2026 Harvest wrapped up 🌽 Great day in the field #Kenchanmane-Raju lab and #RasmussenLab @carolynplants.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social

Breaking News: Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would help cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants funded by the National Institutes of Health.

White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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Thanks @plosbiology.org for highlighting our paper on the front of the website! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

Any update from Nikon??

Jeremy Reiter@reitergroup.bsky.social · 6d ago

What in the world am I looking at here? @Nikon? www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Masashi Yanasigawa shares moments from early on in his career—and the power of friendly competition with the late David Mangelsdorf at UT Southwestern. 🧪 🎬 Watch a clip from Yanagisawa’s #Lasker2026 acceptance speech:

On my way to the lab this morning

📢 New JXB Issue 📢 🌻 Issue 17 of 2026 is out now 🌻 📔 On the cover: Image of a sunflower (Helianthus annuus) stem cross-section that has been stained to highlight the xylem tissues (Photo credit: Jared Stewart & Brendan Allen). 🔗 Read the full issue: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪

Excited to announce that the Rikki Garner lab has opened its doors in beautiful Austin, TX! Our interdisciplinary lab @utaustin.bsky.social MBS investigates tissue fluidity as a universal physical regulator of multicellular patterning in health and disease. www.rikkigarnerlab.org 1/n

🙏 Thanks to all contributors to our chromosome studies, especially those behind these works: 🧬 www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How are mitotic chromosomes built? Our Review @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social revisits the classical chromosome scaffold model and connects it to condensins, topoIIα, and physical forces. We propose interphase chromatin domains as “building blocks”🧩of chromosomes: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nmwrcQbJI...

It's a pleasure to work on my podcast, No Time To Read, for past several years. It gave me the opportunities to talk to some amazing plant biologists about their recent research articles. I just wrapped up Season 4. Thanks for your kind support. Podcast: tinyurl.com/3abx6khm

Final episode of Season 4 of #No_Time_To_Read podcast! I had the privilege to have my grad student as a guest for the first time! Olivia @ohazel.bsky.social discussed about her recent @newphyt.bsky.social paper. Podcast: tinyurl.com/9kfppcpr Article: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@aribidopsis.bsky.social and @kenchanmane.bsky.social hosted an incredible workshop for the @plantpostdocs.bsky.social 2026 Awardees✨ They broke down key pieces of the US academic job market and shared application strategies Wishing all the applicants huge success as they build their application 🚀

Congratulations to Dr. Nir Galili, Dr. Natanella Illouz-Eliaz, Dr. Tom Manovitz and Dr. Tamar Rott Shaham upon being awarded the Beresheet Grant from the Israel Science Foundation

Is euchromatin really “open”? 🧬 Using super-resolution imaging🔬 our new study @natgenet.nature.com reveals: Euchromatin forms condensed domains in live cells. Cohesin constrains them and prevents domain mixing for proper transcriptional insulation🚧 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/2)

🌱 Our new paper about growth-derived mechanical conflicts in gynoecium and fruit morphogenesis is now out @currentbiology.bsky.social 🎉Congrats to Binghan Wang and all authors. 📄https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)01086-9 @irbv.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social

PhD position available (start 2027) in my group at TUM! We study how mechanical stress controls cell cycle progression and cytoskeletal dynamics in plants, combining cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics. CV + cover letter to mariana.romeiro-motta@tum.de. RTs welcome! #PlantSciJobs

The growth of #plant leaves is highly dynamic and should be coordinated, but how is #leaf flatness preserved? @roederlab.bsky.social &co show that global coordination of growth across the leaf blade is needed to maintain flatness in #Arabidopsis @plosbiology.org 🧪 buff.ly/QUMxOcF

Congratulations, Xin and others 🎉🎉🎉

UBC Science@science.ubc.ca · 2w ago

Congratulations to Drs. Colin Brauner, Claire Kremen and Xin Li on being named fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. They join over 60 Faculty of Science researchers recognized by the RSC since 2000. @src-rsc.bsky.social @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca science.ubc.ca/news/2026-09...

🍀🔬 A root-cap-specific transcriptional network controls root hair elongation and nutrient foraging @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

2 years postdoc position open in Liam Elliott's team @liamelliottplants.bsky.social at @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social Nice people, good place, excellent science ! #interface2026 meeting @ensdelyon.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

Colin Kim Recognized with Three Early-Career Research Awards 🔬 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @cyhkim.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @salkinstitute.bsky.social @theplantjournal.bsky.social @harvard.edu

Colin Kim Recognized with Three Early-Career Research Awards - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

For MCB postdoctoral researcher Colin Kim, studying plants means discovering what talented chemists they can be—and learning how their molecular machinery might be harnessed to make medicines. Kim, […...

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Joh was an undergrad in my lab (1 year+) and decided to start the grad school with me (and co-supervised by Lacey Samuels). It's a pleasure to see them going through the different phases of their life and training. Welcome to the @ubcbotany.bsky.social UBC Botany grad program! 🎉🍀🔬

The new issue of #CYTOSKELETON is now out! Check out the entire issue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/3) Navigating shoot apical meristem plasticity for plant adaptation nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I enjoyed reading Tom Pollard's recent interview published @cytoskeljournal.bsky.social, especially this part. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Any application received by September 10th will be given full consideration.

David Lowry@davidlowry.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am currently searching for a postdoc to work on the evolution of adaptations, cold acclimation, and freezing tolerance in switchgrass. The position entails lab, growth facility, bioinformatics, and fieldwork. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

EMBO Member since 1998 and former EMBO Council Member Crisanto Gutiérrez was awarded the 2026 Santiago Ramón y Cajal National Research #Award in #Biology – Congratulations! 🧪 https://www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/2026/julio/MICIU-concede-Premios-Nacionales-Investigacion-2026.html (in Spanish)

@yvonjaillais.bsky.social is opening of the #INTERFACE2026 today at @ensdelyon.bsky.social GDR from @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social