Münsterfähre mit Martinskirche und Mittlerer Brücke auf einer Postkarte von 1935. Ihren Namen "Leu" bekam sie, wie die #Fähren "Wild Maa" (St.Alban), "Vogel Gryff" (Klingental) und "Ueli" (bis 1954 Birsfelden), erst 1944 bei einem Volksfest verliehen. #basel

Celebrating Elliot Meyerowitz‘ 75th birthday! @caltech.edu

Die Maisonne bricht hell von den Münstertürmen herab durch das gotische Masswerk und verleiht seinem Sandstein einen warmen Schimmer. Guten Abend, liebes Basel 🧡

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Developmental Biology // University Of Sydney www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list... The research will focus on flower development using the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, as part of a project by Dr Marcus Heisler & colleagues. #BotanyJobs

Antonio García-Bellido (1936-2025) In this Obituary, Marco Milán @milanlab.bsky.social discusses Antonio García-Bellido's legacy: his distinguished career, his mentorship and appointments to the world's leading scientific bodies. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Uncover the evolutionary secrets of plant survival. Prof. Isabel Monte is rewriting how we understand signaling and immunity at the molecular level. See her live at #PlantResearch26, don’t miss your chance to engage. Make sure your abstract is in by 25 June to be part of it: vibbio.tech/48HLZAg

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

Gute Nachricht - Grüne, SPD und Linke verlassen X! Politische Debatte braucht fairen Austausch, der Menschen erreicht & informiert. X hingegen fördert zunehmend Desinformation & versinkt im Chaos. Macht mit & spread the word! Gemeinsam erreichen wir, dass die Bundesregierung diesem Beispiel folgt.

Vale Peter Raven, champion of plants and biodiversity. 'In one of his lectures, he described biodiversity as “the whole business”—the sum of organisms, their variations and the communities they form. It was a plain phrase for a concept of considerable scope.' news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete...

This is how you can reorder axis levels in #tidyplots 🚀 #rstats #dataviz #phd

View from my office.. finally spring time in Bavaria 😃

In a rare show of unity, both R and D US lawmakers agree: the scientific publishing industry needs reform. Lawmakers are worried about the literature being flooded with 'AI slop' and the high open-access fees that some publishers charge. Read more @nature.com on this week's House Science hearing

I am thrilled and beyond grateful to receive a CNRS bronze medal this year - this is an incredible honour especially for an INRAE researcher like myself! A big thanks to my amazing team and the research community @RDP for all the great science we have done together!

🍀🔬 Turgor reduction triggers FERONIA nanodomain assembly for osmosensing in plants @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

#Recherche en #Biologie

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

And the This year’s winner of the Reinhold-von-Sengbusch prize for best Talk are: - Susanne Mühlbauer - LMU Munich - Jakob Weber Böhlen - RWTH Aachen University - Jan Multhoff – University Münster #MBP2026

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 How do plants read positional cues? 🌿 ERECTA-family receptors interpret spatiotemporal peptide cues, integrating receptor activation, signaling dynamics, trafficking, and non-canonical pathways. ✍️ Bai and @keikoutorii.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70793

That‘s one cool paper from the Schier lab …. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...

It's officially out 🥳🥳🥳 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #MorphoGraphX #MorphoDynamX #Physcomitrella #Phyllotaxis @roederlab.bsky.social @richardsmithlab.bsky.social

Our preprint on sex determination in Cannabis - now updated with a strata analysis and new gene expression data. Great collaboration with @tatianagiraud.bsky.social and her team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our recent paper is explained here in a more accessible way! "We often think of the emergence of order as arising from self-organization or cell–cell interactions, but here, order emerges from random cell fate decisions amplified by the geometry of tissue growth." www.mpipz.mpg.de/pr-formosa-2...

Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany. Registration opening soon!

Samplify – automated quantification of seed abortion Bente et al. @hebente.bsky.social @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy to share our preprint on how responses to closely related peptides are shaped by SERKs

🧬 From Nature Plants: Plants send mobile small RNAs from maternal tissues to pollen, enabling essential gene control for normal male fertility. (Blake C. Meyers) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

With this throwback to the #northernlights at our Weihenstephan #campus last month, we want to wish you the best of luck for your exams and a wonderful #semesterbreak! 🍀🤩 Thanks to Julia Keberle for the campus #photoofthemonth for January.

This is how you can adjust the plot size in #tidyplots 🔥 All measures are in mm. #rstats #dataviz #phd

It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Duckweeds are an important plant research model but have been challenging to modify genetically. A study published in @newphyt.bsky.social by the Marí-Ordóñez group at the GMI, presents a new and highly reproducible method for genetic transformation in the duckweed species Spirodela polyrhiza.

Out First Release in @science.org this week: A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

👩‍🔬La @segenetica.bsky.social ha elegido como "Artículo del mes" en su boletín de enero el trabajo de @tank-silvia.bsky.social, investigadora del #IRNASA-CSIC, publicado en 'Nature Communications'. 👏👏👏 🔗Boletín: segenetica.es/newsletter/e... 🔗Más info: www.irnasa.csic.es/una-investig...

New tidyplots.org version 0.4.0 now on CRAN 🚀 🪓 Split plots by one or two variables 🤓 Custom `axis.titles` in multiplot layouts 🌈 Custom background and foreground colors 🦇 Dark themes using `paper` and `ink` #tidyplots #rstats #dataviz #phd

Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany. Sept 23rd-25th, 2026 ~€350 all inclusive Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon. For more info, see raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

You don’t need a brain to benefit from a good night of sleep. Despite lacking a central nervous system, jellyfish and sea anemones have sleep patterns remarkably similar to those of humans, researchers report. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3NgeAEQ

It's finally out!... Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear @dfg.de So, I will spend months writing a grant and you will let people judge it with AI tools that are trained on predatory journals like Frontiers, MDPI or alike that are practically not peer-reviewed??? Is this how you will select cutting edge science??? #idiocracy

Just in time for Christmas a new paper in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social by @joannakacprzyk.bsky.social and myself. We asked 421 plant scientists why they study plants! Check it out and also check @plantmemories.bsky.social where we post lovely survey responses.

Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1. Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)

🧪 This will blow your mind

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!

Of ga meteen naar het artikel: Kerstens, M., et al.,(2026), PLETHORAs shape Arabidopsis phyllotaxis through modulation of patterning robustness and accelerated inflorescence development. New Phytol, 249: 495-511. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience

@science.org 🧬🔬 A vision of #chromosome organization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @vram142.bsky.social et al.

Oh Wow! Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Historic day! 🌾 The #EU agrees on new rules for genomic techniques, paving the way for crops that better resist climate change and pests, deliver higher yields, and need fewer fertilisers & pesticides. A big step towards a more sustainable food system. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Big thanks to all who contributed @julien-gronnier.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social