PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs

I don't think he objects to post-writing editing, but the key point is that the ideas have to come from the human brain. Not only because our ideas are better, but also because "use it or lose it". Especially for early career folk, writing is the ultimate test of your ability to think & synthesize.

Sensing pectin damage: Rhamnogalacturonan-I as a ligand for receptor kinases and an immune elicitor #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

📣 We are now accepting applications to join the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program. These are two-year appointments, starting either in January 2027 or 2028. 👉 Learn more and apply now: blog.aspb.org/plantphys_af.... #PlantSci #PlantScience

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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PhD Opportunity at Clemson University! Join our lab to develop cutting-edge AI methods for gene regulatory network inference from single-cell multi-omics data. Research areas include PU Learning, MIL, Flow Matching, and GFlowNets at the intersection of AI and single-cell. Contact me and please RT

Attention Nicotiana benthamiana users! Certain strains of Agrobacterium (e.g. GV3101-pMP90) induce glandular trichomes because of cytokinin production by Agrobacterium. As this can influence assay outcome, we recommend testing several strains. See our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cytokinin-mediated trichome initiation in Nicotiana benthamiana upon Agrobacterium tumefaciens infiltration

Infiltration of Agrobacterium tumefaciens in leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana has become a standard method for transient expression in plants. Like many Solanaceae species, N. benthamiana develops on i...

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The European Commission’s Health & Food Safety DG highlights that EU’s updated #NGTs framework will help bring important innovations from #GenomeEditing to the field. 🥔 One example: disease-resistant potatoes that could reduce fungicide use by up to 80%. lnkd.in/p/dpnJCTS2

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

Our first orchid genome paper is out "Inter-haplotype inversions and repeat expansion in the sexually deceptive orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis" academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-.... All let by our super talented master student Zirui Zhang

Inter-haplotype inversions and repeat expansion in the sexually deceptive orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis

Abstract. High-quality nuclear genome resources remain scarce for most orchids, particularly Australia’s diverse terrestrial lineages. Chiloglottis trapezi

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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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Breaking news: Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine will launch a “comprehensive investigation” into the previously undisclosed death last year of a 6-year-old girl who had received an experimental gene therapy from one of its scientists. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4yJXPoU

“Seven days after the girl’s medical team infused trillions of viruses carrying the recipe for the base editor into her spinal fluid, she died of a severe immune reaction linked to the therapy…” This, in @science.org, is an important and tragic story. (It’s also an incredibly well reported one.) 🧪

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

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Another #PlantSciJob here at KWS. You can follow @kwsgroup.bsky.social for regular job postings. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs 👇

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Job opportunity! 🌱 At KWS Einbeck (Germany), we have an exciting opening for a Group Lead for Molecular Trait Analysis & Genomics. 👉 Read more & apply online: jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

🚨 Call for the 2027 JXB Editorial Interns is now open! 🚨 🌱 Designed for ECRs, interns will gain behind-the-scenes publishing experience and write commentary pieces that will be published in the journal 📝 Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology

In 2021, we published an article in eLife on the role of CLE40 in Arabidopsis shoot meristem development ( see here: elifesciences.org/articles/70934 ). We recently found that one of the Arabidopsis lines used in that publication.....

The way to do it. You made a mistake? Simply correct it. 👍 👏

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In 2021, we published an article in eLife on the role of CLE40 in Arabidopsis shoot meristem development ( see here: elifesciences.org/articles/70934 ). We recently found that one of the Arabidopsis lines used in that publication.....

"Research is our best defense If we ignore it we'll just fool ourselves Your, lies, and misconception Won't, help, in their affliction Learn, know, what's fact or fiction Waste, time, no more" Lou Koller, Sick of it All, Indust. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Lou Koller, Frontman for Sick of It All, Dead at 61

Lou Koller, the frontman for Sick of It All, has died at the age of 61 after a battle with adenocarcinoma cancer.

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Job opportunity! 🌱 At KWS Einbeck (Germany), we have an exciting opening for a Group Lead for Molecular Trait Analysis & Genomics. 👉 Read more & apply online: jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

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...

Applications to join the ROOT & SHOOT SI-MI mentor training close Monday July 20!! Last chance! rootandshoot.org/simi2026/ This is a fantastic free online course, running from late August through late Nov. If you're at #PlantBio2026 ask me about it, but don't delay!

Hot off the press (so to speak)! Where we described new factors that inhibit meiotic crossovers near centromeres rdcu.be/fvHfe thread👇

The deSUMOylase SPF2 and the cohesin regulators SGO2 and CTF18 suppress crossovers near centromeres

Nature Plants - Gamboa et al. identified three proteins that restrict meiotic crossovers near centromeres. This finding suggests that cohesion regulation plays a role in this suppression and...

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1/5 Every paper has a story. Ours started with a dataset and ended with a conceptual advance. But what I'm most proud of is the development of the people behind it. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 9 links sensory timing to the initial lateral root growth angle | PNAS

Plants strategically respond to gravity and actively set defined growth angles. These gravitropic set-point angles (GSAs) shape the width and depth...

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Professorship Plant-Soil Interactions. Stuttgart, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #plantsciencejob www.academics.de/jobs/profess...

Professur (W3) für Pflanze-Boden-Interaktionen - Universität Hohenheim

Universität Hohenheim bietet Stelle als Professur (W3) für Pflanze-Boden-Interaktionen in Stuttgart - jetzt bewerben!

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Excited to share our latest publication! 🎉 Here @sophiezoe.bsky.social reveals an early developmental time window determining initial growth direction of lateral roots. Wonderful collaboration with @wabniklab.bsky.social and @matesf.bsky.social lab www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @cibss.bsky.social

SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 9 links sensory timing to the initial lateral root growth angle | PNAS

Plants strategically respond to gravity and actively set defined growth angles. These gravitropic set-point angles (GSAs) shape the width and depth...

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Read our new review: The life and legacy of the root endodermis: A spatiotemporal view of function and development - a very nice piece by @swatimahiwal.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

Our work on pattern formation in fossil and extant liverworts is out! @dev-journal.bsky.social Check it out if you are interested in fossils, evo-devo, and how mathematical modeling can help us understand the evolution of developmental processes! 🌿🧪 Thread ⬇️

Lateral inhibition governs ancestral cellular patterning in fossil and extant liverworts

Highlighted Article: Comparative and mathematical analyses reveal that oil body cell patterning in fossil and extant liverworts is consistent with a local activation-lateral inhibition mechanism, poin...

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A post about how to make microscopy images as accessible as possible. quantixed.org/2026/07/21/c...

Most likely, this is a subtweet of Satchin Panda at Salk... www.science.org/content/arti...