Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

Fresh out of the lab! Our new preprint is now up on BioRxiv, exploring how the beneficial bacterium Pseudomonas putida controls its T6SS nanoweapon. It turns out the Gac/Rsm pathway acts as a strict molecular brake on the system. 👇 (1/4) Read the full preprint here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

¿Es este el final de la ciencia como la conocemos? El anuncio de la creación de la vida en un laboratorio es una prueba más de que la ciencia avanza hacia un sistema de publicación sin revisión con consecuencias inciertas elpais.com/opinion/2026...

New lab preprint: Enhanced production of nitrogenase components in Nicotiana benthamiana through co-expression with Bacterioferritin A www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New lab publication: Azotobacter vinelandii glutaredoxin D delivers the core [Fe2S2] cluster to nitrogenase cofactor scaffold protein NifU. Another step in exploring how iron is allocated from plasma membrane transporters to nitrogenase: www.jbc.org/article/S002...

📹 Nevenka, en Ponferrada 25 años después de huir de su ciudad: “Estoy muy emocionada, muy nerviosa y muy contenta” social.elpais.com/65g…

Point mutation in zinc sensor causes a threefold zinc level increase in Sorghum bicolor Liao et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy to finally share the amazing results of our long-term collaboration with Karin Reinisch’s lab on how bridge lipid-transfer proteins (BLTPs) cooperate with partner proteins to orchestrate lipid delivery. A quick thread (1/7) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

After a journey of roughly 12 years I am very happy to share with you that our manuscript on the spatiotemporal role of ethylene during nodule initiation has finally been published in @theplantcell.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

🌾🧬Philippines approves high iron, high zinc rice for commercial propagation. HIZ039 rice could provide 30–50% of daily mineral needs for children and pregnant mothers. From lab to field to fighting malnutrition. A win for nutrition security. #plantscience www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiote...

Molybdenum doesn't pop to mind when we think of elements biological system needs, nor does tungsten. But for some of the earliest forms of life on Earth, they might have been vital. 🧪⚒️ Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72133-0​

"Todo segundo de Bachillerato está totalmente enfocado a la preparación de las pruebas”, resume una alumna. Aunque la nueva PAU quería ser menos memorística, los alumnos siguen aprendiendo cómo pasar el examen

📢 Nos complace anunciar que @SEFIN_esp otorga el VIII Premio Antonio Palomares al Dr. Pablo del Cerro Sánchez @pabdelcer.bsky.social por su excelente carrera profesional y relevantes contribuciones científicas en el ámbito de las interacciones beneficiosas planta-microorganismo. ¡Enhorabuena! 👏

This 👇🔥🔥

thinking about the gould quote again

Una sugerencia para los medios (y para el mundo en general): dejar de hablar de “prioridad nacional” y empezar a decir “discriminación por origen”. Que las batallas contra el fascismo también se dan en el lenguaje.

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

#PlantScienceClassics #20: Kinetin & Cytokinins. In 1955 Carlos Miller, Folke Skoog & co-workers describe the first #Cytokinin and its role in promoting cell division and growth promotion. #Phytohormones #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Chris Williams, a biochemist-turned-campaigns expert, has risen through the ranks of Britain’s Greens to become deputy CEO. For him, the challenge isn’t just winning votes — it’s convincing his own side they’re finally ready to play in the big leagues. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Y, sin embargo, la NASA ni lo menciona. La ESA es el gran pagafantas espacial

New lab preprint in which we identify a family of plant Fe-chaperones, and determine their role in symbiotic nitrogen fixation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’m not sure if I ever shared on Bluesky this article we wrote on how almost everyone giving career advice is susceptible to survivorship bias, but I think it was good and you should read it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

In the frame of the French ANR funded project HOMONIME project (anr.fr/Projet-ANR-2...), we will open 3 PhD positions to work on nickel homeostasis in plants using genomic, proteomic, metabolomic and spectrometric approches in Toulouse, Grenoble and Pau. Contact me for further informations

#TansleyReview: New comprehensive metabolic map of selenium metabolism in plants as a resource for selenium research 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by van der Woude et al. @antonyent.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

El impacto que tuvo en el Pablo de 13 años esta peli lo sabe bien el Pablo de casi 49. Es impresionante. Y el doblaje, un 10.

“La transición energética es muy cara” 🙃 pues cuesta lo mismo que una sola crisis fósil. La transición completa a la neutralidad climática a 2050 se paga con lo que nos costó una sola crisis como la de 2022. www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Ohh.... #biology #lego

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

Searching for a PhD? 🧬🌾 A fully funded 3.5-year PhD is available at @latrobeuni.bsky.social (Melbourne) to work on engineering transcription factors for better nitrogen use in plants! Reqd: ✅ Honours/Masters in Mol Bio, Biotech, or Plant Science ✅ Passion for sustainable ag Contact me for details

En 1994 el cantante más polifacético del heavy metal hizo el concierto más peligroso de la historia del rock. Suena a doble exageración, pero no lo es. Preparaos para una historia increíble. Hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, el concierto en Sarajevo de Bruce Dickinson.

Invirtamos en ciencia.

Fully funded four-year PhD position available in my lab! Combining structural and synthetic biology to understand iron transport. Deadline 27th of Feb, get in touch for more details! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

1 / 23 Prototaxites is known from some very large fossils, including columns over 8m tall. These fossils date from the end of the Silurian to the Late Devonian (425–365 million years ago). This makes Prototaxites the largest organism on the Earth’s surface before the appearance of tall trees.

“Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen” “Where they burn books, they will, in the end, also burn people.” — Heinrich Heine

We are starting 2026 by looking for candidates to apply for the Junta de Andalucía PhD fellowship. If you are interested in bacterial secretion systems and molecular biology, get in touch. More info about our work: personal.us.es/pbguzman/ & regarding the call www.investigacion.us.es/convocatoria...

Feliz 2026

Celebrating 40 years of Spain & Portugal in the EU! 🇪🇸🇵🇹 Four decades of unprecedented progress: boosting investments, democracy, and innovation. They made the EU richer; we made them stronger. A crucial part of our story. Progress. Together. 🇪🇺

A 1.25 A!!! cryo EM structure of rubisco.

Columna | "Seguro que García Albiol y Orriols dedican un pensamiento a los inmigrantes que han dejado a la intemperie mientras ellos descorchan el cava", por Sergio del Molino social.elpais.com/7t0…

¿Que para qué sirven los impuestos? Pues, entre otras muchas cosas, para esto.

Absolutely tickled pink to see Starship Alexandria as one of the winners! Thank you so much to those who voted for the show. I am having so much fun making it with @aptshadow.bsky.social ! A lovely surprise in the last days of a very tough year x

1. In Hamburg there is a "fully autonomous train" that for some reason has a human operator to press the ON switch first thing in the morning and the OFF switch at the end of the night. In a recent talk about AI in science, I asked the audience to consider whether they want to be like that operator.

1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses! A thread ... #PlantScience

Excited to share our study out in @natcellbio.nature.com! Led by @mikelangelipid.bsky.social, we identify the first #LipidDroplet lipid quality control pathway: LD-localized FSP1 protects stored lipids from oxidative damage and prevents LD-initiated #ferroptosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function

New lab preprint: GrxD transfers the catalytic [2Fe2S] cluster to NifU. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dear funding agencies, I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development. Sincerely, Looking for basic research grants.

New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.