We are pleased to announce the official release of PLAZA 5.1, our plant genomics platform, which comes with a major front-end redesign. This results in improved performance, enhanced visualization tools, and refined Toolboxes. Src: www.vandepoelelab.be/plaza/news#28

Accessible chromatin enables rapid recruitment of PIFs to induce expression of shade-induced genes! doi.org/10.1186/s130.... Particularly proud of the excellent work of Sandi Paulišić and Alessandra Boccaccini. Many thanks to all authors who made it happen. @unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Les Diablerets 🇨🇭 for the International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP2026), Sept. 8-11, 2026! @martinalegris.bsky.social @emiliedemarsy.bsky.social @chfankhauser.bsky.social @plantphotobiology.bsky.social ➡️ See the links below.

Researchers use less and less hedges (may, might, perhaps, probably ...) in their papers. Or in other words papers are becoming more like biblical texts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌿🌈 Less than a year for ISPP 2026 in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 Check our website ispp2026.unine.ch for more details.

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

🌱 Join us tomorrow for the seminar "Sensing light direction in plants" by Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social from the Center for Integrative Genomics, Switzerland @fbm-unil.bsky.social 👀 Don't miss it! 📍 CRAG Auditorium 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/qzdjdrwizu

Congratulations @jmhibberd.bsky.social on being elected to EMBO!

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪 Learn more here: www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Deux professeur·es du CIG nouvellement élu·es membres @embo.org pour 2025 👏 👏 Félicitations à 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗵𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 et 𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘄 du Centre intégratif de génomique (CIG) @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social ➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1751269... @chfankhauser.bsky.social @nvastenhouw.bsky.social

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The lack of self-reliance Europe has in terms of food security makes this all the more painful. The stubborn bureaucratic casual walk into famine is so disheartening, and an insult to the excellent plant bioengineering capacity in EU academia and industry. Insanity.

Congratulations Detlef! An extremly well deserved award @plantevolution.bsky.social @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Must read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression” #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Applications open for an Executive Physician with an Associate Professor title in #pediatric #dermatology 📍 within the Division of Dermatology and Venereology ❗ Apply before August 10th, 2025 More info 👉 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli... #joboffer @unil.bsky.social #chuv

Happy Barbara Day, happy #TransposonDay2025 to all that celebrate! Every day we get to work on transposons is such a privilege and joy, and I will never not be amazed by these jumping weirdos -the neutral, the bad and the good. Share some black walnut brownies with your friends today!

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home.... For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

Excellent meeting for those interested in protein lipidation. More info & registration here www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

Interested in imaging plants, then this is a great workshop for you! We have a great line up of speakers from plant and ‘outside’ fields, fantastic location and spaces for ECRs to come and join in the fun! 🌱🔬💻🤓

The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Building AI models or the data to train them? Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30. www.nature.com/naturecareer... acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... pls RT!

⚠️ Super important update of the Arabidopsis reference genome! 👇👇👇

'The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), one of Europe’s leading institutes for basic research in the life sciences, is seeking outstanding candidates for a faculty position.' #ScienceJobs in Vienna. www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/career-...

Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...

VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis. Great work from @djgibbs.bsky.social lab together with @sjonhartman.bsky.social and @ekaiserli.bsky.social Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

this owl accidentally included me in a group chat discussing his plans to attack that deer

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exciting work from the team of @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social on the role of Casparian Strips in a legume & how CS influence nitrogen fixing root nodules www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.

You can freely access all PubMed records at Europepmc.org - I just checked and it's up and running.

European alternatives for popular services european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...

Yep, Pubmed here down as well

JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor position in Plant Biology open to competition at University Grenoble Alpes (UGA), for September 2025! Department of Chemistry Biology - Cell and Plant Physiology Laboratory. Apply online at www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_r...

We interrupt your doom-scrolling for some important spring news: ** The cherry tree in the Bik sideyard has started blooming ** Enjoy these lovely cherry blossoms.

🌱 Excited about plant biology? Apply for the CSHL Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science course! Hands-on training, world-class instructors, and cutting-edge research. 🧬🔬 📅 Application deadline: March 15 Details & apply here 👉 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... #PlantScience #CSHL

Our newest research on plant-fungal trade published today in @nature.com. The work, led by scientists from Vrije Universiteit, Princeton University, SPUN & AMOLF combines robotics, mycology & biophysics to reveal underground supply-chain dynamics. Open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have resigned my Fellowship of the #RoyalSociety due to their Council's inability to act proportionately on #ElonMusk. See fediscience.org/@A_J_Millar/...

Hello everyone on Bluesky! 🧪 We are EMBO, the organization of more than 2,100 leading researchers that promotes excellence in #lifesciences in Europe and beyond. Read more: www.embo.org/about-embo/m...

Darwin's birthday is always a good excuse to share these delightful drawings by his children, some of them on the back of the manuscript of On the Origin of Species.

👏👏👏👏 "You can expect that ASPB will continue to strive to become ever more welcoming and inclusive to all . . . continue to recognize and celebrate our community including, for example, during Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Pride Month, and those recognizing people . . .

💡 At a joint press conference, the #SNSF and its ERI partners called on the Federal Council to abandon the planned cuts to #education, #research and #innovation in the "relief package 27", as they would have far-reaching consequences for the #economy and society. ➡️ https://buff.ly/3CTR2AM

On this day 160 years ago (Feb, 8, 1865), Mendel gave the first of two talks about his experiments with peas 🫛 at the „Naturforschenden Verein“ (natural scientist’s club) in Brünn/Brno (then 🇦🇹 now 🇨🇿).

(1/2) Three #plantscience papers in @science.org this week: Scharwies et al find that ethylene, auxin and an arabinogalactan protein work together to control lateral root branching in response to water availability in maize www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️ We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late. Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

Temperature-dependent polar lignification of a seed coat suberin layer promoting dormancy in Arabidopsis. Beautiful work from Lena Hyvärinen, Luis Lopez-Molina et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join us to investigate the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock - post-doc opportunity in my lab, deadline 9 February. Funded by the MicroClock #ERCSyG programme @microclockerc.bsky.social in collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @marthamerrow.bsky.social www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

L’extrême-droite qui prétend défendre la « liberté d’expression », sa réalité, c’est ça La version moderne d’un autodafé où les fascistes brûlent des jeux de données plutôt que des livres Des données par ailleurs collectées avec l’argent public C’est une attaque sans précédent contre la science