Join us! ETH Zürich and the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) is seeking an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Sustainable Plant Nutrition @usyseth.bsky.social ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year. So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)

Excited to share our latest preprint on the conservation of RAR1-SGT1 across plants and their unexpected divergence in ferns! @hynmn-jeong.bsky.social @michaelwebster.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @yusugihara.bsky.social. Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It's our birthday! Twenty-five years ago, in December 2000, the Arabidopsis thaliana genome was published and #TAIR was born. Now, we're preparing for the release of #TAIR12 early in the new year. What a long way we've come! bit.ly/3KDJciT #plantbiology #plantscience #genomics #Arabidopsis

New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨ Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️ jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Application deadline: January 31st, 2026

Fabulous opportunity for early career folk, great place, great colleagues and a salary bump!

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

"Postdoctoral Position: Plant mobile mRNA transport at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251209_AS.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Much like the Island Domain shifting its shape, our preprint has transformed too @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eTOhF

Coordinated action of CRK2 and QSK1 regulate osmotic stress response in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.692923v1

Last one of the year: CRK2 controls the localisation of other RLKs to plasmodesmata. Great collaboration with @grandpahiro.bsky.social @rople.bsky.social and Ivan Kulich - thank you for the help and great collaboration!

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?

It's tomorrow!!

CYSTEINE-RICH RLK2 regulates development via callose synthase-dependent symplastic transport in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.691776v1

It's our annual #PlantScience Day! 110 attendees, 2 amazing plenary talks from Prof. John Christie @glasgow.ac.uk and Prof. Mary Williams @plantteaching.bsky.social , 10 talks from IMPS members, 15 posters and 4 awards!

Two really cool PhD positions available with Christina Barragan on Plant Pathogen evolution! Our dept. just moved to a brand new building with great facilities and we have an absolutely amazing team!

New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @julien-gronnier.bsky.social @kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands. jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob

Gentile et al. investigate the evolution of the conserved plant CLV3/EMBRYO-SURROUNDING REGION (CLE) peptide family, showing how both peptide and cis-regulatory erosion shape CLE redundancy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf294 #evobio #molbio #PlantSky

"Leaf It to Science: Uncovering Plant Immune Systems Through Technological Advances Open Access" Reflections on Career, #PlantScience and #PlantImmunity by Xinnian Dong academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants. Please share and get in touch if interested www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...

PhD opportunity in our lab - deadline passes on Dec 2nd - don’t miss out!

Travel awards for 2026 plant science conferences. Apply by Dec 5! @aspbofficial.bsky.social @botsocamerica.bsky.social @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social @jefowlerjr.bsky.social Student-mentor pairs, 1 must be a member of @sacnas.bsky.social MANRRS or AISES. rootandshoot.org/2026-root-sh...

It's gift-giving season! Why not give the gift of plant knowledge? Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite. Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan) @jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book) @razda5.bsky.social 💚 @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍 Novels too!

Cellular energy sensor SnRK1 suppresses salicylic acid–dependent and –independent defenses and bacterial resistance in Arabidopsis www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Professorship Plant Stress Resilience. Aachen, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-univ...

CSPB 2025 Student Publication Ragai Ibrahim Awardees. If you’re a graduate student who has published a paper in 2025 you can self nominate for this award. See www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards for full details and nomination form.

CSPB Award Nominations are open!! Check the individual awards pages for full details and links to the applications. The Carl Douglas Postdoctoral Prize, Ragai Ibrahim Student Publication Award, CD Nelson Mid Career Award & new CSPB Teaching Award are all available in 2026. www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards

Undergrads in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the US! One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab! 📌 Details below 🔁 Please repost to spread the word!

In 1996, almost thirty years ago, Stephan Clemens & Wolfgang Barz described a methylenedioxy bridge formation reaction, converting calycosin to pseudobaptigenin. Today, we have identified the enzyme catalyst from red clover! 🍀 @UTSC @UtscBiology www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Pantoea ananatis-triggered systemic resistance requires root sensing through the LORE receptor kinase in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.18.688997v1

The department of biologie #usherbrooke is hiring. Faculty position open in the area of #Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology. www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...

Our ten years of work is finally out in Current Biology! We reveal a new mode of action of the bacterial phytotoxin coronatine produced by Pseudomonas syringae. www.cell.com/current-biol...

My department is hiring a non-seed plant assistant professor!! Come join us @ubcbotany.bsky.social! BC has spectacular non-seed plant diversity and I would love to nerd out with a future colleague about all those cute little green guys outside! 💚 pls share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

T3SS activity comes at a cost—bacteria that use the system pay with reduced growth. We found how Yersinia balance costs and benefits: at higher densities, they actively suppress T3SS activity and adhesion, switching from colonization to replication and dissemination. doi.org/10.1371/jour... @kit.edu

🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics! Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf. More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/ Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position

"The expanding world of plant NLR pairs" Cheng-Wei Sang, Yan-Mei Zhang, Sai-Xi Li, Jian-Qun Chen, and Zhu-Qing Shao in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social. #PlantScience #PlantImmunity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production! Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan. The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Regular registration ENDS on November 12th for the @cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting to be held at Wilfrid Laurier University later this month! @laurierbiology.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social #CSPB_ERM CONFERENCE WEBSITE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025

Cool new paper on receptor specificity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3… rdcu.be/eNEf4 A short thread:

The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)

Who is excited for the 2025 #CSPB_ERM?! I know I am! See you all at @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social later this month. Regular registration ends on Nov 12th (Wednesday). @laurierbiology.bsky.social @cspbscbv.bsky.social Conference website: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025

To everyone who managed to submit their NSERC DG application today

🎓 Calling Canadian grad students & postdocs! #VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support. Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters. Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi... #SupportOurScience

Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection go.nature.com/4nqhFhU

MPK3- and MPK6-mediated phosphorylation of STOP1 triggers its nuclear stabilization to modulate hypoxia responses in Arabidopsis url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc