The venue of the MAdLand Meeting 2026: The Alte Mensa in Göttingen, Germany
‼️ Registration for the Annual MAdLand Meeting 2026 is now open!
Join us in Göttingen from Sep 29–Oct 2, 2026 to discuss the latest trends in plant science & reconnect with an amazing #Plantsci community #MAdLand2026 #Evolution
🌱 Learn more and register here:
madland-meeting.de/2026/
a simplified evolutionary tree of eukaryotes with pictures of various microbes
New #ISEPpapers #preprint by @deemteam.bsky.social: Re-evaluating the eukaryotic Tree of Life with independent phylogenomic data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife #Phylogeny #Phylogenomics #Bioinformatics #Algae
Heute is Welt #Homöopathie Tag 🍭
Eine gute Gelegenheit erneut an die beeindruckenden Weiterentwicklungen dieser Pseudomedizin zu erinnern.
Today is World Homeopathy Day.
In its honor, let’s remember that time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it.
Fig 1. from Hossen et al.: Phylogenetic relationships of Bryopsidales inferred from 708 nuclear genes.
Phylogenomics of Bryopsidales and the significance of genome duplication in multinucleate cells
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👆 A #Commentary by Quinten Bafort on this article by Hossen et al.
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Pinus canariensis #tenerife
GREGOR and VTT at the #Teide observatory, in slight cloud fingers
Look @plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social what grows quite massively on the middle slopes of Teide
Anybody knows why they often grow next to each other? #Tenerife
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...
Congratulations, well deserved!
I am very grateful to be featured discussing my work on transcription associated proteins and TAPscan @rensingstefan.bsky.social
Many thanks to @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the opportunity and recognition!
I would advice you to wait for v8. V7 lacks a couple hundred v6 models, the gene calling is in places sub optimal, and the gene IDs don't follow the P. patens scheme.
"You don't like talking to me do you?" said Marvin in a low desolate tone. Trillian talked to Arthur instead.
Sun setting over forest at horizon, orange grey sky
Sunset with saharadust
He had had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live. You also panic.
Hier zwei Grafiken dazu (Update mit Daten für 2025). Links ein stückweise linearer Fit an die Temperaturdaten (jeweils 10 Jahre), rechts die Erwärmungsrate (also die Steigung der rot gezeigten Trends). In den letzten zehn Jahren ist die Erwärmung am schnellsten.
tamino.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/g...
Congrats @ottlab.bsky.social and @pengbo10.bsky.social for leading this work!
"From industrial Past to Green Future" written around an ancient industry tower typical for the region together with a plant changing colours from blue to green is the motto of the German Society for Plant Sciences international Conference, the Botanik-Tagung, 2026 in Bochum Germany, that brings together plant scientists from several scientific disciplines. The logo highlights the structural change of the Ruhr area, from coal mining + heavy industries to the increasingly important issues of climate protection, sustainability + preservation of biodiversity, with plant sciences at the forefront of this transformation.
#PlantSciConfi
Registration open for
International Conference of our German Society for Plant Sciences
Botanik-Tagung #BT2026
in #Bochum, Germany
6 – 10 September 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/82bsBT2026
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
Once something actually happens somewhere in something as wildly complicated as the Universe, Kevin knows where it will all end up — where "Kevin" is any random entity that doesn't know nothin' about nothin'.
In this review we map the journey to animal multicellularity and define three extinct ancestral stages:
🔹 LUAA: Last Unicellular Animal Ancestor.
🔹 FACA: First Animal Common Ancestor.
🔹 LACA: Last Animal Common Ancestor.
Check it out: bit.ly/4azuLVY @embojournal.org
Hey everyone joining us @ #MBP2026 in mid March, we just released the conference program. Please check it out here: syncandshare.lrz.de/dl/fiPnsPinb... we are super excited to see you all soon and to talk 🌱🔬🥼 over 🍻all night long!
Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor — at least no one worth speaking of.
Vorholt Lab re-created endosymbiosis in the lab: injected bacteria into a fungus and evolved a heritable partnership.
Evolution, fast-forwarded.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here).
academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪
Know a brilliant early-career plant scientist? 🌱
Nominate them for one of DBG’s three prestigious science awards! #ecr #plantsci
👉Strasburger Prize
👉Pfeffer Prize
👉Wiehe Prize
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/actualia/...
Not surprisingly, my bubble is plant scientists and biologists; nice map
Here's how you can visualize gene expression during P. patens reproduction, from egg/sperm to spore, in the new web tool peatmoss.plantcode.cup.uni-freiburg.de
Info on paper in post below.
@watertoland.bsky.social
