Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am very grateful to be featured discussing my work on transcription associated proteins and TAPscan @rensingstefan.bsky.social Many thanks to @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the opportunity and recognition!

"You don't like talking to me do you?" said Marvin in a low desolate tone. Trillian talked to Arthur instead.

Sunset with saharadust

He had had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live. You also panic.

Hier zwei Grafiken dazu (Update mit Daten für 2025). Links ein stückweise linearer Fit an die Temperaturdaten (jeweils 10 Jahre), rechts die Erwärmungsrate (also die Steigung der rot gezeigten Trends). In den letzten zehn Jahren ist die Erwärmung am schnellsten. tamino.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/g...

Congrats @ottlab.bsky.social and @pengbo10.bsky.social for leading this work!

#PlantSciConfi Registration open for International Conference of our German Society for Plant Sciences Botanik-Tagung #BT2026 in #Bochum, Germany 6 – 10 September 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/82bsBT2026

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

Once something actually happens somewhere in something as wildly complicated as the Universe, Kevin knows where it will all end up — where "Kevin" is any random entity that doesn't know nothin' about nothin'.

In this review we map the journey to animal multicellularity and define three extinct ancestral stages: 🔹 LUAA: Last Unicellular Animal Ancestor. 🔹 FACA: First Animal Common Ancestor. 🔹 LACA: Last Animal Common Ancestor. Check it out: bit.ly/4azuLVY @embojournal.org

Hey everyone joining us @ #MBP2026 in mid March, we just released the conference program. Please check it out here: syncandshare.lrz.de/dl/fiPnsPinb... we are super excited to see you all soon and to talk 🌱🔬🥼 over 🍻all night long!

Delighted to share our new preprint: "Evolution of moss leaf-like organs through variations in deeply conserved developmental principles." Led by Ph.D. student Wenye Lin from my lab @irbv.bsky.social , in collab. with Yoan Coudert (ENS Lyon) and Richard Smith (JIC). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor — at least no one worth speaking of.

Vorholt Lab re-created endosymbiosis in the lab: injected bacteria into a fungus and evolved a heritable partnership. Evolution, fast-forwarded. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here). academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪

Know a brilliant early-career plant scientist? 🌱 Nominate them for one of DBG’s three prestigious science awards! #ecr #plantsci 👉Strasburger Prize 👉Pfeffer Prize 👉Wiehe Prize www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/actualia/...

Not surprisingly, my bubble is plant scientists and biologists; nice map

Here's how you can visualize gene expression during P. patens reproduction, from egg/sperm to spore, in the new web tool peatmoss.plantcode.cup.uni-freiburg.de Info on paper in post below. @watertoland.bsky.social

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#MAdLand Expression: adding sexual reproduction stages to the #Physcomitrium patens web tool. Great collaboration with @noefpbio.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social Paper online in @theplantjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Plant Breeding Innovation Clears Next Hurdle for EU NGT Framework https://www.europesays.com/2737143/ The European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment (ENVI) has approved, by a strong majority, the compromise text on…

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We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/

"Perhaps I'm old and tired," he continued, "but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway."

European plant scientists welcome the EU Trilogue Provisional Agreement on New Genomic Techniques (#NGT), as EU-SAGE reports, the network representing plants scientists at 134 European plant science institutes and societies www.eu-sage.eu/news/Europea...

Registration to close for the @molplantsci.bsky.social annual meeting in Hennef #MBP2026 organized by @kunzlab.bsky.social

Congrats indeed @petrollromy.bsky.social and also @dvarshney.bsky.social - well done!

Good morning. Here you can see a windmill growing next to its siblings.

Autumn. Has its advantages.

Plant Science Research Weekly Oct 31, 2025. plantae.org/plant-scienc... What makes a tree a tree? Secret strategy of far-red photosynthesis; Unwinding the Spirogyra genome; H2O2 role in P starvation response; Viral evasion of cap-independent translation defense (1/2)

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project! @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Das #StarterPack der #UniFreiburg 🎉: go.bsky.app/BspXE1o

...and if you missed it, here are 60 phylogenetically diverse brown algae genomes www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

📢Announcement! The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟 It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators Info: 👉http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/TPJ-fellowships & in 🧵

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you! Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kigelia africana, Leberwurstbaum, in Namibia

Dollar Bush, Zygophyllum stapffii, #Namibia

So happy to have seen it in the wild! #Welwitschia #Namibia

🌱Big news 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 with @globalplantgpc.bsky.social to highlight TPJ papers 1st features researchers from our 𝑆𝐼 𝑜𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 🌱🧬 🗓️Sept 29 ⏰17:00 CEST 🎙️Hosted by EiC @katherinedenby.bsky.social 🔗 Register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... SI onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Science management job in plant science @dfg.de dfg.concludis.de/prj/shw/5218...

Auxin does everything, but how? The story just got more complicated by the discovery of a B class ARF degron providing a means of protein (in)stability regulation. @mjprigge.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social

Job for data scientists: Cluster of excellence Future Forests searching for a full-time permanent data steward associated with the Central Data Facility @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

How conserved are plant transcription factor binding sites? academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... Great study by @andreabraeutigam.bsky.social lab shows a mixed pattern. Thanks for making good use of #TAPscan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... also. C2H2 neofunctionalization fits ny thoughts.

An exciting negative result!

Das Konsortium #DataPLANT @nfdi4plants.bsky.social unter Leitung der #Unifreiburg entwickelt seit 2020 Infrastruktur für die riesigen Datenmengen, mit denen moderne #Pflanzenforschung arbeitet. Nun hat die @dfg.de die Förderung bis 2028 verlängert. ➡️ ufr.link/dataplant-foerderung @fz-juelich.de

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Freshly appointed @simonelsasser.bsky.social presenting his research @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social - welcome @uni-freiburg.de !

Congratulations to the winners of @uni-freiburg.de liga soccer tournament; great day full of sports organized by Hochschulsport