Here are four outstanding books I’ve read this year ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Each one tackles how we shape our natural world. And how, in turn, it shapes us. Each one does it in its own unique way. I highly recommend them all. @ferrisjabr.bsky.social @chloedalton.bsky.social @johnvaillant.bsky.social

Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are

This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane www.science.org/content/arti...

How do plants elongate in shade? This morning @scourbier.bsky.social (from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social) revealed how shade boosts TOR activity and how TOR and auxin signalling tightly interact to drive hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis. A talk that filled the room! 📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15 #PlantScience

Some plants secrete brine from their leaves to cope with salty soil. Such plants use a subcuticular space to separate surface brine from secreting cells, a trick that could be useful for salt-tolerant crops or desalination devices. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Aich50Xr3Fl

MSU’s Federica Brandizzi has been named director of the MSU-DOE Plant Research Lab. “I am honored to serve… and to work with such an outstanding group of scientists,” she said. To read more, click here: innovationcenter.msu.edu/fe... #MSUInnovation #PlantScience #ResearchImpact #LeadershipInScience

Today is a big day as the Precision Breeding Act comes into force 🌱 @kamounlab.bsky.social: “This is a milestone for UK science and innovation. We now have the regulatory framework to translate discovery into impact — improving crops, strengthening food security, and benefiting society” 🌿

🧬🌱 I am happy to share our recent publication highlighting collaboration with our favorite bioinformaticians in Giessen (guess who coined the pipeline name...). 🧬 We introduce RUP (RNA-Seq Usability Assessment Pipeline), a quality control pipeline for bulk RNA-sequencing data. tiny.cc/qn1v001

Register to attend: forms.gle/kDsCqBabeTRF... This event is happening today at 7PM EAT| 4PM UTC. If you haven't registered we have a few hours left, you can register via the link above

Very nice work from @apmahonen.bsky.social lab.. when vascular cambial stem cells are lost, neighbouring xylem cells, divide to replace them Auxin transport drive this remarkable positioning of stem cells in vascular cambium during development and regeneration. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

It’s #TransAwarenessWeek 🌈 This week, we’re celebrating trans and nonbinary people while also raising awareness of the challenges and discrimination that many still face. Check out our discussion with Rowan Casey: microb.io/4hFL6vk 👈 #TransInSTEM #TransInScience #LGBTQSTEMDay

#PlantScience Research Weekly, November 14, 2025 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Reviews on non-photochemical quenching and hydraulic traits; Oat pangenome/pantranscriptome; Non-enzymatic functions of isoamylase complex; Quantification of organ geometry (1/2) @howarthoats.bsky.social

しちごさん Shichigosan for my second granddaughter today. I didn't make it in person but I am enjoying the cute pictures 🩷🩷, and I will be in Japan when she turns four in a few weeks 🇯🇵.

Plant Health Assistant Officer - Botanic Gardens Conservation International #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantscience www.bgci.org/job/plant-he...

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Raymond Wightman, Microscopy Core Facility Manager at The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, will be presenting at our event. Dr. Wightman will be sharing "FLIM-confocal-Raman imaging in all things plant" - a session you won't want to miss!

And Freiburg is gorgeous, friendly, and fun. Not to mention full of excellent plant scientists 💚

Stuck in the US as a postdoc due to the current political nightmare? Consider to join us in Freiburg @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social #plantscience

🌱 From PNAS: Meristem layers mutate at different rates, with the germline-forming L2 protected and the L1 evolving faster. (Kirk R. Amundson, Mohan P. A. Marimuthu, Oanh Nguyen, Konsam Sarika, Isabelle J. DeMarco, Angelina Phan, Isabelle M. Henry, and Luca Comai) ▶️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thrilled and grateful to be part of the @plantae_org communy again! Excited to keep contributing to science communication and learning from fellow plant scientists worldwide. 🌱💡 #PlantScience #ScienceCommunication

Happy to see this paper from my time with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social out in @theplantcell.bsky.social! Amanda, a fantastic PhD student with Dan, led this "phylo-functional" work & uncovered complex duplication & loss of a glucosinolate gene across the Brassicaceae affecting enantiomeric specificity

Great work @ale-collalti.bsky.social !

Targeted genetic manipulation and yeast-like evolutionary genomics in the green alga Auxenochlorella (Rory J Craig, Marco A Dueñas, Dimitrios J Camacho, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

I'm looking forward to a fun year of working with these folks! We met today, and they are excited to start sharing great plant science!

Here is my @currentbiology.bsky.social dispatch on an excellent article by the @coudertlab.bsky.social. Re-visiting the shoot branching field (and learning many new things in the process!) brought back fond memories from my time at @slcuplants.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Only 2 more days to apply!🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 In Gießen, Germany

Autoinhibitory calcium ATPases regulate the calcium gradient required for rapid polarized growth, say Samantha Ryken, Magdalena Bezanilla and colleagues (Dartmouth College): rupress.org/jcb/article/... #PlantBiology #Trafficking #Cytoskeleton

📣Introducing the 2026 Plantae Editors! Returning in 2026, ASPB has appointed its new group of Plantae Editors to further support Plantae's growth and goal to serve as a community resource for plant biologists, by plant biologists.🌱 Read more: buff.ly/R3PzRVK #PlantScience

We are excited to invite Dr. Mark Johnson to present his special talk "From Lens to Field: The Use of Microscopy in Crop Protection Research" at our special microscopy conference for plant scientists 🎉

🚨Newsletter🚨 In this edition of the #newsletter we bring you: 🌱A resource on variation in plants 🧑‍🔬News of a new CPD course with @stemlearning.bsky.social 🔬SAPS at @associationscied.bsky.social AC'26 📚Plant science news stories 👀Read here: zc.vg/toqrI?m=0 #plantsci @cleapss.bsky.social @rsb.org.uk

CAM #photosynthesis discovered for the first time in a carnivorous plant Scientists from @SNSB and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have found out in experiments with Pinguicula (butterworts). Read more open access in our journal Plant Biology doi.org/10.1111/plb.... #PlantSci

Enhancing NLR activation by endophytes carrying recognized effectors that are expressed in the presence of ROS. #plantimmunity www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Donate to the ASHS 125 for 125 Campaign! Funds go directly to supporting student travel grants and educational programs. Help strengthen the future of horticultural science! Join the 125 Club today! https://ashs.org/donations/donate.asp?id=24240 #HorticulturalScience #PlantScience #GrowTheFuture

🌿 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌿 Wild relatives of quinoa maintain pollen viability, seed number, and grain yield under heat stress, with pollen viability potentially being a key trait to improve heat tolerance of cultivated quinoa - Xu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics! Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf. More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/ Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position

Our paper on the #genome of the Trebouxia #photobiont from Xanthoria is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social! Check below for a near-chromosome level assembly, secretome analysis, evidence of ancient HGT, and transcriptomic comparison of the alga in symbiosis and in pure culture doi.org/10.1111/nph.70728

The head of our oat breeding programme was on BBC R4’s Farming Today this morning. Dr Catherine Howarth was talking about IBERS’ contribution to a major oat genome study, helping plant breeders develop even better varieties. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ln4y

Fully-funded #PhDproject at Earlham Institute in collaboration with @ibers.bsky.social, understanding genome regulation in hybrid Miscanthus for #sustainable #biomass production. Join our supportive PhD and postdoctoral community! #Genomics #Bioenergy

🌿 3 new PhD positions in the Ton lab @PPS_UoS. Part of the ERC project '#PlantMemo', exploring how plants remember & respond to stress. 🧬 PhD 1 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🦠 PhD 2 (UK & EU)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🌱 PhD 3 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD

The First Annual Virtual WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water is ONE WEEK AWAY! 🗓️💧 Register now to join us on November, 18! www.walii.science/virtual-symp...

Kingfisher and Stickleback Catch, smack left, smack right, dead fish, eat fish, contemplate... #kingfisher 🦉 @drrjwarren.bsky.social

Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Please share, deadline approaching soon!

Agreed! There are hardly any places left doing Plant Biology now in the UK. We kind of need it for the future.....

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝🌿🌳🍅🍞🥦Botanical University Challenge to inspire the next generation of botanists. University of Nottingham, UK, plans to close Plant Biology for new students from autumn 2026. Current students want to know more. Read more here: www.change.org/p/reconsider...

Are you looking for a PhD in Plant Science? Check our our project on barley canopy architecture. Combine genetics and physics to understand how awns influence barley grain development. Find out more here: lnkd.in/eWhWammJ Apply by 14th December. #PhDPosition #PlantSci @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

PhD positions! For next year (deadline 15th april 2026, start date ~september 2026), we are looking for 15 PhD students for AGILE: "Advanced Training for Next Generation Scientists in Spatio-Temporal Imaging of Plant Cells" cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... please repost! www.photobodies.com/about-6

Regular registration ENDS on November 12th for the @cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting to be held at Wilfrid Laurier University later this month! @laurierbiology.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social #CSPB_ERM CONFERENCE WEBSITE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025

#MicrobiologyMonday: Bacteria swarm, but DYK they also "swash"? This flagella-independent movement is tied to fermentation: as cells ferment sugars, they create local osmolarity gradients, which generate a wave of fluid driving expansion. #JBacteriology: asm.social/2Gh

Inspired after hearing about Joanne Chory’s transformative legacy at the 'SoCal Science with Purpose' symposium last week. Her work is a testament to how vision, perseverance, and purpose-driven work can reshape science and its impact on the world👩‍🔬