Buck moon 🌕 🩷 Looks a bit like a ribosome to me 🫣
Catharina Merchante / Karen
@kmerchante.bsky.social
Tenured scientist @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social Curious about how plants adjust translation to adapt to their environment 👩🏻🔬🍀Science-Dog-📚-Travel-Nature-🌙-lover
La razón y el corazón, según Antonio Machado. Proverbios y cantares.
"Late, corazón. No todo se lo ha tragado la tierra". En memoria del gran Antonio Machado, en el 151º aniversario de su nacimiento.
How does a geminivirus replicate its genome using a pick&mix strategy with host proteins? 🦠🦠🌱🧬 Our new preprint identifies plant proteins repurposed by geminiviruses to carry out rolling-circle replication. Congrats @chaonan123.bsky.social , who spearheaded this work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Want to propose a scientific, educational, or technique demonstration session at ICAR 2027-Madison? 🌱There are 27 slots for 75' mini-symposia and 60' workshops. 🌱Check out the draft program and consider submitting your session proposal by November 13! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar2027
🌕🌙 En el Día Internacional de la #Luna En el Séptimo Cielo tienes puedes descubrirla: siempre igual y siempre cambiante a la vez https://f.mtr.cool/vaajlqwado #E7C #astronomía
2. Las fases de la Luna: siempre igual, siempre cambiante - El Séptimo Cielo
Aprende a reconocer las fases lunares y en qué momentos del mes y del día se observan, así como las diferencias entre la visión de la Luna desde el norte y desde el sur de la Tierra.
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¡Enhorabuena, España! 🏆🇪🇸 You played an excellent #FIFAWorldCup 2026, from start to finish. Thank you for inspiring Europe and for bringing the trophy back to our continent.
Spain plays. Europe cheers. 🙌 Good luck tonight, from every corner of the EU. Vamoooos 💪 🇪🇸
1906 Nobel Prize winner Santiago Ramón y Cajal's 'Advice for a Young Investigator' makes important points: 1. The only thing in your power is your preparation 2. Be suspicious of “brilliance” 3. Be appropriately respectful of authority, but no more 4. Balance concentration and relaxation 🔽
What counts in plant science? #plantscience
What counts in plant science?
Plant science relies on collaborative, infrastructure-rich, and long-term research, yet evaluation remains dominated by simplified citation-based metrics. This mismatch shapes research culture and incentives. More responsible assessment should combine quantitative indicators with contribution-aware, context-sensitive approaches that better reflect how plant science is conducted.
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Honoring Antonio García-Bellido, a pioneering developmental biologist whose discoveries of developmental compartments and selector genes transformed our understanding of how genes shape organismal development. Read the PNAS Retrospective: https://ow.ly/cfZn50ZmvtJ
'I would not be talking about the fish that my team discovered if we didn’t have long-term funding that allowed me to fail and learn from failures. The only way I was able to learn from failures was to have long-horizon funding, when I wasn’t being measured from year to year'
“I Am an Unabashed Optimist About the Long-Term Future of Science.”
The new president of the National Academy of Sciences talks about learning to see as a scientist and communicating science in a noisy information landscape.
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Karen Merchante, from IHSM, gave the invited talk of the Session 2 in the XVIII RBMP meeting. She talked about translation regulation
Karen Merchante (@kmerchante.bsky.social) opens the second session of RBMP2026, explaining the role that selective translation plays in plant development🌱 👏
La UMA recibe financiación de la Junta para acreditar al @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social como Unidad de Excelencia en Investigación. La propuesta de TELMA e IMECH también se constituye como Unidad de Investigación Competitiva del Sistema Andaluz del Conocimiento.
La UMA recibe financiación de la Junta para acreditar al Instituto IHSM ‘La Mayora’ como Unidad de Excelencia en Investigación
La propuesta conjunta de TELMA e IMECH también se constituye como Unidad de Investigación Competitiva del Sistema Andaluz del Conocimiento
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Heat stress induces the formation of unreduced male gametes by targeting translation in Arabidopsis meiocytes (Cédric Schindfessel , Albert Cairo , Pavlína Mikulková , Chunlian Jin , Laura Lamelas , Philip A Wigge , Karel Říha , Danny Geelen) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Heat stress induces the formation of unreduced male gametes by targeting translation in Arabidopsis meiocytes
TAM regulates the translation of meiotic cell cycle genes under heat stress to prevent premature meiotic exit and ensure ploidy consistency in the natural
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Found them on my way to the lab this morning. Terrible photo but 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Finally out in @Cellcellpress! Proteins with long IDRs are prone to misfolding during protein synthesis. This is prevented by mRNA 3′UTRs that act as mRNA-based IDR chaperones. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
mRNA 3′ UTRs chaperone intrinsically disordered regions to control protein activity
Highly conserved mRNA 3′ UTRs act as co-translational chaperones for intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), preventing inter-domain misfolding and enabling biogenesis of fully active proteins.
cell.com
📢 Applications are now open for the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞! Are you an early-career PI? The TPJ Fellowship offers mentoring, editorial board engagement, a £2,000 travel award, & opportunities to contribute to TPJ 📅 Apply by 6 July 2026 More details 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... +🧵
The Plant Journal: 2026 Fellowship Scheme
The TPJ Fellowship scheme was first launched in 2020, and we are pleased to announce that we have now opened applications for the 2026 TPJ Fellowship scheme.
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Oh this is so good, please read it. "If we want literate citizens, we will have to rebuild the conditions for literacy deliberately, against the grain of every incentive currently pointed the other way. I know the academy has the will to do that. It also has the obligation." 👏
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field@wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 2mo agoI know we’ve all read 100 articles like this, but I do recommend this one, especially for the series of questions at the end about how universities (not individual instructors) could change our practice. I’d love to discuss those
🔈 New TPJ webinar with the @globalplantgpc.bsky.social 🌱 New Insights from Plant Structural Biology🌱 Explore how structural biology is advancing plant science With Clarisa Ester Álvarez, @cblikstad.bsky.social & @bjornppedersen.bsky.social 🗓️ June 30 ⏰ 15:00 CEST us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
⚠️ Last call for #PGRP2026! Tomorrow (5 June) is the final day to: 🎤 Submit an abstract for consideration for an oral presentation 🎟️ Register at the early bird rate If you've been meaning to register or submit your work, now is the time! 🌱 See you at #PGRP2026
Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026@pgrp2026.bsky.social · 3mo agoExciting updates for #PGRP2026 🌱 📑 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐮𝐭! Check out below 👇 ⏳ And 2 weeks left (June 5th) for: 🔹 early bird registration 🔹 abstract submission for oral presentation consideration Register 👉 malaga.congresoseci.com/pgrp2026/index We can’t wait to see you at #PGRP2026!
