Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress
Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.
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Congrats to all the co-authors for this great work. @hamannlab.bsky.social. Sprakel lab.
PhD position open with an excellent supervisor and in a very warm, fun research group! Highly recommended! #plantscience #suberinteresting
Dorota Kawa@dorotakawa.bsky.social · 7mo agoPhD position open in my team @uuplants.bsky.social ! Join us to investigate how sorghum roots interact with recently discovered Suberin-Inducing Microbes! More details: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!
More academics should follow opera singer Denyce Graves’ example www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · 7mo agoTHIS My colleagues's hesitation to retire from academia is driven by fear of not having anything to do so we need visionary deans/presidents to start programs like this and other mentoring initiatives PS: not me though, I have a list & can't wait to start the next act of my life outside academia😀
paper is out now in Nature Plants, here is a link: Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants
Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...
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Latest paper from the group on transcriptional regulation of plant cell wall integrity maintenance and primary cell wall metabolism… excellent work by Tereza Ticha and colleagues in the Engelsdorf and Bacete groups! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Coping with stress: Transcriptional regulators linking cell wall integrity maintenance with primary-wall metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana
Cell wall damage (CWD) and hyperosmotic stress elicit both distinct and overlapping transcriptional programs in plants. Responses to these stresses involve cell wall integrity (CWI) maintenance, which...
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A very good historical perspective why you want to work on the weed… knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
How a humble weed became a superstar of biology
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
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Please share and if you can, support it! bsky.app/profile/bar-...
Nicholas Provart@bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 10mo agoSee link for a Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC) effort that aims to provide support for colleagues who have had their funding cut for reasons outside their control, e.g. recently in Argentina and the USA. Please share widely and email Thorsten Hamann! tinyurl.com/MASC-Support...
📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
SPPS PhD student conference on Tromsø, interesting meeting with fascinating science talks sppsphd2025.wordpress.com/about/
Latest output from the group now available on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress
Mechanical properties of plant cells and tissues change dynamically, influencing plant growth, development, and interactions with the environment. Despite their central roles in plant life, current kn...
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food for thought in the truest sense of the words.... www.media.mit.edu/publications...
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine…
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Francesco Saffioti from @ntnu presenting results from brillouin work in the @hydrosensing.bsky.social project at the international brillouin workshop in Perugia.
Jiri Friml closing a really exciting and productive ICAR2025.
Wed 28th June, Euro-BioImaging ’s Plant Imaging Expert Group featured Hydrosensing in a webinar session. youtu.be/lj9HA2TpJvo?... 👩⚕️👨⚕️ @hamannlab.bsky.social, @ziegler-lab-ur.bsky.social & Malcolm Bennett (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) 🌐 hydrosensing.eu/2025/06/plan...
Plant Imaging Expert Group: Discovering how plants sense water stress
YouTube video by Euro-BioImaging Communication
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Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇
Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now..... tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d
🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · last yr.Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
This opportunity for extra funding will already apply in the ERC Advanced Grant competition, which is due to open on 22 May 2025. europa.eu/!8xnrqK #ChooseEurope
Advanced Grant
Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, ambitious project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you.Who can apply? Applicants for...
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Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp
Interesting seminar with the eurobioimaging network coming up….
Super excited to start my new position in the Hydrosensing ERC Synergy Project😊 It was amazing to get a preview in Regensburg and meet all you nice and inspiring people! Looking forward to two more years as part of this excellent, international team! @hydrosensing.bsky.social @hamannlab.bsky.social
New update of the Hydrosensing Started Pack. Follow us! go.bsky.app/7j83oiQ
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