A conserved photosynthetic cytochrome enhances growth in fluctuating light www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

More hornwort spore snaps! Best Sunday afternoon hosted by @pacifiplankton.bsky.social on the @sfmicrosociety.org desktop SEM!

✂️🧬 EDITOR’S CHOICE 🧬✂️ Frangedakis et al. present an improved method for generating complex CRSIPR-mediated genome modifications in Marchantia polymorpha using the tRNA-gRNA approach together with an optimized protocol for thallus transformation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

We genetically disconnected starch from the matrix in the algal pyrenoid! A saga1;saga2 double mutant lacks a starch sheath! Our model: SAGA1 & SAGA2 locally initiate starch on the pyrenoid surface by enriching starch precursors. 🌞🦠🔬🔌👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

How do diatom cells maintain a constant supply of carbon for photosynthesis? Our microelectrode measurements of the phycosphere around individual diatom cells show that diatoms can rapidly switch between distinct carbon acquisition pathways. @thembauk.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔬 Diatoms’ secret superpower revealed in scientific first. Scientists at the MBA used tiny single-cell microelectrodes to watch individual diatoms in action.  👉 Read the full story - https://www.mba.ac.uk/diatoms-reveal-hidden-rapid-adaptability-in-carbon-uptake-in-scientific-first/

We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

our hornwort paper got the cover of the @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dynamic changes in phycosphere carbonate chemistry reveal rapid modulation of carbon uptake in single diatom cells | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Live in the Bay Area? Interested in mosses (and friends!)? Come to our FREE workshop to find out more about these beautiful plants and how to identify them. Lunch, microscopes and good vibes provided! Saturday 17th Jan! luma.com/fx1y8ghf

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Non-seed science is accelerating forwards at a truly impressive rate. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social and Kayla Robinson for an awesome #nonseedUK25 meeting, and to @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social for agreeing to organise #nonseedUK26 in Edinburgh - looking forward to it 👍

Assistant Professor position in non-seed plant diversity ( #bryophytes, #ferns, #lycophytes) Department of #Botany of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver: botany.ubc.ca/job-postings... ⚠️ Deadline is soon, December 19. #Paleobotany is explicitly included 🌿⛏️

Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants. Please share and get in touch if interested www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...

Exciting SWBio PhD opportunity to study cell signalling in marine diatoms during heat stress. Deadline 3rd December 2025 @swbiodtp.bsky.social @kehelliwell.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social

New pre-print! ➡️ LCI9 is required for normal pyrenoid starch sheath formation and efficiency of the CO2-concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Featuring the wildest looking starch granules you've ever seen! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

Are you looking for a PhD in Plant Science? We have a project on cereal leaf genetics and evolution available through The EastBio competitive fellowship. Find out more here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Apply by 15th December #plantsci #cereals #crops #genetics #development #evolution #PhD

Interested in doing a postdoc on fundamental problems in plant biology? Apply for our Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology. Due 12/4/25: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/13/applications-for-simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology-now-open/ #biology #lifesciences

More images from @pacifiplankton.bsky.social this time of hornwort spores! These start off as a tetrad and break apart. Thinking these belong to Paraphymatoceros pearsonii, also growing on the Stanford campus. @diatomsattack.bsky.social @sfmicrosociety.org

Large-scale #hornwort plastomes unlock RNA editing, new species, and diversification history. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Xu et al. @WileyPlantSci

#Proteomic analysis of the #pyrenoid‐traversing membranes of #Chlamydomonas #reinhardtii reveals novel components 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Franklin et al. @mjonikas.bsky.social @ericfranklin.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci

Check out these awesome scanning electron microscopy images of some bottle liverwort (Sphaerocarpos cristatus) spores that I collected on Stanford campus! Taken by @pacifiplankton.bsky.social 🤩 in the lab of @diatomsattack.bsky.social. Thanks so much! @sfmicrosociety.org

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Convergence, stability, and thermal adaptation in the rubisco enzyme in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Algal pyrenoids—condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixation—change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! ☀️🌍🔬💧 #Biophysics #Photosynthesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We really enjoyed putting together this Darwin Review for JXB. Fun to think about how carboxysomes work and why plants don't have them. @jxbotany.bsky.social Function, Evolution, and Future of Carboxysomes url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...

I was deeply saddened today to learn of the passing of Steve Long. He was a pioneer and an inspiration to so many of us. Find his obituary here: www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Ste...

👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk

Fantastic studies presented by young scientists today: @noodlyscientist.bsky.social, @aliciakmichael.bsky.social, @sramundo.bsky.social, @florentwaltz.bsky.social. Beautifully orchestrated by @cellarchlab.com What a treat here in Münster @uni-muenster.de!

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢 The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

Come join our lab for a super exciting project!

It's publication day for Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of the World! Immerse yourself in the miniature world of these fascinating plants, delve into their evolutionary past and look ahead to what might be in store for their future. More details at: shorturl.at/Zmtfe

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Had the opportunity to make this short video about my current work at @stanfordenergy.bsky.social & @aburlacot.bsky.social, @carnegiescience.bsky.social! Applications for the Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship are now open- I can't recommend it enough! energypostdoc.stanford.edu/selection-fe...

Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Early Land Plant Evolution – Phylogenetics, Paleobotany, and Evo-devo Physiology. Submission Deadline: 03/2026. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages... #plantscience

Really pleased to see Josh's amazing work on using electrochemistry to answer biological questions published in @jacs.acspublications.org!

An off switch for the Chlamy CO2-concentrating mechanism!

GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

First contact with greater gravity: Moss plants adapted via enhanced photosynthesis mediated by AP2/ERF transcription factors | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I was reading a recent cool paper on the genomics of hornwort sex/"accessory" chromosomes (New Phytologist) and it never ceases to amaze me the tremendous knowledge that Johannes M. Proskauer had about the group. He'd be thrilled to see the hornwort research in this era. www.jstor.org/stable/3241446

and talking about hornworts: our paper got the cover of Annals of Botany, photo of Nothoceros endiviifolius (Chile) by Juan Larraín: academic.oup.com/aob/article-...

Ever wondered which tag is best to use to detect, purify or fluorescently label your protein of interest for expression in #microalgae? Well, look no further. Jonathan Scarfe, Ellen Nisbet (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & I wrote up an overview of tags best to use for @theplantjournal.bsky.social.

🎉🥳 Celebrating our publication revealing proteins bandwidths of importance with a Chlamy crêpe party 🥞 @carnegiescience.bsky.social @stanfordenergy.bsky.social Publication here👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool to see today the work of @noodlyscientist.bsky.social featured at the @stanfordenergy.bsky.social symposium 👀 💚🦠 @carnegiescience.bsky.social

Exciting work from our lab!!

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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚