C460- From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation
23-25 July 2026 at Lancaster University, UK
Generously funded by @annbot.bsky.social , @newphyt.bsky.social, @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social, @westsyduhie.bsky.social and others! 🧪🌱
registration.lancaster.ac.uk/C460
🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob
#PlantSciJobs
🌱#SeminarSeriesCBGP
🗓️ 13/03/26 - 12:30
🧑🏽🔬 José Alonso Bellver
📰 One Genetic Screen, Two Stories: Mapping the Routes to Auxin Synthesis and Translation Regulation
💻 Zoom: shorturl.at/BB2CU (🔐627464)
🏛️ North Carolina State University USA
#Research #PlantScience #PlantBiology
The combined effects of Golden2‐like 2 and Pseudo‐Response Regulator 2 control the fruit pigmentation in pepper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @theplantjournal.bsky.social
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
🐣 🪶
![Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Lithograph after J. Phillips.
A lithograph portrait of Mary Somerville shown from the chest up, in early 19th-century dress. She has elaborately styled curly hair piled high with ringlets framing her face. She wears a ruffled white lace collar and a dress with feathered or fur trimming at the shoulders, fastened with a circular brooch. Her expression is calm and self-possessed, her gaze slightly averted.
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Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Lithograph after J. Phillips. A lithograph portrait of Mary Somerville shown from the chest up, in early 19th-century dress. She has elaborately styled curly hair piled high with ringlets framing her face. She wears a ruffled white lace collar and a dress with feathered or fur trimming at the shoulders, fastened with a circular brooch. Her expression is calm and self-possessed, her gaze slightly averted. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/mraqxra2
Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Line engraving by E. Conquy after M. Longhi. A line engraving portrait ofMaria Gaetana Agnesi shown bust-length within a softly shaded oval vignette. She has powdered or light curly hair loosely styled, small drop earrings, and wears a fur-trimmed garment over a light dress with a ribbon bow at the shoulder. Her expression is composed and direct. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/pmfug8sg
A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne – English aristocrat, prolific writer, and scientist. By George Kellaway A stipple or line engraving portrait of a woman shown from the chest up against a densely cross-hatched dark background. She has long, loosely curled hair falling to her shoulders, a small decorative crown or coronet at the top of her head, and wears a pearl necklace and a low-cut dress with a draped sash. Her expression is placid and direct. The caption below reads Margaret, D. of Newcastle. The engraver's name Kellaway sc. appears at lower right. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Margaret,_D._of_Newcastle_(4670217).jpg
Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate it, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books...
#books #literature #womeninstem #womenhistoryMonth
Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet
A detailed digital composite image based on the 1947 historical photograph of geneticist Barbara McClintock. McClintock, with her characteristic short hair and round glasses, is seated at a microscope, using tweezers in a Petri dish. While based on the original photo distributed for her AAUW award, this image presents a significantly expanded and fictionalized laboratory environment. The simple wooden workbench is now densely populated with a vast, colorized collection of complex glassware, numerous amber-colored reagent bottles, intricate distillation columns, and botanical specimens relevant to maize cytogenetics, creating a rich, illustrative narrative of her "jumping gene" research context that was not present in the original photo. The expanded background shows complex vintage laboratory cabinetry. This image explicitly states it is a composite: a digital recreation where Seriously Scientific has taken the historical figure and placed them into an augmented, complex fictionalized environment. Based on original source from Smithsonian Institution Archives. Digital composite by Seriously Scientific.
Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day!
She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome.
Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽
#WomenInScience
Happy International Women's Day.
Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
I was talking recently to a person with low vision about this, as I was unsure of what information is useful for them in #ALTtext. This is the perfect guide. Thanks @veron4ica.com ! #inclusion #DEI
Jajajajajajaja! A sus pies, Ópera de Seattle.
#Timothee
Buenos días,
#8M
#8M2026 💜.
Seamos conscientes de la fragilidad de nuestros DERECHOS.
Luchemos por ellos cada día de nuestra vida ✊🏻.
👩🦰👩🏾🦱👩🦳👩🏻👱🏼♀️👵🏻👩🏿🦱👩🏻👩🙎🏼♀️🙍🏿♀️👧🏻.
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"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"
Congratulations team! 👏🏻
🌱 New preprint out on bioRxiv!
How do plants sense seasonal changes in day length?
In our new study, we profiled high resolution (2h) RNA seq time courses in tomato across three photoperiods to uncover how light duration shapes gene expression dynamics.
Summary in next post...
Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Leo ahora esto 😶
Ni te imaginas lo que me alegro por el éxito del cloroplasto, porque es MUY GRANDE. Que hagan pasar tu asombroso trabajo por suyo es de ser mala gente.
Y efectivamente Jamás tendrán al autentico y primigenio 😂 ese lo tengo yo y solo tú puedes recrearlo con tu arte. 💚
Apply now! @vbcscitraining.bsky.social offers more than 25 fully-funded PhD positions! GMI group leaders are also recruiting new students.
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
15 PhD positions
Nuclear architecture and chromatin and advanced imaging analysis
In Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’
positions in UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden + Czech Republic
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
I've used Azenta / Genewiz too for easy and complicated sequences.
EPIPLANT conference
🌱 You like plants and epigenetics?
Explore mechanisms of chromatin regulation & epigenetics in Nantes, France!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
22-24 June 2026
Abstract submission deadline: 24 April 2026.
epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org
The School of Biosciences at University of Birmingham is recruiting FIVE Assistant/Associate Profs in areas including fungal biology, plant science and bioengineering. Full details below 🍄🌾🧬🧫
Does anyone know of an anti mStayGold antibody that works for immunoblots / IP? Anyone tried the one from HUABIO (not even sure that’s a real company)? Thanks!
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?
The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....
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🌿🧬Our new story is out in @natplants.nature.com! Tobacco plants usually pass down their mitochondria maternally, but we show we can trigger paternal transmission of mitochondria at high levels & restore plant health in the offspring of mothers harboring defective mtDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Photo of Marjane Satrapi holding a cigarette. “The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.” - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian Graphic Novelist
If you haven’t read or watched PERSEPOLIS, now’s the time 💚🤍❤️
