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New study with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imb-as.bsky.social shows that NRG1 binds chloroplasts to trigger plant immunity, challenging the view of resistosomes working at the plasma membrane 🌱 "We have only scratched the surface of plant immunity" @kamounlab.bsky.social

News & insights

The latest news about research and other developments at The Sainsbury Laboratory.

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New preprint from the He lab: FERONIA is required for high humidity-induced Ca²⁺ waves and adaptive leaf hyponasty in Arabidopsis. Whole-plant calcium imaging across three species. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #plantbiology #calciumsignaling

Our beautiful work is out in Current Biology! @currentbiology.bsky.social Immune activation suppresses reproductive growth in Arabidopsis through cytokinin signaling: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Immune activation suppresses reproductive growth in Arabidopsis through cytokinin signaling

Johnston et al. report that defense hormones suppress cytokinin signaling, causing yield penalties. Restoring cytokinin in autoimmune plants relieves reproductive defects, confers broad pathogen resis...

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✨Kelp embryos looking extra photogenic under the confocal today 🌱🔬 Young Egregia menziesii embryos developing from the megagametophyte 📸 Image by Siobhan Braybrook #FluorescentFriday

Do any of y’all have a good protocol organization system for your lab that is open source? Seeking inspiration 🙏

As you plan end of the year donations, please consider the Caleb Scholar's program. It is the only program that I know of that provides Alaska Native students how to use their education to support their community after graduation, mentored & run solely by Inupiaq www.calebscholars.org/donation/

Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!

Maria Stager@mstager.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Just a few days left to apply to our TT position in Plant Physiology in the Dept. of Biology @UMassAmherst! Join a great group of plant scientists (and physiologists 😉) AND fall in love with small town New England! Please repost. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Please help, folks. That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away. The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

Arkadipta Bakshi is recruiting PhD students for his new lab at Wake Forest. Arko is great to work with - check out his lab website for more info! www.arkadiptabakshilab.com

Drawing your attention to an effort to convince NSF to re-open this year's GRFP competition to second year PhD students. Please consider signing or sharing the petition asking NSF to broaden the application eligibility to what it has been previously. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to boost opportunities for domestic scientists by making it prohibitively expensive for universities to hire international faculty and staff. https://scim.ag/3Klmxai

Trump visa policy requires universities to pay huge fee to hire foreign scholars

U.S. employers to pay $100,000 for every new H-1B visa

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It seems shameful to just let these sit in my phone. Baby moose, meet Lola!

David Brooks, a conservative columnist speaks about the amount of people who have died directly as a result of cuts to USAID by Doge. Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts. It’s only been four months.

www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024... I saw him jogging on Duke campus around 545am this morning and thought I’d lost my mind - apparently he’s a student here! WTF Dook!?

Incoming Duke Law student Jefferson Griffin sues NCSBE over election data disclosure delays in NC Supreme Court race

In a North Carolina Supreme Court race with over five million ballots counted, a Duke Law student trails by just 623 votes. Now, he’s suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections.

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Big 10 finally strategizing. The thought: a mutual defense compact statenews.com/article/2025... #academicsky

MSU faculty join call for Big Ten 'mutual defense compact' against Trump administration - The State News

Under the compact, participating institutions would “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund” that would “provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution un...

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Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour

Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...

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@davidpakman.bsky.social One copy left at the Durham, NC Barnes & Noble - looking forward to this read!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a new set of vectors for inducible gene expression in plants? I’ve noticed the ones I’ve been using can be a bit leaky. Thanks! #PlantScience

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Are we winning yet?

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university. www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada

Visit the post for more.

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Agreed. The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to resist.

Gitta Coaker@gittacoaker.bsky.social · last yr.

If we don’t march by the millions we’re not going to have a country.

If we don’t march by the millions we’re not going to have a country.

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Hear perspectives on the best path forward for our community amid the turbulence due to policy decisions enacted by the Trump administration. A listening session will be held on March 18, 2025, at 1 pm EST.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ASPB Board of Directors Town Hall/Listening Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

ASPB Past-President Leeann Thornton recently shared that the ASPB Board of Directors is organizing a listening session to sit down virtually with ASPB members and members of the plant science communit...

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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

The pressure to publish in high-impact journals is often at the expense of other scholarly activities https://go.nature.com/3XihhIf

Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia

A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.

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My department is hiring! Looking for an Assistant Professor of Biology (Botanist/Plant Ecologist) in the Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences at West Texas A&M University. If you have any questions feel free to DM me. tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WTAMU_...

Assistant Professor of Biology

Job TitleAssistant Professor of Biology Agency West Texas A&M University Department Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationCanyon, Texas Job TypeF...

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#standupforscience2025 Great turnout and great signs in Raleigh, NC

#standupforscience2025 Raleigh, NC