I love this part! Going to give it to my students.

I cannot believe I won the Moseley Award tonight at #Botany2026! Thank you @botsocamerica.bsky.social

We had to show you some more presentations from last night's poster session, but we're still sad we can't highlight them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW

Last night's poster session was a botanical blast! Here are some fun moments from 5 poster presentations, we wish we could show you them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW

Do we have a "made without genAI" badge or digital sticker that science communicators and artists can use so people know that our work is for humans by humans?

🌱 From Nature Communications: Hybrid vigor in maize may arise partly from master regulatory genes coordinating the activity of hundreds of other genes. (Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Genetics

The incomplete dominance of gene expression controlled by Trans-eQTL hotspots contributes to heterosis in maize - Nature Communications

This study shows that maize hybrids exhibit increased transcriptome activity than inbred parents in an incomplete dominance manner, contributing to hybrid vigor. This increase is primarily regulated b...

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A really lovely paper, combining microscopy, modeling and manipulations to achieve a better understanding of root hair growth. thanks to the authors for the experiments & writeup!

IBMP | Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes@ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social · 3w ago

🌱 Using live imaging & microfluidics, researchers mapped how root hairs grow in 3 stages, revealing crosstalk between cytoskeleton, nucleus & cell mechanics that drives polar growth in plants. 🔬 @theplantcell.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koag165

On August 14th at 10 AM CT, join us to explore plant biology graduate program types and the funding sources behind them, with Dr. BeKa Leuschen-Kohl (KU) and Dr. Taymee Brandon (Princeton)! Registration link is on our linktree. #gradschool #plantgrads

Aaaaand that concludes our workshop! I had so much fun and really appreciate everyone attending and having great discussion!! #botany2026 #plantpeopleftw

闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD@minyaaa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It went so well last year so we decided to offer our graphic design and figure making workshop again at #botany2026!

BSA Spring/Summer Swag Store 2026! | Be Resilient, Be Botanical! | Bonfire www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-sp... I won't be at the BOTANY conference , but I am thrilled to be wearing the fabulous "Resilient" shirt designed by the brilliant Catrina Adams 💚 Go to the website to check out the back.

Looking forward to October and attending @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference This year I am sharing my own experience in academia, also thanking those that have influenced directly and indirectly my career. Curious? Register now to benefit from early bird rate, link 👇

Black In Plant Science- UK@blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 5d ago

📢 Speaker Announcement: Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso - Plenary Speaker Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, PhD, is a Professor of Plant Sciences and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Leeds. Learn more, be inspired, register now: buff.ly/kywzTjj

From The Coeur d'Alene Tribe. #SpokaneFires

Hey Plant People of #Botany2026: It's time for a new Program Director for the annual conferences. Who's in? It could be you! Melanie Link-Perez, whose term ends with #Botany2027, says it's been "The most rewarding service I have ever done." #plantpeopleFTW

On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵

WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. It's time to APPLY HEAVY PRESSURE. Call you Senators NOW: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/omb... I know, everyone hates calling. But this is CRITICAL. Make the calls today! (Use our super easy autodialer tool linked above) www.politico.com/live-updates...

Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap

It’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said.

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1/ I emailed Dr. Tony Fauci today to tell him how disgusted and sad I was with the way he’s been treated. I told him he is a hero and has my support and my admiration.

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 7d ago

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

All while attempting to dismantle the entire scientific enterprise that managed to pull us out of the worst of the pandemic in less than a year

The Rude Pundit@rudepundit.bsky.social · last wk.

It's amazing how quickly we've forgotten how shit-ourselves scared we all were in 2020. Covid-19 was new. We had no firm idea how bad it could get, how it spread, or how to treat for it. Now, these bastards on the right act like the whole thing was just a minor inconvenience blown out of proportion.

by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction

We are deeply saddened to share that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year-long battle with cancer. Our deepest condolences go to his family, friends, colleagues, and the many students he inspired. We will share additional memorial information soon.

This is random, but I wanted to extend my gratitude to Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty for her tireless effort in protecting the Kennedy Center from being fully destroyed by a vindictive jealous petty classless criminal. 💙👊

We're thrilled to announce the Membranes & Cell Biology plenary session invited speakers for #ICAR2027Madison! Yangnan Gu- UC Berkeley Marisa Otegui- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison Yvon Jaillais- ENS Lyon for more info & to get updates www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar2027 @yvonjaillais.bsky.social

Just had a great zoom with a very talented undergraduate student from another country I would love to recruit. I really don't love telling students not to come here, but because our funding and visa situation is so volatile I can't in good conscience recommend a PhD in the US.

Former NSF Graduate Research Fellow here: the idea that promising students will succeed without the support of diverse, federally funded, academically independent institutions of higher ed is absurd. Science doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Thriving research universities enable scientific success.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Initial notes: There's a lot of emphasis on the GRFP (and similar funding mechanisms, such as CAREER awards) because of its ability to target high-performing individuals on the basis of merit—in contrast to institutions and diversity programs.

📢Registration is now open! This year we will be welcoming the incredible Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (Professor at the University of Leeds) and a surprise Special Guest as our plenary speakers. Early Bird Registration is open until Friday 18 September - £30. Register here: buff.ly/tRc4Sdg

the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2w ago

a bad thing is running a phd program with brilliant international students who must reckon with a volatile xenophobic saboteur government in fresh ways every day, no thank you, 0/10

I wish I did not have to bring up this old tweet from ‘that other place’ every now and again but here we are (again) and here it is…

Hi #plantbio2026! My amazing student Angelique will give a fascinating talk on Tu. be sure to check it out!🌱🪴 She’s also flying solo at the conference so please say hi to her! 🤗 We are very grateful for the @aspbofficial.bsky.social Recognition Award that provided a full ride for her attendance! 💚

The universal symbol of a fellow scientist! Poster tubes make human connections so much easier at airports. On my way to my favorite meeting in Ottawa! #Plantbio26 #PlantBiology2026 #PlantBiology26

Happening now: Genes/Genomes: Regulatory & Transcriptional Networks! Featuring talks by: Min-Yao Jhu, Molly Megraw, Jan de Vries, Bahram Samanfar, and Stefanie F. King. #PlantBio2026 #PlantScience