It seems to me that the focus of this study is on drivers rather than pedestrians?

Cell Press@cellpress.bsky.social · 4h ago

Pumas make our roads safer! Current Biology study finds that when pumas are present, deer collisions with drivers drastically drop. www.cell.com/current-biol... Now please enjoy some premium puma pics from the study below. Justin P. Suraci & colleagues

Out in @natplants.nature.com, mapping of brassinosteroid chemical features required for (1) receptor binding, (2) ligand positioning and (3) co-receptor recruitment. Fantastic work by Alberto Caregnato & @hmchen93.bsky.social and our friends in Olomouc. Funding:@snf-fns.ch -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Privateer for UCSF ChimeraX: Carbohydrate structure validation and visualization pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42427255/ #cryoEM

Please share! 🌱🤖 Permanent W2 Professorship in crop & plant sciences @ PhenoRob, University of Bonn. Especially encouraged: crop genome engineering, sustainable pest control, or sustainable disease control. Expertise in one area is enough. Apply by Sept. 30, 2026. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

Nature Communications is looking for a plant biology editor: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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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!

That’s settled then 😂

Michael Hothorn@structplantbio.bsky.social · 6mo ago

AI-based manuscript evaluation and review systems will undoubtedly be revolutionary. What remains to be seen is whether this will be a 1989 Berlin-style or a 1793 Paris-style revolution 😉

I had a look at the "The 1%" ranking of preprints by @qedscience.bsky.social and at our recent preprints and published papers with regard to their QED score: 1. I find it absolutely legit to use open-access preprints to develop and obtain such scores, or to use them to train LLMs.

I'm old enough to remember QED's authors said it's just providing an author with internal feedback, and emphatically isn't trying to mimic human review. Now it's compared to human review or journal selectivity and used to rank (other people's) work. The authors seem to ignore the black box aspect1/3

QED Science@qedscience.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉 Meet The 1%. Out of 57,455 bioRxiv life science preprints, QED Science selected 574 exceptional manuscripts through blind evaluation. The 1%: the-one-percent.qedscience.com Good science deserves to be seen. @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @openrxiv.bsky.social @richardsever.bsky.social

Es ist schade, dass ihr Studenten den Überfluss und den Luxus nicht so recht kennet, in dem ihr lebet. Aber es ist auch mir so gegangen, als ich noch Student war.

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Very happy with today’s PhD defence by Alberto Caregnato. Amazing quantitative biochemistry, crystallography and cryoEM. Well done Alberto, it was a pleasure working with you. Big thanks to @hillerlab.bsky.social, Andreas Boland and @romanulm.bsky.social

Fantastic last seminar before his well deserved retirement by Philippe Reymond @unil.bsky.social on the signaling immune responses following insect cell deposition on plant leaves. A technical tour de force & exciting findings.

We are recruiting a Junior PI to join CRC 1664 @snp2prot.bsky.social, funded through the FEM POWER programme supporting women in STEM. own budget, a funded PhD position, outstanding infrastructure + supportive colleagues. More information: snp2prot.uni-halle.de/2026/06/05/j...

This work nicely quantifies a major issue in our universities: "In higher education, administrative costs have risen much faster than instruction and research costs (4). MIT Faculty grew by only 9.2% between 1985 and 2023, while administrative staff grew by 189%." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In a new study, our Biology Section reveals how plants evolved molecular systems to detect UV-B and trigger protective responses—building their own "biological sunscreen". Read more: https://ow.ly/Zx6r50Z688O #Science #Plants #UV

Congratulations @romanulm.bsky.social group for your latest publication in @plantphys.bsky.social: Conservation and divergence of #UVR8 photoreceptor-mediated UV-B signaling in #Marchantia polymorpha @sciencesunige.bsky.social www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...

Wanted: Outstanding plant scientist and fantastic colleague. If your science combines fundamental discovery with future applications, we would love to hear from you @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Happy to announce that I have started my own research group at the MPIPZ and that I am looking for a postdoc who would like to investigate Marchantia prothallus development with me! Please spread the word and/or apply if interested :)

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research@mpipz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking for a #postdoc? 📣We are #hiring📣 Join the Wallner Group @mpipz.bsky.social to work on tissue patterning, polarity & body axes formation with the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha.🌿 Apply now! #plantsci 👉https://jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/54b1ba6d403b8a106f2595c1ef1171f8d729bb720?ref=homepage

Are you excited about understanding the molecular underpinnings of arbuscular mycorrhiza? Then this PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/4...

Wow, what a beast

Rémi Fronzes@fronzeslab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New preprint. In S. sanguinis, a C5a peptidase-like protease (ScpH) polymerizes along eDNA, turning it into a catalytic biofilm scaffold. Great work from @robinanger.bsky.social in our lab, with Pelicic lab @lcbofficiel.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint. In S. sanguinis, a C5a peptidase-like protease (ScpH) polymerizes along eDNA, turning it into a catalytic biofilm scaffold. Great work from @robinanger.bsky.social in our lab, with Pelicic lab @lcbofficiel.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our review on the dynamics of Brassinosteroid molecules and BRI1 receptor @plantubiquitin.bsky.social @theplantjournal.bsky.social Congrats Rakuri and Julien! dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Very nice work on the role of PPIP5Ks in AM symbiosis by @martinaried.bsky.social @gabrielschaaf.bsky.social and @jessenlab.bsky.social !

Martina Ried-Lasi@martinaried.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share that our work on VIH2-dependent inositol pyrophosphate signaling and arbuscular mycorrhiza is now out in Science Advances! In this study, we explore how VIH2 contributes to the regulation of AM in Lotus japonicus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share that our work on VIH2-dependent inositol pyrophosphate signaling and arbuscular mycorrhiza is now out in Science Advances! In this study, we explore how VIH2 contributes to the regulation of AM in Lotus japonicus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lotus japonicus VIH2 is an inositol pyrophosphate synthase that regulates arbuscular mycorrhiza

Inositol pyrophosphate messengers regulate arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and phosphate uptake in Lotus japonicus.

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New insights into #fertilization from the @pauligroup.bsky.social & Ikawa labs! In a tour-de-force study, we discovered ✨ SPARK ✨, a conserved sperm fertilization complex that couples sperm-egg binding to membrane fusion. Read on 🧵👇 and check out our preprint for more details! tinyurl.com/34cm4xat

Victoria Deneke@vdeneke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How do sperm and egg fuse? Surprisingly, we still don’t fully know… Our field has uncovered many pieces of the fertilization puzzle, but not how they fit together. We identify ✨ SPARK ✨ - a conserved sperm complex that couples sperm-egg binding to fusion. tinyurl.com/34cm4xat Read on! 🧵👇

New proof-of-principle experiments show ultrasonic excitation during conventional plunge vitrification yields better angular distribution for viral hemagglutinin, significantly improving our reconstruction resolution from 2.7 Å (in our jetting experiments) to 2.0 Å.

1/8 🚨 New preprint from the @sternberglab.bsky.social & @martinjinek.bsky.social labs! CRISPR-associated transposases (CASTs) insert large DNA cargoes at precise genomic locations — no double-strand breaks needed.

Team effort from @fxrico.bsky.social, Oded, Pierre, Andrea, @hmchen93.bsky.social, Larissa now out in @pnas.org The Kelch phosphatase BSU1 is a PP1-like serine/threonine phosphatase involved in cell cycle regulation, not a tyrosine phosphatase in brassinosteroid signaling 👍 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The RTS (Swiss TV) visited our lab and talked about our recent work on natural variation for suberin in the News yesterday evening! (In French)

Les racines, un espoir pour l'adaptation des plantes face aux stress climatiques - 19h30 - Play RTS

Play RTS vous permet de visionner ou d'écouter de nombreuses émissions tv ou radio, quand et aussi souvent que vous le souhaitez.

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