Last night we enjoyed one more round of excellent talks by @johninnescentre.bsky.social scientists telling us all about starch and proteins in wheat🌾 We were sad to wrap up yet another exciting edition of @pintofscience.uk but happy to have brought science to so many people around Norwich! #pint26

There is a lot to dig into in this really interesting mouse study on inheritance of DNA methylation patterns, but I found the disregard all the beautiful work in plants on this subject (especially from Vincent Colot's lab) to be so egregious as to almost be distracting www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another fantastic science night at @pintofscience.uk, with speakers from @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @johninnescentre.bsky.social 🧪🌱 Grab some tickets for the last night (tonight) before they're gone! pintofscience.co.uk/event/you-ar... #pint26

Last night we kicked off @pintofscience.uk 2026 with two great talks by @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social speakers! Curious? There are still tickets available for Wednesday night: pintofscience.co.uk/event/you-ar... #pint26

Early bird registration for PPATH2026 closes 31 May. Save money and secure your spot at the BSPP's annual conference. 8–11 September 2026, Norwich. Student members get a reduced rate, worth joining if you haven't already. Register: tinyurl.com/EPCC2026 #PlantPathology #PlantHealth #PlantScience

Out today - structure of the human HIRA histone chaperone complex bound to nucleosomes. Ever wondered how nucleosomes are assembled in the wake of transcription? It takes a 'hulk of a protein complex'. Work by the amazing Wei Tian weetian558.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures" but their own internal data.

NEXT WEEK: Discover how cells can sustain freezing temperatures or shrink to the impossible, helping @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @johninnescentre.bsky.social scientists grow better crops for the future🌱 📍 Warwick Arms, Norwich 📅 19 May Tickets: shorturl.at/1pnfU #pint26 @pintofscience.uk

On this day, in 1961, two articles appeared in Nature announcing the isolation of messenger RNA (mRNA) www.cell.com/current-biol...

You are what you eat, but what is it you're eating? Discover the microscopic world of our starchy foods and how @johninnescentre.bsky.social scientists can make more nutritious Weetabix! 🌾 📍 Warwick Arms, Norwich 📅 20 May Tickets: pintofscience.co.uk/event/you-ar... #pint26 @pintofscience.uk

Did you know that Pierre Chambon's laboratory was the first to use the term "nucleosome" in 1975 ? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Should I commission a piece on a form of "plant blindness", defined here as some people's tendency to overlook discoveries made in plants?

Not the best picture, but happy to have Alejandro @aemonten.bsky.social visit us in Norwich! @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

#RIP Pierre Chambon (1931-2026) via @alainberetz.bsky.social one of the last giants in biology: PARP, nuclear receptors, RNA Pol II, nucleosome, promoters, split genes

My second postdoc paper in @tunglejic.bsky.social lab and two of my favorite things in the lab combined: ParB and killing bacteria. Thanks to everyone who helped make this project possible!

Dear PhD students and postdocs — we want to hear about your science firsthand at our annual Early Career Microbiologists Mini-Symposium @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK) this September. For more information and to apply: www.jic.ac.uk/event/early-...

It's already back ???? #Maythe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th #MayTheFourthBeWithYou Well, somebody has to do it @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social 🫣 poke @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Did you know that the nucleosome inspires the Millennium Falcon design and made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs ?

This a very important, and extremely well-executed study from Ralph Grand’s group @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Congrats to all the authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Just in front of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Sportspark 🌳

A clear/significant finding derived from the single cell (sc) analysis of biological systems has been the realization that phenotypically homogeneous populations are heterogeneous at the level of gene expression (GE). www.cell.com/fulltext/S00... 🧵

End of April and I got my diploma🥂 Now the PhD degree is official! I hope I've mentioned everyone in my acknowledgments, but I still can’t thank you enough for all the support along this journey: ) If anyone's looking for some 400-page light reading… here it is ➡️ ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Happy birthday to #neurologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 - 1934), here in front of Purkinje and granule cells from a pigeon, based on one of his own drawings! 🧪🐡 #histsci Cajal &Golgi won the Nobel in 1906, “in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system”. He was as much of 🧵

We are looking for a new Director @cragenomica.bsky.social to help us keep growing and making even cooler science, come join us!, Application details www.cragenomica.es/sites/defaul... please, help us spread the word!

Ever wondered what makes some alleles dominant (A) and others recessive (a) ? In our new paper, we explored how a series of recently discovered "dominance modifiers", genetic elements that have long remained elusive, achieve their regulatory function. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

I have some news! Fabio Fornara and I published a book! We are very happy of it!

🐸Do salamanders need adaptive immunity to regenerate limbs and tails? 🐸 Nope! 🚨Check out back-to-back pre-prints from PhD student in our lab Chimezie (tinyurl.com/42wst3bh) and from our collaborators the Max Yun lab (tinyurl.com/b92rzwzr)

Reminder that Plant Reproduction wants your research on all aspects of epigenetics and reproduction! link.springer.com/collections/...

We are very lucky today having @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social sharing with us the work of his lab @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

I wanted to share my new Spotlight in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social that highlights a terrific paper linking gene body methylation with noise in gene expression: Silencing the noise with gene body methylation doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

If you want to read more about our recent work on how gene body methylation buffers noise in gene expression academic.oup.com/nar/article/... , @jamespblloyd.bsky.social has a excellent spotlight in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social.

35 years ago www.nature.com/articles/350...

Hey #MPMI crowd, we are having trouble finding co-proteome papers looking into the host and pathogen proteome at the same time. I know they must exist but can’t find them. Any suggestions?

Great new History of Science talk series at the Norwich Research Park. Kicking off with a talk from Mika Hyman on the history of cocoa research in Trinidad 🍫. No chocolate snacks given unfortunately ☹️ @johninnescentre.bsky.social

We are very happy to share our new paper about PWO proteins evolution 🤗🌱 This has been a joint effort between our lab and Iva Mozogová's lab led by Ahamed Khan #PlantScience #TansleyReview

👏So well deserved silver medal from @cnrs.fr 😍 Emmanuelle Bayer @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social from @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social is an outstanding scientist 🤓 and one of a few female role model in the plant research field 🍀 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...

👏So proud of our dear colleague Charlotte Kirchhelle @ckirchhelle.bsky.social at @rdplab.bsky.social for this bronze medal from @cnrs.fr ✨️Such a pleasure to benefit from vibrant interactions at work with this fantastic research✨️ and amazing female group leader 🫶 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/talents/c...

Purple Toothwort, Lathraea clandestina. Doing very well at its known site at Bowthorpe, Norwich. Seen on yesterday's bike ride with @vannabartlett.bsky.social. The flowers were being visited by Early Bumblebees, Bombus pratorum. www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2019/04/25/p... #WildFlowerHour

I'll soon be visiting @johninnescentre.bsky.social, hosted by C Dean & @jonathandgjones.bsky.social; @cecad.bsky.social & @unicologne.bsky.social,hosted by @bjornschumacher.bsky.social & @frezzalab.bsky.social; & @molgen.mpg.de,hosted by @aktast.bsky.social. If you're around, come say hi! #EuroTour

The Norwich Cambridge Science Symposium is back this summer! Save the date (13th-14th August). Check out our updated website : nocass.org, and follow @nocassofficial.bsky.social for upcoming updates on keynote speakers, panelists and workshops! (Registration opens 1st June).

I need a bryozoan cyphonautes expert! I’m stuck on a regularly appearing cyphonautes and comparative photos on the internet are lacking. If I can ID it, I can get some photos out there! #marineplankton

😱 is this a new record ?? via @steveroyle.bsky.social

I wrote an essay. It’s about gain-of-function mutations. And penguins. Also ion channels, chihuahuas, the film Alien, recycled cardboard, and the Apollonian mind. Oh, and muffins. Thanks to the editors of #GENETICS @genetics-gsa.bsky.social for letting me take some stylistic liberties. 1/2

Our latest publication is now out at Genome Biology! link.springer.com/article/10.1... We uncover a unique association between a H3K27me3 reader complex and active transcription. A thread with our key findings: (1/8) #TEsky #Polycomb #transcription #smallRNAs

Women in plant science around the world #plantscience

Looking for a #post-doc? #MSCA-PF 2026 program @sorbonne-universite.fr The #DEEVA team of @biom-banyuls.bsky.social from @obs-banyuls.fr in #WindyBanyuls from @sorbonne-universite.fr and @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social proposes a research project on #ascidians to host a post-doctoral fellow.

New preprint out! 🚀 biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We mapped how septins organise infection in the rice blast fungus—and found they are far more dynamic than previously thought. Thread 👇 #FungalPathogenesis #CellBiology #septins

A new study from our group, led by Iris Eisermann, of the septin interactome during appressorium development, revealing many new interactors and significantly widening the biological function of septins in fungal pathogenesis. 👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Fargo was released 30 years ago today 🚔❄️