Cool article: Mass extinctions and land plant evolution The big five - five mass extinctions and their importance for plant evolution. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Love those live posts of my talk 🤩

Now online! We summarize recent progress in understanding salicylic acid biosynthesis and signaling, a central regulator of plant immunity. Hope you enjoy reading it. Grateful to my coauthors, particularly @ouyang-yi.bsky.social, for making this work possible. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So proud to share our latest publication @CellCellPress! Yue Rui reveals that the same enzyme that makes the wall, cellulose synthase complex (CESA), also tethers the plasma membrane to the wall during water-deficit stress, providing resilience. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Two PhD positions available to work with me on the GREEN CELL FACTORY (Advancing Plant Cell Biotechnology for Sustainable Production of High-Value Metabolites). Details below. Application deadlines are 7th June 2026 (PhD1_cell bio), 31st August (PhD2_bioinf)

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study the evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genomics, genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3u73csma

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

🌊🧬 13th International LASDB Congress 📍 Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 📅 October 2027 We’re excited to announce the 13th Conference of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology 📢 More information coming soon!

🌾🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬🌾 Recent advances in understanding homologous and homoeologous meiotic recombination in allopolyploid plant species have led us to propose a model for wheat homoeologous recombination and improving introgressions - Sourdille et al. #PlantScience 🧪

This rare cloud-free image of Ireland, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 29 April 2026, provides an exceptional view of the island, revealing its surface in full spring detail. eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...

A paper is not just its underlying data but also the narrative the authors have decided to use. How authors interpret and explain their results is important. Different readers can then read and interpret differently, but that initial narrative is relevant.

Teach your kids to love mass spectrometry. They will never have enough money for drugs* *and if they do they can at least check identity and purity

Co-dominant inheritance bsky.app/profile/wolk...

If you are a plant scientist & speak Italian, then this a book for you! The review in Corriere della Sera is impressive: "I have never read a scientific essay that is so rigorous, both in its personal and political account" "I challenge anyone not to be moved—to the point of tears" #PlantScience 🧪

I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

Here is a question to ponder: If you could construct a terrestrial ecosystem from scratch, for example for use on another planet, as an enclosed system containing plants and a soil-like substrate: would you include plant pathogens or pathogens in general? Why or why not?

I think we, at CSH Protocols, should do more to cover areas within the fields of #ecology and #evolution. What areas do you think would benefit from a curated, high-quality collection of methods-centered reviews and step-by-step protocols? I'd be happy to explore and discuss!

Excited to see this published in @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... Our model may explain why Cannabis develops male, female and monoecious plants. The summary is available in 7 languages: Irish, Urdu, Spanish, French, Italian, English and German! Awesome support by @researchireland.ie!

Male humans are capable of producing more than 500 BILLION sperm cells in their lifetime: 500,000,000,000 of 'em! So here's a fun question: Are there any REPEATS in the bunch, genetically speaking? Come with me on a journey of sex, math & genetics! We start with YOUR PARENTS, unfortunately...

Here are the newest philosophy podcast episodes from all over the internet! Arnauld vs. Malebranche on ideas, Daniel Dennett retrospective, Aristotle on the soul, birthright citizenship, war crimes, and more. #philsky philosophypodcasthub.substack.com/p/new-episod...

🌱🍺 UCD researchers have identified a genetic “switch” that determines the sex of cannabis plants, and found that the same system may exist in hops. 🧵 🕵️‍♂️ @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @ucdscience.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Super excited that this is out now! #plantsci

Bonus panel here: #smbc #comics #math

Just a reminder that in computational biology and bioinformatics, we should NOT just translate the longest ORF in genomes but the most likely to be translated. Our paper here details some of the pitfalls of you don’t. Be aware. Be warned. doi.org/10.3390/gene...

Hear it from the students themselves: 🌿 "His job made me more interested in plants." 🌿 "Plants are something I take for granted." 🌿 "Our mentor made science sound interesting and fun." Support PlantingScience today! crm.botany.org/makeadonation #IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #STEM

Did you have a "plant mentor"? "Family, Grandmother and later part time Nursery job with plants."

We are looking for a Tomato Breeder to join our Team @kwsgroup.bsky.social in Antalya, Türkiye. jobs.kws.com/job/Eski%C5%... Our Vegetable Division is expanding at the moment, and this is a good timepoint to get on board. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJob

Motivation for choosing a plant-related education pathway: "𝙄 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙗𝙮 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚. 𝙄𝙩𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣."

Gene and genome duplications have contrasting impacts on biosynthetic and flower developmental pathways in California poppy (Le-Han Rössner , Clemens Rössner , Doudou Kong , et alr) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Interested in signaling? Evolution? Microfluidics? Phosphoproteomics? Imaging? Green organisms? Consider joining the awesome Jan De Vries team for this 5-year (!) post-doc and come collaborate with Joris Sprakel and me!

🌸⚖️ RESEARCH ⚖️🌸 Live imaging and hormone manipulation shows how auxin–cytokinin crosstalk drives differential growth at the cellular level in the gynoecium to establish the correct geometry for carpel primordia initiation – Gómez-Felipe et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

I am delighted to share our review on MADS-box genes! Supported by Claudia @claudiakohler11.bsky.social, we attempt to summarize (nearly) everything currently known about Type I MADS-box genes. Let's have fun in the MADS world and check out the fruitful giants! academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

My postdoc Sungkyu Park brought his PhD work to my lab, as his PhD advisor passed away unexpectedly in 2025. I'm helping him push his manuscript across the finish line. I learned a lot abt thigmomorphogenesis (development in response to touch) recently. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

A reminder that the special issue of Poisonous Plants I’m guest editing with Elizabeth Neilson is ready to go. I wanted to make the deadline March but the journal convinced us to make it April 2026. #PlantScience 🪴🌾🌱🌳 Please repost academic.oup.com/aob/pages/sp...

"we propose that the protoribosome was a parasite (...). If this view is correct, then like the spliceosome in the stem eukaryote, a repurposed host-parasite interaction led to a dramatic change in cell biology at the base of the tree of life, in this case leading to the exit from an RNA world"

Plant Sciences 🌿 are really well represented on the Euro Evo Devo committee @plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social and @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social and the local organising committee with @drannisr.bsky.social and I so we hope there will be a really good turn out from the Plant Evo Devo community! 🌼🌱

We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...

My review “Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants” is now online at @jxbotany.bsky.social, in which I describe how co-translational processing and ribosome-associated quality control together establish protein stability and fate early in synthesis. tinyurl.com/5dhhz9h6

Emma Teeling, Professor of Zoology at University College Dublin (Ireland), will present a plenary talk at SMBE 2026 in Copenhagen. Title: "Bats: Genomes, phylogenies, fossils and cures?" @emmateeling.bsky.social #SMBE2026

Our preprint on sex determination in Cannabis - now updated with a strata analysis and new gene expression data. Great collaboration with @tatianagiraud.bsky.social and her team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social at the #SEBconference in Florence. Submit your abstract now ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Book your place now ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Sighle Humphreys married Donal O'Donoghue on 19 February 1935. This writer wishes Donal had 'waited until this unfortunate country was free' before marrying, as many married patriots 'eventually ignored the ills of the Motherland in the tranquillity of the domestic hearth.' #ValentinesDay

Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k) www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

How is it possible that I haven’t come across this account before???!!!! I want to make the flower model right now!!! #PlantSci

A 95 million year old angiosperm leaf preserved as an impression in an iron-cemented sandstone. The original leaf may have gone, but you can still see where invertebrates nibbled it. From Dakota Formation, Kansas. Cenomanian, probably. #FossilFriday ⚒🌏🔬🌱🍃🌳