Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation. This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via @UKChange

'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

'Nature's bounty' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt

the european equivalent of our wahoo or hearts-a-bustin’!

A lone orange fox and cub #hawkweed hanging on for #WildFlowerHour amongst the moss and leaves 🍂 🍃 #november @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Some spindle tree colour in my local nature reserve for #wildFlowerHour #november 🍂

Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) signalling promotes high-light tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.686924v1

Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line | Nature Communications share.google/Ygkz9JGBF06d...

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Blue plaque to celebrate pioneering women’s rights campaigner READ HERE:👉 bvoices.uk/4hBjM16 - #PositiveSWBrum #Bournville #BirminghamCivicSociety #Activist #Politician #Philanthropist #Chocolatemaker #Quaker #Cadbury #CadburyFamily #Birmingham #BirminghamUK #B31Voices #BVoices

Excited to introduce Auxenochlorella as a new algal reference organism for fundamental plant science and bioengineering. A paper in two parts: a genetic toolkit for site-specific genomic manipulation, paired with the most unusual genome I’ve ever worked on academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

New Mexico based, contemporary photographer Natalie Christensen creates minimalist photography #WomensArt #Monday

PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here: open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...

Oh I do love a good importin story #ArmadilloRepeats #ethylene

A follow on study would be good that digs into this data with respect to gender and ethnicity.

Ouf, ouch 👀🌱

What if we could chart all cell types across the tree of life? In @nature.com, @arnausebe.bsky.social and colls launch the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, a global effort to map eukaryotic cell diversity using single-cell & genomic data. drive.google.com/file/d/1G4zZ... @crg.eu @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

Cucurbita pepo is one of the oldest domesticated species. Over millennia, it has proved astoundingly versatile. Just as Brassica oleracea gave us broccoli, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts etc, C. pepo morphed into the pumpkin, zucchini, delicata, pattypan, acorn, yellow squash and more!

By comparing gene expression across ten brown algal species, researchers take an important step in uncovering how core cellular processes shift between life cycle phases. buff.ly/A4itnu6

Leaf-age specific flood resilience in Arabidopsis thaliana is determined by distinct processes contributing to post-submergence recovery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682766v1

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More from Snettisham yesterday - Viper's Bugloss, the last few flowers still hanging on. #WildflowerHour

Bladder campion #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Ivy flowering next to the River Soar, Leicester, this morning, before the fog cleared. #WildflowerHour

Feeling unwell? If you have COVID symptoms, TEST If you test positive, ISOLATE If you can’t test, MASK Protect yourself and others (especially high-risk people) - it still matters!

Everyone wants a NAS! 🌿🦟 Leon Dirick & Bernard Goffinet uncovered the surprising history of NAS genes shaped by horizontal gene transfer, we revealed NAS key role in Physcomitrium patens. 👉 nature.com/articles/s41... #Mosses #HorizontalGeneTransfer

🌾 Explore our video collection in durum wheat! The Virtual Durum Meetings of the Expert Working Group on Durum Wheat feature global experts discussing topics from genomic selection to disease resistance. Catch up here: 🔗 www.wheatinitiative.org/virtual-duru... #WheatConnect #DurumWheat

Artificial Soil (ArtSoil): recreating soil conditions in synthetic plant growth media https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681539v1

Important piece from @cjdenial.bsky.social on the use (or not) of Generative AI in the classroom.

Oh, COOL 💚

Fantastic talk from @viktri08.bsky.social on how metabolism can underpin multicellular embryo patterning and aggregative multicellularity. Some really key themes emerging in #multicellverse #EMBO 🧬🔬

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

Covid jabs are free in Belgium for everyone covered by Belgian social security and €18 for other residents/long-term visitors. I believe it is similar in France. Why is UK approaching this so differently?

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱 🔬 ECLIPSE is a potential adaptor protein that links ubiquitinated inner nuclear membrane proteins to the CDC48 complex, facilitating their degradation and maintaining nuclear membrane integrity in plants - Calvanese et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Managed to catch half of @wcratcliff.bsky.social talk at #EMBO #multicellverse before i went to teach some plant science but I did bring up with my students how cool multicellular evolution is and the pros and cons of model systems 🌱🧬🔬🪼🍄‍🟫. Looking forward to catching up on the recording.

Big year for large conglomerations of mushrooms

100% this: we need to make scientific writing accessible to all researchers, teachers and students. #accessibility #inclusion Reviewers need to be aware of this. Clear communication is not “immature” or “frivolous”.

📣The #EMBOWorkshop hosted by @multicellgenome.bsky.social#EMBOWorkshopLab has begun! 🔬Three days filled with talks from international experts exploring the #evolution and origins of #multicellularity🦠🧬 #Multicellverse #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife

Great talk from @phil-donoghue.bsky.social on when #multicellularity arose in algal, plant and animal lineages #multicellverse @embo.org 🔬🌱🍄‍🟫🪼

Less than a month away! 📣 Our lab is so excited to co-host the #EMBOWorkshop on the evolution of #multicellularity. Get ready to dive deep into the origins of multicellular life across all kingdoms. 🔬See you in Barcelona (or online) soon! @prbb.org @csic.es

looking forward to the @embo.org meeting #multicellverse #hybrid #sustainability #inclusion #accessibility 🧬🔬

🚨 BREAKING: Labour MPs back calls to restore NHS Covid vaccines for all Clinically Vulnerable people! After pressure from CVF members and supporters - a rapid U-turn appears to be underway. WELL DONE! #KeepCovidBoosters campaign a HUGE success!

We still NEED YOUR SUPPORT on this important issue of vaccines for all CV people. 🙏Please write to your MP using our easy template! 3/ www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/labour-...

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are! #plantscience 🧪 "DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."