This is fantastic by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Articulates so well our (intentional?) societal regression

RSVP to join the Dec 16th webinar and hear from the 2025 Arabidopsis Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @natanellae.bsky.social

🚨 Calling all #PlantScience ECRs! 🚨 JXB is now inviting applications for its 2026 Editorial Internships 🌱✍️ 🧪 ✨ You’ll gain: 🌿 Behind-the-scenes publishing experience 📝 Write commentary pieces 🤝 Join our 2026 Editorial Board meeting 👩‍💻 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns @sebiology.bsky.social

We are looking for a Postdoc with expertise in plant molecular/synthetic biology, or single-cell/spatial transcriptomics to join the UKRI-FLF funded project focused on understanding and improving water-use efficiency in rice. Apply online before 15/10/2025: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... RP

If the government can celebrate scaring a critic off TV, the punchline writes itself — and it’s from 1933. #JimmyKimmel

🌱 In the final talk of the conference, Andrew Millar is presenting “Practical steps to build a future digital plant: counting proteins, sharing data and an anchoring institution” 🌿 Learn more in Andrew's JXB review 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery435 #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @andrewmillar.bsky.social

🌱 The final invited speaker of the conference is Devang Mehta (KU Leuven, Belgium) presenting “Re-engineering plant chronobiology: from genome to proteome and from molecules to future geographies” 🌿 Devang also shared his lab’s ethical publishing pledge 📝 🙌 #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @mehta-lab.com

Terrific new feature presented by @theo.io on @pathoplexus.org called SeqSets for generating DOIs for sequence subsets used in publications, that can then be tracked for impact via CrossRef that will allow data generators to track impact! #IMMEMXiV

Delighted to be in Edinburgh for the @jxbotany.bsky.social 75th Anniversary meeting! Looking forward to an exciting 4 days of great plant science!

Team #proteomics any advice for hardware config for a proteomics workstation? Not sure how much we should invest in a GPU to account for future developments…

🌟 #JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟 📅 Sept 18 kicks off our first session: 🌱 BEGINNINGS – exploring the origins of plants & the start of the plant life cycle 🌱 🎤 Featuring Steve Penfield & Kin Pan Chung ⏳ Don't miss it! Register by Aug 31 🗓️ #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Apparently @biognosys.bsky.social no longer offers perpetual license purchase options (version-locked) for academics. Really unfortunate decision, especially for new and small labs. Probably losing a long-time user here 🤷‍♂️ #proteomics

Historian William Dalrymple shares how ancient India transformed the world, in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime. Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime

Out in @science.org The crazy sequence of events from planting maize in dense fields. Density-dependent linalool release triggers release of compounds into the soil affecting microbes and plants. Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025

🌟 #JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟 🔮 Session 4: FUTURE - New Plan(t)s 🧬 Our last session will feature emerging technologies & synthetic biology with Nicola Patron, Franziska Fichtner & Devang Mehta 🎤 ⏳ Time is ticking! Registration closes Aug 19 🗓️ 👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

2/2 With ‪@derekseveri.bsky.social‬, Joy Bergelson, Fabrice Roux and Talia Karasov. Illustration: Genetically diverse Arabidopsis grown in the lab | Closely related wild Arabidopsis during the natural growing season | Diversity of Arabidopsis habitats.

Even better.

Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr

👀 this explains a lot (?)

This op-ed from NIH director Jay Bhattacharya is *infuriating*. He says we have to stop funding mRNA vaccine research because it hasn't "earned public trust." Motherfucker, WHO DID THAT.

A new publication from @mehta-lab.com and @aishagerhardt.bsky.social with some really cool ideas about the future of agriculture!

Happy+proud to see my review published together with @mehta-lab.com! SO much great work studying crop adaptations to new latitudes. Again realizing we need an even stronger clasp of hands across upstream and downstream (research) pathways so that the plants we love+eat can tackle climate change.

Delighted to share the lab’s first independent publication, a Tansley Insight in @newphyt.bsky.social where we analyse new crop genomics studies to show how we can engineer plants that can grow at different latitudes (key for climate-smart Ag) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Please stop calling us “mainstream” scientists, we’re not boring we’re just right

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process. #plantscience link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

I’m deeply conflicted about this. On the one hand I agree that the CNS (+PNAS) journal worship in science is ridiculous but at the same time we need to recognise quality science. While I pledge to only submit papers to non-profit journals, I do aim for ones with high levels of discernment (1/n)

10 years ago I was looking at non science jobs and talked to a marketing person. They asked what I wanted in a job I said exciting, creative and impactful and their response was that wasn’t really a job. We scientists have a privileged daily “grind” that isn’t easily replaced doing something else.

An Israeli strike killed at least 10 people, including children, on Sunday near a water distribution point in central Gaza, according to health officials in the enclave. nyti.ms/3IjPeng

Every action counts. #ethicalpublishing

Bizarre discussion on the radio likening air condition to passive smoking because it accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions. But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.

Sitting here bleary after another poor night's sleep, disinclined to engage in a day of cognitive effort, this chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com really strikes home on.ft.com/4eFZG4l

Cremieux’s real name is Jordan Lasker. I put his name in the newspaper. He’s a scientific racist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

happy birthday to bill watterson who gave me the gift of encapsulating my entire ethical approach in one comic panel.

Very happy to see my invited article for Nature is out in the new issue. I wrote about computer vision, the AI surveillance industrial complex, and brilliant new research that shows just how deeply embedded the field of computer vision is in the surveillance pipeline. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My key takeaways from the #metascience2025 conference. It was a great experience overall and loved finally meeting so many people in person that I've been interacting with for a while. tl;dr It was hot, physically and metaphorically

Here we go, my first skeet-torial(?) on Bluesky for my first paper from @talusbio.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This preprint describes our scalable, mass spec-based method for measuring which (and how many of them) proteins are interacting with DNA. 1/?

Final Plenary of #ICAR2025 with @diorkelley.bsky.social presenting.

This was a great session! Thank you to the organizers for making room for it, though I still await a 🌱 meeting where DEI is a plenary topic..

#ICAR2025 Workshop 8: „Building a diverse community through effective teaching and mentoring“ led by Andrea Paterlini apaterlini.bsky.social and Mary Williams @plantteaching.bsky.social with @yoselin.bsky.social @mehta-lab.com, Sophie Goormachtig, & Agnes Uhereczky from @viblifesciences.bsky.social

Impressive presentation by Keiji Nakajima on day 4 of #ICAR2025 Read the related JSPP award- winning paper by Tatsuaki Goh et al. here… 🆓🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

Back to my first love #chronobiology at #ICAR2025 day 2

I would love to talk to interested PhD students & postdocs about the wonderful @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program! It's largely a volunteer position but great training & networking opportunity. Applications being accepted! #ICAR2025 blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

Temperature is so important for plants that they have come up with many independent temperature sensors. Curious? Read more in this review by former WeigelWorld members Sridevi Sureshkumar & Suresh Balasubramanian. #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to be here a Plant Chronobiology 2025 at KU Leuven BE! Great job @mehta-lab.com et al!

A while back @nature.com profiled my opinion writing, suggesting that this can boost your career. Sadly, I now have proof to the contrary: that people will target you behind the anonymity of peer review 'cause of your writing about science culture, racism, etc., and even succeed. Grant rejected🍾

#plantsci Random question for Arabidopsis people: has anyone compared the impact of selfing A.thaliana in labs over successive generations vs maintaining the same ecotype in wild environments (low level of outcrossing), on inbreeding depression? @plantevolution.bsky.social

Finally online and open access! This revised version has a slightly different title and contains a number of additional supplementary figures, mainly in vitro enzyme assays. Kept me quite busy in the lab at the end of last year! #PlantScience #natprod www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...