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Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
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Journal of Experimental Botany
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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - FINAL CALL 🚨 📅 💧 The Interdrought VIII special issue closes on 28 February 💧📅 🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry 🌎 📇 Got a manuscript? Contact us:
bit.ly/JXBissues
#PlantScience
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#JXBspecialissues
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
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#PlantSciConfi
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Vinay Shukla
2 days ago
🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring: 1. Postdoc 2.PhD (UK applicants only) Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development. More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
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#plantscience
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez
5 days ago
More and more of my colleagues are finally starting to realize what we knew: Reforms are not enough. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
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Noah Berlatsky
2 days ago
the congresswoman should have a lot more followers on here! please follow and share.
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I just want to shout out
@somssich.bsky.social
for making the lovely set of
#PlantScience
feeds––I think he's one of the reasons we have such good engagement in our particular 🌱community here.
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New Phytologist
3 days ago
How state transitions balance photosynthetic electron transport in plants – a quantitative study 📖
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Hoochak et al. @WIleyPlantSci
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Eric Allix Rogers
3 days ago
Lake forever, problems for now
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Lilah Sturges
3 days ago
Remember if you watch this show or buy this merch, no trans person will like or trust you ever again. Sorry but those are the rules.
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SEBiology
3 days ago
Join Marco at the
#SEBconference
in Florence. Submit your abstract now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Book your place now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
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James | that funny little trans guy on BlueSky
4 days ago
THIS. Life is only hard for trans/queer kids because bigots MAKE it hard. You accept your kid, fight for them, and you'll make it BETTER.
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So much love for the
#grass
in the
#BadBunny
half time show––brings joy to my
#PlantNerd
heart! 💚
#PlantAwareness
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Robin Heinen
3 days ago
I am quite sure that thie special issue could be relevant to quite a few in my circles here on BSky.
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Chicago, when?
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Is there a hashtag for "This is well-written ALT text and we can all learn from and enjoy it"?
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
iDiv Biodiversity Research
9 days ago
📢 Call for registrations - Science:TBD 📍 Leipzig | 3–4 March 2026 Join us for an inspiring lineup of keynotes: ⭐Sheena F. Bartscherer ⭐Alice Hughes
@achughes.bsky.social
⭐Wolfgang Forstmeier ⭐Ulrich Dirnagl ⭐Dietram A. Scheufele
@dietram.bsky.social
Register now:
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
Journal of Integrative Agriculture
4 days ago
Overexpression of
#OsCAX2
in indica
#rice
reduces
#cadmium
accumulation in
#grains
without
#yield
loss ❇️https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2025.08.011
#PlantScience
#MolecularBiology
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Association of Applied Biologists
4 days ago
🚨 Final day to register for Crop Production in Northern Britain 2026 🚨 Join us in Dundee 25- 26 February 👉️
cpnb.org
#plantscience
#sustainableagriculture
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
Spoel Lab
4 days ago
Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key
#ubiquitin
recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust
#PlantImmunity👇🏾
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Physiologia Plantarum
4 days ago
🌱Wild barley handles drought better for a reason Pan et al. identifies an 8-bp promoter deletion in HvNF-YB7 that enhances drought-induced expression and strengthens glutathione-based ROS detoxification via HvGSTF13.1. https://bit.ly/4sMm96K
##PlantScience
#Barley
#Drought
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old fruit pictures
4 days ago
peyton pears, painted by bertha heiges, 1898
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Steven
5 days ago
The Chicago Public Library has a Bad Bunny reading list!
www.chipublib.org/blogs/post/s...
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Spanish Teen Reads for Bad Bunny at Super Bowl LX
Super Bowl LX goes beyond football as Bad Bunny headlines the halftime show. Celebrate the moment with Spanish-language books that…
https://www.chipublib.org/blogs/post/spanish-teen-reads-for-bad-bunny-at-super-bowl-lx/
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Thomas Spallek
7 days ago
Nikolas and I just published our insights on CLEs in plant–bio interactions. Too short to cover everything, but we hope it gets you also excited about these peptides. Thanks to
@newphyt.bsky.social
for the opportunity
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
8 days ago
#PlantSciJobs
#PlantSciJob
Akademische Rats-Stelle a.Z. Evolution, Taxonomie, Systematik und funktionelle Morphologie der Blütenpflanzen
@unibonn.bsky.social
Start: zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt Deadline: 22 Februar 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...
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Stellenangebote
Stellenausschreibungen in Pflanzenwissenschaften und Botanik
https://www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangebote#c38926
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Barry Butler Photography
8 days ago
Peaking in Pink. This morning's sunrise in Chicago.
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ouinne
10 days ago
Let’s have a moss break
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Kim Kelly
9 days ago
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
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Remco Stam
9 days ago
Applications for our MSc programme Agrigenomics are now open! Are you interested in learning about genomics methods (molecular and computational) in the context of agricultural sciences (either on crops or animals), consider applying!
www.uni-kiel.de/en/aef/study...
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Master AgriGenomics
https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/aef/study/master-agrigenomics
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Good breakfast sandwich at Moodys Market—will this place kick the curse of this location, Chicago?
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
New Phytologist
9 days ago
Save the date! 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions 📅 13–16 October 2026 📍 Leysin, Switzerland
www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps
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Forest interactions
Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.
https://www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps
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I wish I had a camera in the front to capture the bounding rat that made these tracks.
#ChicagoRat
10 days ago
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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️⚧️
11 days ago
Me, tired, tapping the sign
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
Journal of Systematics and Evolution
17 days ago
Have you seen our gorgeous January issue, featuring
#evolution
,
#systematics
,
#phylogenetics
, and
#ecology
of
#fish
,
#birds
, and lots of
#PlantScience
in the Himalaya?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17596831...
@wileyecology.bsky.social
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Special Issue: Uplift history and biological evolution of the Himalaya (II): Journal of Systematics and Evolution: Vol 64, No 1
Click on the title to browse this issue
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17596831/2026/64/1
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
Journal of Systematics and Evolution
11 days ago
Need something uplifting (OK, uplifted) for your Monday? Check out our new issue!
#Evolution
#Systematics
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
11 days ago
Stone cells impact pear
#fruit
quality, and their formation is complex and poorly understood. Xue et al. offer insights into MADS
#gene-mediated
stone cell formation & functional divergence within the SEP3 subfamily.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
@wileylifesci.bsky.social
#PlantSci
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The PbrMADS1–PbrMYB169 complex has uniquely emerged to regulate lignification of stone cells in pear
Genome-wide association study in pear identified a SEP3-subfamily transcription factor, PbrMADS1, which interacts with PbrMYB169 to regulate stone cell lignification. The methionine at position 63 in....
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70071
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You get to pick up to six names Chicago, so here's a great option for your second choice!
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
12 days ago
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1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase determines the fate of ethylene biosynthesis in a tissue-specific way
The production of the plant hormone ethylene is controlled by the biosynthesis enzye ACO in a tissue-specific way, which modulates plant development and st
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Elisabeth Bik
14 days ago
I know that
@frontiersin.bsky.social
are trying hard to be taken seriously. But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
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madeline odent
13 days ago
Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)
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Another vat of soup from
#Kapusta
, this time the vegan borscht. Excellent, but will cut back the allspice next time.
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Casket Based
13 days ago
Truly a great sandwich is one of the great things in life
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Frogs make some wild-ass sounds!
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Frog survey training!
#CommunityScience
🐸🐸🐸
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
13 days ago
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MITOGEN‐ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE9 fine‐tunes hypoxia signaling by phosphorylating ERF‐VII transcription factors in Arabidopsis
In plants, hypoxia sensing is controlled by the stabilization of group VII ethylene response factors (ERF-VIIs), which are post-translationally activated by the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MA...
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Dog of cpncern
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion
14 days ago
Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group
@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Philip Ball
14 days ago
I had intended to post something about this new Google DeepMind paper that appeared yesterday in Nature, but the press coverage has added to what there is to say. So this is a long 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature
AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10014-0
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Yes indeed––I just finished reading "Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden" and was struck by how much the anti-expertise sentiment parallels our current situation. Great book, writing is direct and story is moving. 📚
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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The RhizoLab
17 days ago
Have a look at our most recent preprint, where we looked at transcriptional regulation during tomato root colonization by Rhizophagus irregularis.
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Holy cats where were they shopping in Chicago?
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