1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social‬ #plantscience #microbiome #holobiont www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Here’s our first @iubiology.bsky.social public review of the semester! #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🦠 @drdorsalomon.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social & all authors! #Microsky #T6SS #Aeromonas prereview.org/reviews/1948...

We're working on an AI-powered chatbot to help make it easier to find data in TAIR. Right now, we're seeking testers to ask questions and rate the responses. Try it, and let us know what you think >>> dev.arabidopsis.org/chat #plantscience #plantbiology #arabidopsis

On our way to setup the #MBP2026 meeting hosted by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social. Super excited to meet all the wonderful peeps & 🤓 about #plantscience for a few days. See you all soon.

Got the amazing treat to meet thebumblingbiochemist.com she’s determined to help others learn, her enthusiasm to make science accessible is galvanizing! Her website contains a wealth of everyday tips at the bench and so much more 🥼🦸🏻‍♀️ #sciencesuperhero @agrisera.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social

Do you like it when weird organisms do silly things?? Then you're going to love this!

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT

Honoring Stephen P. Long, a visionary plant scientist whose pioneering research on photosynthesis, crop productivity, and global change reshaped modern agriculture. His work advanced sustainable solutions to feed a changing world. Read the PNAS Retrospective: https://ow.ly/2iyi50YhGGv

🧪 This will blow your mind

Loving @qedscience.bsky.social and all the implications to revolutionize our publishing system and putting the power back with authors! The outputs on our manuscripts are so impressive and satisfying! I am telling all my friends 😉

Now online in its final version. Plz surf to doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Please read the thoughtful Blog that @richardsever.bsky.social and the @openrxiv.bsky.social team wrote on integrating pre-prints with AI review openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

How a humble weed became a superstar of biology Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... #Botany #PlantScience

Only 10 days left to apply to the MSU Plant Resilience Institute for a faculty position.We're looking for 1 junior and 1 senior faculty. Applications submitted after 10/15 cannot be considered. Join us! It's a very collaborative, fun, innovative group of plant biologists. Apply at: lnkd.in/eRyDv_Pi

Yes! Highly recommend! Join our program for your PhD 🧬🧪 Learn how to apply here: biology.indiana.edu/graduate/gen...

We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Join us at the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference, featuring talks from rising plant scientists across disciplines, 200+ poster presentations, & professional development opportunities! #GLPSC2025 #PlantScience 📅 Sept 12–14, 2025 in Lansing, MI ⏳ Register by Aug 31: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025

“Preprints are free to publish, free to read, and open to community peer review” A nice although sad article on the way science can go with a shoutout for preprinting and publishing posters on Zenodo. @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @richardsever.bsky.social #OpenScience #Preprint

Just two months left until the inaugural Great Lakes Plant Science Conference! 🌿 Make sure to register by August 31 to join us in expanding horizons in plant science at: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025 #GLPSC2025 #PlantScience #PlantBiology

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

Help us record firefly flashes! 👇🙏

New Editorial: "Naming is caring" rdcu.be/esS4x We can now carry in our pockets applications that accurately identify the plants around us. These are interesting tools for researchers, but they also help everyone to appreciate the diversity of the natural world.

Live cam 🎥 💚 corpse flower getting ready to bloom ❤️ greenhouse.biology.indiana.edu/features/sti... If you have extra $, please consider donating to our amazing greenhouse! Thanks! #plantscience @iubiology.bsky.social

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A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”. https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

Thanks @aaas.org for tracking and keeping us informed!

"For staff across the NIH, we dissent to Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe." Read the Bethesda Declaration and sign on to support here:

🚨 Abstracts to present a poster at the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference are due June 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET! Don’t miss this chance to showcase your research and connect with prominent Great Lakes region plant scientists! Visit the #GLPSC2025 website to submit: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025

“You can’t just snap your fingers and say, ‘I don’t like you and I don’t like what you study; I’m going to take it away,” she said. “I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people.” —Sabeeha Merchant #plantscience 🧪

For those interested in the status of FlyBase. @flybase.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

Would you like to support #preprints 📰 but don't know how? Or maybe you don't have much time? ⏳ Below you can find several tips, some of which will only take 5 minutes! ⏲️ #OpenScience

Political interference at NIH❗Submit a comment TODAY www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Sample: Decisions to fund scientific research based on objective review processes by the NIH and NSF without political interference in place for decades have been highly successful in generating discoveries

Meet the Great Lakes Plant Science Conference featured faculty speakers: 🦠 Sarah Lebeis, MSU ☀️ Alizée Malnoë, IU Bloomington 🍃 Adam Mott, UTSC 🧬 Ronan O’Malley, UChicago Attend #GLPSC2025 to network with cutting-edge plant scientists! Register and view the full agenda: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025

Here’s our final review for this semester prereview.org/reviews/1536... #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @iubiology.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🪰💡🩵! #neuroscience #drosophila #photoreceptor #redox @flybase.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social

Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF! Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts. We must make noise! Pls RT!!!! #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

Here's our fourth public review of a preprint prereview.org/reviews/1535... #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @iubiology.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🧫😀 #cryoEM #bacteria #microbiology #microsky

Thanks unbiased husband 😅 very happy how this article shares the love that we have for this job 👩🏼‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬#goscience #photosynthesis 🌞🍃 Thankful for the wonderful, supportive and brilliant community here at Indiana University Bloomington @iubiology.bsky.social and excellent journalism from Odessa Lyon!

I am thrilled to see that the 2025 winning "Dance your PhD" submission in the Biology category includes Arabidopsis! youtu.be/nhZEDbWqfAU?...

Seeking a preprint to review @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social for our next class! Keep your recommendations coming, the class will vote on Monday for the one! @asapbio.bsky.social @scietyhq.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org @pci-microbiol.bsky.social @genomics.peercommunityin.org

Delighted to share our third public #PreprintReview prereview.org/reviews/1527... Astonishing videos of #macrophages engulfing cell debris! @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 😀🔬 @errricpeterman.bsky.social @jraslab.bsky.social & all authors! #zebrafish

A growing list of genetically encoded biosensors helps to shine light on plant metabolism. We reviewed - also for the non-expert - available probes and recent advances in the field: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Preprint review alert 🚨 we're looking for a preprint to review in our class, ideally containing genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry, reply with the link if interested! #preprint @prereview.bsky.social #plantscience #microbiology #drosophila #bacteriophage @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

And congratulations Benjamin Bailleul on your HDR* today 🎉 Check out here their findings on photoprotection in diatoms: NPQ is directly proportional to the product of the pigment diatoxanthin by the protein LHCX1. #plantscience @afalciat.bsky.social *official approval to supervise graduate students

Here’s our second IU Bloomington Biology public review of a preprint 😀 prereview.org/reviews/1524... #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @iubiology.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🌱 @moritznowack.bsky.social @plantophagy.bsky.social & all authors! #plantscience

Excited to share our first @iubiology.bsky.social review of a preprint on a new anti-phage defense system prereview.org/reviews/1519... Thanks! #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social for the FAST principles and @fraserlab.bsky.social for the inspiration! #phage #phagesky

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Learned the term ‘twilight zone’ today - wondering if what we’re seeing is real or hallucinatory… @cnrs.fr #LPSC (Space scientist going to attend the 56th Lunar Planetary Science Conference)

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇