Just under TWO WEEKS LEFT TO APPLY for the PCA SynBio Hackathon! Make sure to apply now! bit.ly/3QpF5Jr

This #FreeAccess Commentary explores work by Liao et al. on the role of NITROGEN LIMITATION ADAPTATION (NLA) in #plant cold tolerance, framing it within the broader context of #ClimateChange and #nutrient constraints. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #SciComm

Had a great time at the @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social last weekend. My only regret is not meeting up with @skwinnicki.bsky.social. These roosting nightjars were one of my highlights. 🪶

Booby trap for #ManholeMonday

Great article in @natplants.nature.com In situ architecture of plasmodesmata in #Physcomitrium patens resolved by cryo-electron tomography #Physcomitrella www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's out! 🥳 In situ architecture of #plasmodesmata - plant cytoplasmic bridges - by #cryoET. 📝 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 Thread: bsky.app/profile/madi... #teamtomo #proteomics #AlphaFold

Happy International Dylan Thomas Day! Dylan Thomas drank at the Woodlawn Tap in Chicago on March 16, 1950, and if you ask nicely, they will show you his signature in the guest book! #DylanThomasDay

🌳🌵🪴🌿Plants are amazing!🌴🌲🌱🌾 In this Commentary, Cai et al. explore the #molecular #evolution of #StemCell regulators that drive regenerative strategies like somatic embryogenesis and de novo organ regeneration in #plants. doi.org/10.1111/jse.... @wileyecology.bsky.social #PlantScience

Check out a recent publication from ASPS student member Gabrielle Jessica (USyd) From genes to climate: a perspective on the importance of leaf shape. Journal of Experimental Botany (2026) doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #AusPlantSci #PlantScience

I truly love the Chicago food waste program, but I really appreciate it when it’s warm enough for my backyard barrel composter to work because I can compost coffee filters

It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky

Reimagining Plant Science Training in the Era of Generative AI: A Global Perspective by Moghe et al. doi.org/10.1093/plce... I'm critical of how AI is being used in education, but this article is too, and points to how it CAN be incorporated into plant science education ethically and effectively.

Ripe for a ratio, Chicago bicyclists…

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

These exciting (but preliminary results) follow earlier and equally exciting results with mRNA vaccines against another dreaded killer: metastatic pancreatic cancer 10/n www.nih.gov/news-events/...

While BioNtech & Moderna become household names because of their Covid vaccines, those emerged from different projects: finding ways to treat the most challenging cancers. They hypothesized that we could vaccinate patients against their own tumors, & evidence is mounting that they were right! 1/n 🧪

Plant formins pave the way for endosymbiosis: Trends in Plant Science www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Final week to apply! 🚨 We're looking for a postdoc to join the RO2T Respiration lab at University of Nottingham working on root oxygen biology, as part of our ERC-funded Breathing Underground programme. Closes 20 May. #plantscijobs

Are you interested in competing in a time-bound event where participants work to design synthetic genetic circuits to program plants with new functions? If so, apply to the SynBio Hackathon! Applications are due June 1, 2026! Apply Here: bit.ly/3QpF5Jr

A day late for #MarchantiaMonday but never too late for correct nomenclature!

Beautiful antheridiophores of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha 💚☂️💚☂️💚☂️💚☂️💚 #MarchantiaMonday

The moment Chicago’s native gardeners have been waiting for has arrived. The city’s Native and Pollinator Garden Registry, approved by City Council back in fall of 2021, is now open for applications.

This book is a delight--well-written, thought-provoking, and the author has such a deep knowledge of plants.

Terrific Tuesday. This morning's sunrise in downtown Chicago.

“The Innes lab shares contiguous space with other research facilities, which remained on lockdown Monday. For the almost 50 researchers who rely on those labs, offices, grow rooms, equipment and freezers, the consequences are dire”

Secrets from a squirrel who's seen it all

With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

Preprint alert! I am happy to share the first manuscript from my thesis project! We initially wanted an overview of how SymRK evolution compares to other receptors with a similar domain structure, and when we saw how dynamically a particular group of them behaves, we decided to dig deeper...

#Craftivism #KnittingAsResistance www.teenvogue.com/story/how-kn...

Ever wonder how ubiquitination regulates plant receptor kinases?🤔 Then do we ever have a review for you!🫵 Zhou et al. look at what's new and next with the ubiquitin code of receptor #kinases in #plants. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #JIPB #signaling

Good morning! 🪶

Well, this aged well. Glad @iubiology.bsky.social is so supportive of this amazing plant biologist. #PlantScience

Very cool paper

Here's the post I got the image from, everyone should follow because it's one of many awesome nature illustrations bsky.app/profile/chas...

Purple flower posting!

Very chill Mothers Day afternoon, hanging in the back yard and reading about weeds

Happy Mother's Day from Chicago

#TansleyInsight: Beyond red/far-red sensing: phytochrome perception of the marine light field by microalgae Carole Duchêne, Marianne Jaubert & @afalciat.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Settings --> Accessibility, for those of us who NEVER forget the ALT text until that one post that does numbers...

Holy cats the Chicago Public Library needs to start using this typeface again—it’s so gorgeous @chipublib.bsky.social

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Siberian tiger populations declined sharply. “Tigers Between Empires” traces the efforts of #biologists in remote #Russia working to save the big cats, in a new #SEJournalBookShelf review by Jennifer Weeks. @ejtodaynews.bsky.social www.sej.org/publications...

What’s your favorite wildflower or wildflowerS? It’s hard to choose just one or a few, but trilliums are definitely on the top of my list. I painted it with Shooting Star just because they look pretty together. #botanicalart #SciArt #naturalhistoryart

Plant formins pave the way for endosymbiosis #plantscience

The Seed Song

Happy Friday, please provide all source files for the Y2H experiment shown in Figure... Because oops, Y2H did it again! #ImageIntegrity

This is the kind of sexy, naked siren I want to see more of... dnr.illinois.gov/education/wi...

And Wilma Fine too!

I'm so glad Barry Butler is posting here.

👋 Transposon lovers: registration is now open for the CSHL TE meeting! We have a 🔥 lineup of invited speakers and many slots for short talks selected upon abstract across all areas of TE biology. 🧬➰🧬 #TEsky Abstract deadline: July 10 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...