Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

‼️If you are finishing (or have just finished) your PhD and are exploring postdoc options, this is a great chance to meet people, share ideas, and build links. Come to northern Sweden ❄️🇸🇪 and connect with the community Message me if you have any questions 📩

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Genome editing of goldenberry ERECTA for crop ideotype. Congrats, Zach Lippman, Joyce Van Eck & the team! "Engineering compact Physalis peruviana to promote its potential as a global crop". ERECTA rock😉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Researchers developed a #CRISPR-based method that's user-friendly, extraction-free, 15 min protocol for on-site #virus #detection using a portable fluorescence viewer and a mobile #phone camera directly from RNA of several crop species, including #tomato, #cucumber, and #rapeseed. 👉 bit.ly/4p6Jo8t

My family knows me too well - women in science both the tshirt and sweatshirt

Our Special Collection on Plant Awareness highlights diverse methodologies, including psychology, ethnobotany, arts-based research, and educational sciences: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #PlantScience #PlantAwareness

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: A complete guide to metabolomics (Plant Physiol.) (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/ocoixG3 #PlantaePSRW

Happy holidays from ABRC! This stock is expressing 35S:RUBY

Reminder - a great job opportunity at @ucdavis.bsky.social Dean, College of Biological Sciences jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676649/d...

Anna Stepanova does extensive & outstanding public outreach to educate K-12 and beyond. Her NAASC awards talk includes this and more: -college courses share plants in non-plant courses. -Plants4Kids: public outreach to K-12 kids. -high school teacher summer program. youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?...

Nick Provart has long supported the Community & is highly-deserving of the Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Award! His talk is Plants + Computers + People: -Publicly-accessible genome scale data. -Education: online course development. -Mentor on data visualization. youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?...

Dawn Nagel (UC Riverside) presents some of why she was selected for a Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Community Award in this presentation: web app to share circadian datasets. multi-year summer research program for transfer students that are represented in STEM. youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?...

Don't miss Natanella Illouz-Eliaz' (Salk Institute) Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Award presentation “The World Around Us: Two Parallel Paths in Life"! youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?... @natanellae.bsky.social

Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

Now available! The NAASC 2025 Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awards Webinar featuring Natanella Illouz-Eliaz (early career recipient), Dawn Nagel, Nicholas Provart & Anna Stepanova (later career recipients). Congratulations to these community role models! youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

And of course he's immortalized in the documentary "History's Harvest" which you can find on YouTube youtu.be/Ihr2KM7cGDQ?...

Yes, he was a great advocate for plant science. I knew him as the force behind the exciting "new journal" for plant biologists that launched while I was in grad school, The Plant Cell. @theplantcell.bsky.social We were so excited to have this new exciting journal to call our own (and still are) 💚

Sad news. Bob was a great scientist and a huge influence of mine in grad school. I've been very lucky to get to work with him, his lab, and the wonderful people he trained over his expansive career. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-m...

✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨ Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️ jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Application deadline: January 31st, 2026

"Plant Genome Stability and Change 2026" More details: http://pgsc2026.hzau.edu.cn/ #Events

🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com

This would deal another major blow to science exchange in the U.S. When the comment period opens, please speak out AGAINST this proposal that will affect visitors in the U.S. Visa waiver program that want to make short visits to the U.S., eg for a conference! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

Check out this new blog by @mingyuanzhu.bsky.social, previous NAASC early career scholar & now an Asst Prof at Texas A&M University! Read & share with your early career colleagues that may be on the job market now or soon! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/assistant-professor-journey

A Most Important Mustard: "Arabidopsis’s origin in a region renowned for its witchcraft seems fitting. This thale cress is indeed a shapeshifter; once the passion project of a few dozen researchers, it has transformed itself into the laboratory’s most iconic plant." open.substack.com/pub/cell/p/a...

Seems pretty on-point to me 👇

The UC Davis Ecology and Evolution in Working Landscapes REU provides undergrads with research experience in ecology and evolution in natural and managed landscapes. Apply now through Feb 15 via etap.nsf.gov Contact me or @clhom.bsky.social for questions!

Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg

Get applications in TODAY! The 5th!!!

NAASC is happy to share the newly elected: 1- faculty: Anna Dobritsa, Ohio State University, Tomo Kawashima, University of Kentucky, USA 2- early career scholars: Maria Gómez Méndez, UC Riverside, USA Daniela DeLa Mora, CINVESTAV Mexico, Julia Zheku, UBC, Canada! Thanks to all on the ballot! 💚

Check out this new blog- WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN PLANT SCIENCE- by Vincent Cerbantez Bueno, elected early career member of NAASC! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

There's still time to RSVP and receive the Zoom link for the Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awards webinar featuring Detlef Weigel, Mark Estelle, and Maarten Koornneef! RSVP---> bit.ly/naascawards @plantevolution.bsky.social

A must read!

YAY! this is excellent! From Knowable Magazine: How Arabidopsis thaliana, a humble weed, became a superstar of plant biology | Knowable Magazine knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Watch the Community Impact Awards Presentations! Times: 5:20-15:06: Jose Dinneny. 19:35-30:07: Jade Bleau. 33:30-15:06: Joanna Friesner. 46:40-1:01: Q&A by Mary Gehring @jadebleau.bsky.social @jfriesner.bsky.social @josedinneny.bsky.social @stanfordstomata.bsky.social @spoel-lab.bsky.social

Strengthening the future of science: Why joining a scientific society has never been more important - Ryan - 2025 - Plant Biotechnology Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

University admin & faculty- read this and consider what your core beliefs are- are they: free expression, rewarding merit, and inclusion?

#JustIn on Plantae — Staying Sane in the Lab: Tips for Mental Health Strategies for Researchers. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Katarina K., Nibedita P., and Ann-Kathrin R. explore realistic strategies for building resilience and protecting your mental health. buff.ly/lI8coP3 #plantscience

📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on October 23 at 9 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱 👉 Free registration at buff.ly/YRoRap9 #PlantScience

I’m looking forward to reading this! The title alone caught my eye 👀 l do want the boxed set!

Apply for the New Phytologist Tansley Medal! 'It was exciting to have a chance, as an early career researcher, to write something in my voice, with my take on where my field is going.' – Matthew Naish, 2024 #TansleyMedal winner Deadline 1 November 2025:

There is still time to apply for an Independent Research Fellowship in our Department. Join us: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...

We're excited to welcome Christopher Topp to the Plant Resilience Institute! Dr. Topp uses powerful imaging tools to envision the future of sustainable agriculture, and he will soon bring his expertise in root biology to MSU. Read the full story: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...

RSVP for this upcoming (Oct 23, register by Oct 21) Workshop: Quantifying Plant Morphogenesis: 4D Insights with MorphoGraphX with Dr. Ya Min & Dr. Shuyao Kong. Brought to you by PMEX, @plantpostdocs.bsky.social, and NAASC. RSVP @ https:/tinyurl.com/PMEXOctober @mingyuanzhu.bsky.social

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob Group Leader Position Molecular Plant Sciences: Cell biology and biochemistry to unravel fundamental processes in plant development and biology School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

I never saw this beautiful video about Joanne Chory, published in 2024 in honor of her receiving the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhP1... In case somebody else missed it too... #PlantScience #FranklinMedal

"Postdoctoral and PhD positions in Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Yunnan University, Yunnan, China *Application Deadline: 10/31/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=168745.pdf #PlantSciJobs

New MASC initiative to support early career colleagues in need- especially in the U.S. & Argentina - please take a look & send comments to MASC President Thorsten Hamann by Oct 15

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds