Very excited to share that the art I made is up on the high street of Rickmansworth! Feels like a small accomplishment, but this is the first time I’ve properly had my art on public display :) (if you’re ever nearby pls take a look!) 🐸✨

After 10 Fridays, 10 flowers, and 100+ drawings, the Florédex is complete! ✨ Come take a tour of the design and science behind 10 iconic flowers 🌺🧵

Thanks Nick for this amazing opportunity!! 🌸🌺🌼🌷

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

We love these signs at UEA #nosit

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

Friday Flower 008: Tulip 🌷 Tulip’s pastel colors and waxy cuticle that scatters light give them a soft watercolor look. The “broken” petals of Semper Augustus, created by a virus, became some of the most famous and valuable flowers in history... and their genome is 34Gb 🤯

1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens. In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I didn’t know this was today!! Cuttlefish are one of my favourite animals! To celebrate, here’s a very blurry picture of one (or what I think was one) I saw in the ocean when I was in Symi, Greece earlier this year :) 🦑

Petunias are so cool - defo one of the best flowers 😎

Thanks Nick! Really enjoying working on this project - can’t wait for the next few flowers!! 🌸🌺🌼

Friday Flower 006: Aquilegia 🌸🦋 Columbines vary in stamen number, making them a powerful model for how floral whorls expand. Darwin marveled at their long nectar spurs, which co-evolve with hawkmoth tongues to reward pollinators that brush the stamens ✨

I'M LATE FOR BUGS

Friday Flower 002: Mirabilis jalapa🌺✨ Four O’Clocks, like other Caryophyllales, produce red (betacyanins) and yellow (betaxanthins) petal sectors through differential regulation of betalain biosynthesis during corolla development.

Friday Flower 001: Mimulus lewisii 🌸✨ Monkeyflowers are masterpieces of design with nectar-guide spots formed by an activator–inhibitor system of MYB transcription factors. These generate reaction–diffusion patterns across the ventral petal.

First of the Friday Flower Concepts series coming tomorrow! 🌹✨ Can you guess the first flower?

1st western blot vs. 128th western blot 🧪 - - #science #westernblot #predoc #labscientist

💡Can we use network structure 🏁 to infer underlying genetics 🧬 of host – parasite coevolution? 🔎Find out in our new paper 🥳, published in the latest issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social 👇 academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... #Parasite #EvolutionaryBiology #MicrobialEvolution 1/2

Finally finished the right page on my August 2021 moth survey from my IL Prairie Nature Journal. Just love the diversity of all these moths from the Midwest! #SciArt #moths #naturejournal #prairie

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S ONLY EIGHT LEIBNIZ!?!?

🎉Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! 🧑‍🔬 @matteogravino.bsky.social, @samtmugford.bsky.social, @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social et al., @johninnescentre.bsky.social #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity 📄 Read the full paper👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8QSRJ9...

oh the irony …

This is exactly what happens inside our sequencing machines. 😌

We are excited to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@matteogravino.bsky.social @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social , @johninnescentre.bsky.social ) on plant-aphid interactions, showing that the aphid effector Mp10 balances suppression of DAMP responses and activation of ETI via EDS1.

Our preprint is now live! We have sequenced the genomes of three psyllid species. These insects pests transmit devastating plant diseases like 'zebra chip' in potatoes and 'carrot yellows' in carrots. 🥕 #MolecularEntomology #MPMI #PlantPathology #psyllids #liberibacter

Really enjoyed giving my talk today for APH day on the work I’ve done for my predoc project so far! 🧪 #science

We're happy to present a pre-print from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social), describing how a family of proteases in aphid oral secretions suppress plant immunity.

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

Thank you for 100 followers! 🪲

Post a picture you took to bring some zen to the skyline 🦋

But can it run a gel?

Leafhoppers are not phytoplasmas... #NatureRipoffs @Nature "Similarly, SAP05 from the plant parasite Macrosteles quadrilineatus was found to target host transcription factors to the proteasome in a process that is key to the life cycle of the parasite..." doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Hi everyone! Just wanted introduce myself as a newbie here :) my name’s Amber and I like bugs, frogs, mushrooms and drawing! I’m currently doing a Predoc characterising Phytoplasma effectors and soon applying for PhD projects! 🐛 Here’s a picture of me and a scarlet tiger moth that landed on my arm 🦋