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

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Prime Minister Sanchez:

“.. Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🇪🇸

Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI!

Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible!

#plantscience #plantbiology 🧪

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Feeling lucky on Good Friday 😍 #tawnyowl

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
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@hhmi-science.bsky.social

Wageningen autostad! Complete chaos in Noordwest vanochtend door het plotseling afsluiten van de fietspaden. Er was geen communicatie er er zijn geen omleidingen of redelijke alternatieven. Voor het autoverkeer is alles wel tot in de puntjes verzorgd 🚗.
@gemeentewageningen.bsky.social

“a re-evaluation of fungal biology is not currently
necessary…”

Multiple nuclei means multiple chromosome sets in Botrytis cinerea and Neurospora crasse

#Fungal26 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Previously on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social now in final published version: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Komende woensdag zijn de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen. De kiezers kunnen ervoor zorgen dat natuur en landschap ook in de komende vier jaar voldoende aandacht krijgen en dat het buitengebied niet verder volgebouwd wordt. us7.campaign-archive.com?u=17288494ee...

My lycophyte photo was featured in the @waarneming.nl newsletter! Really cool, considering that there were already 2.2 million observations in 2026 and only 3 newsletters 😍. I took it to highlight the microphylls

I look at these kinds of protists ALL THE TIME. I have never seen them in situ like this. One cell. Absolutely remarkable. #protistsonsky

With 3.8 million cows, the Netherlands is by far the BEST place for butterflies EVER! Right?

Wow!

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.

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Today I found my first wild lycophyte (Diphasiastrum tristachyum) in the Netherlands! We only have 7 species and most are extremely rare.

I was wondering if it would be feasible to create a dedicated research facility in Europe to do this work? like you said, €500/line is still an interesting price. But using the existing systems is probably even smarter (if we can get access)

CRISPR edited lines for $100?! We have a problem considering how many hours PhDs and postdocs spend on creating and validating such lines… One would expect that high labour costs would lead to smarter solutions in Europe?

Recently, 3 academics posted a letter in the national newspaper to argue that universities are too left-winged and that this alienates right-winged students.. IMO, our former right-winged government posted such extreme budget cuts that they alienated themselves from the academics. @nrc.nl

18 februari verkiezingsdebat natuur en landschap! #gemeenteraadsverkiezingen2026 #Wageningen

Motif-based substrate mapping of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 reveals novel components and regulatory nodes of plant immunity - Nature Plants Cell surface receptors perceive immunogenic elicitors, triggering downstream signalling via receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases such as BIK1. Here the authors define and use the phosphorylation motif of...

Very impressive work identifying novel BIK1 substrates (and immunity players) in Arabidopsis 🔽!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Excited to share our latest review on hydrosignaling: moisture-dependent molecular pathways that help plants grow towards water. Insightful review of the literature and discussion of moisture sensing mechanisms by Will Dwyer and @hhtormar.bsky.social. Enjoy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem? From tiny mosses to giant redwoods, around 450,000 species of land plants show a huge variety of forms, yet all land plants develop from stem cells in proliferative meristems. What makes a meristem? T...

It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

Activities - GreenTE Activities Webinars ”MechanoBioTalks – Mechanics, Materials and Living Matter” is a webinar series supported by the GreenTE consortium and organized […]

A new webinar series is born - ''MechanoBioTalks - Mechanics, Materials and Living Matter", to bring together and inspire researchers interested in biomechanics, biophysics and biology across different kingdoms of life. Join us!

For info and registration visit green-te.nl/activities/

Reconstruction of Prototaxites in the Rhynie chert ecosystem. Reconstruction by Matt Humpage, Northern Rouge Studios.

Excited to share our new investigation of Prototaxites!
We found no support for a fungal affinity and instead suggest it is best considered an entirely extinct complex eukaryotic lineage
Great team effort @transitionalform.bsky.social Corentin Loron, and many others!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Verkiezingsdebat - Mooi Wageningen Save the date! Op woensdagavond 18 februari organiseren we een verkiezingsdebat natuur en landschap in de spiksplinternieuw verbouwde Bblthk. Onder leiding van Jelle de Gruyter, Rob Janmaat en/of Simo...

Save the date!

Op woensdagavond 18 februari organiseert @mooiwageningen.bsky.social samen met Mooi Binnenveld, KNNV Wageningen en @vlinderstichting.bsky.social wederom een verkiezingsdebat over natuur en landschap.

www.mooiwageningen.nl/verkiezingsd...

Republicans Block Effort to Check Trump’s Power in Venezuela

Since when does the Congress limits its own power? This is a slippery slope…