Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
@plantteaching.bsky.social
Promoting SciComm, teaching, equity & inclusion in plant biology. #PlantScience PI NSF RCN: ROOT&SHOOT. https://rootandshoot.org/ Features Editor ThePlantCell, PlantPhysiology @PlantTeaching@genomic.social https://linktr.ee/PlantTeaching 🏴
Congratulations to Schenk Lab alumna Ellie Becklund who was awarded the inaugural Elizabeth A. Zimmer Early Career Publication Award from @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social - great job @elliebecklund.bsky.social!!!
🌱 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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We identified protein domains in LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their distinctive amino acid usage reveals the order amino acids were added to the genetic code, based mostly on size. Older proteins hint at earlier alternative codes. 1/15 @seekingluca.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Order of amino acid recruitment into the genetic code resolved by last universal common ancestor’s protein domains | PNAS
The current “consensus” order in which amino acids were added to the genetic code is based on potentially biased criteria, such as the absence of s...
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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
We're recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow at ANU to help strengthen Australia's preparedness for wheat blast. The project spans plant pathology, genetics, breeding and biosecurity, with collaborators in Australia and Brazil. Apply here: tinyurl.com/25zcj9yy #PlantScience #Postdoc #Biosecurity
Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $91,546 - $114,906 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full-Time, Continuing (Contingent Funded) Note: This position will be primarily based at the N...
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Exciting to see the plant science community come together at ComBio 2026! Looking forward to the latest discoveries and collaborations. 🌿 The ComBio 2026 website www.combio.org.au #ComBio2026 #AusPlantSci #Phytogen #PlantScience
RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.
Do you know the instituitions of our member countries? For example, INRAe, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment in France! @inrae-france.bsky.social www.wheatinitiative.org/member
Another paper from our NASA-funded project on ferns has dropped! UWyoming MS student Fern (really!) Holian, developed a new schema for classifying fossil ferns, which are understudied. 🧪🌿☄️
Application of a novel schema for describing fossil fern foliage and investigating taxonomic and morphological change across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in western North America
Premise The Chicxulub asteroid impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago. Ferns thrived in the aftermath of the extinction, evidenced by the.....
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I won’t be at #Botany2026 but for those interested in bryophyte phylogenetics or sex chromosomes check out Seyeon Kim’s talk at 9:30a Monday in Colloquia 1 - Beyond Phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
UVfinder: a tool to extract bryophyte sex-linked gene copies from the GoFlag408 probe set
Premise Target enrichment sequencing using probe sets like GoFlag 408 has revolutionized phylogenetics, yet recent genomic data indicate that some probes may be sex-linked, potentially introducing top...
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Oh ALSO! Various Botany groups will be at the (new!) Community and Inclusion table in the exhibit hall this year. Come talk to student reps, folks from Disabled in Botany, and friends from the DEI committee. Hear about events at the conference & beyond. Table 504! #Botany2026
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
When at #botany2026 you have to botanize! Twas nice to get out on a sunrise hike with some Marx lab mates
Wohoo! Yes, postdocs at #Botany2026, please come to the Postdocs in Botany affinity group on Monday from noon to 1:30pm. Arizona Grand Ballroom… @botanist-brooke.bsky.social and I will see you all there! :)
Chris Martine | Plant People FTW@martinebotany.bsky.social · 3d agoAnd 9% are postdocs. That's 96 amazing peeps at #Botany2026 who could turn up for Monday's Postdocs in Botany affinity group social in the Arizona Grand Ballroom. #plantpeopleFTW
Hey #Botany2026 friends, our Belonging in Botany speaker had to cancel unfortunately (we hope to get him back next year!). Instead we're trying something different. We're going to have a discussion-based workshop to help us connect across our common struggles and share ways to stay resilient 1/2
☀️ Just in time for #Botany2026! ☀️ We're thrilled to announce Season 2 of A Botanical Podcast! Four episodes are currently available at www.buzzsprout.com/2446995 Feat. @kheyduk.bsky.social @martinebotany.bsky.social Aam Schneider & Caprice Disbrow! #botany #plantscience
And 9% are postdocs. That's 96 amazing peeps at #Botany2026 who could turn up for Monday's Postdocs in Botany affinity group social in the Arizona Grand Ballroom. #plantpeopleFTW
Chris Martine | Plant People FTW@martinebotany.bsky.social · 4d agoCurrent numbers for #Botany2026! 1079 registered attendees (43% are students) 825 presentations 24 countries repped #plantpeopleFTW
After seven fun, productive years as a #LagoLab PhD student, @laymonstera.bsky.social is off to a postdoc Berkeley with Sarah Kocher. I’m going to miss her but she’s so ready for her career ahead!! (We’d all be crying in this goodbye photo if we weren’t going to see her on Sunday at #botany2026 😅)
At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.
Current numbers for #Botany2026! 1079 registered attendees (43% are students) 825 presentations 24 countries repped #plantpeopleFTW
Trying to keep up with all things Ecophys this #Botany2026 ? Check out our website! sites.google.com/d.umn.edu/bo...
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Conference Events Sunday 1:30-5:30pm Workshop - Beyond the leaf: Methodologies for Measuring Gas Exchange from Non-planar and Unusual Sample Materials. 10:30pm-12:30am Connect at with Phys and Ecoph...
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4-Year PhD Position in Forest Ecology at the University of Hamburg, Germany The University of Hamburg is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD position in Forest Ecology. Explore research on drought vulnerability of mycorrhizal communities with international collaborations. Applications close on…
4-Year PhD Position in Forest Ecology at the University of Hamburg, Germany
The University of Hamburg is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD position in Forest Ecology. Explore research on drought vulnerability of mycorrhizal communities with international collaborations. Applications close on August 15, 2026.
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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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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🧵
