We need to correct the wide-spread omission of equal contribution in article indexing Equal contribution designations (co-first and co-last authorship) is on the rise, yet this information is routinely lost, creating inequity in recognition and crediting. This Perspective calls for…

Are you the less lucky of the co-first or co-last authors? @shougroup.bsky.social makes the case for changes to the way that equal contribution information is sent to indexing sites such as #PubMed.
🧪 #AcademicSky #publishing

A purple orchid blooms near the shore at Barleycove in the west of Ireland

Our friend @milneorchid.bsky.social needs your help!
He's working on an orchid book for the Collins New Naturalist series, and needs more orchid images.
Find out how you could help Richard & maybe get one of your orchid photos (with credit) into this prestigious new book:
bsbi.org/blog/2026/04...

Massive congrats! 🎉 well deserved

Deeply moved to receive the Médaille d’argent du CNRS. A truly special gift 💝
This recognition is above all a collective effort, with wonderful colleagues & collaborators, and an amazing team, not forgetting the daily support of admin staff, local platforms and engineers.
So thank you all 🙏

Meet our Speakers: Dr. Emmanuelle Bayer, Research Director, Laboratory of Membrane Biogenesis, CNRS-Bordeaux University Dr. Emmanuelle Bayer is a Principal Investigator, CNRS Research Director (class 1 since 2024, ranked 1st at the national level) at the Laboratory of Membrane

Next i am going to Yale Medicine School for a seminar on how plant cells communicate ☘️ 📳 !! Can't wait

thank you Pietro De Camilli for the invitation @pdc-lab.bsky.social

m.yale.edu/dhjp

Blog - A change of name | Molecular Plant Sciences | Biology We've been working on Begonia luxurians for 10 years. It is a very photogenic species, and popular amongst house plant collectors for its lush leaves.

A new blog is out on our @instmolplantsci.bsky.social website! Go check it out! Our Head of Institute, Prof. Catherine Kidner, discusses how taxonomic changes in the genus Begonia impact present genomic research! biology.ed.ac.uk/plant-scienc...

Want to change the world? poster.

💚We Appreciate Plants💚

Plant science research is vital to solving some of the biggest problems facing us & our planet.

With our 'Want to change the world?' poster & resources, you can inspire your students to find solutions & make a difference with a career in #plantscience.

#PlantAppreciationDay

Coffee and chat: 12th of May 2026. 11-11.30am Teams: Meeting ID: 318 775 560 743 512 Passcode: cT6GJ3Yt

This academic term is coming to an end and we would love to hear how early career lecturer/fellows are doing! 📚 Join us for a quick & friendly chat on Tuesday 12th May (11-11.30am) on Teams: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3187755...
Bring along your favourite hot beverage! ☕️ Please share with colleagues.

LipoTag: A minimal motif for live and functional imaging of plant cell membranes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNAS Most plant tissues are symplasms in which cells are connected by plasmodesmata, membrane-lined cytosplasmic bridges that enable diffusive and/or ad...

This is nothing less than a breakthrough. What a phantastic paper. So happy to see it out after five years.
The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Philippa was an amazing scientist and a great human being. We remember fondly her visit in Edinburgh a couple of years ago. Awful loss. Condolences to family and friends

The Importance of the Black in Plant Science Network In October 2026 we held our second Black in Plant Science (BiPS) Conference at the University of Leeds. We asked the members of our community why BiPS is im...

In October 2026 we held our second Black in Plant Science (BiPS) Conference at the University of Leeds.

We asked the members of our community why BiPS is important to them, and here is what they had to say: buff.ly/OClLBP3

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this video.

Headshot of Prof. James McEvoy. He is wearing a pair of glasses, a checkered shirt and a dark jacket.

For our series of profiles of senior academics, this month we hear from Prof. James McEvoy from @royalholloway.bsky.social
He shares valuable tips for early-career staff. To read his profile, join our LinkedIn (note that your institution must be a HUBS member): www.linkedin.com/groups/13191...

"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.

Thermosensory reconfiguration of the auxin transcriptional pathway to drive root cell growth Nature Communications - While auxin typically inhibits root cell growth, elevated temperatures reconfigure the auxin transcriptional pathway to promote elongation. This study reveals how plants...

🚨📢 Excited to share our back-to-back publications in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧬🌡️ In a fantastic collaboration between @casallab.bsky.social and @luciastrader.bsky.social, we’ve showed how plants "re-tune" the auxin pathway to regulate growth in response to warmth. 🌡️🌱 🧵 rdcu.be/fayYC, rdcu.be/fay0X

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens!

Read it in Science
dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi-science.bsky.social

Comparative proteomic profiling of receptor kinase signaling reveals key trafficking components enforcing plant stomatal development Proteomic mapping uncovers endocytosis adaptors that drive receptor internalization for robust stomatal development.

Published! From a proteomic atlas of the ERECTA signaling network, we show that receptor kinase endocytosis is essential for proper stomatal patterning. Congrats, Pengfei, @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social, @hhmi-science.bsky.social, @texasscience.bsky.social & co-authors!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our paper is now out in PNAS!
Crops often show boron deficiency in volcanic soils. Here, we identified six variants in two key boron transporter genes, BOR1 and BOR2, that increase leaf boron in natural populations of A. thaliana from volcanic islands in Cape Verde.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Did you wake up thinking of someone who is an excellent teacher of planty content?? Nominate them!

Single-Platform Nanopore Sequencing Enables Diploid Telomere-to-Telomere Genome Assembly and Haplotype-Resolved 3D Chromatin Maps www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation Using a unique longitudinal sampling approach, Louw et al. demonstrate how a cheese-associated Penicillium population has adapted in an artisan cheese production facility in Vermont, USA. Adaptation i...

Fungal domestication in action - @benwolfe.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol... #Fungal26

Scientific Publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Taking a radical new approach to the publication process resulted in eLife losing its impact factor, but authors, reviewers, editors and funders support the journal and its efforts to reform scientifi...

“Authors [&] reviewers tell us that they have had a more constructive experience…choosing eLife not because of our impact factor, but because of our process”

👆 eLife comtinues to provoke debate but this is perhaps the most important point elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Here’s the link to Daniil’s thread 🧵 explaining why Stoic is so cool 😎🧪 #AI #ProteinPrediction

bsky.app/profile/dani...

If you consider 'hiring’ AI instead of a graduate student, you're saying the quiet part out loud: PhDs are viewed as a PI's labor force not academics studying for an advanced degree... www.science.org/content/arti...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world"

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

Latest from our lab! Detailed and committed work by Jennifer combined with Hiro's special skills👌. Wonderful collaboration with @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab (Damien and Etienne) and @jalonsos.bsky.social 👇

Great news that @ukri.org is substantially supporting @daphnejacksontr.bsky.social - an impactful scheme to re-start careers and access the skills of those who have taken career breaks.

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