UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy www.science.org/content/arti...

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

This is one of the best conference to attend as a plant molecular biologist! Always inspiring, highly interactive and lots of fun.

I've been in this role for @theplantjournal.bsky.social for nearly two years and can highly recommend it! You work with a great team, hone your writing skills and grow your network in the plant science community. Feel free to reach out if you have specific questions about the role.

This is a fantastic meeting (I was lucky enough to go last year) and @theplantjournal.bsky.social is delighted to sponsor an early career researcher award for the best talk

New paper from Karen Halliday, @andruromanowski.bsky.social and Mengke Zhou, showing how PIF7 interacts with and inhibits phyA and can actually cause it to move to the cytosol! www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture. "27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My latest paper, a postdoc project of mine from the @ronaldpierik.bsky.social lab is finally out in the Plant Cell all its formatted glory! doi.org/10.1093/plce... Many thanks also to my co-authors and especially Kyra van der Velde who did a lot of work.

New 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 by @transcription.bsky.social 🍃The making of a leaf tip: how cell division angles define shape 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70453 Mathematical modelling + developmental biology to investigate leaf shape formation Zang et al: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.....

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN NORTHERN SPAIN ASTURIAS 42.9 Mieres 41.2 Oviedo CANTABRIA 43.3 Cilorigo de Liebana 42.4 San Felices de Buelna 42.2 Ramales de la Victoria HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY FOR ASTURIAS AND CANTABRIA (by much !):Records pulverized 43.4 also in Bilbao (Basque) Screenshots by AEMET

GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

🌾 Great news — Gwen Kirschner has taken a permanent position in the @PlantEcoHutton Team as Principal Investigator in Plant-Soil Interactions! It's great to know you're going to be around for longer, Gwen. @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @gwenkirschner.bsky.social

🧵1/ New preprint out! We reveal that ERAD, a protein degradation pathway, selectively targets intracellular PILS auxin transport facilitators to control growth. This expands ERAD's role beyond protein quality control, right into developmental regulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

🍀🔬 SUF4 (SUPPRESSOR OF FRIGIDA 4) forms temperature-dependent condensates in plant cell nuclei! Manipulating condensation of thermo-sensitive SUF4 protein tunes flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana; from David Ehrhardt's lab @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

This is a fantastic documentary on #PlantBiotechnology, genetically engineered #PlantGMOs, & the anti-scientific disinformation campaigns that #Greenpeace has been running against them. In German, but there are English subtitles. SWR is German public broadcaster, & I don't see a COI. #PlantScience

A method to obtain transgene-free genome-edited plants by killing transgenic gametes using gamete-expressed Barnase. From: www.cell.com/molecular-pl... #PlantScience

🎉We're pleased to announce that our very own Jade Bleau has been awarded the NAASC Earlier Career Community Impact Award. We would also like to extend our congratulations to the other winners: 💐Joanna Friesner, Jose Dinneny, Dawn Nagel, Natanella Elouz-Elias, Nick Provart and Anna Stepanova.

🚨NEW from me: the U.S. and Europe could experience a 40% drop in food production this century as temperatures rise, a major new study has found. "It's almost like in this context, those with the most to lose, lose the most," said Prof Andrew Hultgren, a lead author of the study.

Temperature is so important for plants that they have come up with many independent temperature sensors. Curious? Read more in this review by former WeigelWorld members Sridevi Sureshkumar & Suresh Balasubramanian. #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PhD students during a thesis crunch often think they 'don't have time' for exercise or hobbies that keep them sane. They do. Spending 2 hours a week exercising etc will not meaningfully cut into your writing time, but it will make you sleep better, feel happier, more efficient and more productive.

Two 5’ splice site classes are a fundamental but overlooked feature of eukaryote genome organisation. Watch the seminar to hear #OpenBiology author Gordon Simpson talk about his review article: cassyni.com/events/7GPzZ... @ggsimpsonrna.bsky.social‬ #genomics

Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664

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...

m6A RNA modification destabilizes mRNAs needed for thermotolerance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share that our preprint has found a home in Science Advances. We show that intrinsically disordered regions determine the functional diversification of actin-regulatory SCAR proteins in Medicago. 🧵 1/3 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs

Interesting read: Mechanisms of auxin action in plant growth and development www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cheers folks! @transcription.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social @kmerchante.bsky.social

Climate crisis threatens the banana, the world’s most popular fruit, research shows #PlantSci www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well, that's gonna be GREAT for the UK's higher education sector...

We're online! Check out our new website at yrspp.github.io (or search 'YRSPP 2026') to learn about the symposium, venue, sponsors, schedule and more 🌿 We'll be adding updates over the coming months as we confirm speakers and more, so stay tuned! #YRSPP #YRSPP2026

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...

It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.

Our paper is just out www.nature.com/articles/s41... from the Jacobsen, Doudna, and Banfield labs on viral delivery of a tiny CRISPR system for transgene free germline editing in plants, tinyurl.com/3k223r3x. Looking for postdocs to join the team for the next phase of this work!

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/...

🌱 🔬 🚨 There is a 2-year postdoc position available in my group in Neuchâtel 🚨 Please share! Details here: www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...

The UV-B photoreceptor UVR8 interacts with LOX1 enzyme to promote stomatal closure through the LOX-derived oxylipin pathway (Yan Liu, Jue Wang, Xiaotian Liu, Ting Liao, Hui Ren, Liang Liu, Xi Huang) academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #PlantScience

VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis. Great work from @djgibbs.bsky.social lab together with @sjonhartman.bsky.social and @ekaiserli.bsky.social Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

A long-overdue update from my side: At the end of December, I left Cambridge to start as a junior group leader in Ralph Hückelhoven's Phytopathology department at the TUM in Freising. www.mls.ls.tum.de/pp/startseite/ 🥳 🍾🧵1/5

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The first paper from my lab is now online in @ThePlantCell 🌱 doi.org/10.1093/plce... This work is dedicated to the late Prof. Joanne Chory, who profoundly shaped my journey in science and beyond. Thank you to everyone involved: Srinivas Kunta, Yardena Dahan, Shai Torgeman, @Volacninstitute.

Our new publication demonstrating role of GIGANTEA in wheat circadian clock. Provide evidence that effects of GI on flowering are likely dependent on floral regulator PPD1 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience (no idea why Wiley have that picture associated with the paper!) 🧪

Please RT: 🌱 We’re hiring a Postdoc and a PhD student! ⏳ Application deadline: 17. March 2025 Join our lab and explore the role of alternative mRNA isoforms in drought stress and environmental adaptation in crops and Arabidopsis. Learn more and apply: www.lablaubinger.eu/Opportunities

🌟𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭🌟 by Martin Balcerowicz @transcription.bsky.social Phosphorylation in two acts: Marchantia phototropin undergoes sequential cis- and trans-autophosphorylation 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70072 📖 Original research by Noguchi et al: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.17183

POSTDOC POSITION AVAILABLE, UV-B Perception and Signalling, Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline approaching: 24.02.2025

Here a bomb for those who were not expecting to find proteasomes in the apoplast! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A curious, modest man with an encyclopaedic knowledge. No ego but a quiet self-confidence that inspired many. No doubt many publications in the coming years will report innovative ideas that he thought of decades ago….