This is great! Last week at @instmolplantsci.bsky.social I was asked what lessons about plants I wish were covered in schools, and my response was "Developmental Plasticity" 🌱 We still have so much to learn about and from plants, and this short video is a good one to share with your educator pals!

This would deal another major blow to science exchange in the U.S. When the comment period opens, please speak out AGAINST this proposal that will affect visitors in the U.S. Visa waiver program that want to make short visits to the U.S., eg for a conference! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

From the Science Communication Lab: a new mini documentary highlighting my lab’s work on roots and their environmental responses! Beautiful videography helps to communicate the wonder of this hidden world of plants below our feet. youtu.be/vqZ3LT8sCIQ?...

Watch the Community Impact Awards Presentations! Times: 5:20-15:06: Jose Dinneny. 19:35-30:07: Jade Bleau. 33:30-15:06: Joanna Friesner. 46:40-1:01: Q&A by Mary Gehring @jadebleau.bsky.social @jfriesner.bsky.social @josedinneny.bsky.social @stanfordstomata.bsky.social @spoel-lab.bsky.social

Algal pyrenoids—condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixation—change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! ☀️🌍🔬💧 #Biophysics #Photosynthesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

University admin & faculty- read this and consider what your core beliefs are- are they: free expression, rewarding merit, and inclusion?

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact “And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Mens et manus! Thanks for standing up to bullies, MIT!

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

Compelling and quite disturbing...

I attended a really inspiring talk by Jose Dinneny today as the Thornton-Massa speaker at Colorado State University. His vision for the future of agriculture with synthetic biology was really thought-provoking. It’s great to learn AND get inspired! @josedinneny.bsky.social @csuagbio.bsky.social

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail. 1/14

Catching some falling stars

Final Program announced for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA).: tinyurl.com/2cfa8keo

Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...

“For decades we have known that our burning of fossil fuels is the chief driver of the current global warming. Gutting today’s climate research won’t change that” Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications 🧪 economist.com/by-invitatio... from The Economist

Cellulose Synthase Complex and Remorin Nanodomains Mediate Stress Resilience Through Cell Wall-Plasma Membrane Attachments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.664786v1

I didn't know what personate flowers are until I heard about @trinitydepatie.bsky.social's Penstemons. My conclusion is that these cute little flowers in fact dial up discrimination to max, and they make the entrance of their corolla tube sooo occluded that only the most buffed bees can enter. 👀🧪

This includes a Director position at one of the world's leading #PlantScience institutes, the @mpipz.bsky.social.

New group leader opportunity at @johninnescentre.bsky.social! We're looking for interests in (but not limited to) growth and development, environmental / organismal interactions, physiology, signalling, quantitative cell biology, biochemical and modelling approaches. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Excited to share our improved paper now in @NatureComms We found that growth-induced water potentials shape the pattern of water fluxes in shoot meristems, aiding boundary formation. rdcu.be/dQPWq

Very proud to share our latest preprint: postdoc/LRSF fellow Yue Rui studies the mechanisms regulating attachment of the cell wall to the plasma membrane. The Cellulose Synthase Complex and REMORINs determine the extent of attachment and root osmotic stress tolerance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Announcing the 2025 NAASC Arabidopsis Community Impact Awardees: Early Career Category: Jade Bleau, Univ. of Dundee, Scotland Later Career Category: José Dinneny, Stanford Univ., USA & Joanna Friesner, NAASC, USA www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

The last day for applications is July 13th! To Apply to the GRC: lnkd.in/gvkMxuKR Meet The Speakers of the Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology GRC Conference! To Learn More About Dr. Dinneny's Research: dinnenylab.me @josedinneny.bsky.social

Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help! At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials! Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...

The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems. www.science.org/content/arti...

I know there’s a lot of news right now but this is really crazy. They’re booting the National Science Foundation out of its newish building with no plans for where 1800 people are going to go.

How 🆒 is this?!? www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Supporting mothers and fathers to have healthy families is a responsibility of every nation. ‘Motherhood Should Come With a Warning Label’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

Congratulations to @jennbrophy.bsky.social for being a Freeman Hrabowski scholar! The “build-to-learn” approach her group is using promises to enable discoveries with impact for plant science. www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

Out First Release in @science.org today, nice work finding that redox regulates multimerisation of Aux/IAA proteins during root xerobranching: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am happy to see exciting this collaboration between the Sadanandom lab (DU) and Bennett lab (UoN) finally published! Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interviews with @ardemp.bskyverified.social and others on the impact of Trump’s takedown of science in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Beautiful tribute to Joanne Chory on @scifri.bsky.social! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/be-...

I was honored to speak at @stanfordaaup.bsky.social's Rally to Defend Education and Research last Friday (May 30). You can watch my speech here: youtu.be/WLyH9JM8CF8 Grateful to Matt Schlege (‪@climatto.bsky.social‬) for sharing it on his channel. @aaup.bsky.social

A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @camplantsci.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/

We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below: career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you: 🧪 #scicomm

The costs of disinvestment in science: nondefense government R&D yields returns of 150% to 300% & accounts for roughly a QUARTER of American productivity growth since World War II. The authors conclude:“Our findings point to a misallocation of public capital & substantial underinvestment in R&D.”

I'm so very excited to see this out - a single cell and spatial transcriptomic analysis in the rice root reveals mechanisms by which roots can respond to different below-ground growth conditions - including compaction. Congratulations to everyone for persisting in difficult times. rdcu.be/ej8Ui

NAASC is excited to host Dr. Stefan DeFolter, Dr. Nayelli Marsch, and Dr. Stewart Gillmor on June 6 to learn their Plant Biology Story! Join the June 6th webinar to learn about 3 plant biology faculty at CINVESTAV-IPN in Irapuato, Mexico Register now at www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/mpbs

Congratulations to the new NAS member @jkpritch.bsky.social. Was very very happy to hear the news! Exceptionally well deserved!

I am spreading the word. This is a good idea

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...