Happy New Year to all my Jewish friends! Fun science during the day (see below) and a Le'Chaim during the night! 👩‍🔬🍷Shana Tova! youtu.be/tzlzwhTq6n0?...

“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪

Sad news. Plant science has lost a global champion with the passing of Steve Long. His recent work on engineering enhanced photosynthesis portends future breakthroughs in crop yield and food security. Here is a tribute from the Uni Essex where started 🧪 #plantscience www.essex.ac.uk/blog/staff/p...

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20250919_UCB.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Transgenerational decline through insidious effects of #drought memory A #Letter by Pantin et al.👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Big thanks to Laura Tran for the wonderful coverage of our study in The Scientists Magazine! You captured and delivered the science in our work beautifully. Also big thanks to Lucia Strader for commenting on our findings! 🙏🏻 #STEM #PlantScience #Genomics www.the-scientist.com/plants-boost...

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

A database of plant heat tolerances and methodological matters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676187v1

Want to dive into the datasets from our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper? 🌱📊 Check out this step-by-step guide on how to explore and analyze the #drought #recovery #datasets with Omnibusx: Check out the paper and datasets: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Tutorial: youtu.be/YI0RVFiQnMs

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MSU is great place to do plant science research. My lab will be a great place to develop new expertise in genomics and plant molecular biology. Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... Please email me if you have any questions.

Join our campus! The Vienna BioCenter PhD program offers 20+ fully-funded positions: Open call now! Read more: www.vbcphd.at Our working language is English #viennabiocenter #vbcphd

Early embryos develop... and eliminate threats @estebanhoijman.bsky.social & co recently discovered that early embryos can eliminate bacterial infections before immune cells are formed. Take a look at the dynamics of their first encounter with microbes. thenode.biologists.com/early-embryo...

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Post-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance, according to a paper in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I8vq6i #plantscience 🧪

Led by @natanellae.bsky.social, we identified 3,000+ recovery-specific genes in Arabidopsis and mapped their activation at single-cell resolution, revealing a unique immune response after rehydration. 🌱 #PlantScience #StressBiology #OpenAccess

ICYMI: New Online! A histone variant that manages abiotic stress in plants

All DRII-ed up: How do plants recover after drought? | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!

The @rheelab.bsky.social at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute is now #hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate how #nematodes respond to chemical and environmental cues as part of @c-spirit.org and @waliianhydro.bsky.social. 🪱 Apply now at: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... #PlantSciJobs

Other interesting examples for ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ 🎸🎸🎸 My #TCTeAC friends will get it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

Preprint: De-novo design of proteins that inhibit bacterial defenses Our approach allows silencing defense systems of choice. We show how this approach enables programming of “untransformable” bacteria, and how it can enhance phage therapy applications Congrats Jeremy Garb! tinyurl.com/Syttt 🧵

Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation ->Nature | #Drought #Climate #Water | More info from EcoSearch

Plants prioritize immunity over growth during recovery from drought conditions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great work and a recommended read!

Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com: Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation. doi.org/10.1038/s414... Read thread below 👇

Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light (Kasper van Gelderen , Kyra van der Velde , Chia-kai Kang , Jessy Hollander , Alicia Koppenol , Orfeas Petropoulos , Putri Prasetyaningrum , Tuğba Akyüz , Ronald Pierik) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

IN BRIEF: Histone acetyltransferase GCN5 orchestrates flower development and is required for proper regulation of multiple key meristem and organ identity genes (Jiajun Wang) #PlantScience

The Arabidopsis histone methylation reader MRG2 interacts with eIF4A3 to regulate alternative splicing and circadian rhythms (Yaxue Huang , Jiabing Wu , Xiang Li , Jiachen Wang , Mengmeng Ma , Wen Jiang , Wen-Hui Shen , Yu Yu , Aiwu Dong) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

"Large-scale single-cell profiling of stem cells identifies redundant regulators of shoot development and yield trait variation" From: www.cell.com/developmenta... #PlantScience

"Postdoctoral Position in Plant Epigenetics at Washington University, St.Louis, MO, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=168694.pdf #PlantSciJobs

PRC2 regulates cytokinin and HD-ZIP III pathways to orchestrate vascular tissue pattern formation in Arabidopsis (Yufei Zhang , Runzhou Huang , Tingting Yang , An Li , Zihao Wang , Yuexin Wu , Yang Deng , Jing Zhang , Xin-Qiang He , Yue Zhou) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

Congrats Gozde and team!! A plethora of new preprints from the Demirer lab @caltech.edu 📚

🌱 Poster abstracts due Sept 18! Early-career scientists, submit your work for Keystone Symposia: Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering. Showcase your research, get feedback & connect with leaders. 🔗 keysym.us/KSPlantEpi26 #KSPlantEpi26 #plantbiology #plantgenetics @claudiakohler11.bsky.social

This special issue will feature selected contributions presented at the Interdrought VIII conference and external contributions Interdrought VIII will be held in La Serena, Chile - November 17 - 21, 2025 www.interdrought8.org #PlantScience #drought #Food Security

🎉 Congrats to C‑SPIRIT’s Toshinori Kinoshita and team on their new Nature Plants paper: "Apoplastic metabolomics reveals sugars as mesophyll messengers regulating guard cell ion transport under red light" 🌿 🔗: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #plantscience

@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social came all the way just to make a toast! The dedication 😅😆🥂

@tralee-sci.bsky.social and the team at the @salkinstitute.bsky.social have mapped 400,000 nuclei across the Arabidopsis life cycle — from seeds to siliques 🌱 Single-cell technology from @10xgenomics.bsky.social uncovers plant development like never before. #PlantBiology #SingleCell #Genomics

From a gene’s single cell expression–through spatial localization–to novel function, and beyond! Now out @natplants.nature.com We built a comprehensive spatial-transcriptomic atlas of Arabidopsis, revealing cell-type identities across organs in unprecedented detail www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share this with all!

"why [would] anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist choose to be one [given] the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio "? One of the most intelligent people you could meet offers some answers: having ideas, watching them develop, and sharing them journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

1/2 What's best: a field-first or lab-first approach? No easy answers but differences between lab and field should not be seen as failure but motivate further inquiry and allow complementary discovery. Read our thoughts on this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to be a 2025 Arabidopsis Knowledge Awardee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social ! Join a live webinar this fall to explore creative science outreach—register here: www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/rsvp-awards-...

Any plant biologist with a funded NIH R35 MIRA ESI willing to share their proposal with me? THANKS. #PlantSciences

☀️ From Nature: A weakening Atlantic circulation could trigger major droughts across the tropics, with the Amazon, West Africa, and Mesoamerica at highest risk. (Chijun Sun) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Climate #Drought

Next Week! Meet The Speakers of the Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology Gordon Research Conference! To Learn More About Dr. Greenblum: biosciences.lbl.gov/profiles/sha... @greensi.bsky.social

“We are trying to reimagine science in a non-bureaucratic, non-boring way,” says @odedrechavi.bsky.social. “By acting silly or goofy, it sets the tone for an open conference where we can be authentic and show vulnerability,” says @natanellae.bsky.social My latest: www.nature.com/articles/d41....