Our new study on plant light harvesting complexes (LHCII) is live 🎉 We found that complexes engaged in energy dissipation show enhanced fluorescence intermittency ("blinking"). This links a native photoprotective state in plants (qH) to the fluorescence dynamics of individual antenna complexes 🌱✨

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · last mo.

Sustained photoprotection involves enhanced fluorescence intermittency in a subpopulation of LHCII https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.24.746725v1

Here’s our fifth and last @iubiology.bsky.social public review of the semester! #PreprintReview @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🧬🔬 #ViroSky #virology #HIV #lenacapavir prereview.org/reviews/2014...

Important announcement!!! 💫 Would you have a tooth pulled if it helped your chances to get an important grant funded? Absurd question, but the funding situation is so bad, that I bet some of you actually considered it for a second… keep your teeth! we created something that might help! 👇 (1/16)

Here’s our fourth @iubiology.bsky.social public review of the semester! #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🧬🔬 @piustonu.bsky.social & all authors! #Microsky #Staphylococcus prereview.org/reviews/1993...

Excited to hear about @hhmi-science.bsky.social peer review training program 🙌 We’ve been posting public review of preprints at @iubiology.bsky.social, thanks to @fraserlab.com @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Highly recommend FAST: asapbio.org/focus-areas/...

FAST Principles – ASAPbio

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Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Despite its importance, peer review is something rarely taught. HHMI have a new peer review training program that takes advantage of preprints openrxiv.org/peer-review-...

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR. We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets. Thread + link below.

Here’s our third @iubiology.bsky.social public review of the semester! #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🦠 🔬 @veeninglab.com @camiloperezc6h6.bsky.social & all authors! #Microsky #Streptococcus
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Here’s our second @iubiology.bsky.social public review of the semester! #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🧫 🔬 @polardlab.bsky.social @chgjohnston.bsky.social & all authors! #Microsky #Streptococcus prereview.org/reviews/1963...

1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social‬ #plantscience #microbiome #holobiont www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Here’s our first @iubiology.bsky.social public review of the semester! #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🦠 @drdorsalomon.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social & all authors! #Microsky #T6SS #Aeromonas prereview.org/reviews/1948...

We're working on an AI-powered chatbot to help make it easier to find data in TAIR. Right now, we're seeking testers to ask questions and rate the responses. Try it, and let us know what you think >>> dev.arabidopsis.org/chat #plantscience #plantbiology #arabidopsis

On our way to setup the #MBP2026 meeting hosted by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social. Super excited to meet all the wonderful peeps & 🤓 about #plantscience for a few days. See you all soon.

Got the amazing treat to meet thebumblingbiochemist.com she’s determined to help others learn, her enthusiasm to make science accessible is galvanizing! Her website contains a wealth of everyday tips at the bench and so much more 🥼🦸🏻‍♀️ #sciencesuperhero @agrisera.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social

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biochemistry (hopefully) made accessible! You can also find lots of videos on my YouTube channel here - as in life - feel free to explore! My site is constantly a work in progress, so...

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The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel)@bumblingbiochemist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Coming straight from 4 days at the ASBMB conference. It’s been one of the most exhausting weeks of my life, and I really am looking forward to the weekend to recover, but it’s been incredible as well. Huge ginormous thanks to Indiana University for inviting and hosting me.

Do you like it when weird organisms do silly things?? Then you're going to love this!

Fay-Wei Li@fernway.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT

Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics

TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

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Honoring Stephen P. Long, a visionary plant scientist whose pioneering research on photosynthesis, crop productivity, and global change reshaped modern agriculture. His work advanced sustainable solutions to feed a changing world. Read the PNAS Retrospective: https://ow.ly/2iyi50YhGGv

🧪 This will blow your mind

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

Loving @qedscience.bsky.social and all the implications to revolutionize our publishing system and putting the power back with authors! The outputs on our manuscripts are so impressive and satisfying! I am telling all my friends 😉

Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A really nice article in The Scientist about q.e.d! @qedscience.bsky.social - If you're not using it yet, now's the time! www.the-scientist.com/q-e-d-an-ai-...

Now online in its final version. Plz surf to doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Catch & Release—rapid cost‐effective protein purification from plants using a DIY GFP‐Trap‐protease approach

‘Catch & Release’ represents a cost-effective, rapid, and reliable one-step protein purification workflow that accelerates plant research. It offers a functionality-confirmed and versatile binary vec...

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KunzLab@LMU@kunzlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Preprint from @dfg.de #GoPMF. All 🌱 scientists love to get their hands on pure protein, quickly produced in 🪴. However, purification can take too long, involve many steps or requires pricey reagents. @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , we established Catch & Release. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please read the thoughtful Blog that @richardsever.bsky.social and the @openrxiv.bsky.social team wrote on integrating pre-prints with AI review openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv

Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...

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Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇

How a humble weed became a superstar of biology Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... #Botany #PlantScience

How a humble weed became a superstar of biology

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.

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Only 10 days left to apply to the MSU Plant Resilience Institute for a faculty position.We're looking for 1 junior and 1 senior faculty. Applications submitted after 10/15 cannot be considered. Join us! It's a very collaborative, fun, innovative group of plant biologists. Apply at: lnkd.in/eRyDv_Pi

Yes! Highly recommend! Join our program for your PhD 🧬🧪 Learn how to apply here: biology.indiana.edu/graduate/gen...

Maria de la Paz Fernandez@mariadelapax.bsky.social · last yr.

Come join us! Applications to the GCDB Biology Doctoral program at IU are due December 1st. @iubiology.bsky.social @alizeemalnoe.bsky.social @rhcalderon.bsky.social @lesleynweaver.bsky.social @hoosierflyman.bsky.social @tennessenlab.bsky.social @flyeyelab.bsky.social @briancalvi.bsky.social

We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Join us at the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference, featuring talks from rising plant scientists across disciplines, 200+ poster presentations, & professional development opportunities! #GLPSC2025 #PlantScience 📅 Sept 12–14, 2025 in Lansing, MI ⏳ Register by Aug 31: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025

“Preprints are free to publish, free to read, and open to community peer review” A nice although sad article on the way science can go with a shoutout for preprinting and publishing posters on Zenodo. @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @richardsever.bsky.social #OpenScience #Preprint

Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · last yr.

I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters) Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors. #ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat medium.com/p/why-im-ski...

Just two months left until the inaugural Great Lakes Plant Science Conference! 🌿 Make sure to register by August 31 to join us in expanding horizons in plant science at: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025 #GLPSC2025 #PlantScience #PlantBiology

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

Plant Physiology@plantphys.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Join us for a Plant Physiology webinar on July 17 on "Numeracy, Realism and Relevance in Plant Science", featuring Andrew Hanson, Samuel Lovat, Jonathan Napier, & Claudia Vickers discussing how to "run the numbers" to identify realistic solutions to today's problems.👉 blog.aspb.org/july-17-plan...

Help us record firefly flashes! 👇🙏

George Musser@georgemusser.com · last yr.

Do you have fireflies in your backyard? Biologist @oritpeleg.bsky.social is collecting data! #emergence docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...