Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Color changing flowers 🌺 🧬 From pink to white in 3 days. My first Time-lapse at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks. #plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you interested in plant evolution? 🦠🌱🫛 Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social for the 4th #EMBO Workshop "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" on November 25-27 2025 Submit your abstract by August 25! #algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #plantevodevo

Brassinosteroid controls leaf air space patterning non-cell autonomously by promoting epidermal growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.14.664710v1

Join us for a unique workshop that will give many diverse perspectives on how to approach experimental cell and developmental biology in the 21st century.

Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬ @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social‬ in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Please spread the word: Position in plant development @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Looking forward to having a new colleague! www.upsc.se/jobs/6590-as...

CONCLUSIONS: To promote the best science being done, we need to look at the incentives of science publishing and funding. Long-term funding produces better science. Short-term and topical agendas encourages irreproducibility. Funding model organisms generates science we can build on! 🪰🪱🦠🐠🐁🐸 6/6 🧵

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When linden trees (here Tilia tomentosa) face heat they angle their leaves to reflect more sunlight to reduce leaf temperature and water loss. Since the leaf undersides are covered in white soft hairs the trees look silvery. - it’s clearly hot @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social

You have always dreamed to work on mosses and on cell polarity, we have a PhD position for you at RDP in Lyon with Yoan Coudert, collaboration with @dolfweijers.bsky.social

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

A masterclass in microscopy & cell biology from @alexguyon.bsky.social and @dromius.bsky.social - congrats on the pre-print!

If you are in ☀️ Ghent at #ICAR2025, drop by my poster (#123) today from 5.30 to 7pm! Come say hi, stay for a plasmodensta and ER quality control story 🌱 Drop me a line if you want to catch up at a different time 🙂 Especially keen to chat with ERQC/ERAD experts (looking for collaborators!)

I'm delighted to present this Science special issue on Plants and Heat! Through a series of Reviews and Perspective articles, covering topics from cell signalling to ecology there is something for everyone here. (1/8)

#ICAR2025 attendees! Join us on Tuesday for the @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social Workshop. I'll be sharing my experiences as an ECR and look forward to hearing yours!

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB looks at the impacts of #climatechange on #crops and how we can mitigate against these. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

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...

It's happening again. We have a big Memorial Day backlog. Any bioRxiv Affiliates around to screen papers, we'd be forever grateful! 🙏

Lastly to round up the 🧵: Science works doesn't mean every scientific study produces a fact ready for public consumption. Scientific work is incremental, iterative, nonlinear, slow, imperfect, relentless. Continuous improvement upon what was. Science works not despite but because of many failures.

The whole notion of "research outputs" is a fallacy. Science doesn't make products. It's a process that maintains and updates a web of facts, theories, tools, techniques, etc. You can interrogate this web at any time but it doesn't deliver products for out-of-context consumption.

Intrigued by this beautiful cover image of leaf epidermis, went into the issue to find more info about it, and it turned out... it's a superbely preserved FOSSIL!!!! WOW. #Paleobotany #iamabotanist 🧪🌱🌾🍁

Excited to share my new Tansley Review @newphyt.bsky.social on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n]  nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

🚨Job alert! Please share 📢 🌾Curious how plants cope with and adapt to abiotic stress?🧂 🔬🧬Interested to learn new technologies and push the boundaries? Come join us and explore the answer to these questions! More details 👇 ramakrishna.ch Apply soon! #plantscience #plantscijobs #hiring

Nice to find, side by side, female and male plants of MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA, near the village of Les Planes d'Hostoles. A bit difficult to photograph them 😅 #liverworts #bryophytes

Does anyone know what species caterpillar this is? We found around ten whole trees entirely encased in silk (from the base of the trunk to the tip of the branches) and thousands and thousands of caterpillars. We think it's an ermine moth but not sure. Oxford, UK @gargichaturvedi.bsky.social

Join us: 👉 Apply to the Senior Group Leader position by May 20: bit.ly/gmi-groupleader-sr 👉 We are also recruiting for a Junior Group Leader position. Apply by May 20: bit.ly/gmi-groupleader-jr

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

Excited to host the UK NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year on Friday December the 12th. It’s a great community and these meetings are always fun and informative. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or a newbie looking to diversify your research, please consider joining us!

Root expansion microscopy: A robust method for super resolution imaging in Arabidopsis (Magali S Grison , Guillaume Maucort , Amandine Dumazel , Dorian Champelovier , Yutaro Shimizu , Yohann Boutté , Mónica Fernández-Monreal , Emmanuelle M Bayer) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

We are hiring at Phytoform Labs! Seeking two Senior Scientist roles (sponsorship options) and one technician. Check out the job descriptions/application at the link below. If you're interested or know someone who might be a great fit, please apply or share the word! www.phytoformlabs.com/careers

I wrote a research note about the recent publication of the MIRI/LRS spectrum of K2-18b. The authors had claimed the detection of potential signs of life. I find the data to be consistent with a flat line 🔭🧪

Finally out… „Transport of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides by PIN-FORMED auxin transporters“ www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A collaboration between my group and @bjornppedersen.bsky.social led by the magic duo @lukas-schulz.bsky.social and @unglam.bsky.social

🌱 🔬 🚨 There is a 2-year postdoc position available in my group in Neuchâtel 🚨 Please share! Details here: www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...

Previously on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social now online @currentbiology.bsky.social : auxin responses in the streptophyte alga Penium turn out to be highly similar to tryptophan response…PhD work from the amazing @poletc.bsky.social and with @jorgehg.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gold mine of information, Very timely review

Received your PhD in 2023-2024? Apply by July 15th for the @science.org & SciLifeLabPrize to win up to $30k. Categories: cell & molecular bio; genomics, proteomics & systems bio, ecology & environment; molecular medicine. 🧪 www.science.org/content/page...

Back-to-back on bioRxiv by @plantophagy.bsky.social and @moritznowack.bsky.social Cell-type specific upregulation of autophagy in Arabidopsis root hair cells promotes 1) root hair lifespan by suppressing cell death 2) plant salt stress resilience by ion sequestration See links to 2 papers below!

Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.

Join the GMI as a Senior Group Leader and contribute to our mission of making fundamental discoveries that enhance our understanding of how plants and other autotrophic organisms function. More information is below.

The End of the University as We Know It www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o... - this captures very well the reality of the moment and the motivations behind it

After a lot of work, we are finally able to share this project about the cell cycle in Marchantia from the Haseloff lab. If you want to find out how cell division is controlled, you can’t miss out this one… #PlantScience #Synbio #EvoDevo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...