We are beyond excited to reveal the full line-up for our Environmental Signaling in Plants summer school 2026! Registration is now open here eps.sites.uu.nl - we look forward to seeing you in Utrecht on 24th-26th August!

We have an exciting PhD position in our lab to explore phototropin receptor diversity in Begonia. If you’re interested in plant photobiology and receptor signalling, we’d love to hear from you! Deadline for expressions of interest: 20 December 2025.

🌿🌈 Less than a year for ISPP 2026 in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 Check our website ispp2026.unine.ch for more details.

New preprint from the Minion lab! Nice work from Pauline Vinet, PhD student in our team, with a great supervision team ;) Check it out!

J’attendais le jour où une première grande étude basculerait la ligne rouge : et c’est aujourd’hui. Elle démontre que le changement climatique commence désormais à faire dépérir nos forêts plus vite qu’elles ne se régénèrent. 1/9

Our latest work is out! We set out to see if we could recreate soil-nurturing plant growth in vitro. The plants looked happy and we see microbiome-induced cell-type-specific responses! A modest step but a fun challenge 😁

#JustIn on Plantae — Staying Sane in the Lab: Tips for Mental Health Strategies for Researchers. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Katarina K., Nibedita P., and Ann-Kathrin R. explore realistic strategies for building resilience and protecting your mental health. buff.ly/lI8coP3 #plantscience

International Master in Plant Sciences will soon be launching (September 2026).

PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR 7 moderates the activity and the cytosolic-nuclear shuttling of PHYTOCHROME A https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680213v1

👩‍🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky ! ▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

How do #plants dynamically modulate their shoot branching for optimal returns? ‪@zoenahas.bsky.social‬ &co show that BRC1 modulates bud competitiveness by reducing #auxin efflux, integrating hormonal cues to fine-tune branching patterns @plosbiology.org @slcuplants.bsky.social 🧪 plos.io/4pnrwY2

🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (1/7🧵) Responses to climate change – insights and limitations from herbaceous plant model species nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Further evidence that sugar in the plates changes the plant biology you study. Best to avoid putting sugar in the agar, unless you want to study what sugar in the agar does to plants. This paper uses sugar in the agar to study what sugar does. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantresearch

Great work from a former PhD student of the Minion team @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social led by @jm-frachisse.bsky.social. Well done!!!

Rounding off our YRSPP 2026 keynote lineup with Dr. Uriel Urquiza-García! 🌿 His research explores using synthetic biology, optogenetics, and genomics to understand how plants perceive and integrate light, temperature, and circadian signals.🧬🌱☀️ More info & mailing list in bio!

🎓 My team is seeking a PhD student in Biochemistry & Cell Biology at I2BC, Paris-Saclay! 🔬 Study cytoskeletal signaling in collective cell migration 🌍 Fully funded, 3 yrs | 📍 Gif-sur-Yvette, France 🗓️ Apply by Aug 22 via the following link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Excited to welcome Dr. Charlotte Gommers as a YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker! @charlottegommers.bsky.social 🌿 Her lab investigates how chloroplasts act as environmental sensors, sending retrograde signals to help plants adapt development under abiotic stress. Check bio for info & join the mailing list!

So happy to participate to the next YRSPP meeting and finally discover Edinburgh!! Thank you @yrspp.bsky.social team for inviting me! See you next April!

Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home.... More details for how to apply are here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Presenting our next YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker: Prof. Ute Hoecker! ✨ Her lab investigates how photoreceptors and the COP1/SPA E3 ubiquitin ligase regulate light-controlled development in Arabidopsis, algae and moss.🌱☀️ 🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io 📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs...

Jennifer Nemhauser’s and my tribute to our amazing friend and mentor, the extraordinary Joanne Chory. Read about our personal and professional reminiscences. Thanks to all who provided background for this. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are thrilled to announce our first YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker: Prof. Kerry Franklin! Her work explores how light and temperature signalling shape plant architecture. 🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io 📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs... Stay tuned for more! #YRSPP2026

Warm temperature and mild water stress cooperatively promote root elongation: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... Led by Scott Hayes and @minnieleong.bsky.social @pph-wur.bsky.social @wurplant.bsky.social

Paper 🚨!! Plasmodesmata transport first in both, then only in one direction in roots! Congratulations to Lea and @mariebarberon.bsky.social !!

Highly recommended!!!!

I’m happy that our commentary is out! (It would be wonderful if this made a difference!) In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Hormonal regulation of root growth under moderately elevated temperatures’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Tilman Jacob and co-authors is now #free for a limited time 🧵(1/7) 👉 doi.org/ps8z @unihalle.bsky.social @snp2prot.bsky.social #AoBpapers #PlantScience #Roots #Botany

How do plants notice loss of structural barriers (e.g. the periderm, which prevents water loss and pathogen infection) to regenerate them? Work @nature shows that plants sense damage to barrier integrity from diffusion of gases such as ethylene and oxygen. shorturl.at/FIhJ8 & N&V shorturl.at/u7PYs

Congratulations to all new members and especially @chfankhauser.bsky.social 👏👏👏👏

Sorry but can I be a bitch for one second? We are overproducing PhDs bc academia does not have the resources to actually pay people to do the work that PIs build careers on. So we say it’s “PhD training” and run people through it for their labor and hope they end up employed on the other side.

Most staple food crops are expected to experience substantial production losses due to climate change, even when mitigation measures to limit the impact of climate change are considered, according to a study in Nature. The study finds that only rice might avoid substantial losses. 🧪

🌡️ #NewReport: the June 2025 Western European heatwave was up to +2.5°C hotter & drier than similar past events — mainly due to human-driven climate change. It’s not rare anymore. It’s our climate. 📎 Read the report 👉 www.climameter.org/20250620-22-...

Le futur dépend des choix qui seront faits - vos choix comptent.

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Interested in Photoreceptors, Photobiological Responses and Optogenetic Applications across species? Join us at the GRS & GRC 2026 in California on Feb 7. grc.org/photosensory... Share your work with the photobiology community! Abstracts will be selected for oral presentations.

Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants @andreabraeutigam.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Just hung my poster (#107) at #ICAR2025 — the venue is stunning and everything feels so well organized. Come check out my data on hormone-free regeneration and CRISPR knock-ins!

🌿 Excited to chair a session on "Temperature sensing in plants" at #ICAR2025 in Ghent, Belgium!🌡️🌱 🗓️ June 20, 2025 🕘 9 AM Don't miss talks from amazing speakers on how plants perceive & adapt to temperature. #ICAR2025 #PlantBiology #TemperatureSensing #ClimateResilience

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home.... For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

I'm delighted to present this Science special issue on Plants and Heat! Through a series of Reviews and Perspective articles, covering topics from cell signalling to ecology there is something for everyone here. (1/8)

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...

#IJPB Seminar We are glad to welcome Anne-Sophie Fiorucci 👩‍🔬 @annesofio.bsky.social from @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social for a talk about her research on growth, temperature and nitrogen nutrition 🌿 🇳+🌡️ 📆 Thursday 5th June ⏰ at 11 AM for more 👉 bit.ly/3SuPZvx @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social

New Online! Mechanisms of auxin action in plant growth and development

Please share: Two PhD positions in Plant Photobiology in our lab @w-u-r.bsky.social in Wageningen University, the Netherlands: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by Gregor Mendel more than 160 years ago https://go.nature.com/3EC3eqT

If anyone is looking for a PhD in plant photobiology, highly recommend this position with Gabi Toledo @w-u-r.bsky.social #PlantSciPhD #PlantSciJobs www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24

(1/5) Thanks for sharing this article, Deepak. It's a must read, in my opinion. Some key parts from this article as a thread 🧵 rdcu.be/ee4X5