Jennifer Mach (she/they)
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Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
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Plant Cell Atlas
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Just under TWO WEEKS LEFT TO APPLY for the PCA SynBio Hackathon! Make sure to apply now!
bit.ly/3QpF5Jr
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
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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...
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#PlantSci
#SciComm
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Rewiring the SPX‐mediated signaling for climate‐resilient and nutrient‐efficient crops
This Commentary summarizes the original work by Liao et al. on the role of NITROGEN LIMITATION ADAPTATION (NLA) in cold tolerance, places it within the broader context of climate change and nutrient ...
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70255
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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. 🪶
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Booby trap for
#ManholeMonday
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Ralf Reski
4 days ago
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...
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In situ architecture of plasmodesmata in Physcomitrium patens resolved by cryo-electron tomography - Nature Plants
Using cryo-electron tomography, the authors reveal how plasmodesmata (plant cytoplasmic bridges) are gated by cell wall remodelling and how helical protein assemblies scaffold internal membranes, with...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02294-9
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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬
5 days ago
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
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Chicago Tafia Welsh Society
5 days ago
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
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution
20 days ago
🌳🌵🪴🌿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....
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Molecular evolution of stem cell regulators driving powerful regenerative abilities in plants
Plants have evolved diverse regenerative strategies, such as somatic embryogenesis and de novo organ regeneration, governed by key transcription factors. This commentary summarizes the evolutionary t...
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.70055
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS)
5 days ago
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
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From genes to climate: a perspective on the importance of leaf shape
Integrating knowledge on the regulatory genes controlling leaf shape with morphological responses to environmental variables has the potential to identify
https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf421
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Blanche K
6 days ago
#Floofsky
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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
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
7 days ago
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
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
7 days ago
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.
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Ripe for a ratio, Chicago bicyclists…
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Laura Turchi (she/her)
6 days ago
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
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You are what you eat…but what is it you’re eating again?
Plants have very intricate ways of cooking up the macronutrients that are essential parts of our diet. In these Pint of Science talks, Carol will bring the…
https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/you-are-what-you-eatbut-what-is-it-youre-eating-again/
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
6 days ago
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/...
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An mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer
A personalized mRNA vaccine against pancreatic cancer created a strong anti-tumor immune response in half the participants in a small study.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/mrna-vaccine-treat-pancreatic-cancer
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
6 days ago
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 🧪
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Sabine Brumm
7 days ago
Plant formins pave the way for endosymbiosis: Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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Plant formins pave the way for endosymbiosis
Intracellular infection by beneficial microorganisms enables endosymbiosis and remains a challenge in synthetic biology. A new study by Qiao et al. reveals that a formin orchestrates both rhizobial in...
https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-1385%2826%2900110-X
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Vinay Shukla
7 days ago
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
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
Plant Cell Atlas
7 days ago
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
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A day late for
#MarchantiaMonday
but never too late for correct nomenclature!
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Dr Susannah Lydon
8 days ago
Beautiful antheridiophores of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha 💚☂️💚☂️💚☂️💚☂️💚
#MarchantiaMonday
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Jared Rutecki
7 days ago
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.
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Chicago’s Native Garden Registry Is Open for Applications. Here’s How To Qualify
Chicago’s Native and Pollinator Garden Registry is now open for applications. But before a single submission has even been accepted, an amendment to the ordinance governing the registry is already in ...
https://news.wttw.com/2026/05/11/chicago-s-native-garden-registry-open-applications-here-s-how-qualify
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This book is a delight--well-written, thought-provoking, and the author has such a deep knowledge of plants.
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Barry Butler Photography
7 days ago
Terrific Tuesday. This morning's sunrise in downtown Chicago.
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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee
8 days ago
“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”
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Artologica aka Michele Banks
8 days ago
Secrets from a squirrel who's seen it all
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Mart Krupovic
8 days ago
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!
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Tora Økland 🌱
8 days ago
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...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723708v1
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Liselle Baker
10 days ago
#Craftivism
#KnittingAsResistance
www.teenvogue.com/story/how-kn...
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The Best Place to Plan a Revolution? Join a 'Stitch and Bitch' Knitting Club
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-knitting-clubs-became-the-least-suspecting-place-for-political-change
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
8 days ago
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...
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#PlantSci
#JIPB
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The ubiquitin code of receptor kinases in plants
This review summarizes how ubiquitination regulates plant receptor kinases by controlling their stability, endocytosis, and activity through E3 ligases, often modulated by receptor kinase phosphoryla...
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70267
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Wendy Miller
8 days ago
Good morning! 🪶
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Well, this aged well. Glad
@iubiology.bsky.social
is so supportive of this amazing plant biologist.
#PlantScience
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Stuart McDaniel
8 days ago
Very cool paper
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Gourd
9 days ago
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...
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Purple flower posting!
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9 days ago
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Very chill Mothers Day afternoon, hanging in the back yard and reading about weeds
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Jennifer Mach (she/they)
Barry Butler Photography
9 days ago
Happy Mother's Day from Chicago
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New Phytologist
10 days ago
#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
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Settings --> Accessibility, for those of us who NEVER forget the ALT text until that one post that does numbers...
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Holy cats the Chicago Public Library needs to start using this typeface again—it’s so gorgeous
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SEJ — Society of Environmental Journalists
11 days ago
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...
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Heeyoung Kim - Botanical Artist & Instructor
11 days ago
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
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Trends in Plant Science
11 days ago
Plant formins pave the way for endosymbiosis
#plantscience
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Plant formins pave the way for endosymbiosis
Intracellular infection by beneficial microorganisms enables endosymbiosis and remains a challenge in synthetic biology. A new study by Qiao et al. reveals that a formin orchestrates both rhizobial infection in legumes and mycorrhization in diverse plants. Harnessing this mechanism could enable the engineering of microbial entry into crops for sustainable nutrient acquisition.
http://dlvr.it/TSRhyP
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False Knees
11 days ago
The Seed Song
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Happy Friday, please provide all source files for the Y2H experiment shown in Figure... Because oops, Y2H did it again!
#ImageIntegrity
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This is the kind of sexy, naked siren I want to see more of...
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And Wilma Fine too!
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I'm so glad Barry Butler is posting here.
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Cedric Feschotte
12 days ago
👋 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...
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