Juliet Coates

🚨 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

Oh my goodness 🫣

Reposting my moss trees for #WildFlowerHour 🌲

Was going through some super old emails and found an invitation from @multicellgenome.bsky.social to give a keynote talk at the multicellularity conference that I don’t think I replied to 😢🤦🏻‍♀️. So here is me, 13 years late, publicly apologising. 😬🫠🧬🦠🧫🧪

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Possible regulation of Arabidopsis MYB93 by both SCARECROW and MPK3. #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Arabidopsis #InteractionData #PhenotypeData #ExpressionData #NewFinding https://micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-001986

An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.” Credit to Puzzle agency, original information from Veronica With Four Eyes and veroniiiica dot com

I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement

As “neurotypical” is a shifting construct, I prefer “non-neuro-aligned” to “neurodivergent“.

Pleurocarpus moss resembling conifers ; green “trees” against light grey patio slab.

Teeny tiny #moss forest on my patio #ISeeMoss #nature 🌱🌳

Asgard #archaea: have we found our microbial ancestors?
New review (also for newcomers to the field!) by Christa Schleper and Thiago Rodrigues-Oliveira
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

White Poppy against a blue background

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

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I am very excited to share my simultaneous triple staining method for monocot roots. This method is not only faster but also utilizes a smaller volume of stain than traditional methods and minimizes mechanical tissue damage.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Close up of hazel catkins with one egg-bearing (female) flower on the end of the branch. Out of focus tree foliage behind.

Close up of sporulating bright green Bryum moss in the mortar of a wall of dark grey brick

I’ve missed #WildFlowerHour again but here’s some #hazel (including a teeny flower) and some Bryum #moss in close up 💚🌱🌺#spring
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I love FigTree so looking forward to playing with PearTree too 🍐 although I do love a circular tree on occasion 🌳

rambaut/figtree Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/figtree - rambaut/figtree

The first version of FigTree was released nearly 20 years ago and it is still widely used (including by me). But there are currently 85 issues on the GitHub repo (github.com/rambaut/figt...) and some of them I don’t really like the look of.

ISOLATE II RNA Plant Kit

www.bioline.com/isolate-ii-r...
Even for spores

Promotional graphic for STEM, LGBTQ & You 2026 highlighting a sponsor. A banner at the top reads “SPONSOR” alongside the oSTEM logo. The central panel displays the IOM3 logo with the text “I·M3 Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining.” A circular badge on the right reads “27 FEB 2026.” Along the bottom, a banner says “REGISTER TODAY – 27 FEBRUARY 2026 – STEMLGBTQYOU.GAY.” The background features a stylised DNA helix and pink halftone dot pattern.

Promotional graphic for STEM, LGBTQ & You 2026 highlighting a partner. A banner at the top reads “PARTNER” alongside the oSTEM logo. The central panel displays the Thermo Fisher Scientific logo in red and black text. A circular badge on the right reads “27 FEB 2026.” Along the bottom, a banner says “REGISTER TODAY – 27 FEBRUARY 2026 – STEMLGBTQYOU.GAY.” The background includes a stylised DNA helix and pink halftone dot pattern.

This LGBT+ History Month, we’re celebrating science, innovation, and LGBTQ+ voices in STEM 🏳️‍🌈🔬

Massive gratitude to @iom3.bsky.social for their generous sponsorship, now in their 7th year supporting us. Long-term backing like this keeps queer STEM spaces thriving.

Avery and Alex are giving us an introduction to oSTEM and ThermoFisher. Huge thanks to ThermoFisher for helping make this event possible and letting us use their fantastic space

This is a fantastic talk and conversation #STEMLGBTQU26
❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤎

A dark green zizi plant in a black plastic pot. It is placed on a grey cart with white liner. Lab fridge and lab space can be seen in the background.

This is the Zizi plant. While it is a common houseplant, it has a lot going for it: a member of the taro family (Arums), a succulent plant, a facultative CAM plant, a non-grass monocot, and highly regenerative (can be regenerated spontaneously from detached leaflets) which is super unusual.

Same in universities and colleges - #CleanAir is a #HealthAndSafety and #EDI issue! #Pollution #Viruses #Mould

🚨 NEW DfE GUIDANCE
- VENTILATION & AIR QUALITY -

Clean air matters - especially for #ClinicallyVulnerable children, staff and families. This is an important recognition that airborne transmission is preventable.

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A close-up view inside a dense, misty forest. On the left, a thick tree trunk is completely covered in vibrant, almost neon green moss. Long, spindly branches reach across the frame, heavily draped in the same bright green moss. The background is a soft, hazy mix of dark, bare tree trunks and thin branches, creating a striking contrast that makes the mossy foreground pop with vivid colour and a magical, damp woodland atmosphere.

I stumbled into a magical neon forest in the Ow Valley. Really quite incredible!

#photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel #OwValley #Wicklow #Ireland #Moss #NatureLovers #Forests #IrishLandscape

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Black in Plant Science Summer Studentship 2026 For the second time we will be offering Black undergraduate students from universities across the UK the opportunity to undertake a research experience placement at a UK university or research…

📣 Applications are currently open for a @blackinplantsci.bsky.social Summer Studentship working with @cgrandel.bsky.social and the Earlham #Biofoundry team. 🌱

This is a great opportunity for Black undergraduate students to gain experience in #automation and #syntheticbiology in plants. 🧬

`For the better, right?` meme, with the following text: "Research outputs will increase by 10% every year", "Because we follow DORA and consider all research outputs, including dataset and software?", "because of DORA, right?"

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🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

Tiny plants/mosses for #WildflowerHour

Red brick wall vertical with Bryum moss tufts with upright sporophytes bright green on tiny stalks

And don’t forget the tiny plants: some fab Bryum sporophytes hanging onto a wall #ISeeMoss #WildFlowerHour 🌱

Shot of lots of purple crocuses in grass; snowdrops in background. Some autumn leaves foreground.

More #spring colour with crocuses and snowdrops abundant this week 🌱🍂🪻 #WildFlowerHour

Pussy willow/goat willow furry buds just opening on bare twigs; foliage in background

Pussy willow/goat willow furry buds just opening on bare twigs; foliage in background

Large bright green moss mound with bluebell foliage and wild garlic bursting through.

Signs of #spring: willow buds; bluebells and wild garlic bursting through a mossy cushion 🌱 🧄
#WildFlowerHour #ISeeMoss @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social