on canvas

#StreetArt "Three Cages" by the French artist Julien Malland, known as Seth Globepainter. in #Amman, #Jordan

‘Dame Jane Goodall.’ #Painting by Wendy Barratt #art

We are devastated to announce that our colleague and friend Professor Philippa Borrill died over the Easter weekend following a rare immune system disorder (HLH). She was a fantastic scientist, collaborator and mentor, and a close friend to many: www.jic.ac.uk/news/profess...

“most people have been educated in empathy and respect, but sometimes I wonder if we’ve been educated in inclusion”... Important considerations to take into #science #AcademicSky. Handy hints for upcoming conference #EGU26 🧪❄️🎢⚒️🌊

Happy #BioinformaticsDay! Today, we celebrate the scientists and tools that turn biological data into discovery, and honor pioneers like Margaret Dayhoff, who helped lay the foundations of modern bioinformatics. Here’s to the community advancing data-driven biology!

Can't wait to release a 10-year-old birthday version for SeqKit! - 10 years - 2 papers, 3500 citations - 20 contributors - 40 subcommands - 880 commits - 500 issues - 685.5K Bioconda total downloads Thank you all, dear contributors and users! I'll keep maintaining it. github.com/shenwei356/s...

#ThickTrunkTuesday Walk through the forests to the iconic „Knightwood oak“ - „The Queen of the forests“, Lyndhurst, New Forest, UK a 500-600+ year old pedunculate oak. #trees ##photography #nature

We made the front cover of @theplantcell.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to co-first authors @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister, corresponding author @cristobaluauy.bsky.social and everyone at JIC, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @vizgen.bsky.social who collaborated on this exciting work 👏

It's finally out!... Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BARVISTA visualises gene expression in the barley shoot apical meristem with single-cell resolution @edgardemesa.bsky.social @usadellab.bsky.social @simonrdg.bsky.social @isaiavardanega.bsky.social @plantgen-hhu.bsky.social @hhu.de @ceplas.bsky.social www.plabipd.de/projects/han...

Explore gene expression evolution across organs in seven flowering plant species via our interactive atlas: 🖥️ DevSeq Plant WebApp 👉 www.devseqplant.org/index.php 📂 All datasets are openly available for reuse and reanalysis: 👉 github.com/schustischus...

🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making! 🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans. Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation? @cellpress.bsky.social

Devastating news. A world-leading marine biologist. Lost way too soon. #ValeEmmaJohnston www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's our birthday! Twenty-five years ago, in December 2000, the Arabidopsis thaliana genome was published and #TAIR was born. Now, we're preparing for the release of #TAIR12 early in the new year. What a long way we've come! bit.ly/3KDJciT #plantbiology #plantscience #genomics #Arabidopsis

#Seagrasses are most vulnerable to #marine #heatwaves in #tropical #zones: local‐scale and broad climatic zone variation in thermal tolerances 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Said et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Sometimes the best way to progress is to delete all the code I wrote today and start it again.

Honored to be included in this reflection on 20 excellent years of MolSystBiol! From our first phosphotyrosine interactome in 2005 to proteome-wide networks - scale has grown exponentially. MS proteomics + AI is transforming systems-level understanding. Exciting times! embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated

Can we all agree to write all the grants in the first semester so we can do other things during the second semester?

Congratulations to Mike MacCoss on receiving the Donald F. Hunt Distinguished Contribution in Proteomics Award from US HUPO! us-hupo.org/Distinguishe...

Please read the thoughtful Blog that @richardsever.bsky.social and the @openrxiv.bsky.social team wrote on integrating pre-prints with AI review openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

🤯This is wow! Molecular mechanism of mRNA export. by @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @plaschkalab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature research paper: A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat go.nature.com/47OSVvb

Lunch today halfway around the world in Hangzhou and met a new asst professor who was very thankful for this resource. Please help out folks like them and other early career scientists with examples of job apps. Submit yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins

I'll just leave this here: jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...

Our pan-gtranscriptome analysis delivers a detailed roadmap for gene expression and regulation promising to fuel innovations in crop improvement to face climate challenges. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @earlhaminst.bsky.social @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @edithcowanuni.bsky.social

Happy to share our wheat pan-transcriptome paper published in Nature Communications. @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @edithcowanuni.bsky.social

📃 New research published today in @natcomms.nature.com from the Earlham Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social presents the first wheat pan-transcriptome - revealing layers of hidden diversity spanning our modern wheat variations. 🧪 ➡️ buff.ly/ZDIRnFW @wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org

It's great to see you PHD takeoff and what a way to fly, read @c-reynoldsuk.bsky.social first paper from his PHD www.nature.com/articles/s41... It is also a nice collaboration with Ant Dodd at the JIC @antdodd.bsky.social @nrpdtp.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

I've recently started compiling a list of data science related resources that I use or recommend frequently! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science... #RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience

A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function go.nature.com/4mc1SmQ

This is the next little hand made book I wrote & illustrated. It’s for my son, who was fascinated by insects & creeping crawling things. Woodlice have so many different colloquial names that I’m sure I could add many more to it in a finished edition. Sound up full & apologies for whispering

Nature research paper: A haplotype-resolved pangenome of the barley wild relative Hordeum bulbosum go.nature.com/45V5IvM

I made a book, a very tiny book. On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse. If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out

You should consider producing your next animation project with Hungarians. Here’s why: www.cartoonbrew.com/sponsored-by... (story presented by National Film Institute Hungary)

Come and join - I'll do my best to answer whatever is thrown at me