🌱 The 2026 Journal Citation Reports are out. Trends: 📈 India's author representation increased by 12% 🌍 Global South participation continues to rise 🔓 Gold Open Access journals reached 6,703 🧬 Plant science journals showed strong growth Remember: Impact Factors measure journals, not scientists.

bHLH duo regulates nodule vascular strands Srivastava et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/RCF5U4...

This paper basically asked: “What if mammalian cells could borrow photosynthesis?” And somehow… it worked!! Genuinely one of the most unexpected cross-kingdom biology papers I’ve read recently. cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellpress.bsky.social @nuspress.bsky.social

Glad to see our work featured among the most viewed articles in New Phytologist. Grateful for the interest from the plant science community and for the discussions the study has generated. 🌱 @wiley.com @newphyt.bsky.social Read the Article: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What happens when pollinators disappear? 🐝 Not just fewer flowers. Less nutrition. Less income. Less food security. A new Nature study shows pollinator-dependent crops provide >40% of household income in vulnerable communities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What if the “non-coding” genome isn’t actually non-coding? 🧬 A Nature study analyzing 95,520 proteomics experiments found thousands of hidden microproteins encoded in supposedly “silent” regions of our genome. The human proteome may be far larger than we thought. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Most cited ≠ most reliable. A Science Advances study shows: ❗ Nonreplicable papers get MORE citations ❗ Even after failing replication Only ~12% of citations acknowledge failure. Science rewards novelty—but at what cost? #AcademicTwitter #OpenScience #PhDLife #Research

Plant genetics just got a major upgrade 🌱 A new Nature Biotechnology study introduces PIVOT, a single-cell screening platform for plants. High-throughput. Functional. Scalable. Finally, a way to tackle redundancy in plant signaling. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

India’s genomic map reveals ~130M variants—many previously unknown. Strong population structure + rare, population-specific variants expose limits of Eurocentric datasets. Precision medicine needs diversity, not assumptions. #Genomics #PrecisionMedicine #HumanDiversity tinyurl.com/3mverx3p

Crossed 100 citations recently.📊 Small milestone, but encouraging as a PhD student to see the work being read and built upon. Thankful for the journey so far, and excited for what lies ahead. GS: scholar.google.com/citations?us... RG: www.researchgate.net/profile/Raja...

Check out our latest review, where we discuss how photomorphogenesis-associated transcription factors shape photosynthesis and its optimization under changing environments.

Congratulations to Canadian Peter Howitt on his Nobel Prize in Economics!

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Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. He joins the ranks of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison.

Congratulations to #NASmember Omar M. Yaghi, who shares the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for the development of metal–organic frameworks! Their discoveries may contribute to solving some of humankind’s greatest challenges. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics has been awarded to #NASmembers John Clarke and Michel H. Devoret, alongside John M. Martinis! Congratulations on this esteemed recognition of their experiments on a chip that revealed quantum physics in action. Read more: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Announcing the Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program plantae.org?p=144727 Application deadline: January 15, 2026 @btiscience.bsky.social is an independent nonprofit research institute affiliated with @cornelluniversity.bsky.social Learn more: spf.btiscience.org

Congratulations to NAS international member Shimon Sakaguchi on receiving the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine! He is honored alongside Mary E. Brunkow & Fred Ramsdell "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance." Read more: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic... #NASmember

🌱 New preprint from our lab! We uncover how a cytokinin–auxin module regulates nitrogen-driven tiller outgrowth in rice. Read here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We’d love to hear your thoughts 🌿 #plantbiology #rice #development #hormone #preprint #scicomm #thephotodevolab #openscience

📝 Our new @jxbotany.bsky.social review is out! ☀️ Light = energy for #photosynthesis 🌱 Light = signal for plant development 🤔 How do light-signaling TFs connect developmental responses with photosynthetic control? Find out here 👉 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... #publication #research #PhD

🌱In this latest piece (co-written with fellow Plantae editor, Dennis Baffour-Awuah), we explore how curiosity shapes discoveries and drives progress in #plantscience 💭What’s the one BIG question you’d love to see answered in plant biology? @plantaeofficial.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

🌱Excited for #PlantBio2025, happening in Milwaukee, USA! Grateful to #JaysonPadilla for organizing a virtual meetup with #PlantaeFellows attending the conference. Always a delight to connect with the amazing Plantae community! @plantaeofficial.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

🚨 Applications closing soon! Become a #PlantaeFellow and grow your skills in #SciComm, leadership & community building🌱 🗓️ Deadline: August 31, 2025 Join a global network of plant scientists! 🌍 @aspbofficial.bsky.social @plantaeofficial.bsky.social #PlantScience #PhDLife #postdoc #networking

Meet the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP) cohort, comprising 39 visionary scientists, farmers, policy advisors, entrepreneurs, and humanitarians from 27 countries, who are driving change in agriculture and global food security. 🌽🌍 #WorldFoodPrizeFoundation Learn more: tinyurl.com/ys74kxtt

We had an insightful workshop at #PlantBiologyGlobal on RNA-Seq analysis using the Integrated Genome Browser 💻 Grateful to the amazing speakers for sharing their expertise and making it so accessible! 🙌 @ Paige Kulzer, Nowlan Freese, and Prof. Ann Loraine @aspbofficial.bsky.social

🇮🇳 Proud moment for Indian science! Indian institutions, including NIPGR, ICGEB, IISc, UAS, IIT, InStem, IIST, and KAU, join #Ax4, sending seven space experiments aboard with astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station. India’s research is going orbital! 🚀 #ScienceandTechnology

📎Announcing the 2025 #RoyalSociety Fellows! Over 90 trailblazing scientists from around the 🌍 have been elected to the world’s oldest scientific academy, celebrating 360 years of discovery. A special shoutout to their students and teams — your hard work is part of this honour!!

🇮🇳 India approves its 1st genome-edited rice using CRISPR-Cas: 🌾 DRR Rice 100 (Kamla) 🌾 Pusa DST Rice 1 🚫Not GMOs — no foreign DNA. 🌿Boosts yield, climate resilience, and low water requirement. Developed by @icar_iirr & @Icar_iari. #CRISPR #Rice

Honored to be selected as a Fellow in the ASM Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship! Grateful to @asm.org for this opportunity to grow, connect & contribute to the scientific community. Looking forward to the journey ahead! 🌱🔬 #ASMFLMF #leadership #mentorship #ScienceCommunication