New paper from the Hanson lab - KO of all 11 rbcS genes (!!) in tobacco to create a null line for rubisco engineering, plus resurrection of ancestral forms www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The #ChlamyDataset is on the cover of @cp-molcell.bsky.social 🖼️🥰! Read @lifeonthewedge.bsky.social's great thread🧵 for the inside scoop🍨 on all the #TeamTomo developments already made possible since these 1829 tomos hit EMPIAR 🧪 🧶🧬 For more, here's the old preprint thread: bsky.app/profile/cell...

📣 We're hiring: Science Adviser Do you have policy experience and the skill to translate complex science into actionable advice? Work with leading scientists to deliver evidence-based advice on national and global issues. 📍 Canberra ACT (Hybrid) ⏰ Apply by 27 Jan 2026 https://bit.ly/45B5oBf

📣 Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 ASPB Awards. It is important that ASPB honor the most notable achievements and contributions of plant scientists worldwide.🌱 👉 The deadline is Friday, February 13! buff.ly/ziJ3tAt. #plantscience

📚 Former Australian of the Year and renowned epidemiologist Professor Fiona Stanley AC FAA joins Barbara Miller on ABC Radio’s RN Breakfast to share what she's reading this summer – from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Tim Winton. Listen: https://ab.co/4jwyuYr

Thiamine triphosphate puts the brake on the activation state of chloroplast ATP synthase (Kai Wang , Jean Alric , Teresa B Fitzpatrick) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Vale Prof Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE The Academy is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of our Fellows, Prof Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022 recognising her leadership in the field of marine ecology, 🧵 vimeo.com/762105195

Research into #AI has been happening in the UK long before the current explosion of LLMs. On our blog, Royal Society Modern Records Archivist Jon Bushell takes a look at the AI research of Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS in the 1960s and 70s: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2025/12/brain-boxes/

More recommendations from our summer reading and listening list … @svcaemmerer.bsky.social

Want more book picks from Australia's leading scientists? Check out our Fellows' 2025 reading list: https://www.science.org.au/videos-and-publications/publications/summer-reading-recommendations-from-our-fellows/fellows-reading-and-listening-list-2025

See more recommendations from Australia's top scientists in our annual reading and listening list: https://bit.ly/4pt7Xgm

Should we try to talk to aliens? Do they already know about us, and what are the risks of trying to make contact? Experts answer these questions and more in our new video made in partnership with #BBCIdeas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHHAhFzLuCA

Metabolite profiling reveals slow and uncoordinated adjustment of C4 photosynthesis to sudden changes in irradiance (Stéphanie Arrivault , David Barbosa Medeiros , Cristina et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Save the date for 'Science at the Shine Dome 2026': 15-17 September Don’t miss one of the only conference in Australia where you can hear about the breadth and depth of Australian science from the very best scientists in our country, all under one roof. Registrations will open in mid-2026.

INTRODUCING our new President! Epilepsy genetics pioneer Laureate Professor Sam Berkovic has been elected the 21st President of the Australian Academy of Science, Australia's leading independent voice for science. bit.ly/4oLqKCK

Congratulations to Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social and team, who have been awarded $35m from the ARC to establish the ARC Centre of Excellence in Mathematics for Quantum Era Security and Trust (MathQuEST) #mathsky

Very happy this review is out 😊🌱 I've collected recent advances in transcriptional and epigenetic 🧬 Regulation of Chloroplast Biogenesis and Differentiation url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Regulation of Chloroplast Biogenesis and Differentiation academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

We are hiring a Senior Education Officer – Mathematics, a role focused on developing quality teaching resources for Year 7-10 maths teachers. 📍 Canberra (remote considered) 📅 Fixed term until Dec 2026 Learn more: bit.ly/4oxsf7l

President of the Royal Society Sir Paul Nurse has spoken out on the challenges currently facing science, criticising those who put ideology ahead of evidence and called for smarter funding of UK science: royalsociety.org/news/2025/12...

Complex sphingolipid metabolism impacts cell division and plasmodesmal development in the moss Physcomitrium patens (Linus Wegner, Cornelia Herrfurth, Ivo Feussner, Katrin Ehlers, Tegan M Haslam) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Born #OnThisDay in 1931 was plant scientist Enid MacRobbie FRS, whose work helped explain the workings behind the stomata of plants. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991. #WomenInSTEM https://royalsociety.org/people/enid-macrobbie-11862/

🌟 Celebrating the JXB editors featured in Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers 2025 🌟 📝 Editor-in-Chief John Lunn 📝 Darwin Reviews Editor Don Ort 📝 Associate Editor Tracy Lawson Congratulations to all! 👏 #PlantScience 🧪 @proftlawson.bsky.social

🧪🌾REVIEW - Curious about how to study plant organelles?🔬🧬 This review from @nowako76.bsky.social group highlights the potential of fluorescence-activated organelle sorting to isolate organelles and study processes inside plant cells. Take a look in @jxbotany.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Live within 40 miles of Norwich and think you might be low in vitamin D? 📍 Take part in our study investigating whether tomatoes biofortified through gene editing to be high in vitamin in D can help boost vitamin D levels🌞 ➡️ buff.ly/eH1w2rB @johninnescentre.bsky.social

NEWS & VIEWS: When opposites compensate: proton flux crosstalk between envelope antiporters and ATP synthase (Ritu Singh) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

We also congratulate Professor Anita Ho-Baillie (@anitaho-baillie.bsky.social) of the University of Sydney, who received the NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry or Physics. She was the recipient of the Academy's Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science in 2024

The NSW Premier's Prizes for Science and Engineering also recognised Professor Brajesh Singh FAA (@prof-braj-singh.bsky.social) – elected a Fellow of the Academy in 2023 – a world-leading soil microbial ecologist from Western Sydney University. He was awarded for Excellence in Biological Sciences.

Congratulations to Academy Fellow Professor Nalini Joshi who has been named NSW Scientist of the Year – the first time a mathematician has received NSW’s highest honour for scientific endeavour! Prof Joshi was elected an Academy Fellow in 2008.

High-throughput genetic transformation and genome editing in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) (V Mohan Murali Achary, L Ruben B. Hernandez, Huirong Gao, Ning Wang, Ana I R. Castillo, Todd Jones, Sarah J Hearne, Anindya Bandyopadhyay) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

A synthetic transcription cascade enables direct in planta shoot regeneration for transgenesis and gene editing in multiple plants #resource #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Illuminating the Subcellular Maze: Fluorescence-Activated Organelle Sorting in Plant Sciences academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

The Academy endorses the Science20 (S20) 2025 meeting communiqué titled ‘Climate change and well-being’, calling for immediate, science-driven action to safeguard people and ecosystems. https://bit.ly/43nVIZU

You may be breathing in pollutants right now but you wouldn’t know it. That's because Australia doesn't monitor indoor air to scientifically acceptable standards. A new Academy report to be launched today explores the policy pathways to improve indoor air quality. www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

🚨 A new report we released today calls for enforceable indoor air quality standards in public buildings, starting with monitoring and workplace reporting. Read the report: https://bit.ly/49E1ESl #IndoorAir

Today, the Academy’s CEO Anna-Maria Arabia, independent MP Dr Monique Ryan, medical research bodies, and experts at Parliament House called for removing the arbitrary funding cap on the Medical Research Future Fund to support medical research and innovation as intended. #releasethefullmrff

Beautiful systematic analysis of membrane thickness inside native cells. This is a great use of both the Chlamy Dataset (bsky.app/profile/cell...) and #MemBrain segmentations (bsky.app/profile/lore...). The open-source workflow is a very helpful resource for #TeamTomo. Thanks and congrats!! 🧪 🔬

Techniques to reflect an additional small portion of sunlight back into space could help cool the planet if deployed globally, but they cannot address the full range of climate impacts or replace emission cuts, says our new briefing today: #ClimateChange royalsociety.org/news/2025/11...

PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 enables efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light (Russell Woodford, Jacinta Watkins, Marten Moore, Samuel J Nix, Suyan Yee, Kai Xun Chan, Barry Pogson, Susanne von Caemmerer, Robert T Furbank, Maria Ermakova) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Yesterday, the Academy welcomed the recipients of the 2025 Prime Minister's Prizes for Science to the Shine Dome for the traditional celebration breakfast. 📸 Recipients of Prime Minister’s Prizes with Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC at the Shine Dome in Canberra.

Born #OnThisDay in 1815 was George Boole FRS. Boole was a mathematician, logician and philosopher who helped establish modern symbolic logic and whose algebra of logic, now called Boolean algebra, is fundamental to the design of digital computer circuits: https://bit.ly/3g1qY9c

Congratulations to Distinguished Prof Lidia Morawska FAA FTSE (QUT) for being awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2025! 🎉 Prof Morawska was elected a Fellow of the Academy in 2020 and in 2023 received the Academy’s Mathew Flinders Medal.

Dame Anne McLaren FRS was an embryologist and developmental biologist who laid the foundations for human IVF (in vitro fertilization) technologies. #AdaLovelaceDay artsandculture.google.com/story/JwWB6b...

Rosalind Franklin was a chemist & X-ray crystallographer whose work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA helped lead to the discovery of its structure, but her efforts were only recognised posthumously. #AdaLovelaceDay bit.ly/2Hl8bkA

Today for #AdaLovelaceDay, which celebrates the achievements of women in STEM, read about the 10 most influential women in British science history, as chosen by leading female scientists: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/about-us/who...

The Strategic Examination of Research and Development (SERD) issues papers have failed to address declining investment in fundamental research, instead implying research is only important if it can be commercialised by industry. Read our response: https://bit.ly/4hhDZZJ https://bit.ly/4nWaEXu

We are deeply saddened by the passing of biochemist Professor Joe Wiskich FAA, at the age of 90. Read more about Professor Wiskich's remarkable career: https://www.science.org.au/profile/joe-wiskich

Under the theme 'Data for Positive Change', Prof Sheil highlighted the Academy's two-decade partnership with the global data community through CODATA & the World Data System, emphasising data science as essential to tackling pressing challenges from digital transformation to geopolitical tensions –

The KEY🔑 to regulating Rubisco phase separation in the Chlamydomonas algal pyrenoid. Beautiful work by Shan He, @mjonikas.bsky.social, and friends. #PhaseSeparation #CO2 #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 🌍

🚨 5.7 million Qantas customers just had their data exposed in a sophisticated cyberattack – a stark reminder that hackers will continue exploiting the very digital infrastructure we increasingly rely on.