Organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance 🌿🔋🍃 Looking ahead in this joint perspective 🔮 with the Fernie and Sonnewald labs @theplantjournal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PERSPECTIVE: organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance

Understanding how plant cells coordinate metabolism remains a major challenge, particularly at the level of intracellular organization. This perspective proposes that dynamic organelle positioning ac...

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Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

Chloroplast genome editing of Rubisco boosts photosynthesis and plant growth www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com

Chloroplast genome editing of Rubisco boosts photosynthesis and plant growth - Nature Communications

Rubisco has inherently low catalytic efficiency limiting crop productivity. Here the authors show that chloroplast genome editing can be used to generate substitutions in Arabidopsis rbcL that increas...

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Pleased to share our preprint on “Loss of PSAE redirects PGRL1 to photosystem I and enhances PGR5-dependent cyclic electron transfer in Arabidopsis” @profmattjohnson.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌱 Genetic modification can boost crop yields—but let's not oversell it. Climate is changing. Population is growing. We need resilient, high-yielding crops. But hype won't harvest them. Real progress comes from knowing what actually works in the field🚜 #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it

With a changing climate and a growing population, the world increasingly needs more-productive and resilient crops. But improving them requires a knowledge of what actually works in the field.

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One of David Attenborough's best speeches. Today we're celebrating the 100th Birthday of the humanist and naturalist David Attenborough! Thank you for a lifetime of inspirational broadcasting and devotion to science and the natural world.

“A palantir is a dangerous tool, Saruman” Maybe naming a company after something the bad guy in LOTR uses should have been a hint!

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

A single line in this piece just made my day: “The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.” Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval

Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

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Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling - Carbon Brief

The Iran war has spurred a range of commentators to renew calls for the UK government to issue new licences for drilling in the North Sea.

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NEW – Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 ✍️ @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/wFGUgMU

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

This is why we need 100% renewables:

Motherfucking wind farms…

There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 7mo ago

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

ugh

Stephen Flynn criticises Nigel Farage from attacking children who speak more than one language #BBCQT "A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

So happy this is out as a preprint (for) now. Since measuring ATP is tricky, we used ATP biosensors in collab with @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social to show that in chloroplasts without PGR5, NPQ and pmf are diminished, yet ATP levels unchanged. Balancing ATP/NADPH must be achieved by different means.

Matt Johnson@profmattjohnson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our new preprint 🚨🌱☀️on flourescent biosensing of ATP levels in chloroplasts in vivo shows disequilibrium between proton motive force and ATP levels. We show PGR5 dependent cyclic electron transfer does not augment ATP/NADPH ratios @gustaf23.bsky.social 🙌 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Our new preprint 🚨🌱☀️on flourescent biosensing of ATP levels in chloroplasts in vivo shows disequilibrium between proton motive force and ATP levels. We show PGR5 dependent cyclic electron transfer does not augment ATP/NADPH ratios @gustaf23.bsky.social 🙌 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy www.science.org/content/arti...

U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report

House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies

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Today, Germany remembers the November pogroms of 1938. 87 years ago, Jews were targeted in a wave of orchestrated violence in Germany. Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed. Many Jews were murdered. These acts of terror paved the way for the Holocaust. #NeverForget

PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 enables efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light (Russell Woodford, Jacinta Watkins, Marten Moore, Samuel J Nix, Suyan Yee, Kai Xun Chan, Barry Pogson, Susanne von Caemmerer, Robert T Furbank, Maria Ermakova) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 enables efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light

The PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 protein supports photosynthetic control and energy-dependent non-photochemical quenching to protect Photosystem I in C4

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Der @sixtus.net hat einen inhaltlich großartigen und auch noch sehr ästhetischen Film über KI-Bullshit und die Shittification des Internets gedreht - u.a. featuring @ambakak.bsky.social @ Cory Doctorow. Danke ☺️ „KI - der Tod des Internet“ Jetzt auf ARTE: www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

KI: Der Tod des Internets - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Das Internet wird überschwemmt von KI-generiertem Müll. Automatisierte Bots produzieren eine Flut aus KI-generierten Inhalten, der das Internet zu ersticken droht. Der Wissensraum wird mit Desinformat...

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A cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, from 1997. #NewYorkerCartoons

Thanks @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for a brilliant night out (the 2nd since parenthood began) in Sheffield tonight!

It took decades for the work of Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology—to have clinical relevance. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 11mo ago

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.