"ICAR2027 Session Proposals due 10/31" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/breaking-news#316 #News

"37th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR)" More details: https://uwmadison-37th-international-conference-on-arabidopsis-research.eventsairsite.com/ #Events

"Motif Analysis upgraded with improved statistics" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/breaking-news#315 #News

Loved this NYT article abt @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social and @burnsajohn.bsky.social discovering new Paulinella species (in Journal of Phycology!). Cool science, good reporting, & reminded me of past fun hotel labs ❤️🤓🦠🌊 What was your best nontraditional lab? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...

Three years of exhaustive community webinars, workshops, surveys and engagement have helped to awareness and develop new protocols and guidelines for #FAIR #datasharing 🧪 Article in "Database"➡️ bit.ly/4yfS1Tr @agbiodata.bsky.social #opendata #openaccess #scholcomm #plantscience #PlantBiology

The future is FAIR: a community framework for enhanced data management and data sharing

Abstract. The AgBioData consortium is a community-driven initiative supporting >40 genomic, genetic, and breeding (GGB) databases for agricultural resea

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From the @agbiodata.bsky.social team in #OUP 's #DATABASE journal |The future is FAIR: a community framework for enhanced data management and data sharing | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #OpenScience #AgBioData #FAIR #BioCuration | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/database/art...

The future is FAIR: a community framework for enhanced data management and data sharing

Abstract. The AgBioData consortium is a community-driven initiative supporting >40 genomic, genetic, and breeding (GGB) databases for agricultural resea

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"Postdoctoral Positions in Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cereals at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=PostDoc_UNL.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"UK Genetics Society Seed Plant Research Meeting" More details: https://genetics.org.uk/events/seed-plant/ #Events

"Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Immunity and Extracellular Immune Signaling at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=1-21706.pdf #PlantSciJobs

What's new with TAIR12? The TAIR curatorial team is hard at work integrating the latest TAIR12 updates into the live TAIR database and toolset. 🧪 #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis #TAIR #TAIR12

"annual call for doctoral applications at Graduate School Life Science Munich, Munich, Germany *Application Deadline: 10/19/2026" Read more here: https://www.bio.lmu.de/lsm/en/become-an-lsm-student/ #PlantSciJobs

"PhD Student Position MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF ROOT STEM CELL REGENERATION UNDER CLIMATE INESTABILITY at Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Madrid, Spain *Application Deadline: 12/1/2026" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Miguel_9-16-26.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"Postdoc, PhD, and RA Positions in a Plant Systems Biology Lab at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Yi_9-15-26.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"Postdoctoral Position in Plant Molecular Biology at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Schrick_9-14-26.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"PhD position, Plant Cell and Molecular Biology at Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20260914_TUMunich.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"Postdoc, Chromatin Dynamics During Extreme Desiccation Tolerance at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden *Application Deadline: 9/30/2026" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20260914_SLU.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"Postdoctoral Scholar Position in Plant Genetics and Genomics at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20260914_UFL.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Tips & tricks: Display multiple assemblies and annotations in JBrowse2 🧪 📽️ Watch our 60-second how-to video to learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK9y... #plantscience #plantbiology #TAIR #Arabidopsis

How to view TAIR12 and Araport11 in JBrowse2

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"Biological Technical Assistant in Molecular Plant Stress Physiology at University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany *Application Deadline: 10/5/2026" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Biological_Technical_Assistant_University_Goettingen.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"Postdoctoral Position in Protein Modification and Plant Biology at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=HLP1-21674.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"PhD Student Opportunity in Plant Physiology and Evolutionary/Molecular Biology at University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA *Application Deadline: 10/15/2026" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=DeTarPhD.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Systems Biology and Epigenomics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=PostdocYingLiLab.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"Postdoctoral Fellow in Plant Biology, Genetics & Evolutionary Genomics at University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=DeTarPostDoc.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Are you heading to #PAG34 in 2027? We are looking for speakers for the Arabidopsis Informatics sesson to share interesting data and tools, especially if you have been working with the new TAIR12 release data. Comment here or email us by November 1,2026 @bar-plantbio.bsky.social

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Want to view and compare data from TAIR12/Col-CCv.2 and Araport11/TAIR10 side-by-side? JBrowse2 now displays both assemblies, each with their own separate track selectors, by default. www.arabidopsis.org/news/breakin... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis

"PhD Position in Seed Molecular Biology at Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland *Application Deadline: 10/15/2026" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Sebastian_8-27-26.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"JBrowse2 now at v.4.3.0" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/breaking-news#314 #News

"TAIR12 now in JBrowse2 and more!" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/breaking-news#313 #News

Biological Databases are critical infrastructure - not projects. As so much effort is put into harnessing AI to solve all our problems, we are allowing the foundational data resources crumble. Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...