Canberra's bus shelters were described as "concrete monstrosities" when installed in 1975 but have since been noted for their brutalist architectural style and functionality.

'Icon of our history': Canberra bus shelters added to heritage register

Canberra's bus shelters were described as "concrete monstrosities" when installed in 1975 but have since been noted for their brutalist architectural style and functionality.

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Chloroplast expression of Chlamydomonas glycolate dehydrogenase en route to an improved photorespiratory bypass www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Chloroplast expression of Chlamydomonas glycolate dehydrogenase en route to an improved photorespiratory bypass

Successes with photorespiratory bypass pathway engineering have relied on nuclear transformation, requiring subcellular targeting and protein localization in the target organelles for photorespiration...

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Chloroplastic protein PORC undergoes heat-induced condensation and enhances thermotolerance in Arabidopsis (Fatema Alquraish , Israel Maruri-López , Marcin Luzarowski , Itzell E Hernández-Sánchez , Monika Chodasiewicz) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

After a week at the wonderful #icpr26 meeting in Liverpool, it's great to get home to the sunny beaches of NSW

Don’t forget about our Colloquium on Monday August 3rd! #botany2026 #bsaecophys

🌵 EXPERT VIEW 🌵 C4–CAM photosynthesis confers high resilience under abiotic stress, yet little is known about the mechanisms that facilitate this integration. Ferrari & Reyna-Llorens review innovations and opportunities to unravel this in Portulaca. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

There are so many thoughts. Like - why are governments cutting support for basic and crop research? Why are we allowing energy-demanding, water-hoarding "data centres" to be built? When will people wake up to the future we are allowing to happen? ☹️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable

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See you all again soon 🤞 ICPR will be back in 2030 in... 🥁🥁🥁🥁 🇯🇵 Kobe Japan - 21-25 July For those that can't wait there will be regional meetings in 2028: 🇫🇷 Grenoble - 18-22 June 🇺🇸 Michigan State University - 19-21 June 🇦🇺 Canberra - December (dates TBC!) #ICPR26 #photosynthesis

The small protein SbtC is a functional component of the CO2 concentrating mechanism in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (Peter Walke , Carolin Poppitz , Niklas Menz , Wolfgang R Hess , Robert Burnap , Martin Hagemann , Stephan Klähn) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

The small protein SbtC is a functional component of the CO2 concentrating mechanism in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Abstract. Oxygenic phototrophs fix CO2 via the enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO), which shows relatively low CO2 affinity an

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📣 We are now accepting applications to join the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program. These are two-year appointments, starting either in January 2027 or 2028. 👉 Learn more and apply now: blog.aspb.org/plantphys_af.... #PlantSci #PlantScience

Almost all Covid deaths in US were and are in unvaccinated people Meanwhile the UK is now limiting boosters to people over 80! Not 60, not 70 but 80.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 6d ago

And by June 2021, almost every single COVID death was in unvaccinated people It was essentially entirely preventable—but folks like RFK Jr, who lied by saying the COVID vaccine was “the deadliest vaccine in history,” were doing all they coul to derail vaccination 😢 2/2 www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

We're very pleased to be at #ICPR26 in Liverpool this week! @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Managing Editor Bennett Young, Editor @marjorielundgren.bsky.social, and New Phytologist Production Manager Sarah Gibbons will be on our stand in the exhibition space - come and say hi! #PlantScience

We're delighted to be at the International Conference on Photosynthesis Research this week in Liverpool! 🌿 Visit the Journal of Experimental Botany stand to learn more about our internship programme (now open!), our special issues, and, of course, pick up some JXB merch! #ICPR26 #PlantScience 🧪

Special issue on Engineering Photosynthesis 🍃 🧬 Find out more 🔗 buff.ly/IFz7Xlo @aabiologists.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social

👥 MEET THE EDITOR 👥 Calling #ICPR26 attendees 📣 Join our Editor-in-Chief Johnathan Napier and esteemed colleagues for Demystifing Scientific Publishing 🌱 📅 Tomorrow at 11am @johnathan-n.bsky.social @rothamsted.ac.uk #plantscience

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📢 Tomorrow at #ICPR26 - don't miss the panel on Demystifying scientific publishing: authors' experiences and editors' insights ⌚ 11:00–12:30 29 July, Hall 1C - Level 1 Including @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social's Managing Editor, Bennett Young!

👥 MEET THE EDITOR 👥 For those of you at Photosynthesis 2026: Ben Long, the editor of our special issue on Engineering Photosynthesis, is here all week. 🗨️ Do you have a paper to submit? Come and have a chat! #ICPR26 #plantscience #photosynthesis @botbml.bsky.social

Life in the shade… 🌊 PhD candidate Claire Gibbs discusses her work on understanding how Acaryochloris marina is able to survive and thrive in far-red-light enriched environments #ICPR26

Machine learning-assisted directed evolution of plant Rubisco www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Machine learning-assisted directed evolution of plant Rubisco

Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) is foundational to life on Earth, catalyzing carbon dioxide (CO2) fixation to generate biomass. However, Rubisco is a slow and inefficient enz...

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EXTRAORDINARY EVENT 40c IN WINTER WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN Insane mind blowing winter heat in SOUTH AFRICA 40C in Namibia,36.1C in South Africa coast at Alexander Baai (MINIMUMS 22/23C !). Records pulverized Temperatures are 10C ABOVE MID SUMMER AVERAGES More summer heat next days.

Another pyrenoid, another example of convergent evolution to condense Rubisco and turbocharge photosynthesis. This time in a multicellular organism. So much fun exploring a seaweed pyrenoid with @jonasblomme.bsky.social, @mjplevin.bsky.social, @jnb-lab.bsky.social, @james-r-barrett.bsky.social.

Jonas Blomme@jonasblomme.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to share our latest preprint on #PhycologyFriday. We map out the carbon fixation pathway for the first time in a multicellular alga, the green seaweed Ulva, and reveal a unique Rubisco-Linker interaction in the pyrenoid, a chloroplast condensate. Below I summarize some key points. #seaweeds

Join the Journal Workshop and Meet the Senior Editor from Molecular Plant & Plant Communications at the International Conference on Photosynthesis Research 2026 #ICPR2026 (26-30 July 2026, LEX Liverpool) | See you there!☘️

Come and chat with our Editorial team about publishing in New Phytologist and Plants, People, Planet at The International Conference on Photosynthesis Research in Liverpool, UK, this week! The New Phytologist Foundation is proud to sponsor the conference. web.cvent.com/event/58e195...

Summary. - International Conference on Photosynthesis Research: ICPR2026

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Regulatory logic of the Chlamydomonas CO2-concentrating mechanism: coupling carbon flux, energy supply, and pyrenoid architecture www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Frontiers | Regulatory logic of the Chlamydomonas CO2-concentrating mechanism: coupling carbon flux, energy supply, and pyrenoid architecture

The algal CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM) elevates CO2 around Rubisco, the CO2-fixing enzyme, through the coordinated action of inorganic carbon (Ci) uptak...

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⚙️ TECHNICAL INNOVATION ⚙️ Meile et al. developed a fast and scalable expression platform in Arabidopsis suspension cells, enabling transient and stable multigene expression for applications in plant synthetic biology such as nitrogenase engineering 🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience

"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...

University of Wyoming to Drop Philosophy Major - Daily Nous

As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. The news was shared by philosophy professor Bradley Rettler in posts on social media....

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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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(1/16) Nearly two-thirds of ocean carbon fixation flows through a diverse organelle: the pyrenoid. Our new paper maps its 3D architecture in the alga Chlorella and identifies new proteins — expanding the toolkit to engineer this CO2-concentrating machine into crops🧵 #Pyrenoid #CCM #Photosynthesis

Another day, another cool paper from @mackinderlab.bsky.social @james-r-barrett.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Molecular organization of the Chlorella sorokiniana pyrenoid

To overcome the enzymatic limitations of Rubisco, algae operate CO2-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) that deliver concentrated CO2 to Rubisco tightly packaged in a specialized microcompartment called a...

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🌱🔥 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🔥🌱 Root traits, microbiome interactions, and epigenetic regulation play a role in plant heat stress resilience, stressing the need for laboratory approaches that closely reflect field conditions - Devesa-Aranguren et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

The ARC's new grant scheme table, in case you don't want to read through the details (which are here: www.arc.gov.au/system/files...)

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

The ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).