Maria talking about her work at the @dubcovskylab.bsky.social

I’m worried about us all. Trailers tonight: another Jurassic Park, another Superman, another Predator, another Tron, another Fantastic Four 🥲

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

Deleting a gluten component can only lead to dough worsening, right? WRONG!

PHOTOPERIOD 1 enhances stress resistance and energy metabolism to promote spike fertility in barley under high ambient temperatures (Tianyu Lan, Agatha Walla, Kumsal Ecem Çolpan Karışan, et. al.) academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... #PlantScience

Check out our work on fine-tuning miRNA control of plant height in wheat and triticale, as covered by the folks at the plant sciences department! www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/news/deberna...

Support your society journals!

USDA scientists terminated from Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

ASPB, Stronger Together.🌱 Devoted to the advancement of the plant sciences including robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion. Join Now!👉https://buff.ly/2umZ26A #plantscience #WeAreASPB

US plant science peeps: this is a *very* informative summary of the current state of plant science funding, and a call for your stories to help @aspbofficial.bsky.social make their case with public officials. Please re-skeet! 🧪 #PlantScience blog.aspb.org/research-imp...

Check out the new spike development atlas from our lab. Great resource for the wheat community and lots of beautiful images.

Congrats, @cristobaluauy.bsky.social!

We’re excited to announce the recent publication from our lab was featured on the cover of the plant biotechnology journal! It demonstrates an approach for precisely controlling wheat and triticale plant height. Read the full paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

View of Sacramento and the Sierra from Yolo Bypass yesterday.

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the dynamic leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Nice couple of papers from the lab on LFY and WAPO1 controlling spikelet development in wheat.

I am ***absurdly*** excited to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity through Experiment dot com!!! You have one month to pitch something wonderful in the realm of plant biology/biotech research and education. $10,000 max grant. PLEASE RE-POST + SHARE!!! 1/3 experiment.com/programs/pla...

The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time. And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️

In this *sweet* new #OpenAccess study, Cho et al. demonstrate that sucrose promotes flowering in rice by mediating the stability of a regulatory protein that represses flowering. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... #PlantScience

I’m running on Nov 2nd to help raise money for the Celiac Disease Foundation. CDF does a lot of awesome work and makes possible gluten/celiac disease research in our lab. Please, consider donating if you can give.celiac.org/team/603991

“it is important to remember that without an equal and ongoing commitment to basic science, there would soon be nothing to translate into applications”

Cyanobacteria sense and respond to photoperiod, and this involves the clock. Sensational breakthrough work by Luisa Jabbur and Carl Johnson. A new kingdom of life with photoperiodism! @jabbur.bsky.social #chronobiology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣Are you planning on attending #Botany2025 and identify as a disabled scientist? Some folks are putting together a symposium proposal - use the link/qr code below to nominate yourself as a speaker! 🌾

Postdoctoral Researcher https://botany.fyi/6bwykf An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Penfield Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Crop Genetics. #AcademicSky #PlantSciJobs

I have updated the #PlantScience #StarterPack. You can now include 150 accounts, instead of the initial 50. I have tried to focus on active accounts. go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7

I’ve had my name for about 32 years. One would think I know how to pronounce it, right? After 5 years in the US, I finally gave in and watched the video below. Still cannot tell the difference between Daniel and Danielle in English 🥲

An Interview with @gittacoaker.bsky.social, conducted by Indrani Kakati Baruah for @plantaeofficial.bsky.social. plantae.org/interview-wi... "To all young women, remember it’s totally achievable." #WomenInSTEM #WomenInPlantScience #PlantScience #Mentorship

Davis weather in a nutshell. Actual temperature: 40oC Feels like: 42oC “Humidity is making it feel hotter” Humidity: 23% For real 🥲

When I gripe about academic pay, people say things like: "Well, leave then." OR "You chose that." BUT

Bridge RNA: a big discovery from nature that adds to power and precision of genome editing for long DNA sequences nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/d41...

Another cool plant transformation protocol added to our ever-growing tool kit.

'More than a photoreceptor: aureochromes are intrinsic to the diatom light-regulated transcriptional network' - Sacha N Coesel et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience

Guess what typo I make with sufficient frequency to motivate my lab to make this?

Job Posting: Bioinformatics Core Manager at the UC Davis Genome Center recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06481

Please repost! Best #plantscience job ever—My colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne are seeking a new Director! Max Planck is particularly keen to recruit colleagues at the early Associate Professor level! #plantscijobs www.mpipz.mpg.de/director

Maybe we should all make our scientific talks as if there's someone in the room who is not an expert. Because there probably is. 🧪

Neat review on how often transgenes actually improve yield. About 1% of the time. From Khaipho-Burch's wonderful piece on how plant scientists oversell their yield claims: www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The real Chosen One should have both midichlorians and chloroplasts, but you are not ready for this discussion.

Phenomenal work from Jia-Wei Wang’s lab provides a comprehensive view of the mechanisms underlying different degrees of perenniality in different Brassicaceae #plantscience www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Great paper that creates a new GA biosensor and shows key role for GA signalling at the edges of organ primordia. Auxin gets the lion's share of attention at the apex, but the role of GA has been much less well understood. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two postdoctoral positions at the University of São Paulo to work with the amazing Magdalena Rossi and Luciano Freschi, who were my PhD advisor and co-advisor. Very interesting projects on the interplay between light and stress signaling in tomato 🍅🌱 #PlantScience #PlantBiology #PlantSciJobs

People in southern Brazil, already reeling from deadly floods, are bracing for more disruption. Scenes of the devastating weather event have been beamed all over the world, including video footage of a horse that had to be rescued after being stranded for several days on a rooftop.

🧪🌱💡 #PlantSciJob Are you passionate about #robust cropping systems? Do you want to explore how #plant #roots impact water flow across different scales? We're happy to announce that we have 3 open positions (1 PhD, 2 postdocs) @ UCLouvain (BE) for the EU project DROOGHT. More: drooght.github.io

Just answered an email "Where are the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology?" There were moved to this page academic.oup.com/plcell/pages... when we started publishing with OUP. They are grouped by theme (hormones, development, etc). All found in zip files in "Supplemental Data". All free! #PlantScience

A reminder of this excellent resource: The Natural History of Model Organisms elifesciences.org/collections/... 🧪 #Evolution #PlantScience 🌍

I've got a postdoc position open in my lab. Do you work on moss, single cell transcriptomics or plant developmental genomics? Consider applying for this position - more here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06360