Ten days left to apply for our International Undergraduate Summer School 2026 with the @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social! A unique opportunity for global undergraduates to spend 8 weeks with us on Norwich Research Park 🧬🧪 ⏰ Deadline 16 January 2026

⏳ There’s still time to submit! The call for papers for the Special Issue Seedling Traits and Climate Change remains open until February 1, 2026 🗓 We look forward to your research on how early plant life stages respond to a changing climate 🌱 👉 botany.fyi/htj54e

Another highly relevant review!

This goes for a lot of "health" tech as well -- many of them are not covered by #HIPAA! (Speaking as someone who used to have to get HIPAA training.)

OPPORTUNITY: McGill Plant Science is looking for an expert in plant pathology, plant breeding, or horticulture in the context of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program (senior established researcher). Contact: www.mcgill.ca/plant/contact Program: lnkd.in/eavfNu7e Please re-post.

🧪🌱 Plant awareness is essential to stop climate change. Also, I really love plants and everything plant-related so I am really looking forward to reading this collection! 💚 #PlantScience #PlantAwareness

Not gonna lie, I have heard milder forms of "you should consider a career outside of science" before, and I have literally cried after I got home that day. Snapshot taken from this #naturemagazine article about #peerreview: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Finally found the time to do #projectimplicit by @harvard.edu! Strongly recommended for everyone, because the only way to solve a problem, whether it's biology or systemic bias, is to first know what the problem is.

Have moved to #Stanford! This week has been a chaos of moving, grading, moving, manuscript, moving. Currently editing things while surrounded by boxes. Can't tell if I've had too much caffeine or not enough.

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 Under low-phosphorus conditions, mycorrhizal symbiosis can alter alfalfa root morphology and physiology. High-phosphorus efficiency genotypes show greater biomass, mycorrhizal responsiveness, and positive trait plasticity - Fan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

And here's another resource to support undergraduate summer research placements, the @aspbofficial.bsky.social SURF program (summer undergraduate research fellowship) aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a Final applications due Feb 6, so start looking now! #PlantSci

Sharing this because we're covering #ecology in class right now and the take-home message I'm trying to drill into everyone is MORE DIVERSITY = HEALTHIER COMMUNITY (for plants AND humans).

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

My friend's paper came out! Go Mary-Francis! 🎉

Plugging a segment Leenna Keo, a student of mine, did on #ferns for #KCRA: www.kcra.com/article/fols... #plantoutreach #folsomlake #losrios😀

🌳 From Planta: Advances in tissue culture, genome editing, and AI are accelerating Persian walnut propagation, improving efficiency and expanding breeding potential. (Charles A. Leslie, Abhaya M. Dandekar) ▶️ link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PlantScience

​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/

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

🧬 🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅 🧬 MYB and WRKY transcription factors collaboratively regulate suberin biosynthesis in the tomato root exodermis. Antagonistic interactions may fine-tune suberization or act as a brake on overaccumulation - Jo et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

‪Please join us on Wednesday, Dec, 3, 2025, at 12 noon EST for our monthly virtual ASPB PUI Section networking session. Our topic is: Teaching Biology with Google NotebookLM Join the meeting at spelman.zoom.us/j/9374821224... Contact Dr. Dongfang Wang at [email protected], if link issues

🍅 DARWIN REVIEW 🍅 Jaryal et al. discuss the role of four stress hormones, abscisic acid, ethylene, jasmonates, and salicylic acid, in the orchestration of signaling pathways that mediate tomato resilience and metabolism 📝 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social

🎉🎉🎉 New paper going to be out soon! #pistachio #plantbiology #anatomyisimportant

That feeling when so many of the students make the same type of mistake on the same question that you double check your answer key and your slides to make sure you got it right.

Among the cracked earth & blinding sunlight of California's Death Valley, one native plant not only survives — it thrives. Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11... #PlantScience

✨ Flash Talk Fundamentals for Applied Biologists ✨ An interactive online workshop for early career researchers & professionals - perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to deliver a great conference flash talk or 3MT! 📆 12th December, 1pm GMT Register now 👉 buff.ly/OiDYE93

❄️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱❄️ Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

The only way we will win a better world is not only leftism for America, but internationalism. “Researchers who have anything to do with China should have their careers ended” is a bipartisan position, and it can’t be anymore. If we live in a fragmented world, it will burn in our lifetime

Good that Canada joins coalition to fight against climate disinformation (so maybe don't weaken greenwashing law?) www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

It’s #TransAwarenessWeek 🌈 This week, we’re celebrating trans and nonbinary people while also raising awareness of the challenges and discrimination that many still face. Check out our discussion with Rowan Casey: microb.io/4hFL6vk 👈 #TransInSTEM #TransInScience #LGBTQSTEMDay

Some plants secrete brine from their leaves to cope with salty soil. Such plants use a subcuticular space to separate surface brine from secreting cells, a trick that could be useful for salt-tolerant crops or desalination devices. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Aich50Xr3Fl

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Dance with plants: Taylor Swift’s music videos as advance organizers for meaningful learning in botany doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

🌾💧 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾💧 Zhen et al. discovered that the density of small openings—called stomata—located on barley stems is associated with whole-canopy water use much more than those located on the leaf blades 🌿🌾💧 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Fully-funded #PhDproject at Earlham Institute in collaboration with @ibers.bsky.social, understanding genome regulation in hybrid Miscanthus for #sustainable #biomass production. Join our supportive PhD and postdoctoral community! #Genomics #Bioenergy

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Convergent evolution of the developmental anatomy of leaf abscission: evidence from the arboreous lycopsid Sigillaria doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2180... #plantjobs #jobs Assistant prof of crop production position opening in #UCD!

⚙️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ⚙️ Iron is essential to plants, and molecular mechanisms controlling iron uptake and concentration are affected by other essential nutrients such as zinc, copper, phosphorus, and nitrogen 🧲 🌿 📝 Wairich et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

My pick for In Other Journals this week: A MYB transcription factor regulates lignin deposition on thorn tips: My summary here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paper here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#JustIn on Plantae — Balancing Teaching and Research Careers: Insights and Strategies. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellow Irene Ikiriko explores the options available to get the best of both research and teaching careers. buff.ly/Bg4tye7 #PlantScience

#UCD is hiring an assistant prof for #plantpathology! #jobs #plantjobs jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...

The last of the Rosa Rugosa on the dunes. 🌱 #gardening

🌳From Annals of Botany: Urban forests hold untapped potential as genetic reservoirs for threatened tree species, offering a powerful tool to advance global conservation goals. (Alessandro Ossola) ▶️ academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... #PlantScience #Conservation #Ecology

At this point may I just say that NO one is prepared for the Canvas issue today. #teaching

A few years ago I made a slide showing the top 10 results if you search Google Image for "cartoon scientist". In my slide, 10/10 are white men. Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again. Here below you have 24 images. 20 are men, 4 are women (progress!). 23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔

🌱From Ecology: Invasive annuals show strong local adaptation to aridity, but not to nitrogen deposition, highlighting climate as a key driver of evolutionary response. (Justin M Valliere, Mayra J Hernández) ▶️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #PlantScience #InvasiveSpecies

Whoop, whoop! The new queer wildlife documentary 'Second Nature,' narrated by the inspirational Elliot Page, will premiere in New York on Saturday. 🐠🏳️‍⚧️🐧🌈🐘 It looks awesome; check out the teaser. Hopefully it will be available in the UK soon. www.secondnaturedoc.com #lgbtq #nature #film #PrideInSTEM

In our session this week, we will be joined by the amazing @penguinacho.bsky.social for a discussion on penguin sexuality and the documentary Animal Pride: Nature's Coming Out Story! 🐧💬 #QueerStem #QueerAcademia #GayPenguins

napari 0.6.6 is out! 🚀 This is a bugfix release following up 0.6.5: if something in your napari workflow unexplicably broke, you might want to update ;) Also, with the new bundle you can now "open files with > napari"! Check out the full release notes on the website: napari.org/stable/relea...

Here are some “leaf” or phyllid cells from moss Physcomitrium patens gametophore. Cells are expressing a green fluorescence marker that labels the vacuolar membrane. Chloroplasts' autofluorescence is in magenta. Can you spot dividing chloroplasts? #microscopymonday #moss #plantcells

Painted some xylem for a thing. Pretty pleased. #sciart