Hi Fam! Re-introducing our Co-founder Dr Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social Since founding @plantpostdocs.bsky.social in 2019, Sunil spent 7 years shaping the community and is now leading his lab @ucriverside.bsky.social 🌱Our leadership team is expanding! Join us 🔗 in bio!🌸

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

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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Congratulations, @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social, on winning the @socdevbio.bsky.social #2026SDB Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award! Learn more about Jeff's science and career in his @dev-journal.bsky.social interview with @saanjbati.bsky.social.

Transitions in development – an interview with Jeffrey Farrell

Jeffrey Farrell is an Earl Stadtman Investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), USA, where he heads the Unit on Cell Specification and ...

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Congratulations to @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, winner of the @socdevbio.bsky.social Trainee Science Communication Award at #2026SDB. Check out Nick's not-for-profit organisation for engaging the public with developmental biology: Open Flower

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Flower Genetic Design

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Las Vegas: 110°F outside 🥵 #SDB2026: 100% cool science inside 😎 A great start to the meeting with the Presidential Symposium @rrbehringer.bsky.social @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social Spotting my favorite model organism 🌽 in the art show. #DevBio #PlantScience And, as always, Vegas has the best food 😋

I am excited to be at #2026SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social with so many members of my lab! From GRNs to multiomics to imaging development- please visit 4 of their posters on Thursday night! #142 (A42) - Arwen Cudiamat #143 (A43) - Heddy Menendez #168 (A68) - William Stoehr #181 (A81) - Raneesh Ramarapu

I'm looking forward to #SDB2026 in Las Vegas! I put together a Family-Friendly Guide to Vegas with tips on restaurants, activities, transportation, weather, and more. It’s one of my favorite cities and I hope you enjoy your trip! www.sdbonline.org/uploads/file... #DevBio @socdevbio.bsky.social

🎉 We’re celebrating #PeerReviewWeek with a Review-a-thon! Gather your lab, classroom, department, or community to review preprints or datasets as a team, in any language or research field. You can win a prize to support your Club's activities! Learn more & register by Aug. 31: bit.ly/Review-a-thon

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Connect with me next week at #PlantBio2026!

Hey team - it’s looking very likely that I’ll be hiring not one but two four year postdocs! We’re a fun lab with tons of theoretical and applied pop gen projects - broadly in polyploid, conservation, and human evo. Competitive salary, sunny San Diego! Do share with your about to defend grads!

Excited to be able to advertise 1x postdoc and 2x technician positions to join my group in Cambridge working on an exciting ARIA funded project to help bring a plant artificial chromosome into existence! Reposts very welcome please 🙏 (1/2)

Behind every paper in MBE, there's this - a group of excellent and dedicated scientists, serving the SMBE community on our editorial board. By committing their time, these editors make the society's mission to support and connect molecular evolutionists possible. #societyjournal #society #SMBE2026

Been away from BlueSky for a bit but just received tenure! Big thank you to my many many mentors and colleagues. And, of course, my family. Truly a team effort. Also, this video took like six tries to get right 🫠

Very excited to share our new Nature study! We discovered that replication stress stabilizes CTCF-dependent chromatin loops enclosing stressed nascent DNA, where G9a-mediated heterochromatin protects it from nucleolytic degradation. rdcu.be/frzLg Huge thanks to all our collaborators and co-authors!

Replication-stress-induced chromatin loops protect fork stability - Nature

Replication stress induces the formation of transient chromatin loops that enclose de novo heterochromatin-enriched stalled replication forks.

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Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

My lab has received an NSF CAREER Award funding for the next 5 years! Grateful to the NSF for continuing to support my lab's research and training (Award #2544620). The project asks the question: how do legumes differentiate between and select the best symbionts? Positions coming soon!

Foundation models are transforming plant biology across genomes, phenotypes and AI agents #TansleyInsight by Haopeng Yu @haopengyu.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MB4DAU...

Still an Ass, but now 'ociate! 🤓💥 This is thanks to all the wonderfull advisees, advisors, collaborators, and colleagues I have had the privilege to work with over the years! 💚💚💚 I am so lucky to know you all! news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Board of Visitors approves 2026 promotions, tenure, and continued appointments

The board approved the following promotions, tenure, and continued appointments.

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So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

Gearing up for Single Cell data. Ken Birnbaum is getting us oriented to the space. #icar2026

We're hiring a PhD candidate! 🔬 Are you fascinated by cytoplasmic genetics and eager to uncover the mechanisms underlying maternal inheritance of plastids and mitochondria? If so, join our group and contribute to our ERC-funded research "CytoInP"!🌟 Application link: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

PhD position: Manipulating plastid and mitochondrial inheritance in plants

Our group investigates the maternal inheritance of plastid and mitochondrial genomes in plants, with the goal of uncovering the mechanisms that govern this process.

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Congrats on the beautiful study @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and team! Really exciting to see this important question being explored in non-plant systems! #GeneBodyMethylation #Transcription

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Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

This spring I took over and redesigned the only Gen Ed on plants here #IB103. We walked through every core aspect of plant bio in lectures & labs, but also through art & design. I had a blast, the evaluations are rewarding (4.9/5), the redesign got an award from the college, and a little press too!

Excited to share two new PNAS papers on Botrytis cinerea—the fungus that spoils nearly everything. Together, these studies explore how the pathogen infects diverse hosts and how plants respond across evolutionary diversity.

Updated GRC Developmental Biology 2027 flyer/poster with the latest roster of invited speakers. 🌱🐟🧬🐭🪰🧪🧫 Come join us to discuss the latest in #devbio at the Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort, Jan 17-22 ! #GRCDevBio2027

Christian Mosimann@chrmosimann.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️

Great first day of our NSF PGRP sponsored maize transformation workshop at Rutgers with Andrea Gallavotti, Margaret Young @revealplant.bsky.social, Dave Jackson, and special guest Kan Wang! Wonderful group of participants getting their hands dirty in the lab 🤓

I’m excited to share that the article I wrote with Dr. Dawn Nagel for The Plant Cell journal is finally available! In this letter, I explored how scientific identity development in academia can explain differences in experiences for marginalized scientists. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Cultivating “scientific identity”: insights from plant cell and developmental biology

Abstract. Identity plays a major role in academia, with an important interplay between personal identities and the development of a “scientific identity.”

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