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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 13d

Can ChatGPT help science writers? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
"These technologies may have potential as helpful tools for science writers, but they are not ready for “prime time” at this point for the SciPak team."

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 15d

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Sebastian Soyk @sebastiansoyk.bsky.social · 20d

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

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Volker Lipka @volkerlipka.bsky.social · 16d

We proudly present a new preprint by Leon Pierdzig et al: Wall teichoic acids, glycopolymers specific to Gram-positive bacteria, trigger defense and cell death in Arabidopsis. Cysteine-rich RLKs act as key components in their perception. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 15d

A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com

130 bryophyte genomes!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · 15d

Nice work!

Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 16d

Out First Release in @science.org this week:

A large scale analysis of the epigenetics of transposable elements in Arabidopsis shows transgenerational stability

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#PlantScience

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 16d

Re-upping this: For those of you having new students in the lab, I have curated a YouTube playlist on molecular biology: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.

Molecular_Bio - YouTube

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 18d

Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria - Nature Reviews Microbiology

In this Review, Schüler and colleagues summarize our current knowledge of magnetosome formation and organization within the cell, and they explore their function, diversity and potential applications.

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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 18d

Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth

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ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants

Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 29d

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Beautiful work Bruno! 😻😻😻 Congrats!🥂

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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !

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Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants

Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations @brunongou.bsky.social @shirasulab.bsky.social and colleagues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants

Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Sep 4

For sure great news for plant science, but it's actually *even better* news because you missed at least one! @tinaschreier.bsky.social

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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Indeed! Sorry @tinaschreier.bsky.social and huge congratulations!

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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Huge congratulations to #early-career scientists working with plants awarded with ERC-2025-StG @ecologybasel.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Sep 2

New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Reprogramming of microspore fate via BBM-BAR1 for highly efficient in vivo haploid induction: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Reprogramming of microspore fate via BBM-BAR1 for highly efficient in vivo haploid induction

In stress-induced androgenesis, BBM and its downstream effector BAR1 mediate microspore reprogramming to trigger haploid embryo formation. Ectopic expression of BBM or BAR1 in microspores bypasses str...

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Emmanuelle Bayer @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social · Jul 28

We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility

Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.

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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · Aug 31

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetic architecture of a light-temperature coincidence detector - Nature Communications

Light and temperature provide critical information guiding developmental transitions in plants. This study shows that blue light signals via PHOT2 and low temperature signals via CAMTA2 are linked, tr...

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · Aug 28

First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer!

The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥

Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.

#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology

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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · Aug 25

Nothing can make me happier during my long-term sick leave than receiving this thankful e-mail from my former MSc intern. This has been the sixth MSc student who started their PhD journey after training with us @unileiden.bsky.social #proudPI #ECR #STEMeducation

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Friday Flower 001: Mimulus lewisii 🌸✨

Monkeyflowers are masterpieces of design with nectar-guide spots formed by an activator–inhibitor system of MYB transcription factors. These generate reaction–diffusion patterns across the ventral petal.

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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · Aug 11

Don't forget to submit your abstract for the #EMBO Workshop on #PlantEvolution by August 25th!
Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social in November to discuss all things #plantevodevo

Please spread the word! 🙏🦠🌱

#algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #terrestrialization

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · Feb 17

The GMI announces a new EMBO workshop titled "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" - right here in Vienna. The hybrid event will be held on November 25-27 at the Vienna BioCenter. Register by August 25 at meetings.embo.org/event/25-plant-evolution.

Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land

The evolution of plants – photosynthetic eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium and a non-photosynthetic host cell – transformed the earth system by reducing the amount of CO…

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