Happy winter solstice to everyone from my beautiful hometown Chengdu (where gingko leaves are still hanging on the branches shockingly)!

Join us! We are going to have a ton of fun this summer with 2 week projects on plant and animal morphogenesis! @maizel-lab.org is leading a module. For my section we are going to live image developing leaves.

Check our new preprint! How the petal identity gene PhDEF behaves differently in the epidermis and mesophyll, in petunia flowers (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We 💚 the Stranger Plants—and now they’re on #BSAswag! The shirts feature bold illustrations by BSA’s own Catrina Adams, with a list of each species by common & scientific name on the back. BSA members (exp. 2026+) get 10% off—email [email protected] for code. www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-wi...

Lichens on a stick. Left to right - Vulpicidia, Xanthoria (I think), Physcia, and Hypogymnia. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students. tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿 buff.ly/L8o4hhr

Ran into a delightful paper on AJB @botsocamerica.bsky.social:"The gas bubbles produced by male flowers of H. verticillata came from the gas produced by branches under light. These bubbles can help ascending male flowers bypass the obstacles in water and reach the surface to complete pollination" 🧪🌸

Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Perfect time for #FluoresenceFriday as I’m finallllly back to the scope this week. 🔬🌸🧪 (Progress for #newPI setting up a new lab: a lot is happening everyday, but at the same time nothing is happening lol)

This distal gill tip is giving full branchial art vibes for #FluorescenceFriday 🦓🐟 — who knew oxygen exchange could be this pretty. 🔴 kdrl:mCherry highlights the vasculature ⚪ fgf10b:nEOS marks the pillar cells #Zebrafish #DevBio #SciArt

Looking for SciComm experience? 👀🌿 Check out this Spring 2026 internship from Let’s Botanize — great opportunity for undergrad students in botany! $1,500 stipend or course credit. Apply via: [email protected]

Our Science paper is out! Huge congratulations to @huabin-zhou.bsky.social, Mike Rosen, and the brilliant @janhuemar.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social and @kieran-russell.bsky.social from our group News: bit.ly/4avnkAr and bit.ly/3XBGVHS Great perspective by @vram142.bsky.social +K Zhang

WE GOT FERNS, folks. I hope you like ferns. If you don’t, just listen and you will like ferns. 🌿🌿🌿 Dr. Li is hilarious and charming and you will love him. And ferns. In conclusion: ferns. www.alieward.com/ologies/pter...

​The @mortonarboretum.bsky.social NSF REU program ​is open for summer 2026! $7500 stipend + housing / travel. Apply by 31 Jan 2026 and share with your networks! Details at ​​https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/

Going to Cell Bio 2025 in Philly? Join us at the Science and Art session on Sunday! You may know that I love the intersection of art and science. I'll be talking about the art of microscopy 🔬👨‍🎨 #sciart #bioart #cellbio #cellfie #microscopy #scicomm

Very interesting paper from Yi Liu's lab. Translation initiation regulation through 5' UTR can turn off codon usage effects in viruses. Adds to previous work in field that codon usage control feeds back to translation initiation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Current Biology study from @minyaaa.bsky.social and colleagues shows how early CYC expression patterns establish dorsal identity in Mimulus parishii meristems. A clear step forward in understanding floral symmetry and developmental evolution. 🧪 🧪 🔗 buff.ly/3JOjkV1

Huge thanks to Lanxi and @roederlab.bsky.social for writing a nice dispatch for our newest paper on Current Bio @currentbiology.bsky.social ! #mimuluspropaganda and #flowerpower FTW! 🥳🌸

A little over a year ago, I co-directed a short film as part of the Symbiosis Film competition, called "No Two Plants". I was paired with a filmmaker and we had a week to make a short film. I also made the score for the film. I'm sharing it here, please enjoy!

What makes some Mimulus petals so special ? Work by @minyaaa.bsky.social Nice work to present in June at the flower meeting in France www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hey conference-organizers (sorry for addressing you in one of your professional capacities on a holiday). I posted this 5 days ago, and 65 artists have already applied. Many of them are PSYCHED, and many of them are extremely qualified. There's HUGE interest from artists in working w/scientists.

Im so excited I wrote an article about it! www.canr.msu.edu/news/plantsg...

Is everyone ready for #Plantsgiving?!?! Thank you @martinebotany.bsky.social for my favorite botanical tradition 🥹🌱

Yes! Let’s do this. #plantsgiving #iamabotanist

Babe wake up, new monkeyflower research just dropped

Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol... #mimuluspropaganda

Stomata In-Sight: Integrating Live Confocal Microscopy with Leaf Gas Exchange and Environmental Control url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... @tombuckleylab.bsky.social @lawrensack.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @scottmcadam.bsky.social @stanfordstomata.bsky.social

BSA’s 2026 awards cycle is now open! Kaplan Lecture, Corresponding Member, two $10k dissertation awards, and Graduate Student Research Awards—all with early 2026 deadlines. Join or renew now to be eligible and take advantage of these opportunities. www.botany.org/home/awards.html #BSAawards

Had an awesome visit! People I met at the Plant Microbial Bio Department and the city of Minneapolis were amazing. Also U of M prob has the best plant conservatory teaching collection I have ever seen. Very impressed by everything I’ve seen here!

Flying to U Minnesota today to give a seminar - excited to visit Minneapolis! 🧪🙌

I got the flower design job at Neoplants !!!! Gonna make very cool plants with da crew again. So very thankful for these folks believing in me, and my crazy ideas. What a huge relief in these so incredibly uncertain times. Gonna have real health insurance for once, lol. 🇫🇷🧬🌺

Wait New Phy @newphyt.bsky.social supports authors to show their real name (if non English) now?!?!? Omg I love it!!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

New preprint from former Lowry Lab postdoc, Kathy Toll, providing evidence that delayed flowering time by coastal perennial Mimulus guttatus may be advantageous through avoidance of high wind speeds and salt spray. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are one of the "big three" research animal models for studying embryonic development & regeneration. This is what the embryos look like under scanning electron microscopy. They look surprised 😮? What looks like 'eyes' here are actually nostrils.

Perhaps the best paper title of the year has been dropped 🧪🎤

🔬🍀 A timelapse movie (unpublished data) from the lab. In the movie, the nucleus is moving towards the base of the polarized root hair cell.

Got our first snow this morning!! ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

Flashback #FluorescenceFriday to some of the first light-sheet imaging we were doing. Video shows the collecting duct system of the developing kidney labeled with a pan-cytokeratin antibody. Courtesy of former talented technician Deanna Hardesty.

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

Evo devo is cool!

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

And... of course we started today by having unexpected disasters - tubes broke in tissue grinder, beads and broken tubes flying everywhere inside. I miiiiiiight have jinxed it yesterday 🥲🧪 #newPI

1/ Preprint alert:
 🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social

For the first time since the lab opened, all four thermal cyclers are being used right now. The feeling that we finally get our routines established and starting to be more and more productive is... frankly quite amazing! #newPI 🧪

I'm really excited to help organize this workshop on #phylogenomics and #genome #evolution in the Czech Republic! The instructors are world-class! Register to be part of the #phylogenomics and #genome #evolution workshop in Czechia! Registration closes November 15! evomics.org/apply-worksh...

Brilliant use of gfp-tagged transposons & automated scoring of kernels, combined with differential style-lengths along maize ear, to screen for genes underlying pollen competition in maize. Diana gave a banger of a presentation on this in #Zeavolution this morning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

tis the season bsky.app/profile/miny...

Today I officially give up on thinking I could get the bait & prey correctly in one try when talking about Y1H and Y2H. 🫠🧪

Two of the best years, also the program that changed the trajectory of my life. <3