Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats to all the co-authors for this great work. @hamannlab.bsky.social. Sprakel lab.

PhD position open with an excellent supervisor and in a very warm, fun research group! Highly recommended! #plantscience #suberinteresting

More academics should follow opera singer Denyce Graves’ example www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

paper is out now in Nature Plants, here is a link: Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Latest paper from the group on transcriptional regulation of plant cell wall integrity maintenance and primary cell wall metabolism… excellent work by Tereza Ticha and colleagues in the Engelsdorf and Bacete groups! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A very good historical perspective why you want to work on the weed… knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Please share and if you can, support it! bsky.app/profile/bar-...

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

SPPS PhD student conference on Tromsø, interesting meeting with fascinating science talks sppsphd2025.wordpress.com/about/

He’ll be missed sorely! 🥲 apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Latest output from the group now available on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

food for thought in the truest sense of the words.... www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Francesco Saffioti from @ntnu presenting results from brillouin work in the @hydrosensing.bsky.social project at the international brillouin workshop in Perugia.

Jiri Friml closing a really exciting and productive ICAR2025.

Wed 28th June, Euro-BioImaging ’s Plant Imaging Expert Group featured Hydrosensing in a webinar session. youtu.be/lj9HA2TpJvo?... 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ @hamannlab.bsky.social, @ziegler-lab-ur.bsky.social & Malcolm Bennett (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) 🌐 hydrosensing.eu/2025/06/plan...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now..... tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d

Sobering article….. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social

This opportunity for extra funding will already apply in the ERC Advanced Grant competition, which is due to open on 22 May 2025. europa.eu/!8xnrqK #ChooseEurope

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

Interesting seminar with the eurobioimaging network coming up….

Exciting talk by Jens Sundström from #SLU at #uit ….

Super excited to start my new position in the Hydrosensing ERC Synergy Project😊 It was amazing to get a preview in Regensburg and meet all you nice and inspiring people! Looking forward to two more years as part of this excellent, international team! @hydrosensing.bsky.social @hamannlab.bsky.social

New update of the Hydrosensing Started Pack. Follow us! go.bsky.app/7j83oiQ

For herd immunity against measles, 92-95% of the population must be vaccinated. As a live vaccine MMR can’t be given to pts who are immune suppressed (including pts receiving chemo/radiation or immunosuppression) And it’s not effective in newborns. So if you CAN get it, we REALLY need you to.

These were great days.. thank you all! @hamannlab.bsky.social @eilonshani.bsky.social @sara-morghen.bsky.social @francesco-saffioti.bsky.social @katjaurbansky.bsky.social @wiebkehaeger.bsky.social @michaelaticha.bsky.social @hydrosensing.bsky.social @hydrophotonics.bsky.social

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Im Interview mit @zeit.de spreche ich über die Lage an US-Unis – und warum #Harvards Entscheidung, der Regierung nicht nachzugeben, ein wichtiges Signal ist. Wenn Grundwerte unter Druck geraten, muss die #Wissenschaft zusammenstehen. Zum Interview: www.zeit.de/2025/16/patr...

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

One of the best meetings ever I've attended, the first African Plant Genomics Symposium plantgenomicsafrica.org I met so many inspiring colleagues, both senior and junior. Thank you @drpchronicles.bsky.social for having the idea & being the primary organizer!

I hear what you are saying - I would reframe it and say we need to change our expectations. We still want excellent science, but maybe we finally stop the ridiculous notion that a 20+ author paper in Cell means more about student X than a 3 author paper in Development. /1

Exciting ERC synergy project meeting in Regensburg 😊@hydrosensing.bsky.social @ntnudiscovery.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @uniregensburg.bsky.social

Scary that it is necessary to write such a letter…. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NYT article providing perspective on another Trump consequence…. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

Team consists of 4 research groups based at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social (Bennett), @uniregensburg.bsky.social (Ziegler), Tel Aviv University (@eilonshani.bsky.social) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (@hamannlab.bsky.social). hydrosensing.eu/home/team/

#Research #PlantScience "ABA-auxin cascade regulates crop root angle in response to drought" Published in "Current Biology" Link: www.cell.com/current-biol... 1/3

Worth supporting! occamstypewriter.org/scurry/

Meet the #HydroSensing team from Tel Aviv! 🌱 They're exploring how plants sense and respond to water availability using cutting-edge CRISPR techniques. 📷 young @eilonshani.bsky.social lab members sharing insights at a school seminar—science outreach in action! 1/3

First, you need to follow @londyloo.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lond...

Happy to see that our Cell wall integrity #CWI & #ATG8ylation #preprint found a home @natureplants www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Jose, Peng, Alessia & everyone involved. Stay tuned for exciting updates on this story…

Meet the #HydrosensingTeam from Nottingham! Going places! Kevin Webb with the moodily-lit plant transporter incubator🌿, designed by F.C. Pascut to support work with the Exeter CONTRAST facility, in pilot experiments for the Hydrophotonics Research Lab

@luisalonsobaez.bsky.social @sara-morghen.bsky.social 💚

Their mission? To investigate if the mechanical properties of cell walls play a role in sensing changes caused by water stress. (And yes, absolutely looking cool while at it😎) Want to dive deeper into Brillouin microscopy + plant science? Check this out: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

🔬 Meet the #HydrosensingTeam! Here's a glimpse of the brilliant microscopy team at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), led by postdoc Luis Alonso Baez, exploring the wonders of the confocal-Brillouin microscopy. #PlantScience #Plants #Science #Water

In analogy to water conducting cells in vascular plants' xylem, cell wall reinforcements and programmed cell death are used to facilitate water transport in Marchantia pegged rhizoids. An amazing paradigm of convergent evolution in land plants! More here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...