I'm never sure how many of my #Foellowers on here are interested in this, or even speak German, but if you're curious about what I'm doing if I'm not posting on here, a brand-new episode of MAITHINK X just went online and you can find it here: maithinkx.de/Folge50 (You won't see me there, though)

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social, head of Biotechnology & Genome Editing, at @leibnizipk.bsky.social joins our webinar on New Genomic Techniques to boost sustainability in Europe”! 🇪🇺🌾 Join us Sep 18 at 16:00 CEST! 📅 Free Registrations at forms.office.com/e/RXJwce0Y4G

Job Coordinator position: Science Communication #SciComm In Excellence Cluster @ceplas.bsky.social "SMART Plants for Tomorrow’s Needs" @hhu.de ‬ www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

My luggage if I travel 4 hours to Bremen: one backpack. My luggage for a nine-day research trip to Wageningen (2h by car): a suitcase, a backpack, and an IKEA bag - because, god forbid, they might not have my specific favourite coffee and tea in this exotic, foreign country 😅 My colleague: 1x 🧳

Heute trendet #Wahlfreiheit wegen einer Petition, in der es um #Gentechnik geht. Sie richtet gegen ein laufendes Verfahren auf EU-Ebene zur Regulierung von Neuen Genomischen Techniken in der Pflanzenzüchtung. Der Petitionstext enthält zahlreiche Fehler. Die Wahlfreiheit ist nicht in Gefahr:

Please RT: We are hiring 📣! We are looking for a coordinator of our CEPLAS Graduate School! If you are interested in working in an international and dynamic academic environment with highly motivated and talented ECRs, check out the details here: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...

Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer (Kirk J Czymmek , Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso , Tessa Burch-Smith , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

To promote the collection, I’ve launched a designer clothing line where synthetic biology meets aesthetics. I will give out 100 free limited edition shirts to the first who retweet and order with their handle in the name! Available here → nickdesnoyer.com 🧵(6/7)

Newton's Laws of Graduation, Part 3 - The Third Law 😆

🧬Die EU plant einen neuen Biotech-Rechtsakt – und du kannst mitreden! Fülle den Online-Fragebogen aus und sag der EU, wo der Weg in Sachen Biotechnologie, Bioökonomie & Co. hingehen soll. 💬Jede*r kann mitmachen – egal ob Forscherin, Aktivist oder einfach interessiert. ➡️https://shorturl.at/a8yTm

Gemeinsam, nachhaltig, progressiv denken und gestalten - Unser Treffen am Niederrhein am Wochenende war voller Ideen, Austausch & Inspiration! Stoffströme, WissComm, lecker Essen (🪱 🦗 ) und tolle Menschen. Danke an alle für das großartige Wochenende! 🌱 💚 Foto Credits: Katrin Wientges

Jetzt ist Mittwoch und dieses ökoproggige Event ist noch immer in meinem Hirn. 🧠🌱 Mein Gedanke: Es ist so toll, dass wir so viele Menschen zusammen brigne, die sich mit diversen Themen auskennen. #Biodiversität, #Bioökonomie, #Stoffstromanalyse, Farmer Identitäten (🤭 Werbung in eigener Sache)...

Our lab just invested in yet another reason to do more quantitative image analysis 🔬📈🚀 I just can’t wait to work with this computer! 🥰

Have you ever wondered why virus-infected plants twist, curl, yellow, and/or stop growing? We did—you can read what we found in our latest review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @gmvalora.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social

#RootingForScience www.instagram.com/reel/DLR1cgQ...

🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts! Plant Computational Biology Workshop Open to researchers at all levels Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation 📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

Großes ÖkoProg-Treffen am Niederrhein am 26.7.! Alle aus Landwirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft sind herzlich eingeladen! 🤗🌾🛰️⤵️

I’m sharing my very personal story to encourage everyone to participate in and celebrate Pride month. All our voices are needed to protect diversity and support the queer community. #PRIDEmonth 🌈. rootandshoot.org/forever-prid...

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

Applications are now open for funded early-career researcher places at out Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales'. Organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová. biologists.com/workshops/fe... #Imaging #Cells #CellBiology #Biology

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now..... tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d

🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social

So we now have two #PlantScience specific Clusters of Excellence in Germany... well done! 👍 #CEPLAS3 #GreenRobust @ceplas.bsky.social

Just corrected some student lab protocols, and the most common issue was: instead of describing their actual results -what’s visibly present in their imaging data- many described what they expected to see, based on the literature. Even when their data contradicted it.

📢Kommt am 27 Mai um 17Uhr in die grüne Oase 🌴der @unicologne.bsky.social wo Ihr @davidspencer.bsky.social lauschen könnt, wenn er über sein fantastisches Buch WURZELREICH spricht. Freut Euch auf eine lebendige Lesung mit einer Prise Humor portal.uni-koeln.de/subportale/k... #wisskomm #plantscience

I am thrilled to share our work on integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. Here, we assign a spatial position to protoplasts by gene expression imputation, allowing us to dissect regulatory networks during meristem and organ determination in barley. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It is now official and I am excited to share the news: I will be starting my own independent research group at @leibnizipk.bsky.social 🥳

The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congratulations to Hailing Jin, who was elected to @nasonline.org. Interkingdom RNAi is one of the most fascinating discoveries in biology in the last decades. profiles.ucr.edu/hailing.jin

19. Mai: Unter dem Motto „Von tanzenden Affen, schwitzenden Pflanzen und sprechenden Drinks“ geben 4 Wissenschaftler*innen Einblicke in die Verhaltensforschung, Pflanzenforschung und Linguistik (2/4).🦧🌱🍹 @nomascus.bsky.social @mngigi.bsky.social @kevintang.org

Excited to see our work finally out! 🌾🏴‍☠️ We show how HvCLV1 and HvFCP1 shape barley inflorescence using innovative techniques and some cool microscopy. Huge thanks to everyone involved in this study! t.co/ofButB3fRo

In der Forschung meiner Gruppe geht es um die nachhaltige Gestaltung und Bewirtschaftung von Agrarlandschaften🌾🌻🚜 in Deutschland. Warum sind diese spannend? Ein 🧵 mit ein paar Fun(?) Facts:

Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱 We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Save the date! 🌱 PSSC is a great opportunity for master and PhD students in plant sciences to meet peers and get insights to up-to-date plant research.

Great meeting for PhDs and Master students to meet peers and share your love and passion for science at a truly beautiful venue. Make sure to Mark your calendar.

🔬 An image competition was organised at the Biologists @ 100 conference in Liverpool. The extraordinary image of the mature leaf epidermis of Brachypodium by Lea Berg @lbmountain.bsky.social is one of 15 finalists 🏆 in the Company of Biologist's @focalplane.bsky.social competition.👏 #Biologists100

"Ich bin fest davon überzeugt, dass wir auch die grüne #Gentechnik brauchen, um Antworten auf die großen Herausforderungen wie den Klimawandel [...] und den Verlust an Biodiversität geben zu können." Unser Direktor Prof. Nicolaus von Wirén heute im Interview mit @muellerjung.bsky.social in der FAS:

It is real! 🤩 I can touch it (after I printed it). Huge Congrats to everyone involved! 😀

It's alive! Our work combining experiments and computational models to show that "Root stem cell homeostasis in Arabidopsis involves cell-type specific transcription factor complexes"! Amazing collaboration with Vivien Strotmann and @yvonnestahl.bsky.social! 🌱🌱 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Todays agenda: getting to know a new microscope by Zeiss 💕

Finally! An important step to #GiveGenesAChance was taken today: the member states of the European Union have agreed on a mandate for the further negotiations on the regulation of New Genomic Techniques like #CRISPR. Next step: Trialogue of Commission, Council and Parliament.

Travel permits of all US government employees (USDA, NSF) have been revoked shortly before the the maize meeting affecting: - The chair of the meeting - The winner of the most prestigious McClintock award - A plenary speaker - Two short talk presenters - 22 scientists presenting posters. #MGM2025

Please RT: 🌱 We’re hiring a Postdoc and a PhD student! ⏳ Application deadline: 17. March 2025 Join our lab and explore the role of alternative mRNA isoforms in drought stress and environmental adaptation in crops and Arabidopsis. Learn more and apply: www.lablaubinger.eu/Opportunities

Polen, selbst lange eher skeptisch in Sachen Neue Genomische Techniken (NGTs), arbeitet weiter intensiv an einem mehrheitsfähigen Kompromiss im Europäischen Rat. Nächste Woche steht die nächste Abstimmung an. Eine Einigung scheint möglich. #GiveGenesAChance www.agrarheute.com/politik/mehr...

Tonight will be a wild one. Be there or be square. An all-new episode of MAITHINK X at 10:15pm on ZDFneo or from 6pm in the ZDF Mediathek

Liebe Menschen 🌱 Mein neues Pflanzenbuch erscheint im April. Sieht es nicht pflantastisch aus?! Es geht um pflanzliche Kommunikation, um wilde und gezähmte Natur & darum, wie wir mit unseren Nutzpflanzen zusammen gewachsen sind - und wohin die Reise gehen kann. www.droemer-knaur.de/buch/david-s...

Das Wetter ist fantastisch und meine Freund*innen und ich haben beschlossen, einen gemeinsamen Rundspaziergang zu unseren jeweiligen Wahllokalen zu machen.

Update: Just voted ✅