EPP1 couples receptor activation to cytoplasmic signaling in root nodule symbiosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679184v1

Pleased to announce that our book on the evolution of biological agency is now available, thanks to @templetonfdn.bsky.social It condenses +2 years of discussions between a philosopher and a biochemist, including our conversations in the Jardí Botànic @uv.es @ehu.eus @i2sysbio.es @dicv.csic.es

Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

LinkedIn anuncia que a partir del 3 de noviembre usará nuestros datos para entrenar su IA. Para autoexcluirte puedes ir a Configuración > Privacidad de datos > Datos para mejorar la IA generativa.

"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams at us the loudest." -Mon Mothma (Andor)

#Viewpoint: Harnessing hyperaccumulator #plants to recover technology-critical #metals: where are we at? Elizabeth Rylott & Antony van der Ent 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Super happy to have our work published in one of my favourite journals @newphyt.bsky.social Amazing effort by Jiayu Zhou and colleagues from @utrechtpmi.bsky.social and UvA. You can find it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cornepieterse.bsky.social

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.

"En las tres autonomías golpeadas se sigue reduciendo impuestos a quien no lo necesita y eso resta recursos para prevenir catástrofes." @fernandohvalls.bsky.social Hartos www.lavanguardia.com/opinion/2025...

New prepint ‼️ We studied how the 3 T6SSs of P. putida shape the rhizobiota of tomato plants. Spoiler alert: K2- and K3-T6SS do not kill E. coli, but they are functional in the rhizosphere. In collaboration with the lab of Prof. Marta Martin & Rafael Rivilla @uam.es www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open PhD position in our lab to work on copper-proteins in symbiotic nitrogen fixation: www.cbgp.upm.es/archivos/var...

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

[🚨Pre-print alert🚨] Excited to share our findings on the enigmatic ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis. 🔴For the first time we provide evidence that ericoid mycorrhizae evolved from ancestral arbuscular mycorrhizae through the co-option nutrient-dependent regulation 👇! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our work on Brady and Sinorhizobium with rare earths! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Se hace saber que esta semana continuamos con Leer Malaz, la guía comentada capítulo a capítulo de la saga de Steve Erikson. Poco a poco, sigue creciendo este ambicioso recorrido, pasad por aquí (tanto nuevos lectores como veteranos zapadores) caballerodelarbolsonriente.blogspot.com/2024/10/leer...

Over the last couple of years I have been writing individual chapters of what I call 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Each chapter covers a specific, basic, but for some reason special and interesting aspect of #PlantScience research. Have a look here 👇🧵

La gente que se da golpes de pecho como si fuesen los únicos que pagan impuestos. Esa gente. Dicen que vivirían mejor en un estado “sin impuestos”, pero venden un discurso falso, nunca han vivido en los países que admiran y mienten sobre la carga fiscal de otros países.

Si estás terminando 2° de bachillerato, te gusta la ciencia y estás preocupado/a decidiendo qué grado universitario quieres, debes o puedes cursar, según la nota que obtengas, te invito a leer mi nuevo libro #SerCientífico publicado por la editorial Comares gracias a la Fundación Lilly

Los minerales críticos son esenciales para las energías renovables, la tecnología digital, la aeroespacial, la industria y la defensa. El CSIC investiga la exploración y explotación de estos recursos, tanto en España como en Europa. Lo contamos en CSIC INVESTIGA 📩 digital.csic.es/handle/10261...

For International Women's Day, let's pay homage to the great plant anatomist Katherine Esau. In her long career, she transformed our understanding of plant structure through her research and her very important books. She is my academic grandmother, advisor of my advisor.

I'm recruiting a 3-yr postdoc for an ARC-funded project on the interaction between circadian rhythms and grain quality in wheat. #plantsci #circadian We also have a fully-funded PhD position available. See Job Ad about Postdoc, email me about the PhD. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...

Ni "tierras" ni "raras: 17 elementos críticos para la industria electrónica o las renovables En "Más cerca" (Radio 5) han entrevistado a Ricardo Prego del CSIC en el Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas de Vigo y autor del libro “Las tierras raras” (CSIC) www.rtve.es/play/audios/...

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

Congratulations to Terri Long and Beronda Montgomery- outstanding plant biologists and mentors- for their selection to receive Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring! bit.ly/3C9PQsG

When did the taste of the scientific community changed from liking simple elegant experiments to preferring complicated and expensive experiments?

Not sure of the original source of this, but the depiction with the final domino set to crush the pusher is devastatingly accurate.

The debate about “good” and “bad” emigration is growing, not just in the US or former Twitter but increasingly here in Europe. I want to share my perspective, shaped by my own experiences. (🧵👇, 1/9)

Es difícil destacar algo de este artículo de @jlsastre.bsky.social porque TODO él es una reflexión brutal. Lean y asuman 👇👇👇🙌🙌🙌 elpais.com/opinion/2024...

Happy to share our last publication of 2024 and hopefully the prologue of an emerging research topic in the lab: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New preprint from the team by @karimaelm.bsky.social @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social @baptistebio.bsky.social @fabianvanbeveren.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Qué pena. Siempre tuve un trato muy cordial con él, y su trabajo en la instauración de la prueba del talón en España fue fundamental. DEP :( www.eldiario.es/politica/fal...

Una demanda que tiene como fin último limitar el derecho a la información. Se pretende evitar que se comenten hechos de dominio público. Un 'aviso'. 👇 La pareja de Ayuso demanda a Xabier Fortes y Enric Juliana por referirse a él como “defraudador confeso” www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

Timescales in Cell Biology #Cell PDF download: www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S00...

🎯Core Metabolic Roadmap How to get the molecules that are needed, when they’re needed. Source & High resolution: Bibel, B., & The bumbling biochemist. (2024). Core Metabolic Roadmap. Zenodo. zenodo.org/records/1336...

If you're interested in the roles of metals in biology, I encourage you to join this seminar series. Featuring diverse international speakers, covering a whole range of topics in the field. Seminars are recorded, so the archive is available for viewing at a later date - ideal for student training!

Yikes! The last paragraph is terrifying. How could anyone think that is a sensible action?!

I have a PhD position available in my group, to start in March 2025. If you have a keen interest in biochemistry and would like to study an exciting and novel class of copper proteins (aka weird Cu tubes) from bacteria, I'd love to hear from you. You should apply here: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...

“Este es su problema: Al parecer está usted prestando atención a lo que pasa.”

Sólo tengo odio en mi negro corazón. Odio.

Un dibujo de 2016, aún, por desgracia, relevante. Por Robert Leighton en @newyorker.com.web.brid.gy

it's just going to be this, over and over, until Vivek and Elon get bored