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 ⚒🌏🔬🌱🍃🌳

With stuff like this, the amazing thing to me is that someone had to sit down at a computer and think to themself "and now, it is time to lie to customers."

Nice thread about @joannakacprzyk.bsky.social and my paper in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social TL;DR: People study plants because they rock!

❗Decline in botanical education threatens response to climate action and food security www.ucd.ie/newsandopini... Research reveals what inspires people to study plant biology, a subject essential for addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, and food security. #PlantScience 🧵1/2

⏰ Final week to submit an abstract for MONOGRAM 2026 ⏰ 📍 Cambridge, UK: 23- 26 March Don't miss out! Abstract submission closes next Friday 23rd January 🌾 Find out more 👉 cvent.me/MM0bPo #plantscience @monogram-uk.bsky.social

Have you ever heard that women have more chances than men of getting grants or positions in academia? Of course you have, and here are my personal views on this. With the shocking revelation that no, it is NOT TRUE ! (1/n)

The smell of lentisk/mastic (Pistacia lentiscus) in the forest during summers. Actually, as a child, I was not aware that it was specifically this plant that produced this perfume. Now, as a plant scientist, I got to study P. lentiscus, and its smell always brings me inmediate childhood memories 💚.

Inspiring the next generation of plant scientists: What we learned from 421 plant biologists @joannakacprzyk.bsky.social and Rainer Melzer nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @plantmemories.bsky.social @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social #PlantScience

Motivation for choosing botany-related education? My father left school at 14 and my (more intellectual) mother at 18, and I was born in a council house, so there was little expectation that I would explore tertiary education.

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Motivation for choosing a plant related career: "𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩-𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙨 (𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣) 𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙟𝙤𝙗."

Check out this AMAZING hoodie I got from @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social! Keep an eye out on openflower.bio Thank you Nick!

We are #hiring! Join Miltos Tsiantis’s lab within the IMPRS @mpipz.bsky.social to identify genes driving root sucker formation in crucifer plants — combining evolution & genetics. 📆 Deadline: Jan 5, 2026 ✏️ Apply via: gradschool.mpipz.mpg.de ℹ️ More info: mpipz.mpg.de/imprs

Applications close soon for the @aries-dtp.bsky.social #PhD programme! We have two projects available: 🌿 Evolutionary genomics under sexual and clonal reproduction in hybrid wild grasses 🍄 Genomic signatures underlying functional diversity in root symbiotic fungi Find out more here 👇

As someone who’s probably on Bluesky blocklists for saying something other than "burn it all down" about AI, it also seems clear that asking for more nuance in these discussions in Dec 2025 is like asking for more nuanced discussion of immigration as masked ICE agents toss people in unmarked vans+

Most wholesome paper I have ever worked on. Made me feel awesome about being part of this community.

Just in time for Christmas a new paper in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social by @joannakacprzyk.bsky.social and myself. We asked 421 plant scientists why they study plants! Check it out and also check @plantmemories.bsky.social where we post lovely survey responses.

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

Pleased to share this thoughtful essay by Jess on my flower design project🌹🧬 As a small thank-you for spreading the work, I'm randomly giving away 5 of these new morphogenesis hoodies to whoever reposts this!

🧪🌱 Sooo… our paper on how SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE controls the onset of megasporogenesis is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉🎉! This is one of the major projects of my postdoc at #LuciaColombo’s lab at #UniMI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧶 1/7

Check our new preprint! How the petal identity gene PhDEF behaves differently in the epidermis and mesophyll, in petunia flowers (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What rubs me the wrong way about the AI criticism: Where were you when bakers lost their jobs to kneading machines? When carpenters lost their jobs to laser cutting machines? Now when the machines eventually come for us (academia and writers) you are outraged?

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands. jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob

We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Postdoc positions focused on gene editing using protoplasts and plant regeneration for genetic improvement of forest trees at NC State 🌳 jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...

🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬 Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

I'm offering a PhD project together with Sarah McKim on temperature-controlled stomata formation within EASTBIO DTP www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #plantscience #plantscijobs Deadline 15 Feb. Please share/RP

Great PhD opportunity at Sheffield - a key place for plant science for ~ 100 years #PlantScience

🌸 RESEARCH 🌸 Comparative RNA-seq and metabolite analysis of feminized male cannabis plants revealed alterations in the expression of class B and E floral homeotic homologues and preferential development of sessile trichomes - Garcia-de Heer et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Ecological stoichiometry and life history theory, not the identity of genomic variants, predict rapid adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.11.687836v1

Applications due by Dec. 1

Out First Release in @science.org Exploring how MKK3 variation affects the balance between dormancy and preharvest sprouting in barley: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

Maybe we should entertain some counterfactual history when trying to evaluate scientific genius? Which discoveries would have been made only much later if a particular person would not have existed? My money is on Barbara McClintock. Also Gregor Mendel (quite literally rediscovered decades later).