Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! 🎄✨

CYCLING CITIES goes international! Dear friends of the int. cycling community. My new movie CYCLING CITIES is now available with english subtitles to hopefully inspire people worldwide to push for change. Please share within your int. network. Thank you and merry christmas❤️ youtu.be/R5jQc1jXLAU?...

US based gardeners: Go get yourself the coolest tomato seeds of this decade for your garden! 🍅💜🧡

HS1 Ltd is expanding the capacity at St Pancras... 🤔 I have known for AGES this is in planning (and was leaked some documents about it, also ages ago). I can't tell if this story is some new plan, or re-hashing the old ones. In any case it's welcome! #CrossChannelRail www.ft.com/content/ff71...

The Clavel Group is recruiting a new postdoc for two possible projects dealing with plant-virus interactions and selective autophagy! More (wordy) details below ⬇️🌱🦠

Alright scientists! It's that time again! Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester. Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026? Sign up now 🥰 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New release of #BigVolumeBrowser. Many things were added: UI improvement (thanks to @kwolbachia.bsky.social feedback), pyramidization for BioFormats dataset, bug fixes. Now there is an isosurface rendering mode (1/4)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES). Vancouver, Canada. #plantscijobs #plantscijob botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

In a recent interview with the @oeaw.bsky.social, Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid of the GMI discusses the advantages, opportunities, and risks presented by new genomic technologies (NGTs) and the recent loosening of regulations in the EU. Read more ⤵️

Some of my friends and I clearly think much too similarly. 😅

We just put up our eel facts advent calendar in the lab. ✨ Always happy to support initiatives such as @skypeascientist.bsky.social www.skypeascientist.com by purchasing cool merch squidfacts.bigcartel.com (Don't worry, we also have another advent calendar with chocolates.)

Very excited to share my first solo Tansley Insight. An integrated view on the hydraulics of aboveground plant meristems, and the framework of my future work as part of this community #PlantScience @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Delighted to report that our group's passion project over the last 6+ years to make DNA cloning more accessible, efficient, and scalable using a software-assisted workflow called CloneCoordinate is now out in ACS Synbio! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol... #mimuluspropaganda

Understanding bioRxiv/medRxiv DOIs. How openRxiv assigns them, a changing prefix, and the embedded priority date in citations openrxiv.org/dois-for-pre...

Getting ready for our #PlantGenomics courses! 🌱🔬 The course is almost full, so check out the details soon if you want to join and learn about the power of long-read sequencing and cloud-based data analysis. Feel free to spread the word! 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... @puckerlab.bsky.social

I'm quite excited for mine to arrive. ✨ If you want one too, you still have a chance to go for it! The proceeds go to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social outreach! squidfacts.bigcartel.com

We’re #hiring! Our #IMPRS @mpipz.bsky.social & @unicologne.bsky.social recruits 4 PhD students. We look for candidates with a keen interest in experimental & computational plant biology to join us in 2026! Find details at www.mpipz.mpg.de/imprs/imprs-... and apply by Jan 5. #PlantSciJobs

🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions! Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery. Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Looking to move out of the USA and to Germany for a postdoc, as you can't conduct your work in the USA under the current political restrictions? (e.g visa issues, funding cuts, etc.) The state of Baden-Württemberg funds novel postdoc fellowships for this: www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December. It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris

I, for one, am very pro having a lama to hug at all future conferences. 🦙

Hi fellow PIs, how do you feel with all the leadership / managing tasks that were bestowed onto you at some point? Did you get formal training? Did you seek any training? Are you following any principles/guidance or are you just winging it and hope for the best?

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas. Huge thanks to the whole team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nominations for the Darbaker Prize close TOMORROW, November 1! This joint award from the Botanical Society of America and the Phycological Society of America recognizes excellence in research on microscopic algae. 💰 Award increased to $2500! botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAwards

Seemingly everyone in my extended friendship and social circles: Getting married, buying an apartment/house, and/or having babies. Versus me, telling them my exciting news: “So, I’m making this really cool set of plasmids…” 🙃

If you’re fed up with MacOS, here’s a really nice Linux version that runs on recent Macs. Super easy installation. Run in terminal: curl alx.sh | sh

Please repost: What are the current costs of kit-based RNA extractions per sample? Qiagen quoted my grad student a "discount" that came to $10/sample. That seemed /way/ too high

Imagine: you are visiting a colleague's office, or a conference room, and you want to explain something. You turn to the chalkboard and <GASP> you are struck by the sight of this. CAN YOU EVEN DO SCIENCE WITH THIS? Unlikely. Better to be prepared.

The automatic assumption from Adobe Acrobat that I would like to have their AI "help" me read paper PDFs has driven me slightly mad. Thankfully, it is simple to turn it off. (Even if I would prefer that one would need to actively turn it on, instead of off.) helpx.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/u...

JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply! Please re-post!

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Want to do a PhD in biology? Our projects for 2026 are now live! If you're considering a PhD, or know someone who is, we have projects that span the biosciences to serve as inspiration. Reach out to our academics to discuss these or more options if you have an idea of your own 👇 bit.ly/dphilbio25

🦖 Something HUGE just hatched. Plasmidsaurus now offers RNA sequencing for gene expression analysis: • As fast as 3 day turnaround • $50/sample for academia, $80 for industry • Up to ~10M unique transcript 3’ end reads per sample • Interactive results Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.

🌿 Amazing opportunity for scientists from any field to move into plant biology! I might host a fellow in the area of root-microbe or root-environment interactions (DM me). 👉 simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology #PlantScience #ClimateChange #HarnessingPlants

Excited to share DupyliCate - our new tool for discovery and characterization of gene duplications: "DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications" doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution @puckerlab.bsky.social

If you're on the job market and are working in any area of Plant Molecular Biology, check this out. We have a very strong group: Jeff Dangl, Joe Kieber, Greg Copenhaver, Jason Reed, Zack Nimchuk, and an incoming new assistant professor starting in January bio.unc.edu/people/facul...

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Look I know we're called Skype a Scientist but this semester the reality has been Zoom an Archaeologist lmao

Look I know it'll shock you to know this, but we are almost out of archeologists AGAIN. Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team? Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!) We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠 forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...

The latest #AlphaFold DB update is out! We synchronised with UniProt release 2025_03, predicted protein isoforms across all species, and provide MSAs used to generate each prediction. Proud of the team at the PDBe for the hard work that went into this. Grateful to play my part in it!

Excited to participate and talk about how quantitative imaging analyses using #MorphographX helped see things that I didn’t know! #MGX 🌱🧪

What is really happening with Bluesky and its moderation? A thread. First, let’s use the accurate word to describe what Jay Graber (the CEO) and others at Bluesky have been receiving: it’s not criticism, it’s *harassment* I’ve seen some of them being harassed for months by deranged people 1/

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫 Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all! Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats