Want to know what links stomatal evolutionary development with legume nodulation? Do you love peptide signalling and rhizobia? If so, I hope you love our new paper as much as I do. FREE ACCESS for a couple of months: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nE~A3QW8S...

Water loss control beyond stomatal mechanisms Perera-Castro et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our work on UV-B perception and signaling in #Marchantia is now out in @plantphys.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/plph... Thanks to all authors @yuankeliang.bsky.social @romanulm.bsky.social @grandpahiro.bsky.social #PlantScience

🌱🧬 BRIEF COMMUNICATION 🧬🌱 The soybean nodule-specific cystatin gene GmCYS18 promotes nodulation and nodule development, while the cysteine proteases reversibly inhibited by GmCYS18 inhibit nodulation and nodule development in soybean - Yuan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Conservation and divergence of UVR8 photoreceptor-mediated UV-B signaling in Marchantia polymorpha academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... #Marchantia Congratulations @yuankeliang.bsky.social 🎉@romanulm.bsky.social and all other involved

Conservation and divergence of UVR8 photoreceptor-mediated UV-B signaling in Marchantia polymorpha

Plants share an ancient ultraviolet-B perception and signaling system but its regulatory mechanisms have partially diverged.

academic.oup.com

This seems like a personal attack. YES, I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA!!!

RedPen/BlackPen@redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

thinking a lot about this cartoon this week... WHY DID I AGREE TO THOSE REVIEWS??

Out today, our new article 'High-resolution soybean tracing for deforestation-free supply chains': www.nature.com/articles/s43... A @rbgkew.bsky.social international collaboration with World Forest ID, @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and many others, funded by Defra.

High-resolution soybean tracing for deforestation-free supply chains - Communications Earth & Environment

Soybean harvest origin in South America can be traced to within 193 km from harvest location, according to a study using chemical fingerprint analysis and Gaussian Process modelling to improve traceab...

nature.com

Hear what impact Ilia hopes #WGDip will have on the science community and on our understanding of evolution! She is a project co-lead from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 🌟How do you see WGDip impacting your research?🌟 @biggenomes.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power

Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

theguardian.com

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

Ingrid Burrington@lifewinning.com · 4mo ago

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

A surge of new data centers is reshaping local energy grids, water systems and land use. This rapid expansion is often happening with limited public information about the long-term impacts — or benefits — new data centers could bring. Learn more👉 go.wri.org/data-centers... #WorldWaterDay

Komorebi. I learned a new word today and I wish to add this to my bioengineering toolbox. Quiet beauty is all around us, and we are not here for very long, so go into nature as often as you can. Awe is in short supply, but ample if you look close.

Things are not okay.

Ooof

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.

Impressive work from @saschalaubinger.bsky.social and colleagues, describing molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in transcriptomes of native Arabidopsis thaliana. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hayami Gyoshu (Japanese, 1894-1935) Village in Shugakuin, 1918 Ink and color on silk 132 x 97 cm The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

Louise Moillon (c. 1610–1696) French painter in the Baroque era. One of the best still life painters of her time, she was trained by her father as she was unable to attend academies as a woman- who were thought to lack the ability required for artists #WomensArt

Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Apios americana, our Groundnut, blooming in Boulder county #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to August 15 🌿

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has said that her pumpkins act as self-portraits. The idea began as her parents owned a plant nursery and she has described the pumpkin as “a spiritual home,” a form in which she sees herself reflected #Womensart

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️@skwinnicki.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy birthday, Chuck. Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

On #WorldPulsesDay, we celebrate beans, lentils, chickpeas & peas, crops that nourish people & soils.🫘 Through the International Plant Treaty, their genetic diversity is shared globally to support resilient crops and food security. #ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity @fao.org @cgiar.org

Happy World Pulses Day! Celebrate in style by banging in some beans, lentils, or chickpeas to your lunch and dinner. Top it off by registering for this May's UK Legume Research Community Conference 2026 in Scotland.

Legume Hub@legumehub.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢#SaveTheDate The UK Legume Research Community Conference 2026 will take place at JamesHuttonInstitute, bringing together researchers, practitioners & industry to advance legume research&collaboration 📍Dundee, Scotland 🗓️ 5–7 May ℹ️https://legumehub.eu/event/uk-legume-research-community-uklrc-2026/

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Huipil, traditional garment created by Ingenous Maya women from the small towns of the Guatemalan highlands, who formed their own union to stop large fashion corporations stealing their designs. #WomensArt