🧵 New paper alert! We've discovered RAK1—a moss protein that does something no other known protein does: it fuses MAP kinase signaling with acetyltransferase activity to control a critical developmental transition. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

1 year technician position in the Roeder lab on how sepal morphogenesis is robust to environmental perturbations. Great position for a postbac. jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Save the date for #nonseedUK26 👇 = exciting times 😃

Spiral phyllotaxis in the moss Physcomitrium patens emerges from simple division rules of the apical cell: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... #plantscience

Were hiring! We have 3 new open positions on our academic staff, more details on the link below. It’s an open call, and we would love to boost the diversity of our staff, so if you think there might be a good scientific fit, do apply! I am happy to take enquiries. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

It’s been amazing to receive so much interest in the Prototaxites paper! An absolute highlight was talking about the work last night to Jane Hill on BBC R4, The World Tonight The Prototaxites segment starts at 33 mins 👇👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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...

Love this really cool method for gene editing briwn algae- greens or lycophytes next? www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

@philcarella.bsky.social opens up the 4th #nonseedUK25 meeting. An exciting day of science lies ahead…

Comparative genomics to understand the evolution of water conducting tissues. A great overview by @alexmcbowles.bsky.social 🌱 #nonseedUK25

@sramundo.bsky.social looks through the lens of Chlamydomonas to understand the origins of plastid-encoded RNA polymerase complexity #nonseedUK25 👍

Katy Mather introduces a novel regulator of 3D growth in P. patens (NOG5) #nonseedUK25 😃

@jimfouracre.bsky.social discusses vegetative phase change and the ancestral role of miR156 #nonseedUK25

@davidjhoey.bsky.social discusses the acquisition of vasculature as an evolutionary innovation - lovely comparative approaches across multiple land plant lineages #nonseedUK25 🌱 😊

Hugh Mulvey explains why M. polymorpha is such a great system for studying morphogenesis from a single cell #nonseedUK25 👍

Miriam Charpentier discusses the evolution of endosymbiosis-mediated nuclear calcium signaling in land plants #nonseedUK25 🌱 👍

@dariuskos.bsky.social highlights the multitalented MpGRAS7 gene, which is involved in both stress response and reproductive development #nonseedUK25 😀

Ooi-Kock Teh explores how cells sense and adapt to changes in cell wall integrity #nonseedUK25 🌱 👍

@justingoodrich.bsky.social investigates the ancestral roles of ZHOUPI genes in land plants #nonseedUK25 🌱 👍

Fantastic closing keynote by @rensingstefan.bsky.social. Thanks for joining us and telling us about all of the great @watertoland.bsky.social outputs 👍

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 👍

We’re delighted to announce that the #nonseedUK26 meeting will be held in Edinburgh. Watch this space for further details 🌱 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😃

Always a high octane event - super science highlighted, and very impressive talks 👍

Looking forward to it 👍

Looking forward to Friday's Non-seed plant meeting in Norwich. Together with @karimaelm.bsky.social, we wrote a Review about the last year meeting. We discuss about the latest advances and the importance of using in models. Thanks @biologists.bsky.social and @biologyopen.bsky.social. #PlantScience

Thanks @fromani.bsky.social and @karimaelm.bsky.social for writing such a great summary 👍

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Happy to share our latest publication: CRISPR/Cas9 targeted genetic screening in Physcomitrella identifies novel cell division genes #moss #Physcomitrella #celldivision www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

🚀 PhD opportunity! Join us (@pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & @chofski.bsky.social) in Bristol 🌱✨ Design, test & model synthetic promoters in Nicotiana benthamiana, focusing on plant immunity. Apply now! 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSci #SyntheticBiology #PhD #PlantBioDesign #BristolUni

Fantastic opportunity with a fab supervisor 👇 😃

Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

International Marchantia Workshop 2026 Nov. 27th – 29th, 2026 Kobe, Japan sites.google.com/view/marchan...

Very inspiring meeting so far 👍

This year’s @embo.org Workshop is held at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Open to 120 participants, it is over-enrolled with 180 attendees! Thank you to the organizers @isabelmonte.bsky.social, Aino Komatsu, @moodytomato.bsky.social, and Liam Dolan for making this event possible. #EMBOplantEvo

Consistently an absolutely fantastic meeting - don’t miss out on an opportunity to interact with an awesome bunch of non-seed enthusiasts 🌱 😃 🧬

The deadline for abstract submissions is TODAY… 😃

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you! Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to present our Tansley Insight on what we know about the potential of different root cortex layers to do develop into different things! 👩‍🔬 @dorotakawa.bsky.social @hannahschneider.bsky.social 📗 @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Exciting opportunities to join @justingoodrich.bsky.social group in Edinburgh as either a Postdoc or Research Assistant. See the link for further details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Registration for #nonseedUK25 is officially open: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge.... If you wish to be considered for a talk, please submit your abstract by 30th October. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social for acting as local organizer this year 😃

Abscisic acid signaling regulates primary plasmodesmata density for plant cell-to-cell communication | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

👉 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

FLOE in the 2D-to-3D growth transition This Research Highlight showcases the work from Zoe Weeks @zoeweeks.bsky.social, Gargi Chaturvedi, Emily Day, Steven Kelly, Laura A. Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...