Stating that inclusive practice will not contribute to a project’s success says a lot about the reviewing individual. Please keep doing what you are doing!

What can you find flowering in a hedgerow? That’s the challenge this week from Wildflowerhour! Have a good rummage in a hedge (get ready for the funny looks 👀) & share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #HedgerowChallenge! Happy hedge-diving!

This is 💚🌱

It's finally out! With this new paper, Salma and Monica show that hypoxia-regulated ERFVIIs are not immediately destabilised during reoxygenation: they instead persist in the nucleus to control oxidative stress genes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More Arabidopsis in the wild! 💚🌱

Love me a bit of Arabidopsis thaliana outside the lab in the wild 🌱💚

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

"Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Six years of being ignored.
Yesterday that changed...

Four CVF members set the record straight.

Starting with @larawong.bsky.social sharing our official statement:

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Folks anyone know why the ShinyGO website is not working on my laptop (2 browsers) but will load on my phone? And how to fix it? #GeneOntology #Bioinformatics #Transcriptome 🌱

Folks anyone know why the ShinyGO website is not working on my laptop (2 browsers) but will load on my phone? And how to fix it? #GeneOntology #Bioinformatics #Transcriptome 🌱

my 21 year old Sanyo is still going (I hope). In the UK Wolflabs do second hand/reconditioned equipment at a discount but I don’t know if that extends to freezers.

Just no!

I enjoyed thinking about some of the people who have been important to me at different points of my academic journey for this Q & A in Current Biology. I hope some of you enjoy it too! authors.elsevier.com/a/1muUD3QW8S...

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

The final version of our Marchantia cell cycle paper is now published. A much improved version compared to the preprint. Cyclins, repressors, and more. Thanks to co-authors and reviewers. #PlantScience. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

A carpet of bluebell flowers and leaves with a vertical tree trunk on the right and a path covered in brown leaves bottom left. Darker foliage in background.

Close up of flowering blue-purple English bluebell flower stalks against bright green leaves.

Close up of bright yellow celandine flowers, 8 petals, plus their green foliage.

4 Flowering fritillaries, dark pink chequered petals, against green foliage with buttercups and water with gunnera flowers and leaves behind.

Starting early today- bluebells and celandines #WoodlandPlants for #WildFlowerHour plus some woodland-adjacent fritillaries 🪻🥀🌼💚 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

The title page of the 1998 Technical Advance paper in the Plant Journal showing the title “Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana”, authors Steven J. Clough, Andrew F. Bent and publication date December 1998 (Volume 16, Issue 6, Pages 735-743)

#PlantScienceClassics #13: Floral Dip. ~25 years ago, in 1998, Steven Clough & Andrew Bent published their ingeniously simple Arabidopsis transformation protocol in #ThePlantJournal: Dipping a plant upside down into Agrobacterium solution - et voilà!
doi.org/10.1046/j.13...

I like the first one!

Undaria pinnatifida gametophyte

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I told my first year students about this in my plant reproduction lectures. So cool. 🌱🌿💚

My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!!

Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior...

science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Not All Seeds Survive the Vault: Rethinking Seed Banking for Chile’s Trees The discovery that one in five Chilean tree species has desiccation-sensitive seeds challenges a cornerstone of conservation and calls for innovative solutions.

In my latest post for @botany.one, I present promising research mapping species with recalcitrant seeds among Chile’s tree flora, revealing that one in five cannot be stored in traditional seed banks. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
www.botany.one/not-all-seed...

Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

If preparing figures please consider "colorblind friendly" approaches (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). I am missing the long-wave opsin, which manifests in strange ways: I can't discern red vs. black. This dichromacy is rare and severe, but ~300 million have more common forms addressed in link.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Not everyday that a transport of terpenoids is described. Nice work by the authors. @jimhaseloff.bsky.social @fromani.bsky.social

We have been cooking up this story for a while and we are excited to finally be able to share!

Read on if you're interested in whole plant regeneration WITHOUT the application of hormones!

It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain.
Please #repost!
Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist and produce new queen #bees for next year!
So important to #share!
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#nature #caring

White Blackthorn blossoms on lichen encrusted branches, against a blurred grey background.

Blackthorn and lichen. #TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour

Twisted algae and lichen covered branches with clustered male purple anther flowers surrounding the black terminal buds of Ash. Some of the anthers have opened up in a feathery coral like form. These anthers have split open and dispensed their pollen. The tree is overhanging the River Slea against a backdrop of farmland and cloud filled Bluesky.

From high above Ash #treeflowers look quite nondescript. I encountered these at eye level from a bridge over the River Slea, Lincolnshire. Tight clusters of purple anthers wrapped around the “burnt” black leaf bud. Turning grey/brown when they split open and disperse their pollen. #WildflowerHour

Pussy willow /goat willow catkins covered in bright yellow pollen; out of focus foliage and undergrowth behind

I’m late as usual for #WildFlowerHour but here are some lovely floofy willow catkins #TreeFlowers 🌳

Willow catkins showing their downy start before pollen

For #Wildflowerhour's #treeflowers challenge, willow catkins in a row at different stages of maturity growing locally in #Preston, taken yesterday. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #vitaminN