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 💚

Just over a week left to apply for a 3yr postdoc with me at Lancaster @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social looking at Rubisco engineering in vitro and in vivo to improve plant #photosynthesis #plantscijobs wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosy...

I love fictional taxonomic studies like this. This reminds me of our recently published study with @sderkarabetian.bsky.social of fictional spiders portrayed in the Magic: The Gathering card game: virginianaturalhistorysociety.com/wp-content/u...

🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint! We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity. Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊 #PlantScience

Watch the space: Job adverts will be live soon. We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated researchers to join our team working at the intersection on synthetic biology and functional genomics. For informal inquiries feel free to reach out by email to [email protected]. Please repost!

Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

This post is now online, for full details on how to apply please see: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosy...

Some stalked tubers growing on what I think is the #Hornwort Phymatoceros bulbiculosus, including one that is branching!😱

our recent hornwort phylogenomic paper (> 230 nuclear genes) will get the cover of the journal - One of these photos will be the cover and you may see them around in conferences this year !! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... - Photos by Juan Larraín, Patagonia, Chile. - Cute hornworts ;) !

Hornwort chloroplasts! These have lots of little particles, I'm guessing starch granules?

It's a good week for rubisco enthusiasts - very cool preprint from Ron Milo lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... impressive screening of +250 genes spanning available diversity of rubisco, this then used to predict activities of 68,000 known sequences revealing role of phylogeny and habitat

Nice shout-out for @laura-gunn.bsky.social and @fernway.bsky.social