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.

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?