📣Registration and abstract submission now open for the Long‑Read Sequencing Uppsala 2026 meeting, taking place November 2–4!

For abstract submission, registration, and the preliminary program, please visit the conference website:

👉 lrua.se

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

Illustration showing RNA polymerase and four laser lights. Credit: Daniela Velasco/EMBL

(1/2) EMBL researchers led by @olivierduss.bsky.social have developed a microscopy technique that enables them to observe individual RNA molecules being produced and folding into different shapes.

Learn more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Si estás estudiando grado o máster en biología o algo relacionado y te interesa adquirir experiencia en el laboratorio trabajando en biología molecular ponte en contacto.
Tengo un proyecto en el @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social en Madrid en biogénesis de cloroplastos. 🌱🧬

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪

The EMBO Women in Science Lectures address issues related to gender and diversity in science.

Find out more and apply here:
www.embo.org/funding/lecture-travel-a...

Let’s celebrate women and girls in scientific research! Often underestimated, women drive research in biomedical sciences both intellectually and at the bench. Research should be a “gender-blind” endeavor, but rarely is. Stop bigotry ! Stop unconscious bias ! Go women & girls!

Using mutated plants to improve resistance to climate change | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation The discovery by Markus Schmid’s research team of a mutated form of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), provided new insights into how plants respond to temperature. The goal now is to find a way to g...

The discovery by Markus Schmid’s research team of a mutated form of thale cress, provided new insights into how plants respond to temperature. The goal now is to find a way to give cultivated plants greater resistance to climate change.
#research #science #plantbiology
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"Postdoctoral fellowship on autophagy and autoimmunity in plants at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
*Application Deadline: 2/28/2026"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=168031b.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

If you’re a biologist curious about AI but not sure where to start, this might help.

I put together Smarter Science, a visual cheat sheet covering key AI ideas and common pitfalls in biological research.

doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#AI #PlantBiology

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable

The key global crops, wheat, rice and maize, are expected to see the losses to pests increase by about 46%, 19% and 31% respectively when global heating reaches 2C 👇 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congratulations, Julia! 🙌

🧪🌾How do plants react so quickly to cold?❄️🧬

Researchers from UPSC & @cragenomica.bsky.social discovered a genetic strategy that keeps stress-response genes "on standby" for rapid activation.

Read more below 👇 and in the article published in Molecular Plant:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EASTBIO - How plants breathe in a warming world: unravelling temperature control of stomata development at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EASTBIO - How plants breathe in a warming world: unravelling temperature control of stomata development at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com

I'm offering a PhD project together with Sarah McKim on temperature-controlled stomata formation within EASTBIO DTP www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #plantscience #plantscijobs Deadline 15 Feb. Please share/RP

Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life Post-symposium webinar with Itumeleng Moroenyane and Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Maarja Öpik

Join us for a #PlantScience webinar at 13:30 GMT, 4 November!

With talks by Itumeleng Moroenyane and poster prize winner Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Editor-in-Chief Maarja Öpik.

Register for free: www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...

The Space Rock Stars of Brazil

"An all-female team of scientists devoted to preserving and expanding Brazil’s national meteorite collection...journey to far-flung regions to recover fallen space rocks and educate local communities about their scientific significance."

#academicsky
#womeninSTEM

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

Dense green leaves form a natural background behind a call for papers on Brazilian excellence in plant genetics and genomics.

Brazil is a powerhouse in plant genetics and genomics!

@genomejournal.bsky.social invites submissions that reflect the depth and diversity of research from across the country, from crop improvement to genome editing.

Submit your work ▶️ buff.ly/3BSHY6F

#PlantGenomics #BrazilianScience

Hello, San Diego! 😎 #RNA25, here we go! 🙌

It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.

A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agriculture Abstract. Advances in agricultural genetic, genomic, and breeding (GGB) technologies generate increasingly large and complex datasets that need to be adequ

"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture"
Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed.
Please share widely.
academic.oup.com/database/art...

New Article: "Regulation of alternative splicing by CBF-mediated protein condensation in plant response to cold stress" rdcu.be/ecusw

CBF TFs facilitate the formation of SKIP nuclear condensates to increase the splicing efficiency of cold-responsive transcripts. #PlantScience

Please RT:
🌱 We’re hiring a Postdoc and a PhD student!
⏳ Application deadline: 17. March 2025
Join our lab and explore the role of alternative mRNA isoforms in drought stress and environmental adaptation in crops and Arabidopsis. Learn more and apply: www.lablaubinger.eu/Opportunities

Current challenges for plant biology research in the Global South In an attempt to address the large inequities faced by the plant biology communities from the Global South (i.e. countries located around the tropics and the Southern Hemisphere) at international con...

By @gabyplantbio.bsky.social et al. "The systemic issue of historical and ongoing theft of plant material from the Global South perpetuates an unfair system that both disfavors and excludes the Global South research community." #plantscience 🧪 #academicsky
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📜 A fully sequenced collection of homozygous EMS mutants for forward and reverse genetic screens in Arabidopsis thaliana

🧑‍🔬 Sébastien Carrère, Laurent D. Noël, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2023...

#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #Genomics #Mutagenesis #PlantResource

BlueSky Science-Related Feeds Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,...

🧪 Scientist?

🟦 New to BlueSky?

👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts?

📃 Here’s a list of around 160 science-related feeds and their hashtags.

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New Oxford Nanopore 'dark mode' sequencing And what it means for not-so-long sequencing applications

New Oxford Nanopore 'dark mode' sequencing (light shield) open.substack.com/pub/albertvi...

“…timed tests underestimate the capabilities of countless students.

…smarter people are … actually slower to finish difficult ones.”
www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/o...

Feeds I created that use #hashtags (see descriptions) for indexing:

Plant Science
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Plant Science Jobs
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Scientific Publishing
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Plant GMOs, Policy, etc.
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Plant Pathology
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The Equinox Is Not What You Think It Is The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths. Instead it&rsquo;s something more nuanced but no less glorious

Equinox day. The equinox is not what you think it is (repost from the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Birds of Puerto Rico (Full Episode) | Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper Christian Cooper treks into the lush rainforest to meet the bright, boisterous and iconic Puerto Rican Parrot before helping to release seven of them into th...

“This is what birding is about. It’s not just about seeing the birds, it’s about seeing the birds in their natural habitat — and it takes you to spectacular, beautiful places like this.”

Christian Cooper says it perfectly. 🪶