At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year. So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)

Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #CRISPR #BrownAlgae @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Well deserved! 🐐

I am honoured to announce I’ve been appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. Thank you to everyone for the support! I dedicate this to my late Mom who taught me so much about history, local independent media & research. I know that she would be, like me, screaming with joy! #orderofcanada

We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social #PlantSciJobs www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

I started a new hobby

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

New GM tomato available for sale!!! www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/collections/...

Excited to share the final version of our study on Nematostella cell type regulatory programs. Part of our @erc.europa.eu StG project, this was a challenging 5-year effort extraodinarily led by @aelek.bsky.social and @martaig.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Final version is out! Our large-scale cryo-ET dataset 🔬 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 🦠 is now published in @cp-molcell.bsky.social Huge collaborative effort! So glad to see the community already using it to develop new resources & tools. Check it out here: shorturl.at/z4i4c #CryoEM #CryoET

Just in case you're in need of a pandoro 🍰

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

Excited to share new manuscript on histone acylations, exploring how H4K16 acylations regulate inter and intranucleosomal interactions and how they confer resilience to metabolic challenges in vivo. Thanks to all authors +1 author @sandrani.bsky.social Enjoy 👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🗓️ Mark your calendars! The Norwich #SingleCell and #Spatial Symposium with the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social returns in 2026! Register your interest now to join us 08-09 July, exploring the latest technologies, research, and applications in single-cell and spatial genomics.

💡 New paper out in @natcellbio.nature.com 💥💥💥🚀🚀🚀 We uncover an unexpected role for endogenous Xist RNA in regulating X-linked genes that escape X-inactivation well beyond early development, in differentiated, non-dividing cells and in vivo post implantation embryos 👇👇👇👇

It's our birthday! Twenty-five years ago, in December 2000, the Arabidopsis thaliana genome was published and #TAIR was born. Now, we're preparing for the release of #TAIR12 early in the new year. What a long way we've come! bit.ly/3KDJciT #plantbiology #plantscience #genomics #Arabidopsis

Two papers on targeted DNA methylation editing for Arabidopsis came out within a week from each other. 1. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2. academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-... #PlantSciences

A major output of the 4D Nucleome project appeared today. This is the joint effort of many scientists working together and (publicly) sharing data and results for several years. We hope this is of interest to many genome biologists! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New research reveals mechanisms underlying the decades-old mystery behind flowering 🌸🌺 In this post, Vangeli Geshkovski (@vgeshkovski.bsky.social) shows there are still exciting discoveries to be made in the fields of flowering and floral development! Post: thenode.biologists.com/new-developm...

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

I see what keeps Vangeli sane in our plant immunity chaos 🌸💐🌺 Great read 👍

Sad news. Bob was a great scientist and a huge influence of mine in grad school. I've been very lucky to get to work with him, his lab, and the wonderful people he trained over his expansive career. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-m...

Still a lot to discover! I wrote a short piece on flowering for @the-node.bsky.social 🌺⏳ Thanks @turchil.bsky.social for the editing and @hsuanpai.bsky.social for the artwork 🤩🎨

New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇) This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels. 🌱Congratulations!🥂

✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨ Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️ jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Application deadline: January 31st, 2026

Eat your folates to methylate, drink your vitamin C to demethylate. This is why I have cereal and orange juice for breakfast every morning to maintain equilibrium.

How can plants maintain their genomic identity while also responding to the environment? @hajkdrost.bsky.social and I propose an "epigenetic toolkit" – a suite of epigenetic regulators that mediate the physiology-epigenome-genome crosstalk for adaptation. Read more here: www.cell.com/trends/plant...

🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com

Check our new preprint! How the petal identity gene PhDEF behaves differently in the epidermis and mesophyll, in petunia flowers (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

absolutely losing it at my 14yo's biology homework

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As an author, when I see reviewer-requested experiments, the only conclusion I can reach is they don’t want to see the research published. If two out of three reviewers requested for additional experiments, I will simply try another journal.

Can one map the genome-wide binding (1) and its protein partners (2) simultaneously from the same sample? Yes, one can. with CUT&ID ✂️🪪 Spearheaded — singlehandedly — by @annanordin.bsky.social No need of transgenesis, cloning and overexpression. Check it out, it's fast and its works.

Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation? 🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Have you ever wondered how new DNA methylation patterns are established? Paradigm shift ahead! We discovered a new mode of DNA methylation targeting in plants that relies on transcription factors and sequence motifs rather than chromatin modifications to regulate the methylome. rdcu.be/eQ6L5 1/8

🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...

An early Christmas present for those interested in chromatin and transcription! Fantastic work from @au-ho-yu.bsky.social and @aleksszczurek.bsky.social . Thanks to Inge and Michiel for their help. Please repost! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It is amazing that @dudinlab.bsky.social beautiful #ExM composition has been selected to highlight our #6mA work for the cover of @natgenet.nature.com. #Protists (and ichthyosporeans in particular) in the cover of NG must be quite unique!

Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

We have great news!🎉 @csic.es researcher at CRAG Julia Qüesta (@jiquesta.bsky.social) has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant @erc.europa.eu for #tuneCHILL, a project that will uncover how plants respond to cold to help develop climate-smart, more resilient crops. 🌱❄️

Thrilled to share that I recently got a position of an Assistant Professor/SciLifeLab Fellow at Stockholm University, where I will continue my work on #lichen symbiosis. The lab opens in April 2026, and if you are interested in joining please get in touch! #newPI

My secret Santa went WAY over budget this year… they got me a Promega kit 👨‍🔬 Not sure how to take this 😅

The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣 349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG! 👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

You can read Manu's recent @jcellsci.bsky.social interview here: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

A little reading before the Christmas break by the one and only @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social in @annualreviews.bsky.social The expanding Histone universe: Histone-Based DNA organization in noneukaryotic organisms www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Call for papers! To celebrate the upcoming edition of the Chromatin and Transcription: FLC and beyond II meeting in Madrid, I am co-editing with the great @jiquesta.bsky.social and Prof Zhe Wu from @sustech.bsky.social a Research topic for @frontiersin.bsky.social Plant Science (1/n)...

Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... this is a paradigm shift if this happens also to plants, that the surface localized PRRs or parts of it mobilize to the nucleus and directly modulate RNA pol II function, a straight-forward evidence of "transcriptional reprogramming"…

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.