Registration for the International PhD School Plant Development 2026 is up and running, half the places have been already booked!
So don't wait until the deadline to register raissiglab.org/plantdevosch... !
Cost: €350.- for conference, accommodation, meals, and a wine tasting in a local winery 🍷

Tu ne veux pas qu'on te simplifie la vie quand même !

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

“Laboratory Rotations”: the new teaching unit in the Research track of the M2 in Plant Sciences at Paris-Saclay Starting next academic year, the M2 in Plant Sciences @Paris-Saclay, will introduce a new, innovative teaching unit for its Research track: the “Laboratory Rotations”.   This teaching unit includes two two-week internships conducted within research teams, including those of the SPS network. These internships allow students to become familiar with the design and execution of experiments, refine their technical skills, discover new research topics, and expand their scientific network. The “Laboratory rotations” embody the “training in and through research” approach, an innovative pedagogical method that teachers are gradually integrating into all SPS master’s programs, and which SPS strongly supports.   This teaching unit has already proven successful in another SPS master’s program, the international M1 in Plant and Microbial Molecular Biology (PMB), established in 2023. This master, which has served as an excellent testing ground for pedagogical innovation, will merge with the M1 in Plant Sciences from the 2026-2027 academic year.   We  interviewed Hoc Nguyen and Jacob Van Buskirk, international students in the M1 PMB program, who recently completed their lab rotations: Hoc Nguyen “The lab rotations were fun, exciting, and intellectually satisfying, playing an important role in my academic development by allowing me to observe how scientists think, solve problems, and conduct independent research. I had the chance to meet many kind and interesting people while experiencing different working environments, which increased my exposure to diverse teams and created opportunities for networking and potential future positions. What I enjoyed most was analyzing results and interpret them. I find the process of making sense of the data both rewarding and stimulating. The most exciting part was discussing these interpretations with my supervisors, as their perspectives often revealed blind spots or flaws in my reasoning, helping me sharpen my critical thinking skills.” Jacob Van Buskirk “The lab rotations offered me an enriching introduction to the research environment, particularly suiting my hands-on learning style. My rotation at IPS2, focused on dry lab work, was extraordinarily helpful; I gained invaluable skills by processing the full pipeline of ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, and Hi-C data, a resource I will rely on well into the future. Equally impactful was my time at IJPB, where I made strong connections and felt deeply involved with the institution. Receiving such guidance from both teams was illuminating, reminding me why I chose this career path.” See also Master in Plant Sciences Program of the M2 in Plant Sciences - Research track Teaching Unit « Laboratory rotations »  International M1 Plant and Microbial Molecular Biology (PMB)  Research in SPS Research teams in the SPS perimeter

“Laboratory Rotations”: the new teaching unit in the Research track of the M2 in Plant Sciences at Paris-Saclay, www.master-sciences-du-vegetal.fr/eng/news/lab-rotations-m...

Avoiding the shadow: how plants perceive neighbors and reshape the crop light environment Abstract. Plants in typical agricultural stands inevitably experience mutual shading. As the canopy develops, neighbor cues progressively reduce the activi

Avoiding the shadow: how plants perceive neighbors and reshape the crop light environment (Matías Ezequiel Pereyra , Víctor Oscar Sadras , Jorge José Casal) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥
We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤.
Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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

Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts.
Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026

Highly recommended!!!

The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Je ne sais pas comment dire autrement les choses que comme ça : la République va observer une minute de silence en l'honneur du militant d'un mouvement de factieux royalistes, identitaires et antisémites qui ont juré sa perte voilà plus d'un siècle.

If your one true love is plant photobiology, then we have the symposium for you! 💚🌱

This Valentine’s Day, register for YRSPP 2026 and make it official ✨
🔗 yrspp.github.io/register

Get ready to dance! 🕺💃

We’re excited to welcome Ór Ceilidh Band to play live at the YRSPP 2026 social evening! 🎻
Join us for a traditional Scottish ceilidh orscotland.com

🗓️Registration closes 15 February. Time is running out!⌛️yrspp.github.io/register

Info utile du jour en #psychiatrie: les 10 erreurs les + fréquentes quand on veut aider quelqu'un en dépression.

Et surtout: avec les alternatives qui aident réellement !

Un thread ⬇️

📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
Excited to announce that Ritesh Raipuria will present his preprint on hydrogen peroxide and thermomorphogenesis regulation in our next JC.
Don't miss out!!

If you have been dreaming of moving to France as an ECR looking to build a long-term research career, now is your chance: @inrae-france.bsky.social yearly hiring for permanent research scientist positions is open: deadline March 5! jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp...

Visit our Web site, register and subit your abstract for the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting next july on Montpellier
pem26.cnrs.fr
@frannybarbs.bsky.social @lacombeb.bsky.social @franzificht.bsky.social @ccf-claire.bsky.social @msubrandizzilab.bsky.social @hatem-rouached.bsky.social

Let's try this #AcademicSky

1 fav, 1 funny, strange, or unexpected scientific anecdote about a paper, a scientist, a fact, hoping that some will be new to you.

This is unfortumately very true! I know too many stories, too and have not done enough. A toxic environment burns creativity, passion and enthusiasm and we damage and loose talented minds. I share your anger Katharine (at the system and myself) We all need to do better!

New Brief Communication: "A CRISPR-based sequence proximity binding protein labelling system for scanning upstream regulatory proteins" rdcu.be/eZLUP

CRISPR-based proximity labelling system to profile DNA-binding proteins such as PIF4 transcription factor .

It's tomorrow!!

By contrast, in Growth of the Soil the main character, Izak, encapsulates the nobility of the working man, exuding the sweat and toil reminiscent of the Nazi slogan Blut und Boden (“Blood and Soil”) and so impressed the Nazis that the book was distributed to the soldiers fighting in Norway. Joseph Goebbels admired the book so much he invited Hamsun and his wife Marie to Berlin in May 1943 and in return for such agreeable hospitality Hamsun gave Goebbels his Nobel medal

Do you know who else was gifted a Nobel Prize medal?

Joseph Goebbels.

Seriously.

thecritic.co.uk/issues/march...

Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells How did eukaryotic cells with complex architecture evolve from simpler prokaryotic cells? DNA analyses offer possible answers.

How did eukaryotic cells with complex architecture evolve from simpler prokaryotic cells? DNA analyses offer possible answers @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bristoluni.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gain and loss of gene function shaped the nickel hyperaccumulation trait in Noccaea caerulescens The capacity of Noccaea caerulescens accessions to hyperaccumulate nickel depends on the high expression of some metal transporters but also on the activit

Gain and loss of gene function shaped the nickel hyperaccumulation trait in Noccaea caerulescens (Célestine Belloeil , Vanesa Sanchez Garcia de la Torre , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu

Thank you to @ronaldpierik.bsky.social, Liên Bach, Christian Meyer, @fabien-senechal.bsky.social and Jean Colcombet for evaluating his work!

On December 12th, Guillaume Martin became Dr. Martin!
Congratulations for all that you have accomplished during your PhD!!! #PlantScience
@i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social

3rd Early Career Plant Researcher Network Meeting

Calling experienced PhD students & postdocs with a passion for plant research. Present your work, connect with peers and discuss the key steps toward building an independent research career.

Apply by 23 Jan 2026
Details: www.plant-ecr-networking.eu

My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!