Crossed 100 citations recently.📊
Small milestone, but encouraging as a PhD student to see the work being read and built upon.

Thankful for the journey so far, and excited for what lies ahead.

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RG: www.researchgate.net/profile/Raja...

Check out our latest review, where we discuss how photomorphogenesis-associated transcription factors shape photosynthesis and its optimization under changing environments.

Congratulations to Canadian Peter Howitt on his Nobel Prize in Economics!

Sup on Pennsylvania Avenue this morning?

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in literature Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. He joins the ranks of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison.

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. He joins the ranks of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison.

Congratulations to #NASmember Omar M. Yaghi, who shares the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for the development of metal–organic frameworks! Their discoveries may contribute to solving some of humankind’s greatest challenges. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics has been awarded to #NASmembers John Clarke and Michel H. Devoret, alongside John M. Martinis! Congratulations on this esteemed recognition of their experiments on a chip that revealed quantum physics in action. Read more: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Announcing the Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | Plantae A message from Silvia Restrepo, President, Boyce Thompson Institute As the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) embarks on our second century of plant science innovation, I’m deeply honored to announce the…

Announcing the Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program plantae.org?p=144727
Application deadline: January 15, 2026
@btiscience.bsky.social is an independent nonprofit research institute affiliated with @cornelluniversity.bsky.social
Learn more: spf.btiscience.org

Congratulations to NAS international member Shimon Sakaguchi on receiving the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine! He is honored alongside Mary E. Brunkow & Fred Ramsdell "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance." Read more: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic... #NASmember

A cytokinin-auxin antagonistic module regulates nitrogen-triggered tiller outgrowth in rice Tillering is a key trait that shapes aboveground architecture and directly contributes to rice yield. However, integration of environmental cues to genetic regulators for controlling tiller outgrowth ...

🌱 New preprint from our lab!
We uncover how a cytokinin–auxin module regulates nitrogen-driven tiller outgrowth in rice.
Read here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We’d love to hear your thoughts 🌿
#plantbiology #rice #development #hormone #preprint #scicomm #thephotodevolab #openscience

Optimizing photosynthesis by targeting light signaling transcriptional networks

📝 Our new @jxbotany.bsky.social review is out!

☀️ Light = energy for #photosynthesis
🌱 Light = signal for plant development

🤔 How do light-signaling TFs connect developmental responses with photosynthetic control?

Find out here 👉 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

#publication #research #PhD

Glad to have worked on this piece. 🌱 A reminder that the best science often starts with simple questions.
What’s a question in plant biology you’d love to see answered?

🌱In this latest piece (co-written with fellow Plantae editor, Dennis Baffour-Awuah), we explore how curiosity shapes discoveries and drives progress in #plantscience

💭What’s the one BIG question you’d love to see answered in plant biology?
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🌱Excited for #PlantBio2025, happening in Milwaukee, USA!
Grateful to #JaysonPadilla for organizing a virtual meetup with #PlantaeFellows attending the conference.
Always a delight to connect with the amazing Plantae community!
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🚨 Applications closing soon!
Become a #PlantaeFellow and grow your skills in #SciComm, leadership & community building🌱
🗓️ Deadline: August 31, 2025

Join a global network of plant scientists! 🌍
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#PlantScience #PhDLife #postdoc #networking

Meet the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP) cohort, comprising 39 visionary scientists, farmers, policy advisors, entrepreneurs, and humanitarians from 27 countries, who are driving change in agriculture and global food security. 🌽🌍
#WorldFoodPrizeFoundation
Learn more: tinyurl.com/ys74kxtt

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We had an insightful workshop at #PlantBiologyGlobal on RNA-Seq analysis using the Integrated Genome Browser 💻
Grateful to the amazing speakers for sharing their expertise and making it so accessible! 🙌
@ Paige Kulzer, Nowlan Freese, and Prof. Ann Loraine
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🇮🇳 Proud moment for Indian science!
Indian institutions, including NIPGR, ICGEB, IISc, UAS, IIT, InStem, IIST, and KAU, join #Ax4, sending seven space experiments aboard with astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station. India’s research is going orbital! 🚀
#ScienceandTechnology

Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

25% of this year’s intake of Fellows, Foreign Members and Honorary Fellows are women. The full list can be accessed here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...

📎Announcing the 2025 #RoyalSociety Fellows!
Over 90 trailblazing scientists from around the 🌍 have been elected to the world’s oldest scientific academy, celebrating 360 years of discovery.
A special shoutout to their students and teams — your hard work is part of this honour!!

🇮🇳 India approves its 1st genome-edited rice using CRISPR-Cas:
🌾 DRR Rice 100 (Kamla)
🌾 Pusa DST Rice 1
🚫Not GMOs — no foreign DNA.
🌿Boosts yield, climate resilience, and low water requirement.
Developed by @icar_iirr & @Icar_iari.
#CRISPR #Rice

Honored to be selected as a Fellow in the ASM Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship! Grateful to @asm.org for this opportunity to grow, connect & contribute to the scientific community. Looking forward to the journey ahead! 🌱🔬 #ASMFLMF #leadership #mentorship #ScienceCommunication